Gaurab’s research, teaching, and consulting expertise are in strategy, innovation, and entrepreneurship in science-based companies, especially those in biotechnology, pharmaceuticals, medical devices and diagnostics, agriculture, healthcare, and chemicals.  He has also consulted in financial services.  Gaurab has facilitated strategy and management sessions with managers and been involved in executive coaching.

The National Science Foundation and the Eleutherian Mills – Hagley Foundation have funded his on-going research program on the “Management of Distant Returns” where he is investigating how people make decisions that are highly uncertain and ambiguous, and whose outcomes take shape over many years.  His research, writing, and professional presentations are on discovery processes of corporate scientists, science and strategy for achieving long-term corporate growth, and anticipatory innovation and entrepreneurship. 

His work has involved scientists and managers in pharmaceutical, agriculture, and biotechnology businesses.  He is currently working, along with the founder of a biotechnology company, on a new way to innovate that anticipates markets. 

Gaurab’s research has been published in the journals Management Science, Expert Opinion on Drug Discovery, Chemical Heritage, BioExecutive International, and as a chapter in the book Innovating Strategy Process. 

Gaurab is the faculty director of Babson’s executive education program “Bio-Pharma: Mastering the Business of Science” for bio-pharma scientists and managers.  In addition to teaching competition and strategy in this program, he teaches in the MBA program and has taught in custom programs for Biogen Idec, Dana Farber Cancer Institute, EMC, and Lucent Technologies.