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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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- 01 Dec 1996
- News
An Entrepreneurial Journey
habit. Introduced as a prescription drug in 1992 by de Weese's company, California-based Cygnus Research Corporation (now Cygnus, Inc.), Nicotrol represented a breakthrough in transdermal patch technology. Receiving FDA approval in a...
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- 12 Feb 2008
- First Look
First Look: February 12, 2007
stake of 9.5% in Ligand Pharmaceuticals, Inc., a specialty pharmaceutical company. Third Point believed that Ligand had a strong drug portfolio and pipeline but that it was highly undervalued due to poor management. After gaining board...
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Martha Lagace
- 03 Jan 2017
- First Look
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
- News
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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- 22 Mar 2011
- First Look
First Look: March 22
successful convenience foods business to more countries. Purchase this case:http://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cb/product/511070-PDF-ENG PureCircle David E. Bell and Aldo SesiaHarvard Business School Case 510-032 In December 2008, the U.S. Food and View Details
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Sean Silverthorne
- 17 Jun 2020
- Blog Post
Black MBA Students Pen Letters to the HBS Community: Letter 2/5
agencies in facilitating the drug trade in Black communities and disproportionately criminalizes Black men relative to type of crime and criminal history. It is a response to the long-standing health inequities that have been highlighted...
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- 01 Jun 2007
- News
Mission Possible
cholesterol-lowering drug that might help. That was pretty discouraging to me. With all the science and medical technology that we have, I thought we could do better.” That ultimately led McCance to launch the nonprofit Cure Alzheimer’s...
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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
- 21 Apr 2009
- First Look
First Look: April 21, 2009
Industry Location Author:Arthur A. Daemmrich Abstract A 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...
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Martha Lagace
- 24 Apr 2018
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, April 24, 2018
In October 2015, ZappRx founder Zoe Barry is deciding between two business models for her health technology start-up. Her product, a software application that aims to expedite the prescription fulfillment process for patients with rare diseases, has attracted interest...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 13 Jan 2009
- First Look
First Look: January 13, 2009
and regulation of clinical trials, managerial challenges related to pharmaceutical product testing, and current debates regarding prescription drug safety. Since clinical testing takes between five and seven years, and consumes up to 70...
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Martha Lagace
- 04 Feb 2014
- First Look
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
- 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
- 01 Dec 2001
- News
September 11: A Community Reflects
Institution, served on the New Jersey Board of Higher Education, and was a director for the Clara Maass Medical Center in Belleville, New Jersey. In retirement, Peterson devoted himself to community service and spent much of his time helping those in recovery from...
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Susan Young;Deborah Blagg
- 23 Oct 2018
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New Research and Ideas, October 23, 2018
media to engage others and build campaigns for change in the company. This case follows her career at the company and describes the challenges she faced as a change agent, working to promote gender equality within the company and a new View Details
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Dina Gerdeman
- 29 Jan 2013
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First Look: Jan. 29
facing the scientific founder and CEO of a promising, early stage bio-pharmaceuticals company. Should the company establish a proposed alliance with a pharmaceutical firm? Should it create a nutraceuticals business in parallel to its effort to develop anti-aging...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Dec 2013
- News
Curing Health Care
Massachusetts Governor Deval Patrick joked in his speech.) Related Links A Blueprint for Patient-Driven Drug Development Gene Williams (MBA 1987) Blavatnik Gift Accelerates Biomedical Advances Oscar Winners Even worse is what...
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- 21 Aug 2018
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New Research and Ideas, August 21, 2018
growing share of the U.S. drug market. Traditional “small molecule” generics quickly erode the price and share of the branded product upon entry; however, only a few biosimilars have been approved in the U.S. since 2015, thereby largely...
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Dina Gerdeman
- 08 Nov 2016
- First Look
November 8, 2016
foods, which had previously been colored with dyes extracted from natural plants and organic minerals, helping them to achieve mass production and mass marketing. Color was easier to control, reproduce, and commoditize than other sensory factors such as smell and...
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Sean Silverthorne