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- 02 Aug 2004
- Research & Ideas
Health Care Research and Prospects
series on AIDS in Africa and how pharmaceutical companies should think about the issues and how they might respond. Sandra Sucher has done a really wonderful case on Gleevec, which is a drug for treating... View Details
- 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
- 16 Dec 2020
- Blog Post
Faculty Books Published in 2020
business models, or developing new products, even the most experienced managers often get it wrong. They discover that intuition, experience and big data alone don’t work. What does work? Running disciplined business experiments. And what if View Details
Keywords: All Industries
- 01 Aug 1998
- News
Spring Reunions: Milestones and Memories
which develops and markets pharmaceutical products. Starting at age 10, Bertarelli accompanied his father on business trips. By 17, he was helping to craft the company's annual budgets. He was 29 when he became CEO, just when Fabio... View Details
Keywords: Eileen K. McCluskey
- 30 Jun 2003
- Research & Ideas
Computer Security is For Managers, Too
Companies need to have smart technicians who stay abreast of emerging digital threats and defenses, of course, but the technicians shouldn't be calling the shots. General managers need to take the lead in building processes that will... View Details
- 20 Jan 2015
- First Look
First Look: January 20
School Case 514-084 Vision 2020: Takeda and the Vaccine Business In 2014, Yasuchika Hasegawa was orchestrating the transformation of Takeda from a Japanese pharmaceutical company with a global footprint into... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 22 Apr 2014
- First Look
First Look: April 22
occurred in the pharmaceutical industry over the past two decades. Since 1989, a number of major pharmaceutical companies (Merck, Novartis, Pfizer, etc.) have chosen to locate... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 20 Nov 2006
- Research & Ideas
Open Source Science: A New Model for Innovation
problems that were posted? A: Innovations happen at the intersection of disciplines. People have talked about that a lot and I think we're providing some systematic evidence now with this study. Another example is that a pharmaceutical... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 19 Aug 2024
- News
Quantum Leap
Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Dan Morrell: Hi, this is Dan Morrell, host of Skydeck. Quantum computing has long been talked about as one of the next big things—the kind of technology, like AI, that will change everything. But to our... 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
- 17 Sep 2001
- Research & Ideas
Why E-commerce Didn’t Die With the Fall of Webvan
conspicuous successes in online commerce came from companies that already had a pretty good catalog or direct mail business. Staples and Dell migrated successful catalog businesses onto the Web. Merck-Medco had done a terrific job of... View Details
- 26 Jul 2010
- Research & Ideas
Yes, You Can Raise Prices in a Downturn
As economic turmoil continues, many companies are reconsidering their strategies with an eye toward going lean and slashing prices. And that might work for a few companies—but very few. Instead, companies... View Details
- 19 Dec 2005
- Research & Ideas
The Regional Slice of Your Global Strategy
maximizing regional opportunities. Ghemawat discusses five regional strategies while leaving the meaning of a "region" open for interpretation. This excerpt describes the challenges of designating a meaningful definition of region for your View Details
Keywords: by Pankaj Ghemawat
- 28 Aug 2017
- Research & Ideas
Should Industry Competitors Cooperate More to Solve World Problems?
Source: Cecilie_Arcurs George Serafeim has a startling suggestion to fix the world’s biggest environmental, social, and governance (ESG) problems such as water pollution, deforestation, and wealth inequality: encourage companies within industries to do less competing... View Details
- 12 Mar 2014
- Research & Ideas
Entrepreneurship and Multinationals Drive Globalization
constraints on the autonomy of firms. The book has several case studies that explore this issue. The instances when firms could really dictate to governments, as when the United Fruit Company orchestrated the CIA overthrow of the... View Details
- 01 Mar 2014
- News
My HBS Eureka Moment
uncomfortable with the ethnic background of the proponents, who were proposing to start a pharmaceutical company in Mexico. I could never get comfortable, and missed a huge opportunity. The product was the... View Details
- 06 Aug 2001
- Research & Ideas
Go Global—or No? Can You Make the Case?
1999, the company's first year of operation. The following year, the company was on a $5.3 million run rate. The bad news: competition is suddenly on the horizon, in the form of British start-up VisiDat—at least according to a trade... View Details
Keywords: by Walter Kuemmerle
- 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
- 26 Jun 2000
- Research & Ideas
What’s an Internet Business Model? Ask a Health Care Professional
out how to get into a clinical trial to try an experimental drug. For their part, physicians are often befuddled by difficult cases that don't respond to traditional therapies. And pharmaceutical companies, at the same time, are anxious... View Details
- 01 Jan 2003
- News
Greylock
One of the country's most renowned venture capital firms, for nearly four decades Greylock has emphasized building businesses rather than stocks, providing hands-on assistance to entrepreneurs, and helping companies contribute new... View Details