The Digital Dozen: My 12 Takeaways for HBS On Data, DNA, And Pharma

Forbes September 12, 2019
David Shaywitz

I’m deeply skeptical that I have much knowledge to impart to Harvard Business School (HBS) students. After all, they’re the ones clever enough to pursue a two year advanced degree (“six months of education crammed into two years,” they joke), while across town, my classmates and I ran gels, plated cells, memorized structures, and took call for a decade or more (in some cases) — and all for the privilege of eventually working for our fleece-vested colleagues (see also this 2011 Scott Gottlieb piece, and my 2012 Forbes post).

Even so, I was recently invited to appear as a guest on a new podcast out of HBS called “Under The Datascope,” where I answered questions about my experiences and perspective...