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- 10 May 2016
- First Look
May 10, 2016
https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=51028 Harvard Business School Case 316-002 N12 Technologies: Building an Organization and Building a Business N12 Technologies was a startup founded in 2010 that employed nanotechnology to...
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Carmen Nobel
- 01 Jul 2008
- First Look
First Look: July 1, 2008
108-092 An exercise that takes students through five stages of growth in an entrepreneurial start-up in the medical devices industry: 1) founding, 2) growth, 3) push to profitability, 4) refocusing process,...
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Martha Lagace
- 23 Dec 2014
- First Look
First Look: December 23
(mHealth) used networked devices to distribute or collect medical information from patients and/or medical personnel. Given its low cost and broad reach, many wondered if and...
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Carmen Nobel
- 02 Dec 2019
- What Do You Think?
How Does a Company like Boeing Respond to Intense Competitive Pressure?
inevitable; it will never be eliminated. This is an oversimplication of a complex phenomenon, with nuances in every large organization that has grown beyond the “one for all and all for one” startup spirit. But when it rises to a level...
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Women, Work, and the “M” Word - Blog: Health Supplement
Topics Biotech/pharma Care Delivery Clinical Trials Digital Health Global Health Health Care Entrepreneurship Health Care Innovation Health Care Investment Health Care at HBS Insurance/payor Medical devices/diagnostics Precision Medicine...
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- 11 Jun 2021
- News
The Power of Resilience
On her newborn’s one-week birthday, Somani learned she was in the early stages of a particularly invasive and aggressive form of cancer. Her maternity leave suddenly turned into a medical leave to accommodate 10-plus rounds of...
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- 06 Dec 2021
- News
Ink: Talking Shop
medical technology business from a spiritual retreat center in Florida. —Jinny Uppal (PLDA 9, 2012) Favorite? Not sure I have an answer on that but I’m nearly done with The Codebreakers and just finished Professor Tom Eisenmann’s book,...
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- 01 Dec 2020
- News
Well Matched
Serena Ventures, a fund backed by Williams with an emphasis on startups that make diverse leadership and inclusivity a priority. Rapaport manages a portfolio of close to 60 early-stage investments focused on companies in the health,...
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- 12 Jul 2021
- News
Alumni Confront the COVID-19 Crisis
Ganesh Natarajan (AMP 169, 2005), Chairman of 5F World, Lighthouse Communities Foundation, and Honeywell Automation India. Navaldi’s highlighted contributions include “delivering medicines, oxygen concentrators, and medical supplies to...
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- May 20, 2016
- Comment
World Health Organization Lacks Leadership to Combat Pandemics
By: John A. Quelch
When it comes to emergency preparedness for pandemics, the World Health Organization is falling short. It has not provided prompt and clear leadership to the world in combating either the Ebola or Zika viruses. Its leadership has been low energy, its representatives...
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Quelch, John A. "World Health Organization Lacks Leadership to Combat Pandemics." Harvard Business School Working Knowledge (May 20, 2016).
- 20 Aug 2024
- Book
Why Competing With Tech Giants Requires Finding Your Own Edge
private-labeled digital devices at competitive prices. Yang credited Amazon for the company’s success. In addition to Amazon’s established infrastructure that helped it save on retail and logistics costs, “the key to building high quality...
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- 03 Dec 2019
- News
Two Tales of Connection: Over Meals and Mentoring
(and has since sold) a startup company that lets people connect over a home-cooked meal for a small group. Hosts post dinner details and interested guests can register to attend. “Building Bridges is based on that,” says Gupta. “But we...
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Margie Kelley
- 15 May 2020
- Research & Ideas
Find Your Pragmatic Path through Radical Uncertainty
social restrictions and reopen businesses? Other questions depend on the answers to the medical questions. Will government funds for the disadvantaged people and businesses be sustainable? What will happen to inflation? Will food supplies...
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- 09 Nov 2006
- Research & Ideas
Andy Grove: A Biographer’s Tale
Tedlow, a noted business historian on the HBS faculty and the MBA class of 1949 Professor of Business Administration. His latest book (Andy Grove: The Life and Times of an American) is a biography of Andy Grove, a founding father of Intel, which has gone from View Details
- 01 Dec 1996
- News
Starting Up and Starting Over
section focusing on the startup phase (taught by Professor Patrick Liles) and the other on operational problems and strategies (taught by Professor Dick Dooley). Dooley went on to pioneer the Smaller Company Management Program (now the...
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- 04 Sep 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, September 4, 2018
W. Feeley Abstract—Patients and providers are frustrated with seemingly endless data entry. We used our patients’ vested interest in their own health care by actively engaging them in the entry of their own medical information into the...
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Dina Gerdeman
- 08 Oct 2013
- First Look
First Look: October 8
countless incremental fixes-attacking fraud, reducing errors, enforcing practice guidelines, making patients better "consumers," implementing electronic medical records-but none have had much impact. It's time for a...
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Sean Silverthorne
- Web
Financing New Ideas - Georges F. Doriot : Educating Leaders, Building Companies, Baker Library, Harvard Business School
continued to invest in innovative startups. ARD portfolio companies included Textron Electronics (aerospace, industrial, and metal products); Cordis Corporation (therapeutic medical equipment including angiography injectors, catheters,...
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- 01 Sep 2012
- News
On a Sound Track
missed the call. That led to the development of Skullcandy’s first product, called Link, a device that enabled headphones to have two plugs so you could switch back and forth between music and phone. We took off from there in the...
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- 02 Oct 2015
- News
The ‘F’ Word
startup to Dropbox, Carpenter is the protagonist of another case coauthored by Eisenmann and Alison Berkley Wagonfeld (MBA 1996). “Steven Carpenter at Cake Financial” details his efforts to build and grow an online financial services...
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