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Year in Review | Annual Report 2024
Co-Presidents of Harvard Business Publishing (HBP). Desmarais joined HBP in 2018 after driving high-impact growth initiatives in global media and learning companies. Most recently, she served as Chief Operating Officer, building an enterprise-wide approach to product... View Details
- 03 Jul 2012
- Research & Ideas
HBS Faculty on Supreme Court Health Care Ruling
required to support them. Further, government payment for sick people's health care expenses will diminish the massive venture capital investment needed for developing genomically-derived therapies. We stand at the brink of a revolution... View Details
- 18 Apr 2019
- Research & Ideas
Open Innovation Contestants Build AI-Based Cancer Tool
difficult and time-consuming even in countries with sufficient medical resources, much less in developing countries where the need is great but fewer personnel have the time and training. Harvard researchers wondered: Could programmers... View Details
- 23 Apr 2014
- HBS Case
Are Electronic Cigarettes a Public Good or Health Hazard?
Drug Administration is proposing the first federal oversight of the product. The very fact users could control the amount of nicotine they ingested led to worry that e-cigarettes would cause smokers to take in more nicotine, rather than... View Details
- 02 Jan 2020
- Op-Ed
Medicare for All or Public Option: Can Either Heal Health Care?
The United States has serious health care problems: More than 27 million uninsured people, costs that are growing faster than income, and a staggering $37 trillion of unfunded liabilities in the Medicare program. Perhaps most alarming: The US ranks lowest among View Details
- 27 Mar 2012
- First Look
First Look: March 27
biopharmaceutical industry's transformation from the mid-1970s through 2001, including the rising cost and complexity of drug development and the remarkably slow pace of IT adoption in clinical trials.... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 16 Oct 2013
- Op-Ed
Response to Readers: Combating Climate Change with Nuclear Power and Fracking
recommendations in my mind to improve the pace of nuclear innovation. A clear direction for improvement would be to adopt a Food and Drug Administration-style drug development... View Details
- 02 Sep 2008
- First Look
First Look: September 3, 2008
Exercise of Leadership, a New Model Authors:Werner Erhard, Michael C. Jensen, Steve Zaffron, Kari L. Granger Abstract This paper is the (pre-course) introduction document to an experimental course developed by the authors and taught at... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 05 Jul 2004
- Research & Ideas
Radical Change, Entrepreneurial Opportunity
advantage? It's a conscious strategy to play to their strengths? A: I think that's right. For instance, Polaroid identified digital imaging as an opportunity very early on; in fact, you could argue that its mindset in terms of what the firm was good at enabled it to... View Details
- 01 Jan 2008
- News
Jeffrey R. Immelt, MBA 1982
accountability, transparency, and trust; those three things will be even more important in the future.” When he was tapped to head GE in 2001, Jeff Immelt had already built an impressive nineteen-year career at the storied company that pioneered the View Details
- 02 Nov 2022
- Blog Post
Climate Stories Episode #11: Mary Jo Veverka (HBS 1978): Fostering Actionable Climate Literacy
has had a storied business career. In the 1980s, she became the first female partner at Booz, Allen and helped build the consulting firm’s pharmaceutical practice. In the early 1990s, she was a deputy commissioner at the Food & Drug... View Details
- 24 Mar 2020
- Research & Ideas
These Coronavirus Heroes Show Us How Crisis Leadership Works
Schinecker, CEO of Roche Diagnostics, leads a company that received the FDA’s first emergency use authorization for a commercially developed COVID-19 test on March 13. Roche now believes it can ship up to 400,000 test kits per week.... View Details
- 19 Aug 2024
- News
Quantum Leap
Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Dan Morrell: Hi, this is Dan Morrell, host of Skydeck. Quantum computing has long been talked about as one of the next big things—the kind of technology, like AI, that will change everything. But to our... View Details
- 18 Aug 2011
- Lessons from the Classroom
Business Plan Contest: 15 Years of Building Better Entrepreneurs
in 2001 with Alec Machiels (MBA '01) at the helm, its plan hinged on a mechanism created by a team of Harvard and MIT scientists that used atomic force microscopy in drug research. "A number of the scientists decided that being part of a... View Details
- 01 Jun 2011
- News
The Best-Laid Plans
side effects of the powerful drugs used to treat HIV/AIDS and TB. In February, DFA’s reach broadened when the Gates Foundation continued its support by awarding the group a $2.99 million grant to develop... View Details
- 26 Apr 2004
- Research & Ideas
A Clear Eye for Innovation
organization would have to continue making money in the mature conventional-contacts business while simultaneously producing a stream of breakthroughs. In 1991, Bradley launched six formal development projects, each focused on a... View Details
- 01 Aug 2001
- News
Class Day and Commencement 2001
category. Both winning teams addressed health-care issues. The social enterprise team of Neil Houghton, Ashley Magargee, Naomi Weinberg (all MBA '01), and Marcel Acosta won for their venture Low Cost Eyeglasses, whose aim is to supply eyeglasses to one billion people... View Details
- 12 Jul 2006
- Research & Ideas
Competition the Cure for Healthcare
the various actors in the system are not designed around value, nor is competition reinforcing improvements in value. For example, let's take the prescription drug benefit, the big reform of today that everyone is talking about. This is... View Details
- 02 Jul 2001
- Research & Ideas
Ray A. Goldberg
"Transforming Life, Transforming Business: The Life-Science Revolution," a McKinsey Award-winning article he coauthored in the March-April 2000 issue of Harvard Business Review. "As distinctions between food and medicine fade, we will see a proliferation... View Details
- 28 Mar 2023
- Blog Post
Novo Nordisk
company currently faces with its circular sustainability approach is how to handle the end of life recyclability and reusability of their injection devices. While researching Novo Nordisk before our visit, one of the solutions that looked promising to us was the View Details