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August 2017 (Revised July 2018)
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MannKind Corporation: Take a Deep Breath, This Time Afrezza Will Work

By: Elie Ofek and Amanda Dai

In June 2014, MannKind Corporation announced that after years of development and billions of dollars in expenses, the FDA had finally approved its drug, Afrezza. MannKind would thus be the only company with an inhalable insulin on the market. As an alternative to... View Details

Keywords: Health Care and Treatment; Product Launch; Product Positioning; Marketing Strategy; Adoption; Pharmaceutical Industry

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ICHOM - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness

ICHOM grew out the conviction that the universal development and reporting of patient outcomes by medical condition is the single greatest enabler of delivery system transformation. Learn more about Value-Base Health View Details

22 Nov 2004
Research & Ideas

Side Effects: The Case of Propecia

Physicians could be enticed with promises of increased business. Another advantage to the product claim route: Merck could boast greater success with patients than its chief drug competitor in the market, Rogaine. One audience member... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Health; Pharmaceutical

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Introducing LivelyHood, A Volunteer Nonprofit Founded in Response to COVID-19 - MBA

mass stockpiling consumed the collective psyche. And a tweet from the UK went viral: a nurse who had worked all day taking care of COVID-19 patients was unable to buy groceries after she got off work because... View Details

28 Jan 2020
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Advanced Leadership Requires More Than Outside-The-Box Thinking

innovative new products and services, new commercial ventures, or new approaches that create social impact. These are also the kinds of problems rising leaders care about: climate change, race and gender inequities, education shortfalls,... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

15 May 2017
Sharpening Your Skills

The Promises and Limitations of Big Data

How Will the Age of Big Data Affect Management? How do we avoid losing useful knowledge in a seemingly endless flood of data? Jim Heskett's readers offer some wise suggestions. Consumer-centered Health Care Depends on Accessible Medical... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Financial Services; Utilities; Public Administration; Health

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Should Entrepreneurs Get an MBA? - MBA

Business & Environment Career Change Career and Professional Development Case Method Clubs Curriculum Digital Entrepreneurship FIELD Financial Aid Health Care Instagram Takeover JD/MBA Leadership Letters to Classmates MBA/MPP & MBA/MPA-ID... View Details

01 Jun 2023
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From Big Pharma to Startup

Hunter Goble (MBA 2022) did not enroll in Harvard Business School with dreams of becoming an entrepreneur. After earning his MBA, Goble intended to return to Eli Lilly to continue to work building brands and launching products. He envisioned himself leading a big,... View Details

Keywords: April White

14 Mar 2022
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Lessons from COVID-19: The Business Skills Doctors Need

doctors had to switch from their traditional specialties to treat patients affected by the virus. Given the isolation of coronavirus patients from family members, many doctors and nurses who were not... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Health

03 Dec 2021
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Physicians Off the Beaten Path

you a transferable skill set,” says Faraz. “In terms of transferable skills, most of our guests talk about communication. And thinking on your feet. [At my consulting internship] I found that managing patients is not very different from... View Details

02 Nov 2021
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Why COVID-19 Probably Killed More People Than We Realize

potential underreporting. Countries with a lower capacity to care for sick patients before the pandemic tended to underreport COVID deaths more; on average, these countries had 53 percent unexplained excess... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

27 May 2015
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Build 'Scaffolds' to Improve Performance of Temporary Teams

hospital's emergency department around temporary teams called pods. The low-cost redesign led to dramatic improvements, both qualitatively and quantitatively, including a 40 percent reduction in how long a patient would remain in the ED... View Details

Keywords: by Roberta Holland; Health

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Hands-on Learning About Global Markets - MBA

Blog Blog MBA Voices Filter Results Arrow Down Arrow Up Read posts from Author Alumni Author Career and Professional Development Staff Author HBS Community Author HBS Faculty Author MBA Admissions Author MBA Students Topics Topics 1st Year (RC) 2+2 Program 2nd Year... View Details

31 May 2023
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Alumni Achievement Awards 2023

came to Vertex in 2017, there was a medicine finishing early clinical trials with the potential to serve up to 90 percent of patients with cystic fibrosis (CF). In October 2019 that became Trikafta. Now CF View Details

Keywords: leadership; management; work-life balance

01 Oct 2021
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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

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Prineeta Kulkarni

interfered with survival, but also with how patients integrated into their communities." After graduation, she took a position with a boutique consulting firm, L.E.K. Consulting, that concentrated on a portfolio of life science,... View Details

Keywords: Healthcare/Biotech; Nonprofit/Government/Education

28 Mar 2016
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Why I Chose to Pursue an MD/MBA at Harvard

post-baccaluareate program before starting at Harvard Medical School. The first year of medical school we took a health care policy class - we are one of the few medical schools to have a formal policy course that is required. The class... View Details

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2022 Reunion Presentations - Alumni

will leave this interactive session with a framework for retaining talent. Opportunities and Risks in Health Care Created by COVID Faculty: Professor Regina Herzlinger (DBA 1971) + More Info – Less Info The crush of View Details

01 Mar 2024
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Alumni and Faculty Books and Podcasts

tries, and fails, to convince yet another cancer patient to opt for the less risky course of treatment. In Supercommunicators, Charles Duhigg blends deep research and his trademark storytelling skills to show how we can all learn to... View Details

Keywords: Publishing Industries (except Internet); Information

28 Nov 2005
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Unilever: Transformation and Tradition

as a result, but also avoiding disasters. The ice cream and other foods businesses were built patiently by the acquisition of one local firm after another, and their melding into the Unilever model. Following the National Starch... View Details

Keywords: by Geoffrey Jones; Consumer Products

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