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- 06 Jun 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas: June 6, 2017
with revenue expectations of $1 billion in 2015. At the time of the acquisition, AbbVie received more than 60% of its sales from the drug Humira, a biologic agent used to treat several autoimmune diseases and malignancies. However, Humira... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 21 Sep 2009
- Research & Ideas
Excessive Executive Pay: What’s the Solution?
returns grew still further. It was a vicious cycle.... "The stockholder-centric view of the current Schumer bill simply cannot be the cure for the disease it spawned." Rather than address specific policy proposals, HBS professor... View Details
Keywords: by Roger Thompson
- Web
Winners & Success Stories | New Venture Competition
and PCs. The team is based in India is currently focused on developing an affordable mobile phone based diagnostic platform for Diabetes. No longer a disease of the wealthy, Diabetes is the one of the leading causes of death and... View Details
- 01 Dec 2013
- News
Faster, Bigger, Stronger: Supersizing the NFL
into the links between concussions and dementia. Researchers later found that Duerson was suffering from the degenerative brain disease chronic traumatic encephalopathy, thought to be the result of hits from his playing days.) The issue... View Details
- 01 Sep 2018
- News
Case Study: A Good Fit
the team started exploring chronic disease management, with a launch slated for later this year. But now that they’ve “bottled” the process, their technology could be applied to almost any area of behavior change—financial savings,... View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint
- 08 Nov 2024
- Op-Ed
How Private Investors Can Help Solve Africa's Climate Crisis
harder investment concept to explain and perhaps justify, but the return on investment is just as real. US analogies include adding seatbelts in cars to save lives, developing medicines for chronic diseases to avoid illnesses, and... View Details
- 01 Dec 2008
- News
Business at the Summit
those diseases. “These people have no voice in the marketplace,” Gates said. As a result, ten times as much funding is devoted to research on the prevention of male baldness as malaria, a disease that kills more than 1 million people each... View Details
- 02 Aug 2016
- First Look
August 2, 2016
closely tied to its parent company—DaVita provided dialysis services to patients with end-stage renal disease (ESRD) and Rx supplied medications to ESRD patients—while Paladina's connection to DaVita was less obvious. If Golomb took the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 12 Jul 2006
- Research & Ideas
Competition the Cure for Healthcare
will be savings from providing preventive care and disease management. To get to universal insurance, however, the problem is not just the poor. In Massachusetts, state government discovered that a significant proportion of the uninsured... View Details
- 01 Mar 2009
- News
Model Patient
would provide the specialists and the full range of necessary care for patients suffering from chronic diseases or disabilities such as diabetes or bad backs. Rather than leaving it to the patient to search for a specialist in one area,... View Details
- 16 Oct 2013
- Op-Ed
Response to Readers: Combating Climate Change with Nuclear Power and Fracking
With more than 7,500 views and 180-plus tweets, I want to thank everyone for taking the time to read the original HBS Working Knowledge piece, The Case for Combating Climate Change with Nuclear Power and Fracking, and, in particular, for sharing your thoughts with one... View Details
- 01 Jun 2024
- News
Conducting Business
In 2015 I moved from New York City to Madison, Connecticut, where I met, quite by chance, Ginny Vancil and her brother, Richard. I thought, How many Vancils can there be in the world? I asked if they knew Richard “Dick” Vancil, who was my first professor for my first... View Details
- 24 Mar 2020
- Research & Ideas
These Coronavirus Heroes Show Us How Crisis Leadership Works
tests for COVID-19 in their labs as pressure mounts for rapid and accurate test results. LabCorp and Quest, the world’s largest blood testing agencies, weren’t engaged to take on this Herculean task until March 13 because the Centers for View Details
- 01 Jun 2025
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books
Edited by Margie Kelley Unlocking Innovation: A Leader's Guide to Turning Bold Ideas Into Tangible Results By Robyn Bolton (MBA 2005) Page Two Press Only 1 in every 50,000 incubated ideas reaches $1 million in sales. If you ask most corporate executives why their... View Details
- 01 Sep 2010
- News
RX for Change
principles: putting patient care decisions, tasks, and workflows first; separating complicated, ambiguous diseases and conditions from those that are understood; ensuring that infrastructure and practices such as the mix of staff,... View Details
- 25 Oct 2004
- Research & Ideas
Planning for Surprises
other diseases. In addition to disruptions with the flu supply in each of the past four years, the Times notes that there have been shortages in eight of the eleven vaccines for childhood diseases in the U.S. Why were we vulnerable to... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 03 Mar 2017
- News
Big Blue’s Big Bet
secondary leukemia caused by myelodysplastic syndrome, a group of diseases in which the bone marrow makes few healthy blood cells. The doctors changed the woman’s therapy plan, and her health improved considerably. She was discharged from... View Details
Keywords: Paul Kix; illustrations by Dan Page
- 24 Apr 2018
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, April 24, 2018
manufacturers who wish to build an exclusive platform for patients taking their medications. But Barry, against the advice of her management team, is considering an alternative business model, which would open the platform up to all manufacturers in a given View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Dec 2017
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for December 2017
natural disasters and infectious diseases to pandemics and more. With chapters on Superstorm Sandy, H1N1, the Ebola virus, and bioterrorism, these cases cover major areas in public health preparedness. These case studies strongly portray... View Details
- 06 Sep 2022
- Research & Ideas
Curbing an Unlikely Culprit of Rising Drug Prices: Pharmaceutical Donations
of Health and Human Services, manufacturers may donate to charitable organizations that cover these costs, and can earmark their donations for specific disease categories. The amount contributed to these organizations skyrocketed after... View Details