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  • November 2010 (Revised December 2010)
  • Background Note

HR 3509

By: David F. Hawkins
HR 3509 ("2010 Health Reform Bill") imposition of a fee in pharmaceutical sales and an excise tax on medical device sales raises accounting issues. View Details
Keywords: Accounting; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Government Legislation; Taxation; Medical Devices and Supplies Industry; Medical Devices and Supplies Industry; United States
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  • May 1991
  • Teaching Note

American Red Cross Blood Services: Northeast Region, Teaching Note

By: Robert L. Simons
Teaching Note for (9-190-078). View Details
Keywords: Medical Devices and Supplies Industry; Medical Devices and Supplies Industry; North and Central America
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  • October 2004 (Revised July 2005)
  • Case

Kinetic Concepts, Inc.

By: Jay W. Lorsch, Dwight B. Crane and Ashley Robertson
Raises issues about how the nature and function of a board changes as a company moves from ownership by its employees, including the founder, to ownership by a private equity firm, Fremont Partners, culminating in a highly successful IPO. Gives students the opportunity... View Details
Keywords: Private Equity; Governing and Advisory Boards; Initial Public Offering; Behavior; Organizations; Employee Ownership; Health Care and Treatment; Medical Devices and Supplies Industry; Medical Devices and Supplies Industry; United States
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  • August 2003
  • Teaching Note

Pharmacyclics: Financing Research and Development (TN)

By: Malcolm P. Baker and Richard S. Ruback
Teaching Note for (9-201-056). View Details
Keywords: Pharmaceutical Industry; Pharmaceutical Industry
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  • June 1994 (Revised March 1998)
  • Teaching Note

Molding the Impossible: the NYPRO/Vistakon Disposable Contact Lens Project TN

By: Clayton M. Christensen
Teaching Note for (9-694-062). View Details
Keywords: Manufacturing Industry; Manufacturing Industry
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  • September 1993
  • Supplement

Manufacturing at ALZA: The Right Prescription? (B)

By: Dorothy A. Leonard
ALZA, a drug delivery company, must decide what and for whom to manufacture. In the past, it has licensed to pharmaceutical companies its patented system for the slow release of drugs into the human system. Therefore the company has little experience in choice of drug... View Details
Keywords: Experience and Expertise; Decision Choices and Conditions; Patents; Production; Pharmaceutical Industry; Pharmaceutical Industry
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  • 23 Jun 2003
  • Research & Ideas

Psychology, Pathology, and the CEO

industrial and energy services—and was close to defaulting on its financial obligations. Some managers felt the company was also bankrupt in terms of ideas. There was insufficient communication across the company, including few common... View Details
Keywords: by Rosabeth Moss Kanter
  • 01 Jun 2020
  • News

Prognosis

cost of the health care that they’re paying for their subscribers has gone down by 50 percent in the last month or so. It seems irresponsible for the private insurance industry to realize a windfall at a time when providers are... View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint; COVID-19; Hospitals; Health, Social Assistance
  • 18 Dec 2007
  • First Look

First Look: December 18, 2007

to other firms than non-star analysts. Purchase the paper from SSRN.com ($5): http://papers.nber.org/papers/w13633 The Impact of Component Modularity on Design Evolution: Evidence from the Software Industry Authors:Alan MacCormack, John... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 21 May 2001
  • Research & Ideas

From Tigers to Kaleidoscopes: Thinking About Future Leadership

will eventually find themselves spending more and more energy fighting for a dwindling supply of resources—and the market will win anyway. Norton and Westinghouse, for example, two companies that lived by the sword—with managers who were... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
  • 22 Apr 2008
  • First Look

First Look: April 22, 2008

Business School Case 207-091 Jerzy Peters, Managing Director of Patron Capital Partners, must decide the best investment option on the development of the Odra Polish theater chain and the associated real estate. Capital Field was a... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • January 2010 (Revised March 2013)
  • Case

HubSpot: Lower Churn through Greater CHI

By: F. Asis Martinez Jerez, Thomas Steenburgh, Jill Avery and Lisa Brem
HubSpot, a web marketing startup is under pressure from VCs to rapidly acquire new customers and to maintain a low level of customer churn. In the case, students explore the drivers of customer churn and uncover opportunities to increase customer retention across the... View Details
Keywords: Business Startups; Customer Relationship Management; Customer Satisfaction; Customer Value and Value Chain; Forecasting and Prediction; Consumer Behavior; Happiness; Consulting Industry
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  • 04 Apr 2024
  • Blog Post

Climate Stories: Water Series - Episode #16: Tim Murdoch, HBS MBA 1990 – Learning about Climate Change and Water

about plans by Industrial Plastics Canada to open a new plant in nearby North Bay, Ontario. Yes, the new plant would generate 35 jobs, but the CBC report said “the company will transform a polymer called polytetrafluoroethylene (PTFE),... View Details
  • 01 Nov 2012
  • Research & Ideas

Book Excerpt: Judgment Calls

particular challenge the company faced was about selling its line of prestigious, professional beauty tools to chain drugstores—risking dilution of the brand, losing existing core customers, and taking on financial commitments way beyond... View Details
Keywords: by Thomas H. Davenport & Brook Manville; Consumer Products
  • 20 May 2008
  • First Look

First Look: May 20, 2008

mission, and meeting the expectations of a demanding capital market. Additionally, Compartamos' Co-CEOs must decide how to face the highly polarized reactions in the microfinance industry to its IPO. In the process, the case examines the... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 10 Oct 2007
  • First Look

First Look: First Look: October 10

spending associated with the redemption of such a coupon is focused on "marginal" grocery items, or grocery items that a customer does not typically buy. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/08-024.pdf The Causes and Consequences of View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 20 Nov 2012
  • First Look

First Look: November 20

anti-regulation movement that started in the 1970s, voluntary self-regulation programs have emerged in many regulatory agencies, seeking to increase cooperation between government and industry to achieve greater and more cost-effective... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 29 Jul 2008
  • First Look

First Look: July 29, 2008

of these two factors helps stop and reverse long-term declines in overall inventor agglomeration evident in the 1970s and 1980s. The heightened ethnic agglomeration is particularly evident in industry patents for high-tech sectors, and... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 28 May 2008
  • First Look

First Look: May 28, 2008

http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=208071 Fortis Healthcare (A) Harvard Business School Case 308-030 Should the Indian hospital chain enter the medical travel market or should it focus on expansion in the... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 03 Apr 2019
  • Book

Fintech's Game-Changing Opportunities for Small Business

that draws on sales systems, supply chain systems, and manufacturing and product data. A similar system for small businesses would combine at least four key activities: banking and payments, loans and... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Banking; Financial Services