Publications

December 2008 (Revised April 2010)
Case

Proteus Biomedical: Making Pigs Fly

By: Richard G. Hamermesh, Lauren Barley and Ginger Graham

Proteus is a healthcare start-up that has developed technology to embed electronics for computing and sensing in existing medical devices and drugs. The technology could potentially change the basis of competition in the pharmaceutical industry. The company is... View Details

Keywords: Business Startups; Entrepreneurship; Technological Innovation; Rights; Negotiation Deal; Business Strategy; Health Industry; Medical Devices and Supplies Industry; Pharmaceutical Industry

November 2008 (Revised January 2010)
Case

Stone Finch, Inc.: Young Division, Old Division

By: Richard G. Hamermesh and Elizabeth Collins

CEO Jim Billings wants to attract energetic, entrepreneurial talent to Stone Finch, Inc., which comprises an older division that fabricates products like piping and tanks for water and wastewater processing plants, and a much newer division that develops biochemical... View Details

Keywords: Organizational Behavior; Human Resource Management; Motivation; Business Growth; Motivation and Incentives; Leadership; Business Subsidiaries; Innovation Strategy; Resource Allocation; Organizational Structure; Organizational Culture; Retention; Operations; Recruitment; Integration; Business Growth and Maturation; Mergers and Acquisitions; Growth and Development Strategy; Manufacturing Industry

November 2008 (Revised January 2010)
Teaching Note

Stone Finch, Inc.: Young Division, Old Division (Brief Case)

By: Richard G. Hamermesh and Elizabeth Collins

Teaching Note for 3214 View Details

Keywords: Organizational Behavior; Human Resource Management; Motivation; Business Growth; Motivation and Incentives; Leadership; Business Growth and Maturation; Organizations; Human Resources

November 2008 (Revised January 2010)
Supplement

Stone Finch, Inc.: Young Division, Old Division, Spreadsheet Supplement for Instructors (Brief Case)

By: Richard G. Hamermesh and Elizabeth Collins

Keywords: Organizational Behavior; Human Resource Management; Motivation; Business Growth; Motivation and Incentives; Leadership; Behavior; Business Growth and Maturation; Organizations; Human Resources

November 2008 (Revised January 2010)
Supplement

Stone Finch, Inc.: Young Division, Old Division, Student Spreadsheet (Brief Case)

By: Richard G. Hamermesh and Elizabeth Collins

Keywords: Organizational Behavior; Human Resource Management; Motivation; Business Growth; Motivation and Incentives; Leadership; Behavior; Business Growth and Maturation; Organizations; Human Resources

April 2008
Supplement

ProfitLogic (CW)

By: Lynda M. Applegate, Richard G. Hamermesh and Michael J. Roberts

This interactive spreadsheet accompanies the ProfitLogic case (#802-110) to enable analysis of the cash flow implications of three business models that the company is considering. Students are able to change key assumptions and see the impact on cash flow. View Details

Keywords: Cash Flow; Business Model

March 2008 (Revised June 2008)
Case

Healthcare and Harvard Business School Alumni in 2008

By: Richard G. Hamermesh, Carin-Isabel Knoop and Cara Sterling

This case chronicles the role that Harvard Business School alumni play in the healthcare industry. Overall data on alumni is given, and the industry is broken into seven areas in which the careers of twenty-five alumni are highlighted. View Details

Keywords: Business Education; Executive Education; Personal Development and Career; Practice; Health Industry

February 2008
Teaching Note

DermaCare: Zapping Zits Directly (TN)

By: Richard G. Hamermesh

Teaching Note for [808064]. View Details

Keywords: Product Development; Innovation and Invention; Health Care and Treatment; Financing and Loans; Venture Capital; Advertising; Distribution; Health Industry

February 2008 (Revised January 2010)
Teaching Note

Calloway Laboratory: Pee for Profit (TN)

By: Richard G. Hamermesh

Teaching Note for [807-040]. View Details

Keywords: Profit

January 2008 (Revised January 2009)
Teaching Note

Cynthia Fisher and the Rearing of ViaCell (TN)

By: Robert F. Higgins, Richard G. Hamermesh and Erin Seefeld

Teaching Note for [806002]. View Details

Keywords: Management

October 2007
Article

Realizing the Promise of Personalized Medicine

By: Mara G. Aspinall and Richard G. Hamermesh

Keywords: Health

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September 2007 (Revised October 2010)
Case

DermaCare: Zapping Zits Directly

By: Richard G. Hamermesh and Lauren Barley

DermaCare has developed an innovative new product for the treatment of acne that they hope to sell to consumers via direct-response television. The unconventional nature of the product and its distribution has led the company to seek angel financing. The Silicon Valley... View Details

Keywords: Decision Choices and Conditions; Venture Capital; Investment; Innovation and Invention; Product; California