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  • June 2014 (Revised February 2017)
  • Case

Kathy Giusti and the Multiple Myeloma Research Foundation

By: Richard G. Hamermesh, Joshua D. Margolis and Matthew G. Preble
What do you do when your rising professional career is cut short by an unexpected cancer diagnosis? Kathy Giusti shifted careers, built a new organization that transformed how cancer research is done, and now faces the challenge of sustaining the organization and its... View Details
Keywords: Philanthropy; Philanthropy Funding; Entrepreneurship; Health Care; Management Styles; Personalized Medicine; Health Care Outcomes; Cancer; Cancer Care In The U.S.; Personal Care; Leadership; Leading Change; Social Entrepreneurship; Philanthropy and Charitable Giving; Health Care and Treatment; Leadership Style; Management Style; Management Skills; Growth and Development Strategy; Business Strategy; Health; Health Industry; United States; Canada; Spain
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  • 01 Sep 2020
  • News

Turning Point: Change, Stat

I also had two experiences where family members were really sick and having a great doctor changed the trajectory of their lives. Being able to have that impact seemed incredibly meaningful; and I decided to specialize in Emergency View Details
Keywords: COVID-19; healthcare; medicine; innovation; interpersonal communication; Ambulatory Health Care Services; Health, Social Assistance
  • January 2020 (Revised April 2020)
  • Teaching Note

Brandless: Disrupting Consumer Packaged Goods

By: Jill Avery
Brandless, an online direct-to-consumer seller of upscale private-label consumer packaged goods (CPG), offered consumers a limited assortment of values-conscious products delivered directly to their homes with the simplicity of one fixed $3.00 price point that promised... View Details
Keywords: Brand; Brand Management; DTC; Private Label; Groceries; Packaged Food; Personal Care; Startups; Retailing; Amazon; Brands and Branding; Marketing; Marketing Strategy; Business Startups; Disruption; E-commerce; Consumer Products Industry; Retail Industry; United States
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  • 15 May 2011
  • News

Deeply conflicted

  • June 2003 (Revised March 2008)
  • Case

Schering-Plough and Genome Therapeutics: Discovering an Asthma Gene

By: Regina E. Herzlinger and Marc Aquino
Personalized medicine requires the identification of mutated genes. Schering-Plough's search for the one related to asthma requires finding families with the disease. Examines the industry that helps conduct such research, including contract research organizations. View Details
Keywords: Health Disorders; Research and Development; Genetics; Biotechnology Industry; Pharmaceutical Industry
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  • 09 Oct 2020
  • Blog Post

4 Things To Know About the MS/MBA Biotech

Since emigrating from Syria at the age of five, I have personally experienced the uphill battle of obtaining health care coverage as a non-US citizen. My family, along with many other immigrant and low-income families, are often forced to... View Details
  • 25 May 2018
  • News

An Urgent Mission to Speed Progress Against Cancer

  • 15 Jan 2018
  • Research & Ideas

A Better Business Model for Fighting Cancer

iPhoto With billions of dollars spent on the development of precision medicine and related cancer research over the last decade, a recent partnership seeks a new way to bring these treatments to patients more quickly: through a better... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Health; Pharmaceutical

    Two Hundred Years of Health and Medical Care

    Using two hundred years of national and Massachusetts data on medical care and health, we examine how central medical care is to life expectancy gains. While common theories about medical care cost growth stress growing demand, our analysis highlights the importance of... View Details
    • January 2002 (Revised October 2005)
    • Case

    General Electric Medical Systems 2002

    By: Tarun Khanna and James Weber
    Discusses one of General Electric's flagship divisions--the world's leading provider of medical diagnostic imaging equipment. Provides an opportunity to examine a multinational confronting massive technological and demographic changes around the world. Genomics has... View Details
    Keywords: Information Technology; Business Model; Change Management; Multinational Firms and Management; Genetics; Customer Value and Value Chain; Age; Medical Devices and Supplies Industry; China; United States
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    • June 2016
    • Article

    When Doctors Go to Business School: Career Choices of Physician-MBAs

    By: Damir Ljuboja, Brian W. Powers, Benjamin Robbins, Robert S. Huckman, Krishna Yeshwant and Sachin Jain
    There has been substantial growth in the number of physicians pursuing Master of Business Administration (MBA) degrees over the past decade, but there is continuing debate over the utility of these programs and the career outcomes of their graduates. The authors... View Details
    Keywords: Medical Education; MD; MBA; Physicians; Executive Education; Training; Personal Development and Career; Health Care and Treatment; Health Industry; United States
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    • 2014
    • Working Paper

    Non-Adherence in Health Care: A Positive and Normative Analysis

    By: Mark Egan and Tomas J. Philipson
    Non-adherence in health care results when a patient does not initiate or continue care that a provider has recommended. Previous research identifies non-adherence as a major source of waste in US health care, totaling approximately 2.3% of GDP, and have proposed a... View Details
    Keywords: Health Care and Treatment; Behavior; Economics; Analysis; Mathematical Methods
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    • Web

    Curriculum - MBA

    invention, incentives for drug development, manufacturing and the value chain, and the future of personalized medicine will be discussed. Cellular Metabolism and Human Disease This course explores cellular... View Details
    • 26 Jun 2007
    • First Look

    First Look: June 26, 2007

    revealed a pattern: the failed leaders couldn't lead themselves. On their leadership journey these high potential managers adopted a set of personal behaviors that worked temporarily but were unsustainable in the long run. Findings—The... View Details
    Keywords: Martha Lagace
    • 31 Aug 2020
    • Blog Post

    Five Important Steps before Taking the Entrepreneurial Leap

    natural remedies we had had personally found success with were absent from pharmacy shelves, and why we had a different standard for the labels in our medicine cabinets than we did for products everywhere... View Details
    • Web

    FAQs - MBA

    or PhD)? Students, even those with advanced degrees (MD or PhD), will encounter a breadth and depth of science and medicine they have not had in their undergraduate and graduate training. The faculty comprise fundamental scientists and... View Details
    • 10 Oct 2007
    • First Look

    First Look: First Look: October 10

    http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=507082   PublicationsRealizing the Promise of Personalized Medicine Authors:Mara G. Aspinall and Richard G. Hamermesh Periodical:Harvard... View Details
    Keywords: Martha Lagace
    • 25 Jan 2024
    • Research & Ideas

    Being a Team Player: Why College Athletes Succeed in Business

    degrees. 12 percent had law degrees. 5 percent were physicians. “Going into business, you're generally working with others as opposed to, say, a field like medicine or a field like academics; those tend to be a little more solitary,”... View Details
    Keywords: by Rachel Layne
    • 15 Mar 2024
    • HBS Case

    Let's Talk: Why It's Time to Stop Avoiding Taboo Topics at Work

    could say: “I realize this is a tough month, but the sooner the better. I will schedule a time to discuss this with you next month.” Ask for a meeting with at least 24 hours’ notice. Set a clear agenda when you request the meeting and give the other View Details
    Keywords: by Avery Forman
    • Web

    Placement - Doctoral

    Dissertation: Pairing Purpose with Profit Advisors: Julie Battilana (Chair), Dutch Leonard , and A.J. Casey A Jay Holmgren Health Policy (Management), 2021 Placement: University of California-San Francisco, School of Medicine... View Details