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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... View Details

01 Oct 1998
News

in turning losing teams into winners, Louis-Dreyfus has an enviable record of reshaping underperforming companies into formidable competitors. A scion of one of France's most prominent business families, he rejuvenated IMS International, a struggling U.S. View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons

April 2011
Teaching Note

Office of Technology Transfer - Shanghai Institutes for Biological Sciences (TN)

By: Willy Shih and Sen Chai

Teaching Note for 611057. View Details

Keywords: Patents; Rights; Infrastructure; Multinational Firms and Management; Research and Development; Complexity; Commercialization; Technology Adoption; Motivation and Incentives; Pharmaceutical Industry; Pharmaceutical Industry; Shanghai

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Purchase

01 Mar 2007
News

In Brief

Q&A with Daniel Vasella. Initially regarded by critics as too inexperienced to lead a major pharmaceutical company, Daniel Vasella (PMD 57, 1989) has set a new standard for innovation as CEO of Novartis. The Winning Season. Last year, St.... View Details

Keywords: Corporate, Subsidiary, and Regional Managing Offices; Management

01 Sep 2011
News

MBA 101: HBS Commencements Pass the Century Mark

pharmaceutical executive at the time of her diagnosis with multiple myeloma, an incurable, rare, and little-researched blood cancer, Giusti went on to found the Multiple Myeloma Research Foundation and the... View Details

Keywords: commencement; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

13 Feb 2006
Research & Ideas

The Hidden Market for Babies

process of thinking about possibly adopting a third child (we already had two through old-fashioned means). And as I was doing personal research into adoption, it struck me one day that adoption was really just the flip side of... View Details

Keywords: by Manda Salls; Biotechnology; Health; Technology

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Transforming Health Care Delivery

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01 Sep 2006
News

HBS Student Battles ALS

returned home. While there, he served as the head of Israel’s ALS nonprofit organization, IsrALS, instituting a campaign that galvanized funding, awareness, and research efforts in that nation. Kremer returned to HBS last January. Since... View Details

Keywords: Business Schools & Computer & Management Training; Educational Services; Health, Social Assistance

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Kraft Accelerator

What are Disease Foundation Leaders Focused on Right Now? (pdf) HBS Kraft Precision Medicine Accelerator How Nonprofit Foundations Can Sustainably Fund Disease Research Harvard Business Review What It Takes to Lead a Disease View Details

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Arjun Goyal

Coming from a family of doctors, Arjun Goyal anticipated a life in clinical medicine in his home country of Australia. But when his education directed him to a year of research at the University of Oxford in the United Kingdom, where he... View Details

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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; Pharmaceutical Industry; Pharmaceutical Industry; Pharmaceutical Industry

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Find at Harvard

01 Jan 2004
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Donald P. Nielsen, MBA 1963

the CEO of the world's largest independent biomedical research and testing company. He set off on a two-year "odyssey" around the United States to try to figure out what was wrong with this country's public education system. Then he ran... View Details

01 Mar 2017
News

How Deep Brain Stimulation Could Change Medicine

psychiatric patients. This targeted approach gives Bennet hope that Harmoni can benefit not only people suffering from movement disorders, but also a whole class of psychiatric patients. But working under Bennet and his collaborator, neurosurgeon Kendall Lee, a team of... View Details

Keywords: Janelle Nanos

01 Jun 2000
News

The Right Connections

From genome research to e-commerce, new ventures are popping up everywhere, competing for the cash needed to turn them into successful enterprises. When trying to secure backing for a high-risk start-up, whom you know can be just as... View Details

Keywords: Judith A. Ross

06 May 2008
First Look

First Look: May 6, 2008

company which had been put up for sale by pharmaceutical giant Pfizer. Examining the decision from a strategic perspective, the (A) case provides brief histories of the two companies; traces the global confectionery industry, focusing... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

11 May 2020
Op-Ed

Immigration Policies Threaten American Competitiveness

It is no secret that immigration has reshaped American innovation. Immigrants are the backbone of America’s most innovative industries, provide a quarter of our patent applications, and are numerous among our science and engineering superstars. Taken from World... View Details

Keywords: by William R. Kerr

21 Apr 2014
Research & Ideas

Bio-Piracy: When Western Firms Usurp Eastern Medicine

In May 1995, two scientists at the University of Mississippi were granted an American patent for the use of turmeric to treat flesh wounds. Soon thereafter, an Indian research organization won a lawsuit challenging the novelty of the... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Legal Services; Biotechnology

24 Jul 2014
Op-Ed

Reform Tax Law to Keep US Firms at Home

I am a Professor of Finance at Harvard Business School, a Professor of Law at Harvard Law School, and a Research Associate of the National Bureau of Economic Research. Recent merger transactions highlight long-simmering problems in the US... View Details

Keywords: by Mihir Desai; Pharmaceutical

25 Jun 2019
Blog Post

Learning the Language of Business and Science – The MS/MBA Biotechnology: Life Sciences Program

My path into the field of biotechnology began at a young age. I was largely influenced by my mother, who is a chemical engineer with an MBA, and by my upbringing in Boston, which exposed me to one of the top biotech/healthcare communities in the world. After an... View Details

01 May 2007
First Look

First Look: May 1, 2007

http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=207113 Strategy in the 21st Century Pharmaceutical Industry: Merck & Co. and Pfizer Inc. Harvard Business School Case 707-509 The global View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

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