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The DivaCup: Navigating Distribution and Growth

When the mother-daughter founders of DivaCup set out with a mission to disrupt the menstrual care industry with an innovative product form, they initially struggled to gain legitimacy and convince retailers to carry their unique product. Fifteen years later, the... View Details

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06 Jun 2017
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First Look at New Research and Ideas: June 6, 2017

Pharmacyclics is a biotechnology company that had received FDA approval in late 2013 for its flagship asset Imbrivica (ibrutinib), a biologic treatment for chronic lymphocytic leukemia and two other even rarer blood malignancies. Entering... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

01 Feb 2011
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Medical Richard G. Hamermesh and Lauren BarleyHarvard Business School Case 810-027 Novasys has developed a new medical device and procedure for the treatment of female stress... View Details

05 Dec 2017
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First Look at New Research and Ideas, December 5, 2017

Scientific Collaborations By: Lakhani, Karim R., Kevin Boudreau, Tom Brady, Ina Ganguli, Patrick Gaule, Eva C. Guinan, and Anthony Hollenberg Abstract—We present the results of a field experiment conducted at Harvard Medical School to... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

15 Sep 2011
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High Ambition Leadership

creating healthy lives, not just profits, from its medical products. Higher-ambition leaders craft a distinctive set of practices, outlined in our book, to enact the multiple stakeholder perspective." In addition to being the Cahners-Robb... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

May 25, 2016
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How Consumers and Businesses are Reshaping Public Health

By: John A. Quelch

Healthcare and education are two issues in which citizens around the world, rich and poor, are passionately interested. It has long been appreciated that the way that a society treats its youngest and oldest members says much about its moral maturity. Economic... View Details

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03 Mar 2009
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Authors:Joseph Rhatigan, Sachin H. Jain, Joia S. Mukherjee, and Michael E. Porter Abstract The care delivery value chain is a framework that can help conceptualize the organization and structure of care delivery for medical conditions. We... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

24 Feb 2009
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First Look: February 24, 2009

efficiency benefits, rebates, and treatment in case of loss or fraud. Purchase this case: http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=909006 Distribution at American Airlines (A) Harvard Business School Case 909-035... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

12 May 2009
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First Look: May 12, 2009

Sermo, Inc. Harvard Business School Case 809-142 Sermo operates the leading online professional network for physicians in the United States. Doctors use Sermo free of charge to post surveys regarding diagnostic and treatment concerns and... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

26 Feb 2008
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codes in the treatment and control regions; these procedures have been developed by scholars in other fields to approximate datasets that would have resulted from random experimentation. Download the paper:... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

06 Mar 2012
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interrelated, and all of them affected by government policy. U.S. lawmakers must carefully consider the effects of interventions in at least 12 areas, ranging from capital markets to tax treatment to intellectual property to health care.... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

20 Jan 2015
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higher charity care and medical education. After observing regulator leniency, beneficent hospitals demonstrate higher upcoding. Our results suggest that lenient enforcement assists beneficent nonprofits to obtain higher revenues in... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

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