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- May 1998
- Teaching Note
ArthroCare TN
Teaching Note for (9-898-056).
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Keywords:
Medical Devices and Supplies Industry
- December 1998 (Revised March 1999)
- Case
Disruptive Technology a Heartbeat Away: Ecton, Inc.
By: Clayton M. Christensen and Edward G Cape
Describes an innovating start-up company with a disruptive technology to the large, expensive echocardiography machines that leading cardiologists use to create images of heart functions for diagnostic purposes. Ecton's machine is small, cheap, portable, and can't...
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Keywords:
Business Startups;
Disruption;
Machinery and Machining;
Entrepreneurship;
Innovation and Invention;
Marketing;
Product;
Commercialization;
Technology;
Medical Devices and Supplies Industry
Christensen, Clayton M., and Edward G Cape. "Disruptive Technology a Heartbeat Away: Ecton, Inc." Harvard Business School Case 699-018, December 1998. (Revised March 1999.)
- April 1998
- Case
Becton Dickinson: Worldwide Blood Collection Team (Abridged)
By: Clayton M. Christensen
Becton Dickinson's Vacutainer business was largely based in the United States, but in 1980 management determined to grow the business aggressively first in Europe and then Japan. These areas demanded new products that were tailored to local markets. Despite the change...
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Keywords:
Resource Allocation;
Growth and Development Strategy;
Change Management;
Product Development;
Global Strategy;
Expansion;
Innovation and Invention;
Multinational Firms and Management;
Medical Devices and Supplies Industry;
United States;
Europe;
Japan
Christensen, Clayton M. "Becton Dickinson: Worldwide Blood Collection Team (Abridged)." Harvard Business School Case 698-058, April 1998.
- March 1997 (Revised October 2017)
- Case
Hospital Equipment Corporation
By: Clayton M. Christensen and Rory McDonald
Hospital Equipment Corp. is a very successful maker of hospital beds. Due to outstanding performance in new product development, it grew to dominate its primary market and is searching for other opportunities to grow through new product development. It discovers that...
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Keywords:
Growth and Development Strategy;
Innovation and Management;
Opportunities;
Business Processes;
Product Development;
Technological Innovation;
Expansion;
Markets;
Problems and Challenges;
Medical Devices and Supplies Industry;
United States
Christensen, Clayton M., and Rory McDonald. "Hospital Equipment Corporation." Harvard Business School Case 697-086, March 1997. (Revised October 2017.)
- April 1977
- Teaching Note
Insight Optical Equipment Co., Teaching Note
Keywords:
Medical Devices and Supplies Industry
- 01 Mar 2014
- News
Everything Old Is a New Opportunity
ideas was one of the most useful things I learned." Ideas with Promise Johnston identifies these as new growth areas—and they're about more than just health care: The "quantified senior"—wearable self-tracking and monitoring devices for...
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- 01 Sep 2008
- News
Mara Aspinall
“an incredibly dedicated and brilliant group of physicians, as well as patients with such courage and grace that I knew I wanted to do something to get more involved in their battle.” This year she is on a “working sabbatical” at Dana-Farber and Harvard View Details
- 01 Mar 2011
- News
Wyss Celebrated for Career, Conservation
Hansjörg Wyss (MBA 1965) has been unusually public of late, celebrated for his visionary accomplishments in health care and conservation. Wyss, 75, founded Synthes USA, a Swiss-American firm, in 1974 and led it to global prominence as a pioneer in the development and...
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- June 2007
- Teaching Note
General Electric Healthcare, 2006 (TN)
By: Tarun Khanna
Teaching note to 706478.
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- September 2003 (Revised February 2007)
- Case
PolyMedica Corporation (A)
By: David F. Hawkins and Jacob Cohen
The Securities and Exchange Commission and investors question PolyMedica Corp.'s practice of capitalizing rather than expensing of direct-response advertising.
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Keywords:
Activity Based Costing and Management;
Business Earnings;
Advertising;
Private Sector;
Budgets and Budgeting;
Cost Management;
Capital Markets;
Marketing;
Private Equity;
Medical Devices and Supplies Industry;
Medical Devices and Supplies Industry
Hawkins, David F., and Jacob Cohen. "PolyMedica Corporation (A)." Harvard Business School Case 104-023, September 2003. (Revised February 2007.)
- March 2000 (Revised May 2003)
- Teaching Note
Owens & Minor, Inc. (A) and (B) TN
By: V.G. Narayanan and Lisa Brem
Teaching Note for (9-100-055) and (9-100-079).
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- April 1993 (Revised October 1995)
- Case
ALZA and Bio-Electro Systems (A): Technological and Financial Innovation
By: Josh Lerner and Peter Tufano
To develop the next generation of risky products, ALZA, a mature and profitable biotechnology firm specializing in drug delivery systems, must raise $40 million. Organizational constraints and competitive concerns demand that the work be done inside the firm. However,...
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Keywords:
Risk and Uncertainty;
Technological Innovation;
Business Subsidiaries;
Decision Choices and Conditions;
Corporate Finance;
Medical Devices and Supplies Industry;
Medical Devices and Supplies Industry
Lerner, Josh, and Peter Tufano. "ALZA and Bio-Electro Systems (A): Technological and Financial Innovation." Harvard Business School Case 293-124, April 1993. (Revised October 1995.)
- July 2014
- Case
BMVSS: Changing Lives through Innovation One Jaipur Limb at a Time (Abridged)
By: Srikant Datar, Saloni Chaturvedi and Caitlin Bowler
Bhagwan Mahaveer Viklang Sahayata Samiti (BMVSS) is an Indian not-for-profit organization engaged in assisting differently-abled persons by providing them with the legendary low-cost prosthesis, the Jaipur Foot, and other mobility-assisting devices, free of cost. Known...
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Keywords:
Nonprofit Organizations;
Financial Condition;
Health Care and Treatment;
Diversity;
Growth and Development Strategy;
Philanthropy and Charitable Giving;
Medical Devices and Supplies Industry;
Medical Devices and Supplies Industry;
India
Datar, Srikant, Saloni Chaturvedi, and Caitlin Bowler. "BMVSS: Changing Lives through Innovation One Jaipur Limb at a Time (Abridged)." Harvard Business School Case 115-009, July 2014.
- May 2014 (Revised January 2015)
- Case
Vaxess Technologies, Inc.
By: John A. Quelch and Margaret L. Rodriguez
In February 2014, Michael Schrader, chief executive of Vaxess Technologies, Inc., was assessing the startup health care company's 2014 marketing plan. On December 31st, 2013, Vaxess had obtained an exclusive license to a series of patents for a silk protein technology...
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Keywords:
Vaccine;
Cold Chain;
Antigen;
Temperature Controlled;
Developing Markets;
Immunization;
Health Care and Treatment;
Health Pandemics;
Global Strategy;
Supply Chain;
Health;
Medical Devices and Supplies Industry;
Medical Devices and Supplies Industry
Quelch, John A., and Margaret L. Rodriguez. "Vaxess Technologies, Inc." Harvard Business School Case 514-107, May 2014. (Revised January 2015.)
- October 2013 (Revised April 2015)
- Case
Myomo: Getting Sales in Motion
By: Frank V. Cespedes, Shikhar Ghosh and Matthew Preble
In late 2012, the management team of Myomo, a startup which had designed a unique myoelectric arm brace for patients with dysfunctional arms, was deciding which of the three sales models the company had tested to pursue as its sales strategy going forward. Each model...
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Keywords:
Technological Innovation;
Information Technology;
Marketing Strategy;
Decision Choices and Conditions;
Health Care and Treatment;
Business Startups;
Sales;
Growth and Development Strategy;
Medical Devices and Supplies Industry;
Medical Devices and Supplies Industry
Cespedes, Frank V., Shikhar Ghosh, and Matthew Preble. "Myomo: Getting Sales in Motion." Harvard Business School Case 814-034, October 2013. (Revised April 2015.)
- May 1991
- Teaching Note
American Red Cross Blood Services: Northeast Region, Teaching Note
By: Robert L. Simons
Teaching Note for (9-190-078).
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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...
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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
Lorsch, Jay W., Dwight B. Crane, and Ashley Robertson. "Kinetic Concepts, Inc." Harvard Business School Case 405-042, October 2004. (Revised July 2005.)
- August 2003
- Teaching Note
Pharmacyclics: Financing Research and Development (TN)
By: Malcolm P. Baker and Richard S. Ruback
Teaching Note for (9-201-056).
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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).
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- September 1993
- Supplement
Manufacturing at ALZA: The Right Prescription? (B)
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...
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Keywords:
Experience and Expertise;
Decision Choices and Conditions;
Patents;
Production;
Medical Devices and Supplies Industry;
Medical Devices and Supplies Industry
Leonard, Dorothy A. "Manufacturing at ALZA: The Right Prescription? (B)." Harvard Business School Supplement 694-020, September 1993.