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  • 05 Jul 2016
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July 5, 2016

healthcare providers are associated with a significant reduction in medical device patenting. Tort reforms have the strongest impact in medical fields in which the probability of facing a malpractice claim is the largest, and they do not... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

    Randall L. Tobias

    The first outsider to run the company, Tobias is credited with orchestrating a major turnaround of Eli Lilly. Under his direction, Lilly introduced two successful drugs (Zyprexa for schizophrenia and Gemzar for cancer), solidified and expanded View Details
    Keywords: Healthcare

      William Steere, Jr.

      Steere was strongly devoted to making Pfizer the number one pharmaceutical company in the United States. His first task at the pharmaceutical company was to cut the 40% of its business that was unrelated to what was considered View Details
      Keywords: Healthcare
      • 10 Oct 2007
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      First Look: First Look: October 10

      Hamermesh, Faculty Chair of the Harvard Business Healthcare Initiative, discuss the barriers to personalized medicine and suggest ways to overcome them. The blockbuster model for developing drugs, the authors point out, is still what most... View Details
      Keywords: Martha Lagace
      • 30 Sep 2014
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      First Look: September 30

      staffing mandate of competence and integrity. National control over the United Nations is remarkably sticky; however, the influence of the United States has diminished as U.S. ideology has shifted away from its early allies. In spite of... View Details
      Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
      • 07 Aug 2007
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      First Look: August 7, 2007

      reversion to very early hiring or the use of a centralized matching system such as that used for medical residencies. We suggest, however, potential avenues by which the clerkship market could stabilize at something like its present... View Details
      Keywords: Martha Lagace

        Ralph S. Larsen

        Larsen reorganized J&J and managed its costs in order to improve its efficiency and reduce operating expenses. Between 1994-1999, the annual operating costs were reduced by $2 billion, which enabled... View Details
        Keywords: Healthcare

          Richard J. Kogan

          assumed leadership of the company, investing heavily in its antihistamine products, which include Claritin, and making selective strategic acquisitions, including the animal health division of Mallinckrodt. View Details
          Keywords: Healthcare
          • 26 Feb 2019
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          New Research and Ideas, February 26, 2019

          royalties from content sales. We consider a game-theoretic model in which two platforms offer different standalone utilities to users. We find that incentives to establish one-way compatibility—the platform owner with smaller standalone value grants access to View Details
          Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

            E. Gifford Upjohn

            Upjohn played an instrumental role in supporting legislation requiring pharmaceutical companies to prove a drug’s effectiveness in clinical trials prior to its general release. A physician by training, Upjohn established the Medical... View Details
            Keywords: Healthcare

              Henry Wendt

              strategy did not provide a rapid growth spurt for SmithKline, it did lead to the successful merger of SmithKline with UK-based Beecham Company. The creation of SmithKline Beecham (SKB), engineered by Wendt and Beecham’s chief, created the... View Details
              Keywords: Healthcare
              • 15 Feb 2011
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              First Look: Feb. 15

              Provider Order Entry at Emory Healthcare Richard G. Hamermesh, F. Warren McFarlan, Mark Keil, Michael Morgan, Andrew Katz, and David LaBordeHarvard Business School Case 311-061 This case presents one hospital system's efforts to implement... View Details
              Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
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              This lists media reports covering my firm dollarDEX Investments or me (or my colleagues), or columns written by me (or my colleagues). There are all... View Details

                Robert W. Johnson, Jr.

                Johnson established J&J management policies, including the “credo,” which still exists today. He decentralized the company during the 1930s by dividing it into a number of small divisions, each responsible for a few products. As part... View Details
                Keywords: Healthcare

                  James E. Burke

                  When Burke took over Johnson & Johnson, the company had thousands of products including Tylenol, which had a 35% share of the analgesic market. Two incidents of cyanide-laced Tylenol capsules dropped Tylenol’s market share to 7%. Burke’s dramatic and swift actions... View Details
                  Keywords: Healthcare

                    Ernest H. Volwiler

                    its pharmaceutical products. He contributed to the commercialization of penicillin and sulfa drugs during World War II and produced top level financial returns for Abbott during his tenure as CEO. View Details
                    Keywords: Healthcare
                    • 18 Dec 2018
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                    New Research and Ideas, December 18, 2018

                    describe the enormous changes in the markets for therapies for rare diseases that have emerged over recent decades. The most prominent example is the fact that the profit-maximizing price of new orphan drugs appears to be greater today than View Details
                    Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
                    • 28 Jul 2015
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                    First Look: July 28, 2015

                    Hepatitis C? If so, how would its U.S. healthcare customers, who were paying $84,000 per patient, react? On the other hand, Gilead had to balance the interests of its... View Details
                    Keywords: Carmen Nobel
                    • 31 May 2011
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                    First Look: May 31

                    respond to adverse shocks and how voters react to these responses. The data show that voters punish the incumbent party for weather events beyond its control. However, fewer voters punish the ruling party when View Details
                    Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
                    • 09 Apr 2019
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                    New Research and Ideas, April 9, 2019

                    capital and demonstrates how technology—novel data sources, artificial intelligence, machine learning—will transform the small business lending market. This market has been plagued by frictions: it is hard for a lender to determine which... View Details
                    Keywords: Dina Gerdeman