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- January–February 1994
- Article
Financial Engineering at Merck
By: Timothy A. Luehrman
Luehrman, Timothy A. "Financial Engineering at Merck." Harvard Business Review 72, no. 1 (January–February 1994): 89–99.
- Web
U.S. Healthcare Strategy - Course Catalog
health policy, students will identify and gain valuable insights into how healthcare businesses navigate complex market forces, regulatory pressures, and competitive dynamics. Cases will highlight how strategic principles can be leveraged... View Details
- Web
Labor Practices | Baker Library | Bloomberg Center | Harvard Business School
workers demanded higher pay and better working conditions and health benefits. U.S. Steel responded with a core public relations objective to “tell the public the true facts about working conditions and labor policies in operating plants,... View Details
- May 2023 (Revised June 2023)
- Case
Novartis (A): 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 Care and Treatment; Business Model; Leadership; Pharmaceutical Industry; Switzerland
Casadesus-Masanell, Ramon, Claudio Feser, Karolin Frankenberger, and David Redaschi. "Novartis (A): Reimagining Medicine." Harvard Business School Case 723-443, May 2023. (Revised June 2023.)
- November 2021 (Revised December 2024)
- Case
Kermit PPI
By: Kyle Myers, Matt Grennan and Sarah Mehta
Launched in 2011, Kermit PPI helped hospitals save money on expensive orthopedic implants and devices by enabling them to renegotiate their contracts with device manufacturers and better monitor compliance. In 2021, as they look to grow, they are entertaining two... View Details
Keywords: Health; Health Care and Treatment; Strategy; Expansion; Information Technology; Applications and Software; Supply Chain; Supply Chain Management; Contracts; Health Industry; Health Industry; Health Industry; United States; Maryland
Myers, Kyle, Matt Grennan, and Sarah Mehta. "Kermit PPI." Harvard Business School Case 622-007, November 2021. (Revised December 2024.)
- April 2010
- Teaching Note
The DiagnoFirst Opportunity (TN)
By: Robert C. Pozen
Teaching Note for [309112]. View Details
- 01 Mar 2013
- News
Health-Care Forum's Rx for US System
Shape up, people! That was the message for both the health-care industry and the public at a November forum of more than 150 medical practitioners, health-industry executives, academics, and others who gathered at HBS. Titled "Healing... View Details
Keywords: Health, Social Assistance
- 01 Dec 2017
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for December 2017
and Daisy Azer (Columbia University Press) Through ten stories of struggles and successes in fields such as health care, education, agriculture, transportation, social services, and security, the authors show how collaborative creativity... View Details
- 16 Sep 2019
- News
Smarter Farming
that will drive changes to how people eat. The first is, of course, the fact that many people are now aware of how environmentally taxing animal-based protein is. And the second thing is that people are increasingly aware of the health... View Details
- 04 Jan 2021
- Blog Post
Bringing the Lessons of 2020 into 2021
2020 was a year we won’t soon forget. Individuals and organizations around the globe were faced with unprecedented challenges that pushed their creativity, resolve, and resilience to the limits. We faced a global health pandemic, an... View Details
Keywords: All Industries
- June 2000
- Case
Lifeline Systems, Inc. (A)
By: H. Kent Bowen and Marilyn Matis
Lifeline Systems provides emergency response equipment to the elderly who live at home. The company uses local hospitals to market, sell, and install these units in homes, while the hospital monitors and calls for aid to respond to emergency calls from the elderly... View Details
Keywords: Health Care and Treatment; Product Marketing; Sales; Problems and Challenges; Growth and Development Strategy; Managerial Roles; Service Operations; Information Infrastructure; Age; Service Delivery; Restructuring; Crisis Management; Health Industry; Health Industry
Bowen, H. Kent, and Marilyn Matis. "Lifeline Systems, Inc. (A)." Harvard Business School Case 600-099, June 2000.
- Article
Internal Deadlines, Drug Approvals, and Safety Problems
By: Lauren Cohen, Umit Gurun and Danielle Li
Absent explicit quotas, incentives, reporting, or fiscal year-end motives, drug approvals around the world surge in December, at month-ends, and before respective major national holidays. Drugs approved before these informal deadlines are associated with significantly... View Details
Keywords: Health; Economics; Government and Politics; Innovation and Invention; Research; Science; Biotechnology Industry; Biotechnology Industry; Biotechnology Industry
Cohen, Lauren, Umit Gurun, and Danielle Li. "Internal Deadlines, Drug Approvals, and Safety Problems." American Economic Review: Insights 3, no. 1 (March 2021): 67–82.
- April 2009 (Revised June 2010)
- Supplement
Supply Chain Partners: Virginia Mason and Owens & Minor (B)
By: V.G. Narayanan and Lisa Brem
The epilogue to Supply Chain Partners: Virginia Mason and Owens & Minor (A), the B case details the outcome of the issues discussed in Case A; namely that Virginia Mason and Owens & Minor did implement the TSCC contract. Virginia Mason also kept the suture contract... View Details
Keywords: Health Care and Treatment; Supply Chain Management; Partners and Partnerships; Measurement and Metrics; Contracts; Health Industry; Health Industry
Narayanan, V.G., and Lisa Brem. "Supply Chain Partners: Virginia Mason and Owens & Minor (B)." Harvard Business School Supplement 109-077, April 2009. (Revised June 2010.)
- November 2020 (Revised January 2021)
- Supplement
Bridge International Academies in 2020: Battling Headwinds to Solve Africa's Education Problems
By: Caroline M. Elkins, Tarun Khanna and Joyce J. Kim
By 2020, Bridge International Academies and its "school in a box" model had achieved great scale. By leveraging digital technology and public-private partnerships, they had reached one million children across Africa and India through hundreds of schools. However, the... View Details
Keywords: Entrepreneurship In Africa; Entrepreneurship In Emerging Markets; Bottom Of The Pyramid; Education In Africa; Scale; Partnerships; Education; Entrepreneurship; Emerging Markets; Health Pandemics; Problems and Challenges; Education Industry; Africa
Elkins, Caroline M., Tarun Khanna, and Joyce J. Kim. "Bridge International Academies in 2020: Battling Headwinds to Solve Africa's Education Problems." Harvard Business School Supplement 521-048, November 2020. (Revised January 2021.)
- August 2008 (Revised September 2008)
- Supplement
The Flaxil Label (C): Debrief and Endnotes
This case focuses on the 2001 negotiation between Mytex Pharmaceuticals and the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA). The outcome of the negotiation would determine the new label for Mytex's blockbuster drug for arthritis, Flaxil. The negotiation is quite... View Details
Keywords: Safety; Value Creation; Negotiation; Health Care and Treatment; Sales; Pharmaceutical Industry
Barron, Greg M. "The Flaxil Label (C): Debrief and Endnotes." Harvard Business School Supplement 909-003, August 2008. (Revised September 2008.)
- January 2025
- Supplement
The VideaHealth AI Factory: CEO Florian Hillen on Speed, Scale, and Innovation (B)
By: Tsedal Neeley, Levi Stroud, Ruth Page and Dave Habeeb
Pre-abstract:
This multimedia case should be assigned to students in advance of class. Instructors should consider the timing of making the (B) Case videos available to students, as they may reveal key case details.
Abstract: Florian Hillen, co-founder... View Details
Abstract: Florian Hillen, co-founder... View Details
Keywords: Diagnostics; Organization Design; Change Management; Disruption; Transformation; Health Care and Treatment; AI and Machine Learning; Technology Adoption; Technological Innovation; Management Style; Organizational Culture; Success; Technology Industry; Technology Industry; United States
Neeley, Tsedal, Levi Stroud, Ruth Page, and Dave Habeeb. "The VideaHealth AI Factory: CEO Florian Hillen on Speed, Scale, and Innovation (B)." Harvard Business School Multimedia/Video Supplement 425-721, January 2025.
- January 2025
- Case
The VideaHealth AI Factory: CEO Florian Hillen on Speed, Scale, and Innovation (A)
By: Tsedal Neeley, Levi Stroud, Ruth Page and Dave Habeeb
Pre-abstract:
This multimedia case should be assigned to students in advance of class. Instructors should consider the timing of making the (B) Case videos available to students, as they may reveal key case details.
Abstract: Florian Hillen, co-founder... View Details
Abstract: Florian Hillen, co-founder... View Details
Keywords: Diagnostics; Organization Design; Change Management; Disruption; Transformation; Health Care and Treatment; AI and Machine Learning; Technology Adoption; Technological Innovation; Management Style; Organizational Culture; Success; Technology Industry; Technology Industry; United States
Neeley, Tsedal, Levi Stroud, Ruth Page, and Dave Habeeb. "The VideaHealth AI Factory: CEO Florian Hillen on Speed, Scale, and Innovation (A)." Harvard Business School Multimedia/Video Case 425-720, January 2025.
- Profile
Andrew Dervan
inefficiencies." Where Andrew breaks away from many other medical students, however, is in his commitment to doing something about it, to find ways to "fix the system." Applying insights from outside industries In his first... View Details
- October 2020
- Teaching Plan
Merck: COVID-19 Vaccines
By: Willy C. Shih
COVID-19 infections were still climbing across the U.S. and many other parts of the world in September 2020, and it seemed that every time Ken Frazier, the CEO of Merck & Co. consented to an interview in recent months he always seemed to hear the same question,... View Details
- 05 Aug 2015
- What Do You Think?
What Happened to the ‘Innovation, Disruption, Technology’ Dividend?
the low productivity increases associated with certain industries, like hospitality, retail, and increasingly education and health care. AIM questioned whether productivity increases are even the appropriate goal, commenting that... View Details