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- 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
- 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
- 13 Oct 2016
- News
Adding Muscle to the Fight Against Disease
If you are one of the 17 million people who participated in the Ice Bucket Challenge a couple of summers ago, the money you helped raise to support ALS research may be at work today in a late-stage biopharmaceutical company headed by... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg
- 05 Mar 2001
- What Do You Think?
Fine Coupling: Can Human Resource Management Learn from Supply Chain Management?
Productivity will improve as the alternation of job assignments eliminates the 'indispensable' worker." Connie Luthy says, "I have practiced 'Just-In-Time' hiring ... in the pharmaceutical industry.... I have advised my client... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 14 Dec 2010
- First Look
First Look: Dec. 14
extent to which companies use performance-based pay. We argue that while agency theory provides a useful framework to analyze strategic compensation, it fails to consider a host of psychological factors that affect employee motivation and... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 26 Sep 2006
- First Look
First Look: September 26, 2006
School Case 806-073 Follows the growth of an entrepreneur from his early startup activities. As the company evolves from 1998 to 2005, looks at key decisions and turning points as AtHoc's strategy adapts in response to changing market... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 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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Staff Directory | Baker Library
her career, where Avery covered business beats including pharmaceutical companies, health care, travel, and personal finance. Avery holds a master’s degree from Columbia Journalism School, a Fulbright Fellowship to Russia, and a... View Details
- 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
- 16 Jun 2015
- First Look
First Look: June 16, 2015
strategy. Without such a strategy, companies will have a hard time weighing the trade-offs of various practices-such as crowdsourcing and customer co-creation-and so may end up with a grab bag of approaches. They will have trouble... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 04 Apr 2022
- Research & Ideas
Tech Hubs: How Software Brought Talent and Prosperity to New Cities
Pretium who previously worked as a research analyst at HBS. “Astoundingly, five of the six most valuable public companies in the world in 2020 were tech companies headquartered in San Francisco or Seattle.... View Details
Keywords: by Rachel Layne
- 28 May 2014
- Research & Ideas
Building Histories of Emerging Economies One Interview at a Time
business has a role to play in addressing it." For example, in one video clip, Yusuf Hamied, chairman of Mumbai-based pharmaceutical company Cipla, comments, "I'm a firm believer that if you're in the health... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna
- 01 Mar 2003
- News
Inside the Revolution
care and life sciences issues, with the lion’s share focusing on the biotech and pharmaceutical industries. More than twenty HBS professors from different disciplines have contributed to this effort, which Pisano says is analogous to the... View Details
- 30 Apr 2001
- Research & Ideas
Entering the Age of Alliances
competencies of each partner and create two-way value is evidenced by, among others, the collaboration between The College Fund (UNCF) and Merck. UNCF, the largest and oldest minority educational assistance organization in the United States, and Merck, a leading global... View Details
Keywords: by James Austin
- 10 Jun 2008
- First Look
First Look: June 10, 2008
federal government program that encourages companies to voluntarily self-police and self-disclose regulatory violations, we examine how participation affects the behaviors of regulators and regulated facilities. We find that on average,... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- Profile
Thomas Grenier
passion and by the many opportunities to indulge my own passions and interests, such as exploring the pharmaceuticals and healthcare fields through specialized coursework and a field study with a very promising medical imaging start-up.... View Details
- 01 Apr 1999
- News
Q & A: Confronting New Technologies: When Doing Right Is Wrong
focus instead on improving the performance of existing products - what I call sustaining technologies. For this reason, good companies have little difficulty succeeding in sustaining innovation - even radical innovation. If their... View Details
- 15 Dec 2014
- Research & Ideas
Deconstructing the Price Tag
When a company sets a price for a product, shoppers typically have no idea what it costs to produce that item. But it turns out that consumers reward efforts to lay out these figures—to deconstruct the price tag. In fact, new research... View Details
- 12 May 2009
- First Look
First Look: May 12, 2009
Case 809-026 An executive from pharmaceutical company GSK must choose how much to integrate a recently acquired biotechnology firm, Sirtris. Moncef Slaoui, GSK's global head of R&D, championed the... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 22 Apr 2008
- First Look
First Look: April 22, 2008
Business Harvard Business School Case 608-136 Novartis is a science-based drug company, which has important implications for its business strategy. It is one of the largest pharmaceutical companies in the... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace