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- 01 Sep 2015
- Blog Post
Building a Startup at HBS
prototype which we showcased at HBS and tested out in the NICU to observe its efficacy and nurse uptake. While we each embarked on different paths after the end of first year– from launching a new healthcare venture in Africa, to working at large View Details
- 01 Dec 2003
- News
The Next Big Thing
life-sciences center of the world, by virtue of its unsurpassed “cluster” of world-renowned universities and teaching hospitals; medical-device, biotech, and pharmaceutical companies; financial firms; and skilled workers. “The leadership... View Details
- 13 Jan 2003
- Research & Ideas
Making Biotech Work as a Business
dubbed "a market for know-how." The new entrants became sellers; established pharmaceutical companies became buyers of the technology. This market for know-how reduced the barriers to entry.... View Details
- 20 May 2013
- Op-Ed
Making America an Industrial Powerhouse Again
talent pool in the US biomedical field that is second to none. And the only way to get that talent is for companies-both domestic and foreign-to do their R&D here. That's why pharmaceutical and biotechnology View Details
- 07 Aug 2000
- Research & Ideas
The Business of Biotech
heralding the start of National Biotechnology Month, as January 2000 had been designated by the U.S. Senate. For biotech, in fact, the party had begun months earlier, when hundreds of millions of dollars had poured into promising View Details
- 15 Feb 2012
- Op-Ed
Occupy Wall Street Protestors Have a Point
unaffordable (which the pharmaceutical company Cipla did with HIV/AIDS drugs in Africa), and that brought housing to urban poor (one of building materials maker CEMEX's accomplishments in Mexico). Based on... View Details
- 01 Jan 2008
- News
Jeffrey R. Immelt, MBA 1982
protein biomarkers that have been identified as the precursor to Alzheimer’s disease. “There’s still no cure,” he observes, “but if you know that someone has the early signs of the disease and combine that with some of the new drugs the View Details
- 04 May 2010
- First Look
First Look: May 4
910-409 On July 5, 2004, Pfizer's China team received disappointing news. China's patent review board just invalidated the company's existing patent on one of its most successful drugs, Viagra. Making matters worse, a Guangdong-based View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Oct 2008
- Research & Ideas
How Much Time Should CEOs Devote to Customers?
the current economic downturn, companies need marketing skills more than ever. But while every corporate mission statement pays lip service to respecting customer needs, actual customer expertise is typically a mile wide and an inch deep.... View Details
Keywords: by John Quelch
- 24 Aug 2020
- Blog Post
My Journey to Joining the first MS/MBA Biotechnology: Life Sciences Cohort
forecasting expected revenues, to developing an equity investing plan for a major pharmaceutical company and performing due diligence on M&A targets. I also spent four months on secondment within a... View Details
- 01 Sep 2010
- News
Fair Trade
identity was, to the next stage. For a time, it seemed that this model would involve the reuniting of beauty and health. The world’s largest pharmaceutical companies purchased some of the most iconic brands... View Details
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Souvenirs & Novelties - The Art of American Advertising
. helped establish brand familiarity by putting up promotional displays . . . and giving away calendars, glasses, and other items bearing company slogans and trademarks,” business historian Walter Friedman explains. 24 For example,... View Details
- 01 Mar 2012
- News
Capitalism’s New Agenda
remedies that would make things worse, but were against any intervention by business because business had no legitimacy—“it’s above my pay grade.” Still others thought that business should use its influence to activate government. A final group thought View Details
- 01 Jun 2000
- News
The Business of Biotech
environment is any indicator, biotech companies - and the large pharmaceutical firms many of them are affiliated with - won't be the only sector of the economy trying to capitalize on the new pool of genetic... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 01 Mar 2003
- News
Naina Lal Kidwai
to the global automobile industry. Biotechnology and pharmaceutical firms are emerging as international players. There are also opportunities in infrastructure investment, such as telecom, ports, roads, and airports. Please comment on... View Details
- 18 Aug 2017
- Op-Ed
Op-Ed: Courageous Leader Triggers a Moral Revolt of CEOs Against Trump
companies like Frazier and Merck got from the President. Their companies have products dependent on government approvals and major regulatory issues before Congress and the administration. Given these... View Details
Keywords: by Bill George
- 23 Jul 2001
- Research & Ideas
How Relationships are Building Biotech
on biotech companies in terms of securing resources. And if the top executives had a career background at a pharmaceutical and/or healthcare company—the companies considered... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace & Mallory Stark
- 01 Dec 2020
- News
The Complete Package
pallets and numerous other custom-designed packaging options. “I started with the vision of saving the world,” she says, “and the first question everyone asked was, ‘How much will it cost?’” Chong saw the need for more environmentally conscious choices while working at... View Details
Keywords: April White; entrepreneurship; sustainability; packaging; leadership; women; Manufacturing
- 10 Jun 2021
- Blog Post
Managing Sustainable Advantage with Key ESG Cofounders, Anne-Marie Schoonbeek and Heleen van Poecke
that perspective to the next level,” she shared. Schoonbeek was also eager to gain more experience as an operator at a startup company to supplement her experience as a consultant working with large businesses. Specifically, she was drawn... View Details
- 05 Jul 2004
- Research & Ideas
Radical Change, Entrepreneurial Opportunity
strategies of companies within those industries. In particular, I focus on how an industry gets defined: how consumers and other industry players make sense of, or frame, the industry, and the way that framing in turn affects how the... View Details