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  • 01 Oct 1996
  • News

The Right Stuff: Getting the Word from MBA Admissions

will also explain the range of responsibilities and qualities advisors can look for in identifying potentialcandidates. Bulletin: The School has reintroduced the Graduate Management Admissions Test (GMAT) as an element of the admissions... View Details

    Thomas J. Watson, Sr.

    of them being the first of their kind on the market, including typewriters, automatic summary punches, test scoring machines and others. IBM’s biggest achievement however, came when it introduced its first computer in 1952, well behind... View Details
    Keywords: Computers & Electronics
    • January–February 2023
    • Article

    Data-Driven COVID-19 Vaccine Development for Janssen

    By: Dimitris Bertsimas, Michael Lingzhi Li, Xinggang Liu, Jennings Xu and Najat Khan
    The COVID-19 pandemic has spurred extensive vaccine research worldwide. One crucial part of vaccine development is the phase III clinical trial that assesses the vaccine for safety and efficacy in the prevention of COVID-19. In this work, we enumerate the first... View Details
    Keywords: COVID-19; Health Testing and Trials; Forecasting and Prediction; AI and Machine Learning; Research; Pharmaceutical Industry
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    • May 2023 (Revised June 2023)
    • Supplement

    Novartis (C): Reimagining Medicine

    By: Ramon Casadesus-Masanell, Claudio Feser, Karolin Frankenberger and David Redaschi
    This case unfolds around the first-ever approved personalized cancer treatment, how Novartis wrapped it into a new business model design, and how Novartis scaled it. Novartis — one of the largest pharmaceutical companies in the world — is, among other ventures,... View Details
    Keywords: Health Testing and Trials; Health Care and Treatment; Business Model; Problems and Challenges; Pharmaceutical Industry; Switzerland
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    • June 2008 (Revised July 2008)
    • Case

    The Miami Project to Cure Paralysis

    By: Robert Steven Kaplan, Christopher Marquis and Brent Kazan
    Marc Buoniconti is the co-founder of the Miami Project to Cure Paralysis, a nonprofit medical research organization. The project was founded in 1985 by Marc and his father Nick, a former Hall of Fame football player, when Marc suffered a spinal cord injury. In 2007,... View Details
    Keywords: Investment; Philanthropy and Charitable Giving; Health Testing and Trials; Leadership; Growth and Development Strategy; Mission and Purpose; Research and Development; Nonprofit Organizations; Health Industry; Miami
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    • 01 Jun 2004
    • News

    Who, Me?

    online, specifically to Tickle.com, a social interaction Web site founded and run by James Currier (MBA ’99). “Tickle is an interpersonal media company about everyone’s favorite subject: themselves,” Currier explained to the New York Times (March 8, 2004). The company... View Details
    Keywords: Tickle.com; social media; tickle; News, Library, Internet, and Other Services; Information
    • 16 May 2016
    • HBS Case

    Food Safety Economics: The Cost of a Sick Customer

    when more than 50 people in 11 states were sickened by an initial E. coli outbreak. “Do those smaller local organic growers have the experience, resources, and commitment to test their products for various food safety risks?” The chain... View Details
    Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Food & Beverage
    • 15 Apr 2022
    • Blog Post

    How I Spent My HBS 2+2 Deferral: Kelly Ogiesoba

    bleeding edge ideas and concepts for the business that had never been done before, such as deploying a residential storage virtual power plant to test the value of aggregated storage, laying out the ground work for a future Florida large... View Details
    • 01 Dec 2018
    • News

    Case Study: Your Data, Your Health

    otherwise take a decade to diagnose. But NextGen Jane is building more diseases into the pipelines. “There are so many understudied areas in women’s health we could explore,” Tariyal says. Illustration by Marcos Chin The Question: “The first View Details
    Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint
    • November 2007
    • Case

    Antegren: A Beacon of Hope

    By: Joshua D. Margolis, Thomas J. DeLong and Terence Heymann
    The CEO of Biogen Idec faces a set of difficult decisions regarding a promising drug for Multiple Sclerosis that is headed for early approval by the FDA. The first in a series focuses on operational decisions triggered by the drive for early approval. Sparks discussion... View Details
    Keywords: Demand and Consumers; Leadership; Ethics; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Decision Choices and Conditions; Crisis Management; Health Testing and Trials; Biotechnology Industry; Pharmaceutical Industry
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    • 07 Aug 2006
    • Research & Ideas

    Whatever Happened to Caveat Emptor?

    Its early milestones—comparative product tests launched by Consumer Reports in 1936, the Kennedy administration's Consumer Bill of Rights in 1960, Ralph Nader's critique of the U.S. automobile industry in Unsafe at Any Speed in... View Details
    Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Retail
    • Profile

    David Gellis

    Care Center. Under the tutelage of center director Laura Esserman, MD/MBA, David examined ways to leverage information systems to improve breast-cancer treatment. "Dr. Esserman used her clinic as a lab to test ideas for improving... View Details
    • 19 Sep 2006
    • First Look

    First Look: September 19, 2006

    top during the last century, this book reveals the mechanisms of advancement for both insiders and outsiders and speculates on what this means for the future of leadership selection and development. Asymmetric Timeliness Tests of... View Details
    Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
    • 01 Sep 2013
    • News

    Geisha Secrets

    TSAI: A luxury skin-care line based on ancient Japanese rituals. Years of work-related testing of beauty products had left Victoria Tsai (MBA 2006) with acute dermatitis. After trying various medications to no avail, she turned to Japan... View Details
    Keywords: skincare; beauty products; Health and Personal Care Stores; Retail Trade
    • Career Coach

    Tim Kluska

    recruiting process. Tim can provide career path clarification, resume refinement, helpful context on all finance-adjacent industries, and the step-by-step inside baseball on IB networking. In addition, Tim can conduct mock IB interviews on all View Details
    • 01 Jun 2020
    • News

    The Network Effect

    coronavirus. Kapoor was tested and by the time he received the results nine days later, they confirmed what he already knew: he had COVID-19 (and so did his wife, a physician, and two of his four kids). Kapoor’s View Details
    Keywords: Susan Young; COVID-19; Ambulatory Health Care Services; Health, Social Assistance
    • 2009
    • Case

    Innovamedica: Innovation in an Emerging Market

    By: Roberto Charvel, Fernando Fabre and T. Putimahtama
    Innovamedica was a medical start up with several state of the art devices such as a silicon substitute heart and other inventions. However, the founding scientist was struggling in attracting talent and fundraising and that had an impact on growth. View Details
    Keywords: Biotech; Entrepreneurial Finance; Entrepreneurship; Start-up; Emergent Countries; Business Startups; Talent and Talent Management; Design; Corporate Entrepreneurship; Private Equity; Health Testing and Trials; Innovation and Invention; Managerial Roles; Biotechnology Industry; Latin America; North and Central America
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    • 01 Sep 2006
    • News

    Project Runway

    test of fashion creativity and skill under time constraints and other pressures. “The cameras are on you from the time you wake up until the time you go to bed,” Estrella told the San Francisco Chronicle (July 9, 2006). “My approach was... View Details
    Keywords: Apparel Manufacturing; Manufacturing; Wholesale Trade
    • 01 Dec 2020
    • News

    A New Approach to Contact Tracing

    implemented a tried and tested tool to help contain infectious disease: human-led contact tracing, the process of tracking down and notifying individuals who have been exposed to the illness. Singapore’s Ministry of Health (MOH) used... View Details
    Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie; Government
    • 01 Mar 2016
    • News

    Off Script

    (Thinkstock) Prescription drug spending increased by more than 13 percent in the United States in 2014, raising health insurance premiums and the ire of consumers and politicians. The reasons behind the rise are many, including the high cost of drug development—as much... View Details
    Keywords: Insurance Carriers and Related Activities; Finance