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Stem Cell Man
Last year, Brock Reeve (MBA ’88) was named executive director of the Harvard Stem Cell Institute to bring his managerial and diplomatic skills to bear on achieving organizational cohesion and help speed laboratory innovations to market. “Although not a scientist himself, Reeve’s focused and inclusive approach has helped to bridge differences and create new rules of engagement within and among Harvard schools and more than 750 scientists at eleven affiliated research hospitals,” the Boston Globe (June 11, 2007) reported.
Reeve, whose half-brother was the late actor and stem cell research activist Christopher Reeve, previously had worked in strategy, marketing, and management with several firms that were involved in IT, health care, and life sciences. “In the business world, a lot of what I did was getting people to work together across business units,” Reeve explained. “Because I don’t have one particular scientific domain, I’m not tied to viewing things through that lens. And at the same time, a lot of the challenges are not purely scientific, they are also organizational.”
Reeve sees Harvard’s expertise in so many other fields as a real plus. For dealing with the myriad beyond-the-laboratory issues — social, political, and ethical — that surround stem cell research, “Few other places in the world have this set of resources,” he said.
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