Publications

18 Feb 2009
First Look

First Look: February 18, 2009

of gaming console industry leadership, how should Sony respond to the overwhelming success of competitor Nintendo's user-friendly Wii over Sony's high-tech PlayStation 3? It was August 2008 and Kazuo Hirai, chief executive of Sony... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

April 1993 (Revised November 1994)
Case

Chiron Corp.

By: Steven C. Wheelwright

Pablo Valenzuela, vice president of R&D at Chiron Corp., faces several choices for how to allocate scarce resources across several promising projects. These choices will determine Chiron's position in several emerging biotechnology and diagnostic markets, including... View Details

Keywords: Health Testing and Trials; Research and Development; Failure; Business Strategy; Joint Ventures; Strategic Planning; Opportunities; Product Development; Biotechnology Industry; California

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December 2009 (Revised April 2010)
Teaching Note

GlaxoSmithKline: Reorganizing Drug Discovery (TN) (A) and (B)

By: Robert S. Huckman

Teaching Note for [605074] and [605075]. View Details

Keywords: Restructuring; Health; Pharmaceutical Industry

27 Jan 2015
First Look

First Look: January 27

health care providers have devoted significant efforts to improve performance regarding patient safety and quality of care. To address the lagging involvement of health care providers in the cost component... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

August 2023
Case

Augmenix: Space to Think Differently

By: Satish Tadikonda and Sidhant Jena

Amar Sawhney, a serial medtech entrepreneur, had founded Augmenix to develop and commercialize a hydrogel-based medical device called SpaceOAR as an adjunctive technology to core radiation therapy. This technology was used to protect organs at risk (OAR) during... View Details

Keywords: Entrepreneurship; Health Care and Treatment; Technology Adoption; Innovation Strategy; Technological Innovation; Product Development; Commercialization; Medical Devices and Supplies Industry

July 1994 (Revised March 1996)
Case

Baxter International: OnCall as Soon as Possible?

Baxter Healthcare is heir to the fabled ASAP ordering system, one of the best-known examples of the use of technology to provide strategic marketing advantage. By 1994, the proprietary ASAP system is well established. Baxter is beginning to launch On-Call EDI, which is... View Details

Keywords: Information Technology; Competitive Advantage; Business Strategy; Information Technology Industry; Information Technology Industry

April 1993
Teaching Note

Becton Dickinson Division: Marketing Organization TN

By: Frank V. Cespedes

Teaching Note for (9-593-070). View Details

Keywords: Health Industry; Health Industry

September 1988 (Revised November 1988)
Supplement

Watt Group: Consumer Product and Retailing Doctors (B)

By: Ray A. Goldberg

Keywords: Consumer Products Industry; Consumer Products Industry

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01 Aug 1998
News

A Roaring Success in the Windy City

H. Stevenson, for instance, discussed the evolution of the field of entrepreneurship at HBS and beyond. Professor Malcolm S. Salter addressed "Facing the Modern Industrial Revolution," focusing on the tools established companies can use... View Details

31 Mar 2023
Blog Post

How to Come Out at Work

felt the most affirmed and championed when my team has seen my distinct lived experience as an asset, not just an advertisement opportunity. Social Finance did just that and allowed me to leverage my queer identity and global health... View Details

April 2012
Case

Bella Healthcare India

By: Dorothy Leonard and Sunru Yong

Bella Healthcare India was originally established in Bangalore as a low-cost manufacturing facility for a U.S.-based cardiology equipment developer. Under country manager Joseph Cherian it evolved considerably, developing its own research and development capabilities.... View Details

01 Sep 2018
News

September 2018 Alumni and Faculty Books

entrepreneurial powerhouse. Carolyn’s mix of pep talk and tough love got Tyra to where she is today, and here they pay it forward to empower readers. Whether they’re writing about watching Tyra’s most imperfect moment go viral or how they’ve overcome everything from... View Details

29 May 2012
First Look

First Look: May 29

of strong ties to resistors accruing to the change agent are weaker and may yet turn into liabilities that reduce the likelihood of change adoption. Analyses of longitudinal data from 68 multi-method case studies of organizational change initiatives conducted at the... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

01 Jun 2006
News

The Baby Business

some lines. I don’t think we want to set up, as other countries have, what amounts to a central authority that looks at everybody’s choices. But we need to look at the extremes and whether there are some practices we just don’t want to allow. For example, there’s not... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons; Government; Health, Social Assistance

01 Jun 2013
News

Collective Wisdom

according to Karim R. Lakhani, is that thanks to the Internet, crowdsourcing has moved into new and unexpected industries and organizations, establishing itself as a mainstream strategy for innovating and gaining a competitive edge.... View Details

Keywords: crowdsourcing; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services; Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services; Professional Services

December 2012 (Revised November 2014)
Case

W.R. Grace & Co.: Dealing with Asbestos Torts

By: Stuart C. Gilson and Sarah L. Abbott

A manufacturer of building products and specialty chemicals, W. R. Grace & Co. filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy in 2001 in response to a flood of lawsuits alleging that its products contained asbestos, and had caused hundreds of thousands of people to contract... View Details

Keywords: Bankruptcy Reorganization; Business Failures; Environmental Regulations; Class Action Lawsuits; Natural Environment; Valuation; Health Disorders; Capital Structure; Restructuring; Lawsuits and Litigation; Chemicals; Crisis Management; Insolvency and Bankruptcy; Legal Liability; Construction Industry; Construction Industry; United States