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25 Apr 2005
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New Learning at American Home Products

pharmaceutical companies in 1984, American Home Products ranked first in sales and twenty-eighth in R&D expenditures as a percentage of sales.23 As the historian Williams Haynes noted, by the end of the... View Details

Keywords: by Alfred D. Chandler Jr.; Pharmaceutical; Pharmaceutical; Pharmaceutical; Pharmaceutical

13 Jan 2003
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Making Biotech Work as a Business

dubbed "a market for know-how." The new entrants became sellers; established pharmaceutical companies became buyers of the technology. This market for know-how reduced the barriers to entry.... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Biotechnology; Health; Technology

07 Aug 2000
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The Business of Biotech

heralding the start of National Biotechnology Month, as January 2000 had been designated by the U.S. Senate. For biotech, in fact, the party had begun months earlier, when hundreds of millions of dollars had poured into promising View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Biotechnology; Health; Technology

02 Jul 2013
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First Look: July 2

our time period. Publisher's link: http://www.people.hbs.edu/tnicholas/Anna_tom.pdf 2006 pub How Caesars Entertainment Is Betting on Sustainability: Response By: Toffel, Michael W Abstract—One of the largest gaming companies in the world... View Details

Keywords: Anna Secino

26 Jan 2009
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Where is Home for the Global Firm?

Not so long ago, multinational firms were associated with a specific national identity. Caterpillar was a prototypical U.S. company. Honda was a classic Japanese company. The location of headquarters of these and other firms served as... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

May 2013 (Revised October 2014)
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Novartis: Leading a Global Enterprise

By: William W. George, Krishna G. Palepu and Carin-Isabel Knoop

Novartis, the world's leading healthcare company, was formed in 1996 out of a merger of two very different, mid-tier Switzerland-based pharma companies. The case traces the company's evolution over the past 17 years, as it transformed into a truly global enterprise... View Details

Keywords: Multinational Firms and Management; Talent and Talent Management; Organizational Structure; Organizational Culture; Success; Globalized Markets and Industries; Management Teams; Change Management; Business History; Mergers and Acquisitions; Global Strategy; Health Care and Treatment; Pharmaceutical Industry; Pharmaceutical Industry; Switzerland

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July 1993 (Revised April 1999)
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ABB's Relays Business: Building and Managing a Global Matrix

By: Christopher A. Bartlett

Describes the development and management of the relays business area (BA) in ABB's global matrix organization. Focuses on three levels of management--corporate, BA, and operating company. Highlights the roles and responsibilities of individuals at each level as ABB... View Details

Keywords: Multinational Firms and Management; Business or Company Management; Business Strategy; Organizational Structure; Managerial Roles; Management Practices and Processes; Employees; Organizational Culture; Success; Manufacturing Industry

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06 Oct 2009
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PublicationsDoes Foreign Direct Investment Promote Growth? Exploring the Role of Financial Markets on Linkages Authors:Laura Alfaro, Sebnem Kalemli-Ozcan, Areendam Chanda, and Selin Sayek Publication:Journal of Development Economic (forthcoming) Abstract Do View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

11 Mar 2001
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Group Therapy

new stock exchange, the notion that this will translate quickly into smoothly functioning financial markets, in the absence of enabling institutions and intermediaries, is unrealistic. Finally, agencies and multinational View Details

Keywords: by Peter Jacobs

20 Sep 2004
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How Consumers Value Global Brands

warming, but they expect multinational giants like BP and Shell to do so. Similarly, people may turn a blind eye when local companies take advantage of employees, but they won't stand for transnational... View Details

Keywords: by Douglas B. Holt, John A. Quelch & Earl L. Taylor

10 Jul 2000
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Entrepreneurship in Europe

click." Reinvestment—where "if someone succeeds, their felt obligation is to put it in the community"—is also increasing, said Stevenson, not just through angels, venture capitalists and other investors, but through employees of successful View Details

Keywords: by Kenneth Liss

18 Jul 2018
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No More General Tso's? A Threat to 'Knowledge Recombination'

pharmaceutical companies, which had been flying in scientists from China and India who, like Cohly, brought knowledge of native herbs. Some pharma companies were able to earn exemptions from the H1-B limits.... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Health; Food & Beverage; Accounting

12 Dec 2022
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Buy-In from Black Patients Suffers When Drug Trials Don’t Include Them

ask them whether a drug will “work in people like me.” Beyond the health and financial ramifications of overlooking large population segments, the research offers a call to action for drugmakers at a time when companies face pressure to... View Details

Keywords: by Scott Van Voorhis; Pharmaceutical; Pharmaceutical

11 Jun 2013
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on location choices. However, industries with a significant presence of multinational enterprises (MNEs) are oligopolistic in nature, which suggests that rivalry among firms plays an important role in firms' dynamic decision-making... View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

29 Oct 2008
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The Next Marketing Challenge: Selling to ’Simplifiers’

manufacturers benefited. Larger homes with bigger refrigerators can absorb more inventory. Flat birth rates in developed economies have put pressure on durable consumer-goods companies desperate for top-line growth. Product quality... View Details

Keywords: by John Quelch; Retail; Consumer Products; Entertainment & Recreation

22 Apr 2014
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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
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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 Dec 2005
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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

24 Apr 2007
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First Look: April 24, 2007

Millennium" (Case 299-084) Purchase this case: http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=207105 Fabindia Overseas Pvt. Ltd Harvard Business School Case 807-113 Fabindia is a for-profit Indian retail company with... View Details