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Annual Report 2019 - Annual Report 2019
Sciences (GSAS), HBS approved a new joint degree program that aims to prepare students to develop transformative organizations that will advance new drug discoveries or therapeutics. The two-year program will welcome its first cohort of...
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- 23 Oct 2018
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Coming of Age as the World Comes Apart
sort of drug addiction, my mother who suffered from mental illness had started to disappear. And I guess, if I was a psychologist, I'd say, I, at 11, decided that I would be perfect in everything that I could control. I remember when my...
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- 25 Sep 2018
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New Research and Ideas, September 25, 2018
operations. Product failures are, therefore, likely to impact firms’ subsequent innovation activities. Using 13 years of Food and Drug Administration data, we examine the effects of firm and competitor medical device recalls on subsequent...
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Dina Gerdeman
- 15 Apr 2008
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destructive behaviors such as cutting, excessive use of alcohol, taking drugs and suicide attempts. These patients are very difficult to treat and TBC has developed programs that make a noticeable difference to these patients. DBT...
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Martha Lagace
- 05 Sep 2007
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First Look: September 5, 2007
value, or derail deals altogether. Consider, for example, the pharmaceutical company that deadlocked with a supplier over the issue of exclusivity in an ingredient purchase. Believing it was a ploy to raise the price, the drug maker upped...
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Martha Lagace
- 06 Jun 2017
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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
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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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- 03 Jan 2017
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January 3, 2017
to standardize their products and helped establish brand identities through consistent appearance. By 1938, food dyes had achieved such widespread use, and had raised such public concern, that the federal government amended the 1906 Pure Food and View Details
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Carmen Nobel
- 31 May 2018
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Finding Freedom from Eating Disorders
beliefs that people hold about themselves. And getting over that hurdle before focusing on the eating disorder behaviors. Flint: I think this is tied to what you're just saying, but it seems to me that one of the ways in which eating disorder recovery is different...
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- 26 Feb 2019
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New Research and Ideas, February 26, 2019
Howard, Sara J. Singer, and Amy C. Edmondson Abstract— For too long, the worlds of business and health have been mired in a checkered, sometimes contentious, history. Millions of deaths worldwide can be attributed to risk factors including tobacco use, alcohol and...
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Dina Gerdeman
- 29 Oct 2013
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First Look: October 29
scheme, more extensive than any previously revealed in professional sports history." Until that moment with Oprah, Armstrong had consistently and strenuously denied using performance enhancing drugs (PEDs), blood transfusions, or...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 19 Oct 2015
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Business Research that Makes for Smarter Public Policy
Ginger Jin, of the Maryland Center for Economics and Policy, is just one example. They invited regulatory officials from several leading federal agencies, including the Department of Agriculture (USDA), Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), Food and View Details
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by Michael Blanding
- 22 Apr 2008
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First Look: April 22, 2008
Business Harvard Business School Case 608-136 Novartis is a science-based drug company, which has important implications for its business strategy. It is one of the largest pharmaceutical companies in the world with over $38B in sales in...
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Martha Lagace
- 01 Jun 2020
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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
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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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- 04 Feb 2014
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First Look: February 4
system. It's complicated, takes a long time, and is very expensive. Should FasterCures reorganize to better understand this issue and make a high-level push to improve it? Or perhaps the company should look at drug reimbursement...
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Sean Silverthlorne
- 23 Aug 2016
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August 23, 2016
particular, we examine how individuals’ prior experiences and the experiences of those around them alter their belief perseverance in operational decisions after the revelation of negative news. We draw on an exogenous announcement of negative news by the Food and...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Dec 2001
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Reaching Out
Ph.D. in pathology and molecular biology at Boston University's School of Medicine. Intrigued by his experience with pharmaceutical companies and the role of business in drug delivery, he enrolled at HBS one month after finishing his...
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- 01 Dec 2010
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This Is What I Do
to be police officers. “These girls are money,” says the director of a shelter in Kabul, Afghanistan, as she tells a visitor about one of her charges, an 11-year-old girl named Obaida, sold by her father into marriage to support his drug...
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- 24 Jun 2014
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malaria-"at no profit"-for public health systems. What had begun as an exemplary act of corporate responsibility had succeeded beyond any expectations. In 2012, for the second year in a row, Novartis had manufactured and distributed over 100 million units of...
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Sean Silverthorne