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- 22 Aug 2005
- Research & Ideas
The Hard Work of Failure Analysis
the hospital quickly followed their example, finding the idea compelling and practical. In the pharmaceutical industry, about 90 percent of newly developed drugs fail in the experimental stage, and thus drug... View Details
Keywords: by Amy Edmondson & Mark D. Cannon
- 01 Oct 2021
- News
From Scholarship to Life-Saving Impact
Nora Rabah (MS/MBA 2022), who emigrated to the United States as a child, remembers the hardship of growing up without health care and wants to make drugs for children with rare diseases more accessible and affordable. Nora Rabah’s (MS/MBA... View Details
- 01 Dec 2019
- News
Remix
city’s darkest days, during the drug and murder epidemics of the late 1980s and early 1990s. When Mayor Marion Barry was busted in an FBI sting for smoking crack in 1990, Dixon’s mother, Sharon Pratt, won the election to replace him,... View Details
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The 20th Century Zeitgeist - Leadership
Pure Food and Drug Act; breakup of beef trust Excise Tax imposed on corporations Tariff Act forces corporations to open their books for government inspection Influence: High 10 1910 s 19 Breakup of Standard Oil and American Tobacco... View Details
- 21 Oct 2015
- Research & Ideas
How to Predict if a New Business Idea is Any Good
industry like drug development, it’s not like you can just switch from one disease to another disease,” she says. While R&D-intensive ventures can shift the application of their underlying technology, Shu continues, the fact they are... View Details
- 03 Jan 2023
- What Do You Think?
How Would the Leadership Style of Girl Scouts' Frances Hesselbein Fare Today?
the Food and Drug Administration issued no warnings. Hesselbein expressed her confidence that the American public would not let that stop cookie sales. They eventually rebounded. Recognizing Jack Welch’s achievements, most responses to... View Details
Keywords: Re: James L. Heskett
- 05 Dec 2016
- Research & Ideas
How The 2016 Presidential Candidates Misled Us With Truthful Statements
Another example is a TV ad that Hillary Clinton’s campaign ran last December, which included the following claim: “In the last seven years, drug prices have doubled.” One of the main purposes of the ad was to highlight the need for... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 20 Oct 2011
- Research & Ideas
Getting the Marketing Mix Right
they studied the three primary ways these drugs were marketed by Pfizer, Merk, Bristol-Myers Squibb, and AstraZeneca: "detailing," in which drug firm representatives personally visit physicians to... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 31 May 2023
- News
Alumni Achievement Awards 2023
Photographed by Susan Young; Edited by Julia Hanna MORE ON THE RECIPIENTS Read more about the 2023 recipients, and learn about past recipients. ALUMNI ACHIEVEMENT AWARDS SITE MORE ON THE RECIPIENTS Read more about the 2023 recipients, and learn about past recipients.... View Details
- 01 Jun 2023
- News
From Big Pharma to Startup
the life cycle of the company”—from proof of concept to platform and product development. It plans to focus first on creating oral versions of peptide hormone drugs used to treat rare endocrine and metabolic diseases. Although Goble is no... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 07 Jan 2002
- Research & Ideas
How Marketing Can Reduce Worldwide Poverty
on-the-ground advocacy—to go get a free eye exam or a blood pressure check-up. Easy. Your basic principles of sales and promotion will carry the day. If your charge is minimizing smoking or drug use, well, your job becomes rather more... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 17 Sep 2021
- Research & Ideas
The Trial of Elizabeth Holmes: Visionary, Criminal, or Both?
jail. Notably, that’s even when they are engaged in the kinds of fraudulent behavior we send people to jail for. They think the people that go to jail are the people that didn’t go to the great schools, that weren’t the Stanford dropouts. It’s the guy on the street... View Details
- 08 Feb 2000
- Research & Ideas
Building Effective R&D Capabilities Abroad
to commercialize its R&D more effectively in foreign markets. Until then, Eli Lilly had operated one home-base-augmenting laboratory site abroad and some small sites in industrialized countries for clinical testing and drug approval... View Details
Keywords: by Walter Kuemmerle
- 15 Nov 2018
- Book
Can the Global Food Industry Overcome Public Distrust?
JamesBrey Food is the largest segment of the global economy. It is also widely recognized as more critical for human health than any pharmaceutical drug on the planet. But significant changes in the industry are making people lose trust in many institutions involved in... View Details
- 25 Jan 2017
- HBS Case
How Should Advertisers Respond to Consumer Demand for Whiter Skin?
Hindustan Unilever, the Indian subsidiary of the multinational company Unilever—and sales skyrocketed, leading other companies to quickly follow with their own products. Skincare products are regulated under India’s Drugs & Cosmetics... View Details
- 05 Jul 2006
- Research & Ideas
The Accidental Innovator
for a new ulcer drug and discover one in a surprising way, that's not quite as amazing as if you are looking for a new ulcer drug and discover instead a new artificial sweetener (this is how Aspartame,... View Details
Keywords: by Sarah Jane Gilbert
- 21 Feb 2023
- Research & Ideas
What's Missing from the Racial Equity Dialogue?
Stanford University’s Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences. He studies the relationship among incarceration, employment, and entrepreneurship. You Might Also Like: The Color of Private Equity: Quantifying the Bias Black Investors Face Buy-In from Black... View Details
Keywords: by Danielle Kost
- 30 Jun 2022
- News
Scaling Hope
programs of treatment providers like Hazelden Betty Ford and Caron Treatment Centers. His ultimate message is one of hope. That’s what he didn’t know in the beginning: “I wish I had known that there was hope, a lot of hope, and that recovery was likely to happen for my... View Details
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February 22, 2010
The doctors have been pleasantly surprised that I have responded to therapy better than they would have imagined. I have been greatly blessed through the miracle of medical science. I also attribute doing better to the faith and prayers... View Details
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Ken Zeng
business leaders must make, whether it's closing a mine due to uncertain safety concerns, pricing essential drugs in developing nations, or taking a stance on contentious societal issues as a company. It is not that easy. If you could... View Details