Work with experts and learn how to take new discoveries from lab to market.

Employers search for candidates who harness the complex  interplay of science, technology, and innovation to create revolutionary business models for companies around the world. In partnership with experts across the top-ranked schools of Johns Hopkins University, Discovery to Market teaches students how to assess the commercial potential of scientific discoveries and technological innovations to create lasting impact.

What makes Discovery to Market unique?

• We focus on commercialization and entrepreneurship as a means to meet societal needs. By creating a successful business model, a technology can be brought to market for medical, scientific, and humanitarian purposes.
• Students learn critical aspects of science and the fundamentals of the technology commercialization process that moves innovations from the lab to the marketplace.
• Students bring diverse cultural, professional, and business backgrounds. They pool their knowledge to understand the technical aspects of each engagement.
• Working in teams, students determine the feasibility of commercializing real scientific inventions such as biomarkers, medical devices, pharmaceuticals and biologics, and health IT.
• Industry experts in entrepreneurship, law and regulation, technology, strategy, science, and medicine advise student teams throughout the project.
• Our working agreements with project partners allow students to work on real inventions, not theoretical cases.

Johns Hopkins Carey Business School works closely with the National Institutes of Health. Students work on projects from the National Cancer Institute.

CONTACT US

Toby Gordon, ScD
Course Director, Professor
tgordon@jhu.edu

Johns Hopkins Carey Business School students are ready to build for what’s next in their career.

Whether joining a multi-national corporation or starting their own business, our graduates are equipped with the education and experience to succeed in a variety of roles and industries across the global marketplace.

Employment statistics for all Carey Business School degree programs are collected and published in compliance with the MBA CSEA Standards for reporting employment statistics. Full-time MBA, Flexible MBA, and MS graduate data is collected up to three, four, and six months post-graduation, respectively. 

More information about the CSEA Standards can be found here:  https://www.mbacsea.org/standard

Review our employment statistics

• Full-time MBA
• Online Flexible MBA
• MS in Business Analytics and Risk Management
• MS in Finance
• MS in Health Care Management
• MS in Information Systems
• MS in Marketing
• MS in Real Estate and Infrastructure 

Tutoring: Student Success Center

The Johns Hopkins Carey Business School’s Student Success Center provides quality in-person, online, and drop-in tutoring to help students improve writing and quantitative skills. Visit the Student Success Center website for more information, hours, and resources. For all tutoring inquiries, please email carey.tutoring@jhu.edu.

Advising

Advising may be done in person, by phone, or by email. If you are unsure who your academic advisor is, you may contact by program below:

• Full-time MBA
• Flexible MBA
• MS in Business Analytics and Artificial Intelligence
• MS in Finance
• MS in Health Care Management
• MS in Information Systems and Artificial Intelligence for Business
• MS in Marketing
• MS in Real Estate and Infrastructure

Library Resources

Library Centers for the Carey Business School are located at the Columbia Center, Harbor East, Homewood (main campus), Montgomery County Campus, and at the Krieger Arts and Sciences Washington, D.C. location. Librarians are available for individual help or group information sessions. Our librarians are instrumental in helping students with the selection of credible sources, designing successful searches, and providing directions on how to best use our 70+ business databases.

Student Disability Services

The Carey Business School is committed to making all academic programs, support services, and facilities accessible to persons with disabilities.  For more information or to request accommodations, visit the Student Disability Services page or contact Student Disability Support Services. 

Use design thinking in health care to take a Johns Hopkins technology to market

We lead the way in cutting-edge medical software that improves patient care. But an idea or technology alone won’t save lives. Johns Hopkins innovators need your business acumen to launch a startup and bring their health solutions from bench to bedside.

At the Hexcite early-stage medical software accelerator program, students from across Johns Hopkins match with care providers with an idea to create and market a software solution that improves patient care. Join a team of design and engineering students while working closely with Johns Hopkins Medicine clinical faculty and staff.

Become a leader in health technology innovation

Engage with new health technology software from every angle. Serve as the team’s project manager, provide business support (defining the business model and drive the marketing strategy), and create and lead team pitches and presentations. Develop new skills at workshops on software development, design thinking, customer interviews, and wireframing.

During weekly, expert-led sessions, navigate the first steps of business and technical design to maximize the technology’s growth and business generation. Following 16-weeks of inventive programming and mentorship, Hexcite teams are well positioned to build their technology in partnership with the Johns Hopkins Technology Innovation Center, conduct an internal pilot at Johns Hopkins, and launch a Baltimore start-up.

Outcomes

Business outcomes

• Co-founders and a business team
• 40+ interviews with prospective customers
• Polished pitch deck
• Prototype of your app
• Funding application started

Skill and resource outcomes

• New methods for problem-solving
• Network of entrepreneurs
• Support from the Johns Hopkins Technology Innovation center
• An understanding of the pathways to bring innovations to market at Johns Hopkins
• Potential for in-kind investment from the Johns Hopkins Technology Innovation Center after Hexcite concludes

Your 16 weeks at Hexcite

In addition to working on your software with your team, meet with the entire Hexcite cohort weekly for a series of workshops, trainings, and interactive events. Topics include:

• Commercialization pathway, market size and definition, and competitive matrixes
• Interviewing: What works (and what doesn’t)
• Exploring business models
• Perfecting your pitch
• User-centered design and market barriers
• All things legal: IP, disclosure, regulations, and more
• Considering user experience in wireframing
• Product planning and the minimum viable software product
• The entrepreneurial ecosystem: Funding and resources
• All things data and integration at Johns Hopkins
• Preparing for your pilot at Johns Hopkins
• Pitch and prototype
• Test your pitch
• Pitch event
• Funding and grants