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- 22 Aug 2005
- Research & Ideas
Balancing the Future Against Today’s Needs
solutions for long-term diseases." This key rephrasing of the company's mission was meant to spur people to stop thinking about shorter-term solutions for disease management and to consider a much longer horizon in terms of patient... View Details
Keywords: by Paul Michelman
- 03 Dec 2001
- Research & Ideas
Healthcare Conference Looks At Ailing Industry
Genomic Research. Even the impetus for common diseases such as diabetes and hypertension continues to elude scientists, he said. Eric S. Lander But that will change. The major achievement that underlies biology and medicine today is that... View Details
- 22 Nov 2016
- First Look
November 22, 2016
and the University of California, Berkeley were in the middle of a contentious patent dispute over which entity controlled a breakthrough gene editing technology called CRISPR-Cas9. With CRISPR-Cas9, scientists might soon be able to cure previously incurable genetic... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 21 May 2020
- Research & Ideas
Fighting the COVID Blues: Advice from Business Research
Life was hard enough for the one-third of Americans who had wrestled with anxiety prior to the COVID-19 pandemic. Now, the disease that has killed almost 100,000 in the United States, left millions unemployed, and socially distanced many... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman and Danielle Kost
- 08 Jun 2010
- First Look
First Look: June 8
model for inflammatory bowel disease in 2001 and 2009, before and after the reorganization. The case can be used to examine health care provider strategy, integrated care delivery, and quality measurement. The case also profiles Sweden's... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 03 Nov 2003
- What Do You Think?
Can Investors Have Too Much Accounting Transparency?
who wrote, "... legislative and regulatory response treats the symptoms (means) rather than the disease (motivation). Transparency is only as successful as the least creative obscurantist." He recommends, among other things,... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 29 Apr 2014
- First Look
First Look: April 29
screening rate for breast cancer, a disease that killed over 12,000 Japanese women in 2011. Cancer screening initiatives accounted for 60% of the company's 2013 sales of $2.5 million. Purchase this case: View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 10 Oct 2000
- Research & Ideas
Cross-Sector Collaboration: Lessons from the International Trachoma Initiative
donation." In "Cross-Sector Collaboration: Lessons from the International Trachoma Initiative," Barrett, Austin and McCarthy examine one such collaboration, a joint effort of the Edna McConnell Clark Foundation and Pfizer, Inc. to combat the devastating... View Details
- 03 Mar 2009
- First Look
First Look: March 3, 2009
prenatal screening for genetic diseases and DNA tests to determine lineage and paternity. In addition, the company launched a wholly-owned subsidiary, the Stem Cell Company. CEO Robert Jansen hoped to grow the Stem Cell Company but faced... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 08 Aug 2011
- Research & Ideas
The Death of the Global Manager
and its efforts to establish Humanitarian Assistance for Neglected Diseases (HAND), a corporate social responsibility program focused on treatments for diseases that typically affect too small a population... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna
- 13 Dec 2006
- Research & Ideas
Improving Public Health for the Poor
disease in one person and how to cure it. The School of Public Health looks at a disease and asks, "What is its effect on society?" From the Business School I think we've brought a perspective of... View Details
- 23 Nov 2009
- Research & Ideas
Management’s Role in Reforming Health Care
experiments are underway with professionals trying different ways of configuring and managing services. On that list I include experiments with disease management programs, substituting nurse practitioners for physicians in certain... View Details
- 12 Jul 2004
- Research & Ideas
Michael Porter’s Prescription For the High Cost of Health Care
right kind of competition working. The health care system can achieve stunning gains in quality and efficiency. And employers, the major purchasers of health care services, could lead the transformation. [ ] Positive-sum Competition In a healthy system, competition at... View Details
- 15 Nov 2004
- Research & Ideas
Solving the Health Care Conundrum
competition involves competing to deliver the greatest value for patients. Value-based competition will see more innovation as providers will not be all things to all people, but will create focused "practice areas" that address specific View Details
- 07 Aug 2000
- Research & Ideas
The Business of Biotech
physiological state of the human body. A much better method is to get information about the DNA, RNA, and proteins. Understanding that information will help us detect a disease before it becomes symptomatic." Genzyme: Gail Maderis... View Details
- 09 Mar 2009
- Research & Ideas
How to Revive Health-Care Innovation
effective solution. In the past, business model innovation was common in health care. When the technological enablers for the diagnosis and treatment of infectious diseases emerged, most patient care was transferred away from hospitals to... View Details
- 24 Jan 2005
- Research & Ideas
Entrepreneurial Hospital Pioneers New Model
But what's more interesting—and this is a function of operating in an environment such as India where heart disease is endemic—it's a genetic trait among Indians, and also there are so many people, so there are more heart ailments—is that... View Details
- 01 Aug 2008
- Research & Ideas
Does Market Capitalism Have a Future?
have come. Progress has been astonishing, and the data show continued economic growth for most of the world. Incomes are rising, the poor are getting richer, diseases are being conquered, and we seem to be avoiding global wars. Overall,... View Details
Keywords: by Garry Emmons
- 25 May 2016
- Research & Ideas
How Consumers and Businesses are Reshaping Public Health
and nutrition and readiness to learn in schools is also well established. Forthcoming revisions to the Millennium Development Goals are expected to again highlight the importance of disease prevention and health care to the global... View Details
- 27 May 2020
- Research & Ideas
What South Korea Teaches the World About Fighting COVID
In a world devastated by the COVID-19 pandemic, the Republic of Korea (South Korea) has been able to effectively combat the disease without ever imposing a full lockdown of its economy. How did the country accomplish its success, and what... View Details