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- 04 Sep 2019
- News
Impact: Where Science and Business Intersect
The creation, commercialization, and scaling of science-based enterprises will be a crucial segment of the global economy in the decades to come. Harvard Business School—through its educational programs, the research of its faculty...
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- 01 Jun 2008
- News
HBS Creates Life Sciences Fellowship Fund
undergraduate science backgrounds. Preference will be given to students planning careers in science-based businesses and organizations. The new fellowships reflect the growing emphasis at HBS on preparing leaders for the life-sciences and...
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- 01 Jun 2008
- News
Social Enterprise Pioneer
School’s newest alumni? We passed the mike to six members of a learning team from the Class of 2008 to get their thoughts on collaborative learning and what life is really like at HBS. A Binary Formula Science-based businesses demand new...
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- 21 Feb 2012
- News
Sustainability Is Good Business
on the payroll, the Nature Conservancy isn’t shy about offering its science-based expertise to help corporations soften their environmental footprints. Dow Chemical and British Petroleum are among its corporate partners. Tercek’s bottom...
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- 31 May 2016
- HBS Case
Who Owns Space?
As a vast place full of limitless possibility, space is a huge draw for brilliant minds and big ambitions. A new generation of billionaire entrepreneurs is vying to lay claim to it. Be it Jeff Bezos, Elon Musk, Richard Branson, or Paul Allen, some of the world’s...
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- November 1983 (Revised May 1984)
- Case
SSS (Scientific Systems Services)
By: Howard H. Stevenson and Michael J. Roberts
Keywords:
Science-Based Business
Stevenson, Howard H., and Michael J. Roberts. "SSS (Scientific Systems Services)." Harvard Business School Case 384-129, November 1983. (Revised May 1984.)
- 01 Dec 2006
- News
Faculty Books
from its character as a science-based business. This poses three challenges: how to finance risky investments with long time horizons for R&D; keep pace with advances in drug knowledge; and integrate capabil-ities across the spectrum of...
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- 13 Nov 2006
- Research & Ideas
Science Business: What Happened to Biotech?
"anatomy," has created poor conditions for a science-based business to flower. "The sector has indiscriminately borrowed business models, organizational strategies, and approaches from other high-technology industries under...
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- 20 Apr 2010
- First Look
First Look: April 20
Notably, the result persists after controlling for a host of factors that may influence bidding, but disappears when the appeal for charity is replaced by an appeal to bid for other reasons. Implications for the link between religion and pro-social behavior are...
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Keywords:
Martha Lagace
- September 1998
- Case
Monsanto's March into Biotechnology (C)
By: Dorothy A. Leonard and Robert Irwin
Supplements the (A) and (B) cases.
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Leonard, Dorothy A., and Robert Irwin. "Monsanto's March into Biotechnology (C)." Harvard Business School Case 699-021, September 1998.
- Fast Answer
Confronting Climate Change: Risks and Opportunities
emissions, and greentech. More resources from HBS: HBS Working Knowledge - keep updated about Harvard Business School faculty on issues including science-based businesses, environmental sustainability, and climate change. HBS...
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- 01 Dec 2018
- News
Collaborative Cures
diagnostics, consumer, and devices, collectively raising more than $150 million in funding. To further catalyze these new science-based businesses, the program provides fellows professional development in areas such as startup strategy,...
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- 1999
- Chapter
The Pharmaceutical Industry and the Revolution in Molecular Biology: Interactions Among Scientific, Institutional, and Organizational Change
By: Rebecca Henderson, Gary P. Pisano and Luigi Orsenigo
Keywords:
Science-Based Business;
Organizational Change and Adaptation;
Transformation;
Pharmaceutical Industry
Henderson, Rebecca, Gary P. Pisano, and Luigi Orsenigo. "The Pharmaceutical Industry and the Revolution in Molecular Biology: Interactions Among Scientific, Institutional, and Organizational Change." In Sources of Industrial Leadership: Studies of Seven Industries, edited by David Mowery and Richard Nelson. Cambridge University Press, 1999.
- Web
Avoiding Startup Failure - Course Catalog
contexts, for example: science-based “tough tech” ventures; startups that aim for social impact; new ventures launched by established corporations; and bootstrapped, “low tech” businesses. The case protagonist will join as a guest in most...
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- February 2008 (Revised August 2008)
- Case
EXACT Sciences Corp.: Commercializing a Diagnostic Test
This case addresses the challenges of commercializing molecular diagnostics. Along the way, it explains the technology, payment system, and the measures used to assess the value of a diagnostic test.
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Keywords:
Health Testing and Trials;
Genetics;
Science-Based Business;
Commercialization;
Biotechnology Industry
Herzlinger, Regina E. "EXACT Sciences Corp.: Commercializing a Diagnostic Test." Harvard Business School Case 308-090, February 2008. (Revised August 2008.)
- November 2014
- Teaching Note
Houston We Have a Problem: NASA and Open Innovation (A) and (B)
By: Michael L. Tushman, Hila Lifshitz-Assaf and Kerry Herman
- 2001
- Chapter
A Business Manager's Approach to Climate Change
By: Forest Reinhardt and Kimberly O'Neill Packard
Reinhardt, Forest, and Kimberly O'Neill Packard. "A Business Manager's Approach to Climate Change." In Climate Change: Science, Strategies, & Solutions, edited by Eileen Claussen. Leiden: Brill Academic Publishers, 2001.
- 01 Mar 2005
- News
Campaign Passes Goal, Continues
organizations and communities they join. “What we do here has a deep and broad impact on society as a whole. The School really is a pioneer. Just look at our current research in entrepreneurship and social enterprise, and our new initiatives in health care, education...
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- March 1999
- Teaching Note
Conceptual Overview: "Business and the Environment," An Elective for MBA Students TN
Intended to assist faculty who teach courses on environmental management at business schools. Other people interested in the relationships between business and the environment may also find it useful.
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- 2022
- Chapter
Sustainability Science and Corporate Cleanup in Community Fields: The Translation, Resistance and Integration Process Model
By: P. Devereaux Jennings, Maggie Cascadden and Andrew J. Hoffman
Both practically and theoretically, the sustainability science and corporate operation perspectives often diverge. Overcoming this divergence requires some degree of engagement with organizational field members; not just negotiation, but on-the-ground process work to...
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Jennings, P. Devereaux, Maggie Cascadden, and Andrew J. Hoffman. "Sustainability Science and Corporate Cleanup in Community Fields: The Translation, Resistance and Integration Process Model." Chap. 12 in Handbook on the Business of Sustainability: The Organization, Implementation, and Practice of Sustainable Growth, edited by Gerard George, Martine Haas, Havovi Joshi, Anita McGahan, and Paul Tracey, 214–231. Edward Elgar Publishing, 2022.