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13 May 2008
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First Look: May 13, 2008

community-based health center) are also discussed. Purchase this case: http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=308072 Global Climate Change and BP Harvard Business School Case 708-026 Following the sudden... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

18 Dec 2018
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New Research and Ideas, December 18, 2018

together, our results highlight how revealing failures encountered on the way to success can be a counterintuitive yet effective interpersonal emotion regulation strategy. Publisher's link:... View Details

Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

15 Aug 2006
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First Look: August 15, 2006

carburetors. Download working paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/07-009.pdf Cases & Course MaterialsInnovating in Health Care—Framework Harvard Business School Note 306-042 Contains the framework for the second-year Innovating... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

August 2024
Article

How Do Copayment Coupons Affect Branded Drug Prices and Quantities Purchased?

By: Leemore S. Dafny, Kate Ho and Edward Kong

Drug copayment coupons to reduce patient cost-sharing have become nearly ubiquitous for high-priced brand-name prescription drugs. Medicare bans such coupons on the grounds that they are kickbacks that induce utilization, but they are commonly used by... View Details

Keywords: Prescription Drugs; Coupons; Impact; Health Care and Treatment; Markets; Price; Spending; Pharmaceutical Industry; United States

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April 2017
Supplement

Imprimis (B)

By: Ramon Casadesus-Masanell, Karen Elterman and Marc Appel

This case is a supplement to Imprimis (A). It describes the company’s decision to enter into the pharmaceutical compounding business in 2013–2014. Imprimis purchased a compounded ophthalmological medication called Dropless Therapy, which was injected into patients’... View Details

Keywords: Healthcare; Drug Compounding; Drug Development; Pharmaceuticals; Small Business; Decision-making, Business Model; Mark Baum; Imprimis; Decision Making; Strategy; Health Care and Treatment; Policy; Pharmaceutical Industry; United States

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August 2013 (Revised October 2013)
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MedImmune Ventures

By: Richard G. Hamermesh and David Lane

Ron Laufer is the new Senior Managing Director of MedImmune Ventures, the corporate venture capital arm of AstraZeneca, a leading pharmaceuticals firm. Laufer has to decide whether to pursue a high-potential, but very risky, early-stage investment. The decision Laufer... View Details

Keywords: MedImmune; MedImmune Ventures; AstraZeneca; NeuProtect; Corporate Venturing; Biotechnology; Venture Investing; Venture Capital; Health Care and Treatment; Pharmaceutical Industry; Financial Services Industry; Biotechnology Industry; United States; Australia; Europe; London

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December 2005 (Revised April 2010)
Teaching Note

Leerink Swann & Co.: Creating Competitive Advantage (TN)

By: Boris Groysberg and Andrew N. McLean

Keywords: Health Care and Treatment; Capital Markets; Banking Industry

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February 2022
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Leading The UK Vaccine Task Force

By: Amy C. Edmondson and Claudia Pienica

This case describes the first six months of the UK Vaccine Taskforce, under the leadership of Kate Bingham. With a career spent in the private sector as a biotech investor, Bingham’s appointment within the government was considered unusual. The overarching brief given... View Details

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28 Apr 2010
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Earth Day Reflections

opportunity to engage in a virtual dialogue on these matters. Some major corporations are starting to take the lead in this effort, including United Technologies Corporation, Philips (the Dutch electronics and health View Details

Keywords: by Staff

19 Nov 2010
Research & Ideas

The Landscape of Integrated Reporting: An E-Book

lost trust in business. Whether it be the environment, health care, or making sure that people have access to information, I can't think of any major problem that society confronts today that can be effectively solved unless business... View Details

Keywords: by Nitin Nohria; Accounting

17 Oct 2006
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First Look: October 17, 2006

find support for these hypotheses. Download working paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/07-022.pdf Resolving Information Asymmetries in Markets: The Role of Certified Management Programs Author: Michael W. Toffel Abstract Firms and View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

06 Jan 2012
Op-Ed

Where Green Corporate Ratings Fail

illustration of this omission, Apple, a US consumer electronics manufacturer, publicly resigned in 2009 from the US Chamber of Commerce, the largest business lobbying group in the country. "Apple supports regulating greenhouse gas... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Toffel & Auden Schendler; Information; Publishing

31 May 2016
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May 31, 2016

June 2016 Medical Care Vaccination Rates Are Associated with Functional Proximity but Not Base Proximity of Vaccination Clinics By: Beshears, John, James J. Choi, David Laibson, Brigitte C. Madrian, and Gwendolyn I. Reynolds... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

23 Dec 2002
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Partnering and the Balanced Scorecard

large operating losses into positive operating margins, while achieving levels of patient care and satisfaction that were ranked best in their category. Having constructed the high-level strategy map and scorecard, leaders cascade the... View Details

Keywords: by Robert S. Kaplan & David P. Norton

13 May 2014
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Harvard Business School Case 714-471 Martini Klinik: Prostate Cancer Care Since its establishment in 2005, Hamburg's Martini Klinik had single mindedly focused on prostate cancer care with a commitment to... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

10 Oct 2007
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to customize therapy for individuals. However, adoption of this approach has progressed slowly and unevenly because the trial-and-error treatment model still governs how the health care system develops,... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

03 Aug 2010
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employees are more likely to speak up and offer solutions when organizations launch information campaigns to promote process improvement and when managers engage in process-improvement activities themselves. We test our hypotheses in the View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

13 Jan 2009
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First Look: January 13, 2009

and regulation of clinical trials, managerial challenges related to pharmaceutical product testing, and current debates regarding prescription drug safety. Since clinical testing takes between five and seven years, and consumes up to 70... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

03 Dec 2008
What Do You Think?

Can Housing and Credit be “Nudged” Back to Health?

regulation should be there.... Keeping 'excess' in check is an appropriate response by a civilized society." As Edware Hare put it, "Forget 'nudging.' We need to replace self-indulgence with self-restraint ... better education... View Details

Keywords: by Jim Heskett