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- March 2001 (Revised December 2001)
- Supplement
Circon (C)
By: Brian J. Hall, Guhan Subramanian and Christopher A Rose
Supplements the (A) case.
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Keywords:
Motivation and Incentives;
Corporate Governance;
Medical Devices and Supplies Industry;
United States
Hall, Brian J., Guhan Subramanian, and Christopher A Rose. "Circon (C)." Harvard Business School Supplement 801-405, March 2001. (Revised December 2001.)
- May 1998
- Teaching Note
ArthroCare TN
Teaching Note for (9-898-056).
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Medical Devices and Supplies Industry
- 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
- 18 Sep 2019
- Working Paper Summaries
Female Inventors and Inventions
- 26 Apr 2023
- Cold Call Podcast
How Martine Rothblatt Started a Company to Save Her Daughter
- 04 May 2007
- What Do You Think?
How Do Managers Think?
was a suggestion that while managers might have little to learn from doctors about thinking, there might be more important implications for managers in the ways that doctors are trained. Many similarities were observed between the thinking of View Details
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by Jim Heskett
- 01 Nov 2016
- First Look
First Look - November 1, 2016
(B): Vitalia Brasil This case should be distributed only after "Vitalia Franchise" (HBS Case No. 311-035) is distributed and discussed. Purchase this case: https://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cbmp/product/317022-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 315-045 CV...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 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 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.
- 04 Dec 2023
- Blog Post
My Summer of Joy with the National Parks Service
WWII planes, boat docks, and everything in between. My role was to help them design a more sustainable operating and funding model to ensure their long-term viability within the park service. Before I started at HBS, I was a medical View Details
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Nonprofit / Government
- 01 Dec 2018
- News
Collaborative Cures
diagnostics, consumer, and devices, collectively raising more than $150 million in funding. To further catalyze these new science-based businesses, the program provides fellows professional development in areas such as startup strategy,...
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- 23 Oct 2019
- News
Future Tech Leaders Dive into New Program
a team project in the new MS/MBA: Engineering Sciences Program, offered jointly by HBS and the Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS). With just three days to complete a prototype, Batt’s team created a connected 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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