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Alice Sapienza, D.B.A.

Professor Alice SapienzaProfessor of Health Care Administration
B.S. Stonehill College
M.A. Boston College
M.B.A. and D.B.A. Harvard University
alice.sapienza@simmons.edu

Dr. Sapienza has a rare combination of credentials: experience as a general manager in a Harvard teaching hospital (Beth Israel); master's and doctoral degrees from Harvard Business School; consultant to national and international science and technology organizations as well as government organizations; and wide graduate teaching experience. Since 1990, Dr. Sapienza has been on the faculty of the Healthcare Administration Department in Simmons College, Boston, where she teaches courses in organizational strategy in the healthcare environment; her executive teaching focuses on leadership and organizational development.

In her academic research, Dr. Sapienza has focused on the management of research and development and strategic planning in high-technology firms. In addition to articles, case studies, and book chapters, she has written Managing Scientists: Leadership Strategies in Scientific Research (Wiley, 2004 (2nd ed) (translated as Forscher Manager, VCH, 1997) and Creating Technology Strategies (Wiley, 1997) and is co-author of Leading Biotechnology Alliances--Right From the Start (Wiley, 2001) and Successful Strategies In Pharmaceutical R&D (VCH, 1996). Dr. Sapienza has an active consulting practice with high-technology organizations, particularly multi-national pharma-ceutical and biotechnology companies, working with scientists and executives on problems ranging from culture and organization development to competitive intelligence, strategy determination, and project management. Her public sector clients have included the U.S. Veterans' Administration, Centre for Medicines Research (U.K.), Birmingham National Health Service (U.K.), and the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA). Alice Sapienza received the 2005 SHS Faculty Research Award for past scholarly achievements.


Publications

Books

  • Sapienza, AM. MANAGING SCIENTISTS, 2nd ed. John Wiley & Sons, New York, 2004.
  • Sapienza, AM; Stork, D, with Lombardino, J. LEADING STRATEGIC ALLIANCES: RIGHT FROM THE START. John Wiley & Sons, New York, 2001.
  • Sapienza, AM. CREATING TECHNOLOGY STRATEGIES. John Wiley & Sons, New York, 1997.
  • Sedlacek, HH; Sapienza, AM; and Eid, V. SUCCESSFUL STRATEGIES IN DRUG RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT: Essential Aspects of Planning and Implementation. Verlag Chemie Pub., New York, 1996.
  • Sapienza, AM. MANAGING SCIENTISTS. John Wiley & Sons, New York, 1995.
  • FORSCHER MANAGEN (German edition of MANAGING SCIENTISTS, published by Verlag Chemie,1997).
  • Feldman, PH, with AM Sapienza and NM Kane. WHO CARES FOR THEM? Workers in the Home Care Industry. Greenwood Press, New York, 1990


Articles, Chapters, Reviews

  • Sapienza, AM. "From the Inside: Scientists' Own Experience of Good (and Bad) Management," R&D Management 35, 5, 2005 (pp 473-482). (One of Social Science Research Networks' Top Ten downloads for relevant topics, 2008.)
  • Sapienza, AM. "The Context of Medical Interpretation: An Overview of the U.S. Healthcare System." Prepared for Harvard Pilgrim Health Care Foundation's Institute for Linguistic and Cultural Skills, December 2008.
  • Sapienza, AM. "Managing Scientists: Leadership Strategies in Science," in Volume 2, Research and Development, W Moos (Ed), COMPREHENSIVE MEDICINAL CHEMISTRY II, Oxford, UK: Elsevier Ltd, November 2007.
  • Sapienza, AM, with J Lombardino. "Research and Development Management," in KIRK-OTHMER ENCLYCLOPEDIA OF CHEMICAL TECHNOLOGY (online edition), New Jersey: John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 2007.
  • Sapienza, AM. "Biotech's Promise, Delayed." Review of SCIENCE BUSINESS, in Nature Biotechnology25, 1, January 2007.
  • Sapienza, AM. "Health Care Professionals and Interdisciplinary Care," in INTRODUCTION TO HEALTH CARE DELIVERY: A Primer for Pharmacists, Jones and Bartlett, Pub., 4th edition, 2006 (also included in second, and third editions, 2001 and 2004, respectively).
  • Sapienza, AM and Lombardino, JL. "Recognizing, Appreciating, and Capturing the Tacit Knowledge of R&D Scientists," Drug Development Research 64 No. 2, 99-104, February 2005.


Selected Conference Presentations

  • Sapienza, AM; Neary, S; White, P; Rissmiller, P. "One DNP Program's Pedagogical Design: Using AACNs Essentials and the National Center for Healthcare Leadership (NCHL) Competencies." Drexel University Doctor of Nursing Practice Conference, Hilton Head Island, SC, March 2009.
  • Sapienza, AM; Robbins, C; Lowe, J. "The Basics of Implementing Leadership Competencies in a Master's Curriculum: Bloom's Taxonomy, Pedagogy, and Student Assessment." Annual Meeting of the Association of University Programs in Health Administration, Orlando, Fl, May/June 2007.
  • Sapienza, AM and Fitzgerald, DF. "The Context of R&D Decision-Making: How Might Changes Affect the Caliber of the Output?" R&D Management Conference, Windemere, UK, July 2006.


Selected Presentations

  • "Does the Biotech Industry Deserve a Bailout?" NYU Polytechnic Institute, Brooklyn, NY, April 2009.
  • "The Paradox of Therapeutic Biotechnology." NYU Polytechnic Institute, Brooklyn, NY, January, 2008.
  • Keynote speaker, Knowledge-Sharing Workshop, NASA Ames Research Center, "Effective and Ineffective Leadership of Science," Moffett Field, CA, May 2003.


Consulting

Consultant to international pharmaceutical, biotechnology, and health-related organizations (consulting efforts include leadership of R&D, R&D project planning and management, organization development, strategic planning). Private sector clients have included major pharmaceutical and biotechnology companies. Public sector clients have included U.S. National Aeronautics and Space Administration, U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs, and U.K. National Health Service.