Pharmaceutical Industry - Publications - Faculty & Research

Melvin R. Goodes

Goodes grew Warner-Lambert’s market value from $9 billion in 1991 to almost $60 billion in 1999. He helped the pharmaceutical company become a major player in the prescription drug industry and is... View Details

Keywords: Personal Care & Home Products

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Roshan Tathed

how these industries recruit, what the job experience will look like, and how they can help meet your personal criteria in a post-MBA career. He is happy to help with career visioning, companies shortlist, interview prep, resume and cover... View Details

22 Feb 2016
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The ‘Mother of Fair Trade’ was an Unabashed Price Protectionist

state pharmaceutical licensing exam, opened a drugstore with her husband in Stockton in 1915. Following his death, she became the sole proprietor and later opened two additional drugstores in town. Gleason emerged as a stalwart defender... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Retail; Health; Legal Services

February 2002
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Fighting AIDS and Pricing Drugs

By: John T. Gourville

In early 2001, makers of AIDS drugs were suing to prevent developing countries from violating their patents. The issue was driven by price. The developing countries could not afford the market price for these drugs. At the same time, the drug companies were reluctant... View Details

Keywords: Developing Countries and Economies; Patents; Price; Strategy; Globalized Markets and Industries; Pharmaceutical Industry

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Patent search: Cortellis

How can I begin a patent search in Cortellis and can I search by therapeutic areas, e.g.? Cortellis for Competitive Intelligence combines a collection of pharmaceutical industry data and life science related... View Details

01 Sep 2006
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Gift of Gab

then delivered a prepared talk on a topic of their choice. Subjects ranged from the pharmaceutical industry to the relative merits of cats vs. dogs, while Kim’s presentation took a humorous yet thoughtful... View Details

Keywords: Business Schools & Computer & Management Training; Educational Services

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Sarah Hoffner

industry as well as how to leverage career resources across HBS. She studied Public Health and History at Vanderbilt University and spent six years as a Client Service Lead at Entree Health, a pharmaceutical... View Details

01 Feb 2002
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Telling the Electronic Century's Unfinished Story

and pharmaceutical industries. But the differences between those pairs of sectors were just too great. So the second book will examine this question: Why were the Japanese chemical and pharmaceutical View Details

Keywords: Electric Power Generation, Transmission, Distribution; Utilities

01 Mar 2006
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Using IT to Heal U.S. Health Care

Association’s conference held on campus in early November. The three-day conference included presentations by industry executives, government officials, and HBS faculty on topics ranging from trends in the biotech and View Details

Keywords: Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services; Health, Social Assistance

01 Dec 2004
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Finding a Balance

would otherwise be unable to afford treatment. Authored in 2003 by HBS professor Rohit Deshpandé, the case began as a straight pricing study. “The pharmaceutical industry is unlike any other,” Deshpandé... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

27 Jun 2005
Research & Ideas

The Potential Downside of Win-Win

allowed even when it will impose costs on parties who are away from the table. The U.S. pharmaceutical industry is one of the great success stories of the past century. If View Details

Keywords: by Max H. Bazerman

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Investing in Life Sciences - SIP Resources

healthcare, pharmaceuticals and biotech industries including policy and science developments, and overview of different technologies. Factiva - Covers news from national and local newspapers, magazines,... View Details

31 Oct 2004
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Bypass Marketing: Are Docs Influenced?

division president, Health Care, Harris Interactive; and Sandra Feibelmann, a member of the Institute for Health Policy. Manda Salls: When did the pharmaceutical industry begin direct-to-consumer... View Details

Keywords: by Manda Salls

June 2013
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Can PACIV (Puerto Rico) Serve European Customers? (Video Supplement)

By: Jim Sharpe

This is Video Supplement for Can PACIV (Puerto Rico) Serve European Customers? HBS Case #808099. View Details

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19 Sep 2017
First Look

First Look at New Research and Ideas, September 19

in the pharmaceutical industry and lessen the strain both on patients and the healthcare system as a whole. However, doing so would require the company to raise capital, strengthen its sales force, and... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

24 Apr 2014
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Giving hope and inspiration to cancer patients around the globe

Every new day is a good day for Kathryn E. Giusti (MBA 1985) since that morning in 1996 when her oncologist told her to get her affairs in order because she had a rare blood cancer, with three years to live. Leveraging her past experience as a View Details

01 Feb 2001
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Drilling Down

The news last October of Chevron's proposed acquisition of Texaco for $36 billion in stock was hardly surprising to industry analysts. The planned merger — which would streamline projects and save some $1.2 billion annually — was... View Details

Keywords: Hanna, Julia; Matthew R. Simmons; Oil and Gas Extraction; Mining; Natural Gas Distribution; Utilities

06 Feb 2007
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First Look: February 6, 2007

depression, led to a crisis in the industry. Nonetheless, the pioneering group of forecasters shaped the core problems, and invented many of the techniques, that influenced the maturation of the industry in the decades that followed.... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

01 Jan 2003
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Daniel L. Vasella, M.D.

aspirations, purpose, and values, so that they work together as an aligned team." Dan Vasella finds that the skills he called upon as a practicing physician are equally useful in running one of the world's largest pharmaceutical... View Details

October 2000
Case

Procter & Gamble Italy: The Pringles Launch (A)

By: Roy D. Shapiro

Procter & Gamble's (P&G) Pringles potato chips have been a very successful brand. This case reviews the development and first launch in the United States, then in markets around the world. Italy is one of the last countries where Pringles will be launched. Should P&G... View Details