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  • 29 Jun 2022
  • Blog Post

Harvard Business School Announces the 2022-2023 Blavatnik Fellows

dialysis device, a femtech device using genomics to enable women’s care, a biosensing wearable to prevent dehydration, and an oxygen sensor for personalized oncology care. They have collectively raised more than $485M in funding and an... View Details
  • Web

Demo Day | New Venture Competition

urgent gap in medical equipment availability by facilitating equipment sharing and redistribution through an asset light model. By pioneering Africa's foremost medical equipment-sharing marketplace, the... View Details
  • 13 Nov 2020
  • News

A Passion for Education

to CFO and oversaw the company’s initial public offering. In 1993, he joined medical device maker Medtronic as senior vice president and CFO, a position he held for a dozen years and from which he retired in... View Details
  • 05 Aug 2016
  • News

Accelerating Change on Medicine’s Final Frontier

Brain cancer is almost always fatal. There are no cures for neurodegenerative diseases such as Alzheimer’s, Parkinson’s, or ALS. And mental health remains a global burden.” Worse yet, despite all of medical science’s efforts, most of... View Details
Keywords: Robert S. Benchley
  • 09 Jan 2006
  • Research & Ideas

What Really Drives Your Strategy?

budgeting, but in the operating levels of the firm. Bower: Other examples in our book are very different. The field of medical devices is one in which successful companies have their sales technicians... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
  • July 2000 (Revised August 2000)
  • Case

AllHerb.com: Evolution of an E-tailer

By: Teresa M. Amabile and Christina L. Darwall
Serial entrepreneur Ken Hakuta, in the second year of his latest venture, reconsiders his original strategy of maintaining an independent, self-funded, self-led company. His Internet herbal remedy company, AllHerb.com, has already enjoyed considerable success with its... View Details
Keywords: Entrepreneurship; Corporate Entrepreneurship; Technological Innovation; Business or Company Management; Goals and Objectives; Strategic Planning; Strategy; Competitive Strategy; Medical Devices and Supplies Industry; Medical Devices and Supplies Industry
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  • 23 Feb 2023
  • News

In My Humble Opinion: Hometown Reboot

what Motley calls “the grand plan.” After HBS, he spent two decades working for the chemical, glass, and coatings company PPG Industries, living in eight cities along the way. He finished his corporate career at the Pittsburgh-based View Details
Keywords: April White
  • 24 Sep 2007
  • Research & Ideas

The FDA: What Will the Next 100 Years Bring?

stars. Announced actions against an Iowa dairy after illegal drug residues were found in the dairy's cows; a Tennessee company for selling a substance billed as both a preventative against skin cancer and a tanning agent; and a medical... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Biotechnology; Consumer Products; Food & Beverage; Health
  • 31 Jul 2014
  • Research & Ideas

A Scholarly Crowd Explores Crowdsourcing

actually might be detrimental to innovation," said HBS Assistant Professor Rory McDonald, presenting the paper Exposed: Venture Capital, Competitor Ties, and Entrepreneurial Innovation. The issues became clear when the research group studied VCs participating in a... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
  • 17 Jul 2018
  • First Look

New Research and Ideas, July 17, 2018

for harms caused by defective products may also affect innovation incentives. This paper examines this issue, exploiting a major quasi-exogenous increase in liability risk faced by U.S. suppliers of polymers used to manufacture medical... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 01 Nov 2024
  • In Practice

Layoffs Surging in a Strong Economy? Advice for Navigating Uncertain Times

decision about entrepreneurship Starting your own company after a layoff is a significant decision. While it may seem like an opportune time, research suggests there are some important considerations. “Entrepreneurs coming from high-tech sectors such as biotechnology... View Details
Keywords: by Rachel Layne; Technology; Information Technology
  • April 1998 (Revised May 2000)
  • Case

Guidant Corporation: Shaping Culture Through Systems

By: Robert L. Simons and Antonio Davila
Guidant is a successful IPO start-up selling pacemakers and defibrillators. The case describes how managers install systems to balance innovation and control. Three parts of a shareholder value strategy are described. Controls include incentive systems, beliefs... View Details
Keywords: Innovation Strategy; Corporate Strategy; Motivation and Incentives; Planning; Risk Management; Management Systems; Business Strategy; Value Creation; System; Medical Devices and Supplies Industry; Medical Devices and Supplies Industry; Medical Devices and Supplies Industry
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  • 01 Jun 2011
  • News

Downtime

stack (next to my bed): The Tell-Tale Brain: A Neuro-scientist’s Quest for What Makes Us Human by V.S. Ramachandran; The World Without Us by Alan Weisman; and Einstein’s Clocks, Poincaré’s Maps: Empires of Time by Peter Galison. Do you use an electronic View Details
Keywords: fiction; Christianity
  • January 2001 (Revised July 2003)
  • Case

Pharmacyclics: Financing Research & Development

By: Malcolm P. Baker, Richard S. Ruback and Aldo Sesia
Pharmacyclics (NASDAQ: PCYC), a pharmaceutical company that manufactures products that will improve existing therapeutic treatments for cancer, arteriosclerosis, and retinal disease, was considering a $60 million private placement in February 2000. The company had more... View Details
Keywords: Valuation; Cash Flow; Financing and Loans; Business Startups; Financial Strategy; Medical Devices and Supplies Industry; Medical Devices and Supplies Industry; Medical Devices and Supplies Industry
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Winners & Success Stories | New Venture Competition

New Venture Competition Winner, Social Enterprise Track: Lexi Lexi is an AI-powered medical interpretation platform that enables instant, accurate, and HIPAA-compliant communication between providers and patients across the care... View Details
  • 03 Mar 2015
  • First Look

First Look: March 3

that covers all the procedures, tests, drugs, devices, and services involved in inpatient, outpatient, and rehabilitative care for a patient's medical condition. For chronic conditions and primary care, a bundled payment is a single... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • March 1994 (Revised January 1995)
  • Case

Cardinal Health, Inc.

By: Jay W. Lorsch
Robert D. Walter, chairman and CEO of Cardinal Health, Inc., responds to questions regarding Cardinal's board and its influence on the acquisition of and merger with Whitmire Distribution. View Details
Keywords: Mergers and Acquisitions; Governing and Advisory Boards; Power and Influence; Management Teams; Medical Devices and Supplies Industry; Medical Devices and Supplies Industry; Medical Devices and Supplies Industry
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  • 25 Apr 2005
  • Research & Ideas

New Learning at American Home Products

accounted for 13 percent. In the early 1980s American Home Products decided to enlarge its higher-value-added healthcare business by attaching medical equipment to its portfolio and by divesting itself of the lower-margin non-healthcare... View Details
Keywords: by Alfred D. Chandler Jr.; Chemical; Health; Manufacturing; Pharmaceutical
  • 01 Apr 2015
  • Research & Ideas

The Slow, Steady Battle to Fix Cancer Care

After a cancer patient's first 30 days in the American medical system, the bills start stacking up—right next to the pile of paperwork explaining benefits. "It's very hard for patients to match these things up," says Dr. Thomas... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Health
  • 29 May 2007
  • First Look

First Look: May 29, 2007

the group is considering increasing its investment focus to include a broader range of technologies, including emerging technologies (for example, mobile and RFID technologies) and non-information technologies (including medical View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace