How do you launch a billion-dollar health tech business coming out of business school without prior business or tech experience? In this episode, host Denise Silber interviews Dr. Lissy Hu, a Harvard MD MBA, whose winning HBS business competition idea for solving a healthcare system problem, turned into a going concern acquired at $1.3B in 2020.
Can leading a manufacturing business and governing a state in the US, have much in common, when the operations and bottom line are so different? In this episode, host Denise Silber discusses leadership with John Lynch, a Harvard MBA who became the successful CEO of Knoll and went on to be a four-term Governor of New Hampshire.
In this episode, Denise Silber, host of HAE Invites, interviews the CEO of Moderna Therapeutics (MRNA), one of the most strategic and observed life science companies of the COVID crisis. In December 2018, Moderna became the largest biotech IPO in history. Now in 2020, they are called upon to do what has never been done before, to accelerate the development of a vaccine for a new disease.
Emmanuel Arnaud’s love for travel to faraway places and having guests from other countries in his home began in his youth, thanks to his family. As an adult, he turned these passions into his mission as an entrepreneur. Arnaud launched a community of travelers in 2011, when he started Guest to Guest. This dream was further expanded, when he partnered with Charles-Edouard Girard, and together, they acquired HomeExchange in 2015. To what does Emmanuel attribute his success? Building companies on the human qualities of kindness and resilience.
