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- 01 Sep 2012
- News
High Honors
companies, primarily in the computer and health-care realm. In the four decades since, Johnson has helped build the biotech industry and earned a reputation as a thoughtful investor, trusted adviser, and generous philanthropist. Among his...
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- 16 Nov 2021
- News
Getting Back Together for Global Networking Night; Healthcare Conference Draws New Interest
pillars of health care in terms of the sectors, so we had pharma and biotech as one group, digital and IT, Investment, and then care providers,” says HBSHAA copresident Nicki MacManus (MBA 2009). “And there’s more and more interest in...
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Margie Kelley
- 01 Jun 2013
- News
Collective Wisdom
Faculty Q&A LAKHANI: Crowdsourcing isn't just for software anymore—everyone from carmakers to biotechs are using it to solve seemingly intractable problems. Crowdsourcing—it's a relatively new word for the centuries-old approach of...
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- 01 Dec 2004
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The Future of Stem Cells
year for research on existing lines, even as other countries are investing many times that amount. Says Cynthia Fisher (MBA ’90), president and CEO of BioMed 20/20 Technologies, a biotech and medical information products firm, “The...
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Garry Emmons
- 01 Sep 2008
- News
Mara Aspinall
ASPINALL Illustration by Jack Unruh When you ask people about their great fears in life, virtually everyone talks about cancer,” says Mara G. Aspinall (MBA ’87), past president of Genzyme Genetics, a Westborough, Massachusetts-based division of the View Details
- 04 Sep 2019
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Advancing Diagnostics that Can Save Lives
MS/MBA Biotechnology: Life Sciences Program will build upon students’ existing biotech and life sciences knowledge and equip them with the latest business and scientific insights. The first cohort will start in August 2020. The joint...
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Susan Young
- 01 Mar 2003
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Inside the Revolution
Kim B. Clark was quick to see the merits of the idea and throw his support behind it. Juan Enriquez was hired as the LSP’s chief administrator, and other faculty became involved as well. HBS professor Gary P. Pisano, an expert on the View Details
- 01 Jun 2018
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Up by the Roots
establishing a platform for building relationships among the relevant actors—to be a replicable model of ecosystem development that could be applied anywhere, and to any industry. (At the moment, she is attempting to strike gold twice in one place by boosting New...
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- 03 Nov 2016
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17 Ventures Join the Pagliuca Harvard Life Lab
life science and biotech ventures further, faster. The fully equipped wet lab environment, collaborative coworking space, and educational resources will support high-potential biotech, pharma, and other life sciences-related ventures that...
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- 01 Sep 2008
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Balanced Equation
significantly. However, we remain a service organization helping entrepreneurs with disruptive technologies that create or transform business. KPCB has always focused on biotech and information technologies. Today we’ve added energy...
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- 01 Dec 2013
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Innovation as Antidote
that can't afford any lost time. You know—the perfect kind of challenge for the HBS community. Last year, HBS and Harvard Medical School's Forum on Healthcare Innovation brought together everyone from biotech execs to policymakers in an...
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- 01 Feb 2002
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Health Industry Alumni Convene for Conference
and CEO of Mediconsulting, Inc., spoke about creating a better model for business collaborations between biotech and pharmaceutical firms. Said Klietmann, the conference's biotechnology chair and a lecturer in pathology at Harvard Medical...
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- 01 Jun 2011
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The Best-Laid Plans
deals with Bed Bath & Beyond, Frontier Airlines, and Johnson & Johnson. “You’re always asking, is this the right business model? But there are no answers. The market and technology are constantly changing,” Riesenfeld remarks. The biotech...
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- 01 Mar 2011
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Making Their Way
firm. But when her father fell ill in 1986, the Brownells decided to return to Detroit to help with the family enterprise founded by her great-grandfather. As things turned out, Brownell’s father recovered and was able to continue with the company. But Brownell, who in...
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- 24 Sep 2020
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The Race for a Vaccine
Above: illustration by Matthew Roharik/Getty Images In November 2019, a team from the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, part of the National Institutes of Health, visited Moderna, Inc.’s manufacturing plant in Norwood, Massachusetts. The View Details
- 01 Jun 2000
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Managing the Map
Whitehead's genome research center. Renowned as a thoughtful, charismatic speaker on biotech issues, Lander memorably described the Human Genome Project as biology's version of the discovery and consolidation of the periodic table: "Not...
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Peter K. Jacobs
- 01 Dec 2003
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The Next Big Thing
approach to meeting them. This could produce as many as 100,000 high-paying jobs in biotech companies alone, Porter said. Harvard’s Bishop William Lawrence University Professor and an internationally recognized expert on strategy and...
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- 01 Dec 2013
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Your Own Medicine
searching for new leads. In 2008, Benjy came across an article on halofuginone (HT-100), a drug compound derived from an ancient Chinese herb that had shown promising results in treating muscular dystrophy in mice. They tracked it down to an Israeli View Details
- 01 Jun 2007
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Mission Possible
“Rudy contends that if we can identify the other ten or twelve genes that are players, we can give the biotech industry so many more shots to come up with a therapy,” explains McCance, who, along with his cofounders, is privately...
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- 12 Jul 2021
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Alumni Confront the COVID-19 Crisis
PYMNTS.com. (Readers who know of groups in need of PPE can email Miller at anne@projectn95.org.) NOVEMBER 23 Cambridge-based biotech Moderna, led by CEO Stephane Bancel (MBA 2000, AMP 170), released promising results on the coronavirus...
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