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So how do you move
an idea forward?
We all know that it's not
enough to have a great idea.
Ideas do change the
world, but only if they're
implemented effectively.
Our health care problems in both
this country and the developing
world will not be solved
by doing more of the same.
What we're doing in the
Health Care Initiative
is consistent with what Harvard
Business School has always
done.
We want to train
and educate leaders
who will make a difference.
Health care certainly
needs leaders
who will make a difference.
It certainly needs innovators.
My company is
Vaxess Technologies.
And we are working with
a proprietary technology
that allows us to create
heat-stable vaccines.
So Vaxess Technologies
was actually
an outgrowth from an HBS class
called Commercializing Science.
After the class was over, we
decided to formally incorporate
the business, license
the technology,
and that's allowed us to
move the technology closer
to making a positive
impact on people's lives.
So ultimately, founding
a company like Vaxess
requires a tremendous
amount of resources
and also access to information
experts' knowledge.
The I-Lab provided all of
those to Vaxess Technologies,
which was key in getting
us to where we are today.
Well, the Health Care
Initiative is an umbrella
over the many things at HBS
in the area of health care.
And it's an important umbrella.
It's one that sits across
everything we do in health care
here at the school.
It goes from MBA
program to our alumni
of the MBA program, executive
education, the alumni
of our executive
programs, to our faculty
and doctoral students.
The challenges we have
faced over the years
in running the Lagoon Hospitals
has been providing quality
health services, and on the
other hand, providing access
to the widest
population as possible.
The Harvard Business
School education
has been extremely valuable
to some of the other clinician
managers who have also
had the opportunity to go
for the executive programs.
Yeah, so what we're
developing at Moderna,
we manufacture messenger RNA.
So a patient will
themselves make the protein
that they are lacking
to restore their health.
Our partnership is actually
one of our biggest deals
ever done between a large
pharmaceutical company
and a biotech company.
When I was building a strategy
to get that deal to a finish
line, I was using
things I learned
at HBS, like how to negotiate.
I think that's the power of
HBS is you don't realize it,
but slowly, day after
day, they transform you.
I've been a doctor
since 2005, and I've
been working in the UK's
National Health Service.
I'm a joint degree student
between Harvard Business School
and Harvard Kennedy School.
I think that the
Kennedy School is
fantastic at really giving
you an idea of social policy
broadly.
Harvard Business
School really, really
adds value in being able to
put those ideas into practice
in a sustainable way.
I came here because I
had a passion for trying
to change health care.
Some people say
that's naive, but I
don't think anyone challenges
the need for change.
And I honestly believe
that by being here,
I'm really going to be
able to have a much more
powerful impact in the world.
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