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, speaking, facilitating, 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.
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 the faculty director of Babson’s executive education program “Bio-Pharma: Mastering the Business of Science” for biopharma scientists and managers. In addition to teaching competition and strategy in this program, I teach in the Evening MBA program and in custom programs (see recent client list below).
RECENT CONSULTING CLIENTS
Orion Corporation (Finland)
Vertex Pharmaceuticals
NEACH
New Jersey Institute of Technology
Dyad Systems
RECENT EXECUTIVE EDUCATION CLIENTS
Eli Lilly
Dana Farber Cancer Institute
Biogen Idec
EMC
Lucent Technologies
Scientists and managers from many biotechnology, pharmaceuticals, medical devices, and other life sciences companies who have taken the open-enrollment biopharma program
Foundation strategy course to Evening MBA students
Executive education program for biopharma scientists and executives
Custom programs for companies
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. “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.
National Science Foundation
Eleutherian Mills – Hagley Foundation
PhD Strategic Management, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, USA
MBA, Northeastern University, Boston, USA