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Randall L. Tobias
The first outsider to run the company, Tobias is credited with orchestrating a major turnaround of Eli Lilly. Under his direction, Lilly introduced two successful drugs (Zyprexa for schizophrenia and Gemzar for cancer), solidified and...
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Olivia Zhao
pros and cons of a public system facing increased privatization. Research Olivia’s research hones in on the pharmaceutical industry and looking at the lifecycle of a drug. “It starts, of course, with research and development at huge drug...
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- 01 Jun 2018
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Floor It
case study with the Multiple Myeloma Research Foundation, GNS Healthcare, the Moffitt Cancer Center’s ORIEN program, and biotech firm Foundation Medicine. Rethinking Drug Trials In an adaptive platform trial, different View Details
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Business Track | New Venture Competition
Diagnostix is redefining precision agriculture through AI-powered, genetic insights. Team: Brandon Chi, MBA 2024; Joseph Swift; Amitesh Pratap; Leonie Luginbuehl. Play Video duration: 1:34 2024 New Venture Competition Runner-Up, Business Track: Sanso Sanso is helping...
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Biotech and Pharmaceuticals: R&D spending, production cost
can be found in company’s income statement that can be found in Capital IQ ABI/ProQuest - To locate articles on the topic, use search terms: drug development cost (drug development) AND (success rates)
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- 30 May 2007
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Health Care Under a Research Microscope
Cambridge, Massachusetts, and you will likely be administered beta blockers, a class of drug that's generally recommended after a heart attack. The rate at which that drug is delivered nationwide, however,...
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- 29 Jun 2022
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Harvard Business School Announces the 2022-2023 Blavatnik Fellows
medicines. Hunter plans to use the Blavatnik Fellowship year to refine strategy and business development for the company’s novel drug delivery platform with his co-founders, Harvard Medical School Professor Dr. Wayne Lencer and Justin...
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Charles R. Walgreen
Though Walgreen was trained as a pharmacist, he was an equally astute businessman. Walgreen personally manufactured some of his drugs in order to be able to maintain profitable low prices, and he also offered Walgreens branded merchandise...
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- 10 Oct 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, October 10, 2017
in the diabetic space, became MannKind’s marketing partner and helped launch Afrezza in February, 2015. Although the drug had a black box warning and required doctors to perform a lung test on patients, expectations were high, with some...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Mar 2008
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The Last Frontier
state for people with debilitating but nonterminal diseases like his to receive, with a doctor’s assistance, drugs with which they may take their own lives. Explained Gardner, “Why do this? I want to be involved in public life. I was...
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- 17 Jun 2019
- Blog Post
Why I Would Have Applied to the MS/MBA Biotechnology: Life Sciences Program
and drug development. These qualities straddle the science and business fields – for example, to instill a science-focused culture within an organization, or to craft a drug development strategy that...
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- 01 Jun 2018
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The Long Run
trajectory of overdose deaths from prescription drugs and heroin. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the US death rate from opioid overdose has increased over 400 percent since 1999; the picture is even grimmer...
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- 14 May 2014
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(Re)moving the Needle
You wouldn't think that the lowly, annoying mosquito would have anything to teach researchers working on the cutting edge of drug delivery methodology, but you would be wrong. Have you ever noticed that you don't become aware of a...
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- 24 Apr 2014
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Finding a cure so that others may benefit
call. The foundation wanted to invest in for-profit bioscience companies to spur scientists to find a cure for the disease. O’Donnell is credited with almost singlehandedly raising $250 million in support of this venture philanthropy, which led to the development of...
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- 01 Sep 2011
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Alumni Team Up to Fight Cancer
networking among its alumni community. Bowes, founding partner of US Venture Partners, and Giusti, founder of the Multiple Myeloma Research Foundation (MMRF), discussed the need for innovative, results-oriented biomedical research and View Details
- 05 May 2020
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“Walking a Tightrope”
Kristof, most of which have focused on poverty in developing countries. But in the Pulitzer Prize-winning duo’s latest book, Tightrope: Americans Reaching for Hope, they turn their lens on working class communities in the United States—communities that have been...
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- 19 Sep 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, September 19
time, Imprimis was in the process of seeking FDA approval for a branded drug called Impracor. This process, already difficult, was further complicated by recent manufacturing issues. Meanwhile, the opportunity arose for Imprimis to...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Dec 2004
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Finding a Balance
Do the rules of business change when a company’s product holds the power of life or death over its customers? That’s a question students must consider when discussing “Cipla,” a case about a $325 million Indian pharmaceutical company that manufactures and sells...
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- 01 Dec 2022
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Road to Recovery
Illustration by Jon Krause Eric Gastfriend (MBA 2015) had watched friends and family members struggle with addiction. He’d seen some of them go to treatment, and he’d seen many of them relapse. He didn’t understand why the field of addiction psychiatry had been unable...
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- 09 Apr 2012
- Research & Ideas
Who Sways the USDA on GMO Approvals?
Other Agencies Influence Approvals In the case of procedural legitimacy, the researchers found a strong influence from an unlikely source—the USDA's sister agency, the Food and Drug Administration. In the process of approving GMOs,...
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