BIOMEDICAL ENTERPRISE PROGRAM
A Joint Venture Between
Harvard-MIT Division of Health Sciences and
Technology (HST)
&
Harvard-MIT
MIT Sloan School of Management
Biomedical
Enterprise
Program
Harvard-MIT Division of Health Sciences and
Technology (HST)
• Distinguished history based on a unique
partnership between MIT and Harvard
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• Mission: Train MDs and PhDs to bring the benefit
of bench discoveries to the improvement of patient
care
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Enterprise
Program
COMMERCIALIZATION:
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KEY to bringing the benefits of
bench-to-bedside research to patient care.
Harvard-MIT
Business
Biomedical
Enterprise
Program
Harvard-MIT
Biomedical
Enterprise
Program
What is BEP?
• Two-year program leading to
– MS in Health Sciences and Technology (HST)
– MS in Management and Technology (Sloan)
– One thesis
• Integrating an outstanding business school
curriculum with a unique grounding in
engineering and biomedical sciences
Harvard-MIT
– To train entrepreneurial biomedical business leaders
– To affect successfully the cycle of beside-toclinic commercialization
Biomedical
Enterprise
Program
Who is BEP?
• Faculty
– Existing MIT and Harvard faculties
– Venture capital and corporate guest lecturers
– Business, scientific, technical, and medical mentors
• Students
Harvard-MIT
– Entrepreneurial focus on commercializing
biomedical technologies
– Future leaders (not middle managers)
– Compatibility with current Sloan and HST student
bodies
Biomedical
Enterprise
Program
• Understand general disease processes & therapeutic
strategies
– Human Pathology
– Molecular Biology & Genetics
– Molecular/systems pathophysiology
• Clinical experience
• Statistics & decision-making in the context of
clinical medicine
Harvard-MIT
Curriculum
Biomedical Sciences & Technology
Competencies
Biomedical
Enterprise
Program
• Conversant in language of business and management
• Sloan’s Core management curriculum
– Strategic management, technology management
– Accounting & finance
– Organizational design, human resources, negotiation
• Entrepreneurship
– New enterprises & entrepreneurship lab
– Entrepreneurial finance
Harvard-MIT
Curriculum
Management Competencies
Biomedical
Enterprise
Program
The BEP Integrative Stream
business
HST
stream
stream
clinical
stream
integrated
Harvard-MIT
HST
stream
Biomedical
Enterprise
Program
BEP Launch
• Inaugural Class of Five Outstanding Students Started June 2002
• Management Committee
- Martha Gray, Co-Director, HST
- Frank R. Landsberger, Executive Director, BEP
- Jim Utterback, Director, Management of Technology Program,
Sloan
• Steering Committee
Harvard-MIT
- Oversight of Curriculum
- Admissions
Biomedical
Enterprise
Program
BEP Collaboration with
University of Cambridge
• Brings international perspective to BEP
• Student and faculty
– Joint programs/projects/teaching
– Cohort building
– Exchange of views
Harvard-MIT
• Facilitated through CMI
Biomedical
Enterprise
Program
Harvard-MIT
BEP: A UNIQUE PROGRAM
WITH A PLETHORA OF LOGOS
Biomedical
Enterprise
Program