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- 27 Aug 2008
- Research & Ideas
Creating Leaders for Science-Based Businesses
for fifteen to twenty years, special intuition and judgment are required," he observes. "Compared with operations, marketing, and strategy, we don't really know as much about how to manage research or value it, especially when... View Details
- 01 Jun 2008
- News
A Binary Formula
kind of leadership. “Since the investment and R&D decisions you make today are often not easily quantifiable and not coming to fruition for fifteen to twenty years, special intuition and judgment are required,” he observes. “Compared with... View Details
- 01 May 2007
- First Look
First Look: May 1, 2007
http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=807145 Micro Insurance Agency: Helping the Poor Manage Risk Harvard Business School Case 307-089 The notable success of insurance products for low-income clients of its microfinance network leads... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 03 Mar 2009
- First Look
First Look: March 3, 2009
established players in the advertising industry. Next, the case examines the firm's internal dynamics. Here, in addition to describing the culture of Big Spaceship, the case puts special emphasis on the firm's recent shift from a... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 08 Jan 2008
- First Look
First Look: January 8, 2008
to unaccounted capital flight. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/07-074.pdf Cases & Course MaterialsAntegren: A Beacon of Hope Harvard Business School Case 408-025 The CEO of Biogen Idec faces a set of difficult decisions regarding a promising... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 02 Aug 2004
- Research & Ideas
Health Care Research and Prospects
of specialized institutional problems that one really has to understand and get around to be able to do good research, and there are big opportunities to leverage efforts across faculty. Since 1997, faculty at HBS have launched quite a... View Details
- 15 Apr 2014
- First Look
First Look: April 15
weighing options for growth. CTCA was entirely cancer focused and specialized in treating patients with complex and advanced-stage cancers, who were reached through advertising its integrative, team-based approach to care. CEO Stephen... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 19 Jun 2012
- First Look
First Look: June 19
312-002 McKesson, a large, diversified drug distribution and health care IT company, is considering development of new business offerings to help private practice physicians remain independent. The company, with $122 billion in 2010... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 25 Feb 2014
- First Look
First Look: February 25
often sought some equity in mining and other foreign investment projects, but as shareholders they have rarely gained what they anticipated. Only in special cases might the benefits to governments outweigh the risks and often... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 12 Oct 2006
- First Look
First Look: October 12, 2006
prescriptions for companies, investors, and policymakers seeking ways to improve the industry's performance. According to Pisano, the biotech industry's problems stem from its special character as a science-based business. This character... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 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... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- Web
Past Issues - Alumni
leave our jobs behind and who do we become? After Ozempic How a game-changing drug is reshaping Novo Nordisk, disrupting the pharma industry, and setting up a once-in-a-generation windfall for philanthropy Complete Table of Contents... View Details
- 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... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 23 Aug 2016
- First Look
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... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Dec 2001
- News
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... View Details
- 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
- 03 Mar 2017
- News
Big Blue’s Big Bet
for chefs, Watson for investment bankers, and Watson for Top 40 songwriters. “Our ability to augment expert knowledge”—to even cater to it—“is unique,” Kenny says. This specialization appears most notably in health care, a sector where... View Details
Keywords: Paul Kix; illustrations by Dan Page
- 31 May 2018
- News
Finding Freedom from Eating Disorders
50% of those who received treatment will not have a team that specializes in eating disorders, and 80% of women who have access care for their eating disorders don't get the intensity of treatment they need to stay in recovery and find... View Details
- 15 Apr 2008
- First Look
First Look: April 15, 2008
specializing in building and managing prisons. Students must assess the firm's strategy and risks, evaluate key financial reports, derive forecasts of future performance, and use these forecasts to value the firm. Purchase this case:... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 05 Sep 2007
- First Look
First Look: September 5, 2007
specializes in modern and contemporary Indian art. Having been the first firm to offer Indian fine art with authenticity guarantees in an auction setting that increased the transparency of prices, Saffronart succeeded in establishing the... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace