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- 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...
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- 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...
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- 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...
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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...
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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...
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- 01 Jul 2008
- First Look
First Look: July 1, 2008
establish a proposed alliance with a pharmaceutical firm? Should it create a nutraceuticals business in parallel to its effort to develop anti-aging therapeutics? And, should it in-license a second drug development candidate? Purchase...
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Martha Lagace
- 06 Jun 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas: June 6, 2017
with revenue expectations of $1 billion in 2015. At the time of the acquisition, AbbVie received more than 60% of its sales from the drug Humira, a biologic agent used to treat several autoimmune diseases and malignancies. However, Humira...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Dec 2013
- News
Faster, Bigger, Stronger: Supersizing the NFL
markets where American football has no grassroots presence. Ongoing concerns include players' use of performance-enhancing drugs and off-field misbehavior and the PR and internal challenges they pose. And then there is the mounting...
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- 04 Jun 2007
- Research & Ideas
Is Health Care Making You Better—or Dead?
mother gave me a copy of The Jungle by Upton Sinclair. I was very struck by that book. I find the writing, in retrospect, really wretched, but the kind of passion that said, "Here is an awful system," was pivotal in getting food and View Details
- 01 Mar 2009
- News
Model Patient
care, plus some drug coverage — was rejected. It smacked of a “two-tiered” system, he says, and was unacceptable for political reasons. Costs have thus been significantly higher than expected because the standard plan — with a relatively...
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- 01 Jun 2020
- News
Prognosis
fact that we knew the genetic sequence of it within a few weeks, the fact that there are vaccine candidates being tried in humans, that perhaps we’ll see a drug that is effective against it—the power of biomedical research in the year...
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- 19 Mar 2015
- News
Walter Salmon Remembered
grocers, drug stores, and discount stores like Costco. Peter asked me (a banker) what I thought of supermarkets accepting credit cards for groceries. I said that the grocery margins (~1%) wouldn’t support the discounts on card purchases,...
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- 24 Jul 2007
- First Look
First Look: July 24, 2007
the formation and rapid growth of a drug-testing company. The company needs to decide whether to enter the painkiller testing market, in addition to growing its drug treatment center business. Purchase this case:...
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Martha Lagace
- 27 Aug 2008
- Research & Ideas
Creating Leaders for Science-Based Businesses
Ph.D. in biology and a former biology professor at Harvard, has also had a 25-year career in drug development and biotech companies, leading both R&D and business functions. She teaches the MBA elective Inventing Breakthroughs and...
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- 30 Jun 2003
- Research & Ideas
Computer Security is For Managers, Too
each warrants. A bank, for instance, might assign the greatest amount of protection to the database that stores its customers' financial information. For a pharmaceutical company, it might be the research servers that hold data on promising View Details
- 27 Jan 2003
- Research & Ideas
New Cluster Mapping Project Helps Companies Locate Facilities
A: There is some heartening progress. The word is out among retailers about the under-served market in inner cities. Drug chains, such as Walgreen's, and many other retailers, such as Home Depot, are pursuing this opportunity to good...
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by Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Sep 2010
- News
Letters to the Editor
Wells states, “I would hesitate to have those kinds of financial dealings thought of as equivalent to the problems of drug money, or terrorist financing, or secreted money from blatant bribes.” Maybe so. But the ethics of tax cheats are...
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- 13 Sep 2011
- First Look
First Look: September 13
come primarily from the non-drug treatment (87.4% and 70.2% respectively), whereas gains from detailing come at the expense of competing drugs (84%). By contrast, the random coefficient logit model predicts that gains from DTCA, M&E,...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 18 Sep 2007
- First Look
First Look: September 18, 2007
http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=907025 NatuRi Corporation Harvard Business School Case 807-027 NatuRi Corporation was a start up, founded in 2005, aiming to manufacture a cholesterol-lowering drug made from...
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Martha Lagace
- 03 Mar 2017
- News
Big Blue’s Big Bet
of the UNC Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center. Besides reading all the medical journals, Watson could inform doctors of when certain drug trials began and when others ended; it could also sequence a genome and find important gene...
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Paul Kix; illustrations by Dan Page