Filter Results:
(356)
Show Results For
- All HBS Web
(356)
- People (2)
- News (141)
- Research (128)
- Events (2)
- Multimedia (6)
- Faculty Publications (72)
Show Results For
- All HBS Web
(356)
- People (2)
- News (141)
- Research (128)
- Events (2)
- Multimedia (6)
- Faculty Publications (72)
- 01 Mar 2024
- News
On the Radar
Illustration by Brian Stauffer Illustration by Brian Stauffer Our planet is teeming with trillions of viruses and bacteria, most of which are innocuous or even helpful, but some pose a significant risk to public health, animals, and crops. In recent decades,... View Details
- Web
Winners & Runners-Up | New Venture Competition
Claire Zeng Business Track Runner-Up DoriVac (DNA Origami Vaccine) is a biotech startup for improving cancer treatment using a novel DNA nanoparticle platform. We develop treatments that teach patients' immune systems to recognize and... View Details
- 01 Dec 2023
- News
A Continuum of Innovation
As senior associate dean and chair of the MBA Program, Matt Weinzierl has a running list of questions that he and Jana P. Kierstead, the executive director of MBA and Doctoral programs, always keep in mind. They range from the curricular (How can we ensure that the MBA... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie
- Web
Leadership - Health Care
faculty, and alumni. Her work supports the life sciences within HBS, while identifying and extending engagement opportunities to mission-aligned enterprises around Harvard and the Boston biotech community. She is passionate about helping... View Details
- 01 Jun 2023
- News
From Big Pharma to Startup
School clubs he had joined, he decided to apply. “It was just curiosity,” Goble says. The program, now known as Nucleate, which is dedicated to empowering the next generation of biotech leaders, hosted what Goble remembers as a kind of... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 04 Apr 2024
- News
The Making of a Medical Milestone
On March 16, doctors at the Massachusetts General Hospital made history when they successfully transplanted a kidney from a genetically modified pig to a living human. The groundbreaking procedure marked a significant milestone in animal-to-human transplant, or... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- Web
Your Social Entrepreneurship checklist | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School
high-potential biotech and life science startups founded by Harvard students, alumni, faculty, and postdoctoral scholars. As part of the Harvard Innovation Labs ecosystem, ventures in this space have access to robust programming and... View Details
- Web
The 20th Century Zeitgeist - Leadership
circuit boards replace transistor technology First ATM installed Influence: Medium 70 1970 s 19 Beginning of biotech industry Fiber-optic wire Pong (first video game) UPC bar code Supercomputer Influence: Medium-Low 80 1980 s 19 Software... View Details
- Web
Fast Facts - Health Care
Health Care Initiative Fast Facts Events 1,325 Alumni attended Health Care Initiative events in 2019 MBA Health Care Career Placement 2018 Biotech / Pharma Consulting Devices & Diagnostics Digital Health & Other Services Financial... View Details
- 01 Oct 2021
- News
From Scholarship to Life-Saving Impact
prices and expand access to life-saving therapies,” she says. After college, Rabah joined the biotech company Sio Gene Therapies, where she had the opportunity to speak with parents of children with Tay-Sachs disease, an ultra-rare... View Details
- Web
Rare Disease Day – Small Numbers, Big Challenges… and Big Opportunities - Blog: Health Supplement
pharma – but the tides are changing. The underserved nature of the rare disease population combined with increases in federal funding, biotech and medical advancements are spurring optimism for the future. Growth in the markets for... View Details
- Web
Dean Nitin Nohria | About
convene thought leaders, and undertake initiatives to advance African American business leaders. November 2017 Pagliuca Harvard Life Lab The Pagliuca Harvard Life Lab is a shared laboratory space for high-potential life sciences and View Details
- 13 Dec 2021
- Research & Ideas
The Unlikely Upside of Mergers: More Diverse Management Teams
equates to roughly 60 percent of the total US workforce. Zhang tracked acquired firms for 10 years, from five years before they were purchased through the five years afterward. He found that companies whose acquirers operated in the same industry, such as View Details
Keywords: by Lane Lambert
- 01 Jun 2023
- News
An Engine of Innovation
the life sciences ecosystem. We’ve had about 50 student- and alumni-affiliated teams work there. To be accepted, high-potential biotech and life sciences ventures go through a selection committee chaired by Amitabh Chandra [the Henry and... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie
- Web
What You Can Support - Alumni
immersions abroad, and host MBA admissions and career events. From Scientist to Business Leader After college, scientist Brianna Kim (MS/MBA 2023) joined a biotech startup, but soon found herself drawn from the lab bench to the business... View Details
- Portrait Project
Shardule Shah
in. The lines between parenting and working are increasingly blurred, but I am here for all of it. It took me a while to realize that having kids adds value even in business. I had thought that the guiding light for my biotech startup... View Details
- 08 Nov 2021
- Blog Post
4 Ways the MS/MBA is Preparing Me for a Career in Health Care and the Life Sciences
entrepreneurship. Through Nucleate, a student-run biotech incubator, I met a PhD candidate at MIT with whom I have been exploring a tough tech venture for most of the last year. It’s a roller-coaster ride on so many levels, but I am... View Details
- 11 Apr 2011
- Lessons from the Classroom
Teaching a ‘Lean Startup’ Strategy
in the clean tech and biotech fields, both of which often require a great deal of time and capital to create any workable product. The same is true of the transportation industry—inventor Dean Kamen's Segway, for example, or startup... View Details
- 02 Apr 2001
- Research & Ideas
Not All M&As Are Alike—and That Matters
Scenario 4: The M&a As R&d The next-to-last category, acquisitions as a substitute for in-house R&D, is related to product and market extensions, but I'll treat it separately because it's so new and untested. An assortment of high-tech and View Details
Keywords: by Joseph L. Bower
- Profile
Sergio Velasquez-Terjesen
would go into biotech and genetics," he says of his initial ambitions. But after two years as a lab assistant at Louisiana State University, he found that, although the science was "fascinating," the work was "lonely,... View Details