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- 01 Jan 2009
- News
William K. Bowes Jr., MBA 1952
building companies such as Sun Microsystems, Callaway Golf, and Ross Stores. Bowes also played a key role at Amgen, serving as the first chairman and treasurer of what has become the world’s largest biotech company. Venture philanthropy...
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- 01 Jun 2008
- News
HBS Creates Life Sciences Fellowship Fund
(unlike all other HBS financial-aid offerings), and recipients will still be eligible to receive need-based assistance over and above their fellowships. Possible candidates for the fellowships would include physicians, lab scientists, and View Details
- 04 Sep 2019
- News
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
- 13 Oct 2016
- News
Adding Muscle to the Fight Against Disease
strength and performance, with the goal of preserving and extending patients’ independence and functionality. Blum, who has served Cytokinetics in various roles since its launch in 1998, is quick to point out that the company’s business model sets it apart from most...
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Deborah Blagg
- 01 Jun 2000
- News
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
- News
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 Dec 2016
- News
The Power of Many
Pagliuca, the lab, opened in November, offers shared space for high-potential life sciences and biotech startups that are founded by Harvard faculty, alumni, students, and postdoctoral scholars. The 15,000-square-foot facility has fully...
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- 01 Jun 2000
- News
Seeing the Light
biotech job for Kirlin, a company her great-grandfather had founded. As she told the Detroit News (March 20, 2000), "Detroit is the hub of resources important to manufacturers like Kirlin. It was my first home. I could be part of the...
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- 01 Jun 2005
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Mookerjee Picked as First Director of New HBS India Research Center
categories, including innovation in the technology and biotech sectors, business models, and marketing strategies needed to reach India’s 600 million middle-class consumers. More than a dozen faculty members have already committed to...
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- 22 Feb 2022
- News
An Rx for Small Business Recovery
cluster concept pioneered by Michael Porter, the Bishop William Lawrence University Professor (Renewal Leave) at HBS, Mills argues that organizing a region’s small and large businesses around specialized industries—such as biotech in...
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Deborah Blagg
- 03 Oct 2019
- News
Clubs Convene to Focus on Health Care
as a retiree, investors, and entrepreneurs; alumni working in a range of health care sectors, from biotech and research to pharma and the provider side of it as well. It was a chance to get connected. There was no agenda and no speaker....
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- 01 Jun 2007
- News
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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- 01 Jun 2003
- News
Student Conferences, at a Glance
Jurvetson; Jeffrey C. Walker (MBA 1981), managing general partner, JPMorgan Partners; Stephen A. Schwarzman (MBA 1972), founding partner, president, & CEO, The Blackstone Group Fewer but better biotech companies are being funded with...
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- 01 Jun 2001
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Christina Ehrenberg: The Examined Life
Goldman Sachs in asset management with a biotech focus. Of her HBS experience, Ehrenberg says, “Unlike the rote, top-down German education system, here you are an equal partner in ongoing learning and discussion. HBS has made me more...
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- 05 Aug 2016
- News
Accelerating Change on Medicine’s Final Frontier
program had two origins: Princeton engineering lecturer James Shinn (MBA 1981) and biotech entrepreneur Gregory Stock (MBA 1987), the brother of one of Amadio’s biology professors. “They impressed upon me how interesting it would be to...
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Robert S. Benchley
- 01 Oct 2021
- News
Tackling the World’s Most Difficult Challenges
Sarnoff Professor of Business Administration, have long studied how artificial intelligence (AI) is changing the competitive landscape, but the example they explore in their “Moderna” case study is perhaps the most dramatic. The case takes students inside the View Details
- 01 Oct 1999
- News
Finance Conference Explores Research Methodologies
HBS assistant professor George Chacko, and HBS doctoral candidate Geoffrey Verter that looked at how risk management theory could be applied to understand a biotech firm's decision to buy call options on its own stock. In the final...
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- 16 Nov 2021
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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
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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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