biotech - Publications - Faculty & Research

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

04 Apr 2024
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The Making of a Medical Milestone

then to Harvard for your MBA. Was biotech always in your career plan? In college, I set up an ambulance service in Saint Lucia. Then, during medical school, I started an organization that recycled medical equipment and donated it to the... View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley

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Leadership Transitions | Baker Library | Bloomberg Center | Harvard Business School

also an area of heavy growth. As the 1980s ushered in the rise of high-tech research and start-ups, Lehman Brothers, Kuhn, Loeb & Co. helped finance Cetus, an early biotech firm, as well as Intel, which created the first microprocessor.... View Details

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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

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Rare Disease Day – Small Numbers, Big Challenges… and Big Opportunities - Blog: Health Supplement

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 clinical trials, drug... 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

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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

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What You Can Support - Alumni

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 side. Harvard’s joint... View Details

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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

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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

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

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

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

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Technology; Computer

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

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

Keywords: Manufacturing/Energy; Consulting

30 Jun 2021
In Practice

The Harvard Business School Faculty Summer Reader 2021

What’s on HBS faculty members’ reading list for summer 2021? Which books are most meaningful to them and why? Below, faculty share their top picks, ranging from biographies and memoirs to their colleagues’ latest works. Julia Austin: Social justice and the Obamas I... View Details

Keywords: by Kathryn Haviland

25 Jan 2024
Blog Post

Climate Stories Episode #15: Hilton Augustine III on Financing Climate Ventures

dating” between Harvard and MIT biotech PhDs and HBS MBAs, taught how to develop a pitch and business plan, and nurtured relationships with venture capitalists for funding opportunities. Hilton explained: “this was a unique way to get... View Details

15 Jun 2007
Research & Ideas

Remembering Alfred Chandler

School, Al was just publishing Scale and Scope. I watched him move from this book, which dealt principally with Second Industrial Revolution industries, to a keen interest in telecommunications and the Information Revolution. Before long, Al was digging into View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

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