Drug - Publications - Faculty & Research

19 Sep 2012
Research & Ideas

Funding Innovation: Is Your Firm Doing it Wrong?

programs to an investment board comprising both insiders (senior GSK executives) and outsiders (including a venture capitalist and a biotech CEO). After a three-month review period, successful teams are awarded three years worth of investment funding. Because View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

01 Mar 2005
News

One-on-One with Edwin Reed

get involved with community development? For some years, the area around the church had been in steady decline, with vacant storefronts, deteriorating houses, and neglected properties. Gang activity and drug use were on the increase.... View Details

Keywords: Mary Ellen Gardner; Religious, Grantmaking, Civic, Professional, and Similar Organizations; Personal Services

01 Oct 2002
News

Faculty Research Symposium

and correction of such errors, Associate Professor Amy C. Edmondson studied eight teams of caregivers from two different teaching hospitals to explore how group and organizational behaviors affect error rates in administering drugs to... View Details

15 Jun 2016
Research & Ideas

These VC Partners May Make Your Firm Less Innovative

developed by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA), they were able to tell which companies were competitors in the same patient application areas (such as cardiology, oncology, or urology) and product classes. Then, using commercial... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Financial Services; Banking

25 Aug 2015
First Look

First Look Tuesday

to examine the phenomena in the context of health. In particular, we examine how an individual's prior experiences and the experiences of those around them alter the operational decisions that the individual makes. We draw on an exogenous announcement of negative news... View Details

05 Nov 2007
Research & Ideas

The Changing Face of American Innovation

on? Are they concentrated in a specific industry or business type? A: Inventors can file for patents in many technology fields, ranging from chemicals and drugs to computer software to agricultural machinery. Immigrant contributions are... View Details

Keywords: by Sarah Jane Gilbert; Technology

25 Oct 2016
First Look

October 25, 2016

insulate consumers from cost sharing, thereby undermining insurers’ ability to influence drug utilization. We study the impact of copay coupons on branded drugs first facing generic entry between 2007 and... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

07 Aug 2007
First Look

First Look: August 7, 2007

and issues around current practices. Purchase this note: http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=807124 U.S. Food and Drug Administration Harvard Business School Note 807-050 Describes the U.S. FDA with particular... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

01 Sep 2007
News

Riding It Out

is beginning to understand the importance of the issue,” says Gisholt. The country’s former head of the State Food and Drug Administration, Zheng Xiaoyu, was executed for corruption in early July. He was convicted of taking approximately... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; dog food; pets; Food Manufacturing; Manufacturing; Food and Beverage Stores; Retail Trade

20 Nov 2006
Research & Ideas

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 company got unusual toxicology... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

23 Jan 2019
News

The Promise of Personalized Medicine

and a 501(c)(3) called Cure Rare Disease. With the foundation, Horgan is trying to build something radical: A model for personalizing drug development, with the hopes of saving not only his brother but countless others. READ MORE Morrell:... View Details

26 Jun 2000
Research & Ideas

What’s an Internet Business Model? Ask a Health Care Professional

process of testing drugs and bringing them to market. No matter how ingenious a business model may appear, however, all panelists agreed that the trust of patients remains paramount. Patient trust, then, could well emerge as the ultimate... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Health

28 Mar 2023
Blog Post

Novo Nordisk

delivery system used to treat patients with Type II diabetes (not all of insulin’s use cases). It currently needs 100-175x the amount of active pharmaceutical ingredient (API) compared to insulin injection pens because the oral drug is... View Details

19 Jun 2013
Research & Ideas

Analyzing Institutions to Solve Big Problems

that marijuana was a popular treatment in the nineteenth century, and the drug was listed in the Dispensatory of the United States by the 1850s. The paper looks at how the Federal Bureau of Narcotics managed not only to illegalize the... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel & Anna Secino

19 Jun 2020
Blog Post

Black MBA Students Pen Letters to the HBS Community: Letter 5/5

socioeconomic background. I have seen communities plagued with poor education systems and I have seen, how mental health-induced drug abuse is treated as a crime. I have witnessed Black adults frantically afraid when pulled over by the... View Details

19 Nov 2014
HBS Case

Marketing Marijuana

something that hadn't been done in 81 years—make an illegal drug legal. “They do not need to buy it at a fancy store—they'll go to a back alley basement shop as long as the product delivers” Of course, the question remains: How will state... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Food & Beverage

05 Jul 2004
Research & Ideas

Radical Change, Entrepreneurial Opportunity

tightly coupled relationships with customers to engage in trials of different product concepts, producers and users can jointly learn about and make sense of the new technology. For instance, Surface Logix, a firm with highly sophisticated, flexible technology called... View Details

Keywords: by Michael J. Roberts; Technology

06 Jul 2015
News

Lights! Camera... Market!

to move away, while the other rejects farm life to pursue a bigger payday smuggling drugs over the Canadian border. It’s a tough but touching story with a very un-Hollywood ending. Yet, for Jared Simon (MBA 2008), the making—and... View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley; Food Manufacturing; Manufacturing; Motion Picture and Sound Recording Industries; Information

01 Sep 2006
News

Redefining Health Care

high costs understandable. What Wennberg and others did was to show that U.S. health care also has severe quality problems. Indeed, there is every possible quality problem you can imagine: incorrect diagnoses, drug errors, unnecessary... View Details

Keywords: Roger Thompson; Business Schools & Computer & Management Training; Educational Services; Health, Social Assistance

28 Apr 2009
First Look

First Look: April 28, 2009

consumer-oriented model for drug development and use has attracted attention in recent years as an alternative to the much-maligned approach of mass-marketing blockbuster drugs. In a parallel development, patients and disease-based... View Details