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- 17 Feb 2016
- Blog Post
Through The Eyes of The Patient: A Recap of The 13th Annual Health Care Conference
markets, to changing the drug discovery process to be more patient-centric. A highlight of the panel sessions was when Adam Koppel, EVP of Strategy and Corporate Development at Biogen and Health Care Investing panel moderator, said that... View Details
Keywords: Health Care
- 01 Jun 2012
- News
Inspiration Is Not Enough
execution can kill even the greatest of ideas. Alexander Graham Bell invented the “speaking telegraph” but had no aptitude to build a business around it. Dean Kamen (OPM 7, 1982) had already made riches on inventions, including the first View Details
- 01 Sep 2006
- News
Sorry, We’re All Out of Chilean Sea Bass
places our food comes from and us the consumers. And that’s part of the problem. Do you think it was worth spending millions of taxpayer dollars and endangering lives to pursue the fishing vessel? The economic incentives for this kind of fishing begin to resemble the... View Details
- 19 Oct 2023
- Blog Post
New Venture Competition 2023: Business and Environment Ventures
(MBA 2023) - Lasso optimizes electrochemical carbon removal by building a drug discovery platform, but for the climate - through computational chemistry, electrolyte design, and cell engineering, Lasso will make direct air capture truly... View Details
- 27 Feb 2024
- Blog Post
Fighting Cancer with a Novel Cell Therapy: Ananya Zutshi (MS/MBA '21)
and will call myself an engineer forever. But I recognized that my strengths and experiences are well suited for the business side of drug development.” Guardian Bio’s cell therapy uses dendritic cells, an essential component in the human... View Details
- Profile
Arjun Goyal
a scientific eye for identifying precise populations in which therapies are effective, with a commercial appetite for successful drugs that need more time and money to prove their potential.” As part of a four-person clinical development... View Details
- 01 Jun 2017
- News
Turning Point: Addiction’s Impact
image by Jeffrey Decoster image by Jeffrey Decoster I was blindsided when my daughter told me, “I’m a heroin addict.” It was November 16, 2009, at a meeting with her drug counselor at Boston College. After I uttered a profanity and... View Details
Keywords: Melissa Weiksnar (MBA 1982)
- 01 Dec 2018
- News
Case Study: Your Data, Your Health
the cost of paying for health insurance subscribers, which will bring higher returns for the insurance company. We have seen this in the drug Angiomax by the Medicines Company. —Suleiman Yakasai (PLDA 22, 2016) Got a case? To take part in... View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint
- 01 Mar 2017
- News
How Deep Brain Stimulation Could Change Medicine
targeted approach gives Bennet hope that Harmoni can benefit not only people suffering from movement disorders, but also a whole class of psychiatric patients who, until now, had few options beyond prescription drugs to help lessen the... View Details
Keywords: Janelle Nanos
- Web
Propose an Independent Project | MBA
Bank/Broker-dealer back-office segment Helping the CEO determine how to manage the business and political issues around the pricing and marketing of prescription drugs Analyzing the appropriateness of an organization’s current price... View Details
- 15 Dec 2014
- Research & Ideas
Deconstructing the Price Tag
expenses incurred. For example, R&D expenditures in the pharmaceutical industry involve more than just the cost of producing one particular drug. Many drugs may have to fail before one succeeds, and that one hit View Details
- 25 Aug 2014
- News
Wendell P. Weeks, MBA 1987
brink of failure through a painful restructuring and commitment to both innovation and the diversification of its product lines. “We make products that change the world,” he says, noting Corning’s development of LCD glass; tools to facilitate View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 02 Nov 2022
- Blog Post
Climate Stories Episode #11: Mary Jo Veverka (HBS 1978): Fostering Actionable Climate Literacy
has had a storied business career. In the 1980s, she became the first female partner at Booz, Allen and helped build the consulting firm’s pharmaceutical practice. In the early 1990s, she was a deputy commissioner at the Food & Drug... View Details
- Web
Year in Review | Annual Report 2024
helping drug manufacturers produce life-saving biologics more efficiently, in order to deliver cheaper drugs to patients worldwide. Team: Narek Dshkhunyan, MBA 2024; Daniel Erdosy 2024 Crowd Favorite,... View Details
- 20 May 2016
- Op-Ed
World Health Organization Lacks Leadership to Combat Pandemics
greater role in WHO governance and if there are guarantees of purchase contracts for new drugs and vaccines at sensible prices. Both seem unlikely, as the WHO's culture has always winced at cooperation with the private sector. WHO's track... View Details
- 14 Jul 2006
- Op-Ed
The Case for Consumer-Driven Medicaid
diabetic and asthmatic enrollees due to increased testing and drug utilization, while management consulting firm McKinsey found that consumer-driven enrollees were more likely to "very carefully follow treatment regimens for chronic... View Details
Keywords: by Regina E. Herzlinger
- 29 May 2001
- Research & Ideas
How Technological Disruption Changes Everything
and, finally, self-care. Microsoft has way overshot what the customer needs. —Clayton Christensen Christensen said that disruptive technologies in health care are coming in the form of better and more targeted drugs and rapidly improving... View Details
- 02 Sep 2015
- News
Voting for Optimism in Baltimore
problem that includes reducing the drug trade and its effect on homicides in the city while, at the same time, improving processes within the police department. When people can’t expect the police to do certain things, it causes the... View Details
- 01 Mar 2014
- News
Feedback
bulletin@hbs.edu. Write us a letter. This is your magazine. It needs your voice. Gene Williams, featured in the December 2013 HBS Alumni Bulletin Top Story The story of Gene Williams (MBA 1987) and his new drug development model hit a... View Details
Keywords: Health, Social Assistance
- 18 Apr 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Ideas, April 18
M&A) and Werner Baumann (CFO) have to decide whether to increase the cash portion of their $14.2 billion offer and/or amend the terms of a proposed joint venture (JV) with Merck involving cardiovascular drugs that had been included in... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne