Drug Development - Publications - Faculty & Research

25 Aug 2014
News

Wendell P. Weeks, MBA 1987

brink of failure through a painful restructuring and commitment to both innovation and the diversification of its product lines. “We make products that change the world,” he says, noting Corning’s development of LCD glass; tools to... View Details

Keywords: Susan Young

01 Jun 2018
News

Floor It

leading from the street to the house itself. That insight, coupled with the radical nature of precision medicine, led to a realization: A “business as usual” approach wouldn’t do the trick; a different way of fighting cancer required an equally innovative approach to... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; illustration by Mengxin Li

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Kraft Accelerator

Jeff Elton speaks about how his company is building a world-class real-world data platform and tightly integrating it with AI-based tools and capabilities. We Need a Miracle: How Drug R&D Needs to Change to Cure Disease 12 SEP 2019 |... View Details

04 Sep 2019
News

Accelerating Scientific Discovery

development of a course that could enhance decision making by providing participants with the knowledge and skills to better manage, fund, and commercialize scientific discoveries that could potentially cure illnesses ranging from... View Details

Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie

01 Dec 2022
News

Road to Recovery

illegal-drug addictions totaled an estimated $700 billion in direct and indirect costs, according to a 2015 report from the National Institute on Drug Abuse. DynamiCare developed an app that provides... View Details

Keywords: April White; Ambulatory Health Care Services; Health, Social Assistance

18 Jun 2001
Research & Ideas

When In-House Research Isn’t Enough

For many decades, corporate research and development has been pretty much an "inside job." The road to innovative new products and services began and ended with a company's internal R&D. But according to HBS assistant... View Details

Keywords: by Jim Aisner

23 Mar 2003
Research & Ideas

AIDS in Africa—What’s the Solution?

teachers to talk about AIDS prevention, the government can use a built-in educational infrastructure. Ngozi Edozien Ngozi Edozien, vice president of PPG Planning and Business Development for Pfizer, said the lack of a delivery... View Details

Keywords: by Julie Jette

24 Apr 2014
News

Building a better India through business and philanthropy

more than 30 countries, Mumbai-based Piramal Group comprises companies focused on health care, life sciences, drug discovery, health care information management, financial services, specialty-glass packaging, and real estate. Recently,... View Details

01 Jan 2003
News

Daniel L. Vasella, M.D.

quickly," he observes. Under his guidance, Novartis has been a leader not only in developing new drugs but in making them accessible to those in need around the globe. Dan Vasella has experienced first-hand... View Details

25 Apr 2014
News

Disrupting criminal enterprises that prey on children

Kayla Brochu (MBA/JD 1999) deployed business and legal strategies to combat some of the world's worst crimes as the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime Expert on Technology-Facilitated Child Abuse, Exploitation, and Trafficking.... View Details

Student-Profile

Olivia Zhao

pros and cons of a public system facing increased privatization. Research Olivia’s research hones in on the pharmaceutical industry and looking at the lifecycle of a drug. “It starts, of course, with research and development at huge View Details

08 Mar 2016
First Look

March 8, 2016

cultural model and undermine their own positions with inappropriate use of symbolic market-creation actions. Download working paper: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=50701 Harvard Business School Case 916-026 Express Scripts: Promoting Prescription View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

01 Jun 2018
News

The Long Run

trajectory of overdose deaths from prescription drugs and heroin. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the US death rate from opioid overdose has increased over 400 percent since 1999; the picture is even grimmer... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; photographed by Melissa Golden

20 Nov 2006
Research & Ideas

Open Source Science: A New Model for Innovation

innovation and product development strategies. His latest research analyzes how open source norms of transparency, permeable access, and collaboration might work with scientists. What he and his coauthors discovered:... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

02 Feb 2021
Blog Post

Finding My Focus in Health care Amidst a Global Pandemic

presidential election as it unfolded in real-time, which was a highlight. In addition, we engaged with Dr. Amy Abernethy, Deputy Principal Commissioner of the FDA, and John Young, Chief Business Officer of Pfizer, to discuss the future of View Details

19 Sep 2012
Research & Ideas

Funding Innovation: Is Your Firm Doing it Wrong?

programs to an investment board comprising both insiders (senior GSK executives) and outsiders (including a venture capitalist and a biotech CEO). After a three-month review period, successful teams are awarded three years worth of investment funding. Because View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

Student-Profile

A Jay Holmgren

A Jay Holmgren (he/him) hadn’t yet developed a strong interest in health policy when he graduated from the University of Michigan with a BA in History in 2011. But when his father was diagnosed with cancer in 2014, A Jay found himself... View Details

24 Apr 2014
News

Finding a cure so that others may benefit

call. The foundation wanted to invest in for-profit bioscience companies to spur scientists to find a cure for the disease. O’Donnell is credited with almost singlehandedly raising $250 million in support of this venture philanthropy, which led to the View Details

05 May 2020
News

“Walking a Tightrope”

Kristof, most of which have focused on poverty in developing countries. But in the Pulitzer Prize-winning duo’s latest book, Tightrope: Americans Reaching for Hope, they turn their lens on working class communities in the United... View Details

01 Mar 2017
News

How Deep Brain Stimulation Could Change Medicine

developed at Minnesota’s Mayo Clinic. Kevin Bennet (MBA 1980) chairs the hospital’s 102-year-old engineering department, where some of the first machines designed to keep patients alive during open-heart surgery were developed. Today,... View Details

Keywords: Janelle Nanos

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