Gaurab Bhardwaj

Associate Professor and The Louis J. Lavigne, Jr. Family Endowed Term Chair in Strategy & Planning

Faculty Director, Bio-Pharma Program at Babson Executive Education

228 Tomasso Hall                                                                                                                                                                           781-239-5701 Office

Babson College                                                                                                                                                                               gbhardwaj@babson.edu

Wellesley, MA 02457                                        http://www3.babson.edu/Academics/faculty/gbhardwaj.cfm

My research, teaching, and consulting expertise are in strategy, innovation, and entrepreneurship in science-based companies, especially those in biotechnology, pharmaceuticals, medical devices and diagnostics, agriculture, healthcare, and chemicals.  I have also worked with financial services clients.  I facilitate strategy and management sessions for managers and do executive coaching. 

The National Science Foundation and the Eleutherian Mills – Hagley Foundation have funded my on-going research program on the “Management of Distant Returns” where I am investigating how people make decisions that are highly uncertain and ambiguous, and whose outcomes take shape over many years. My  research, writing, and professional presentations are on discovery processes of corporate scientists, science and strategy for achieving long-term corporate growth, and anticipatory innovation and entrepreneurship. My research has involved scientists and managers in pharmaceutical, agriculture, and biotechnology businesses. I am currently working, along with the founder of a biotechnology company, on a new way way to innovate that anticipates markets.

My research has been published in the journals Management Science, Expert Opinion on Drug Discovery, Chemical Heritage, BioExecutive International, and as a chapter in the book Innovating Strategy Process.

I am also the faculty director of Babson’s executive education program “Bio-Pharma: Mastering the Business of Science” for bio-pharma scientists and managers. In addition to teaching competition and strategy in this program, I teach in the MBA program and in custom programs for Dana Farber Cancer Institute, Biogen Idec, EMC, and Lucent Technologies.

RECENT CONSULTING CLIENTS

Vertex Pharmaceuticals

NEACH

New Jersey Institute of Technology

RECENT EXECUTIVE EDUCATION CLIENTS

Dana Farber Cancer Institute

Biogen Idec

EMC

Lucent Technologies

Scientists and managers from many biotechnology, pharmaceuticals, medical devices, and other life sciences companies who took the open-enrollment biopharma program

TEACHING

Foundation strategy course to Evening MBA students

Executive education program for bio-pharma scientists and executives

Custom programs for companies

RESEARCH INTERESTS

Strategy, entrepreneurship, technology management, and innovation issues in science- and technology-based companies, especially biology-driven or life sciences businesses

PEER-REVIEWED ACADEMIC PUBLICATIONS

Bhardwaj, Gaurab (2007). “From Pioneering Invention to Sustained Innovation: Herbicides at DuPont”, Chemical Heritage, vol. 25, no. 1, pp. 34-36.

Bhardwaj, Gaurab (2006). “How the Antihypertensive Losartan was Discovered”, Expert Opinion on Drug Discovery, vol.1, no. 6, pp. 609-618.

Bhardwaj, Gaurab, John C. Camillus, and David Hounshell (2006). “Continual Corporate Entrepreneurial Search for Long-Term Growth”, Management Science, vol.52, no.2, pp. 248-261 (issue focused on entrepreneurship)

Bhardwaj, Gaurab and Vinay Chowdhry (2005). “The Method of Anticipatory Entrepreneurship”, Frontiers of Entrepreneurship Research, p.39.

Bhardwaj, Gaurab, John C. Camillus, and David A. Hounshell (2005). “The Search Process and Dimensions of Long-Term Growth”. Ch. in Innovating Strategy Process, eds., Steve W. Floyd, Johan Roos, Claus Jacobs, and Franz W. Kellermanns, pp.213-226. Blackwell Publishing, Oxford, UK.

McCarthy, Daniel J. and Gaurab Bhardwaj (1997). “Nypro, Inc.: Strategy for Globalization”, Case Research Journal, winter issue, pp. 49-70. (Reprinted in Michael D. Hutt and Thomas W. Speh, 2001, Business Marketing Management, pp. 538-559, 7th edition, South-Western College Publishing.)

Prescott, John E. and Gaurab Bhardwaj (1995). “Competitive Intelligence Practices: A Survey”, Competitive Intelligence Review, vol. 6, no. 4, pp. 4-14

WORKING PAPERS & ONGOING PROJECTS

Bhardwaj, Gaurab. “A Process Model of Search in Distant Returns Settings – Studies in Corporate Science”.

Bhardwaj, Gaurab and Vinay Chowdhry. “Anticipatory Entrepreneurship”.

Bhardwaj, Gaurab and Vinay Chowdhry. “Discovering Latent Needs”.

Bhardwaj, Gaurab. “The Empty Corporate Labs”

Bhardwaj, Gaurab. “Growth Possibilities Found, Taken, and Lost”.

Bhardwaj, Gaurab. “Pioneering Biotechnology at DuPont, 1902-1925”.

Asner, Glen and Gaurab Bhardwaj. “The History of Thermoelectric Materials Research: 180 Years of Moving, Anchored Search”.
 

PH.D. DISSERTATION RESEARCH

“Search for Distant Returns: A Decision Making Process Model from Choices at DuPont for Invention, Entrepreneurship, and Growth”

Unpublished Ph.D. Dissertation, University of Pittsburgh, December 2000.

GENERAL PUBLICATIONS

Bhardwaj, Gaurab (2006). “Anticipatory Entrepreneurship.” In ‘Promising New Ideas Emerging in Business Today: Observations and Commentary from Babson Professors’, Babson Insight e–Magazine, November 2006.

Cohen, Allan R., Gaurab Bhardwaj, and Ken Matsuno. (2005). “The Uncertain Future”, BioExecutive International, May issue, pp. 18-20.

RESEARCH GRANTS

National Science Foundation

Eleutherian Mills – Hagley Foundation

MEDIA COVERAGE

"Interview: Gaurab Bhardwaj", Effective Executive magazine, April 2007 issue, pg. 46-48.

"Schools Tackle Bio Exec Shortage", Mass High Tech: The Journal of New England Technology, April 23, 2004.

EDUCATION

PhD Strategic Management, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, USA

MBA, Northeastern University, Boston, USA