As the associate director of the Health Care Initiative focusing on life sciences, I’ve managed the Blavatnik Fellowship since 2013 and have had the privilege of seeing extraordinary innovators work on some of the world’s toughest health care challenges. [...]
Two macro-trends are crashing together to create unprecedented opportunities for talent in life sciences: Americans are quitting their jobs at a jaw-dropping pace even as capital flows into biotech also set records. The result? Leadership talent has more choice and agency than ever before. [...]
Halle Tecco and Julia Cheek
Alumni
Over the years, women working in healthcare have been asked why “women’s health” solutions are not just “health solutions.” We’ve been asked if we really need to build separate care paths for women. We’ve been told the market for women’s health is too “niche.” [...]
Out of the many benefits of pursuing an MBA from Harvard Business School, the alumni network is arguably one of the greatest. With more than 80,000 alumni working in leadership positions globally, there is no shortage of excellence to tap into. At the same time, that number can be overwhelming when it comes to finding the right people to build out your professional network. Fortunately, the HBS community has found a way to make that task less daunting and more valuable for alumni, faculty and students alike. [...]
The news that I was selected as the first postdoc for the Blavatnik Fellowship was both humbling and exciting. It also felt like the ideal capstone to my academic training. Up until that point, I had spent my academic career focused on technical training as an engineer, including the last seven years working as a PhD candidate and postdoc. [...]