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- 14 Dec 2010
- First Look
First Look: Dec. 14
addresses a decision to replace salesmen netbook PCs with iPhones, including converting the company's sales and customer applications to the iPhone platform. Purchase this case:http://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cb/product/911413-PDF-ENG Hikma View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Oct 2008
- Research & Ideas
How Much Time Should CEOs Devote to Customers?
business and the company's strategy. In a service business like Tesco's, the health of the brand depends heavily on the quality of the millions of daily transactions between shoppers and staff. Motivating the front-line personnel is critical. But in the View Details
Keywords: by John Quelch
- 29 Sep 2022
- News
Securing a Resilient Future for Senegal
pharmaceutical sovereignty as key priorities,” Diagne explains. Senegal also wants to boost tourism now that many countries have reopened their borders. The tertiary sector, which took a strong hit through the pandemic, still accounts for... View Details
Keywords: Maureen Harmon
- 22 Feb 2016
- Research & Ideas
The ‘Mother of Fair Trade’ was an Unabashed Price Protectionist
state pharmaceutical licensing exam, opened a drugstore with her husband in Stockton in 1915. Following his death, she became the sole proprietor and later opened two additional drugstores in town. Gleason emerged as a stalwart defender... View Details
- 04 May 2010
- First Look
First Look: May 4
910-409 On July 5, 2004, Pfizer's China team received disappointing news. China's patent review board just invalidated the company's existing patent on one of its most successful drugs, Viagra. Making matters worse, a Guangdong-based View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 16 Oct 2007
- First Look
First Look: October 16, 2007
this case: http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=508036 Michael Fernandes at Nicholas Piramal Harvard Business School Case 408-001 Michael Fernandes, the Director of Custom Manufacturing Operations at the View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 15 Feb 2000
- Research & Ideas
The Right Connections
pharmaceutical companies — what the authors call downstream social capital — had a direct impact on the size of the startup's IPO. "Downstream social capital was essential in attracting the interest of a top investment bank and... View Details
Keywords: by Judith A. Ross
- February 1985 (Revised July 1993)
- Case
Puritan Drug Co.
David Thomas takes his first sales management assignment and is faced with a sales rep revolt because of a possible territory reorganization. In addition, his sales division is performing well below the national average. Rewritten version of a case by R.Z. Sorenson. View Details
Keywords: Salesforce Management; Conflict and Resolution; Pharmaceutical Industry; Pharmaceutical Industry; Pharmaceutical Industry
Moriarty, Rowland T., Jr. "Puritan Drug Co." Harvard Business School Case 585-158, February 1985. (Revised July 1993.)
- 04 Apr 2022
- Research & Ideas
Tech Hubs: How Software Brought Talent and Prosperity to New Cities
period. Software is penetrating other industries, Kerr notes. Take vaccines. Pharmaceutical companies’ speedy development of mRNA-based vaccines for COVID-19 required software, he notes. “Their capacity to bring a substantial software, AI... View Details
Keywords: by Rachel Layne
- 01 Aug 2001
- News
Cleveland Global Alumni Conference a Sold-Out Success
& Co., kicked off the first plenary session with a quick overview of factors contributing to the U.S. pharmaceutical industry's success in competing in the global market. Among other ad- vantages, Gilmartin cited the U.S. government's... View Details
- 19 Dec 2005
- Research & Ideas
The Regional Slice of Your Global Strategy
equipment, and pharmaceuticals have invested significantly in modern mapping technology, using such innovations as enhanced clustering techniques, better measures for analyzing networks, and expanded data on bilateral, multilateral, and... View Details
Keywords: by Pankaj Ghemawat
- 11 Nov 2015
- Working Paper Summaries
Public R&D Investments and Private-sector Patenting: Evidence from NIH Funding Rules
- September 2003 (Revised January 2004)
- Case
PolyMedica Corporation (B)
By: David F. Hawkins and Jacob Cohen
Supplements the (A) case. View Details
Hawkins, David F., and Jacob Cohen. "PolyMedica Corporation (B)." Harvard Business School Case 104-031, September 2003. (Revised January 2004.)
- 30 Oct 2007
- First Look
First Look: October 30, 2007
Changing Context of Pharmaceutical Risk Mitigation Author:Arthur A. Daemmrich Periodical:Pharmacy in History 49, no. 2 (2007): 61-75 Abstract In the wake of Vioxx, Avandia, and other recent prominent cases of drugs found to cause side... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- April 2022
- Teaching Note
CVS Health: Prescription for Transformation
By: Rosabeth Moss Kanter and Catarina Martinez
In 2021, new CEO Karen Lynch (named the most powerful woman in business) considered the next transformation phase for CVS Health (a Fortune 5 corporate giant). The 2018 acquisition of Aetna insurance brought her to the company as part of its long evolution from a... View Details
Keywords: Health; COVID-19 Pandemic; Primary Care; Leadership; Change Management; Women Executives; Retail; Pharmacy; Pharmacy Benefit Manager; Clinical Trials; Vaccination; Acquisition; Innovation and Invention; Transformation; Pharmaceutical Industry; Pharmaceutical Industry; Pharmaceutical Industry; United States
- May 2018
- Case
The Multiple Myeloma Research Foundation's Answer Fund
By: Richard G. Hamermesh and Matthew G. Preble
Keywords: Data Analytics; Customer Focus and Relationships; Customer Relationship Management; Cost vs Benefits; Investment Return; Health Care and Treatment; Innovation Leadership; Intellectual Property; Knowledge Sharing; Knowledge Dissemination; Leadership; Leading Change; Resource Allocation; Goals and Objectives; Marketing Communications; Performance; Programs; Projects; Business and Community Relations; Business and Stakeholder Relations; Networks; Partners and Partnerships; Research and Development; Genetics; Behavior; Motivation and Incentives; Social and Collaborative Networks; Nonprofit Organizations; Strategy; Pharmaceutical Industry; Pharmaceutical Industry; Pharmaceutical Industry; United States
- December 2017 (Revised January 2018)
- Case
Alltech
By: David E. Bell and Natalie Kindred
Alltech was a Lexington, Kentucky–based producer of supplements for animal feed, with revenues of over $2 billion (projected to reach $3 billion in 2018), sales in 120 countries, 5,000 employees, and 100 manufacturing plants worldwide. For nearly four decades, Alltech... View Details
Keywords: Alltech; United States; Agribusiness; Agriculture; Animal; Animal Agriculture; Animal Feed; Livestock; Family Business; Vertical Integration; Strategy; Growth; Feed Additives; Feed Supplements; Kentucky; Growth Strategy; Family Businesses; Animal-Based Agribusiness; Acquisition; Business Growth and Maturation; Business Model; Change Management; Trends; Governance; Entrepreneurship; Growth and Development; Intellectual Property; Leadership; Management; Markets; Organizational Culture; Private Ownership; Science; Quality; Risk and Uncertainty; Research; Sales; Pharmaceutical Industry; Pharmaceutical Industry; United States; Kentucky; Brazil; China
Bell, David E., and Natalie Kindred. "Alltech." Harvard Business School Case 518-001, December 2017. (Revised January 2018.)
- 06 Jun 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas: June 6, 2017
regulatory pathway, the biosimilars pathway, on the strategy of a major pharmaceutical firm that finds its largest product (60% of revenue) at risk. The case reviews the rationale for the pathway, the emerging biosimilars market entrants,... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- February 2001
- Teaching Note
CVS: The Web Strategy TN
By: John A. Deighton
Teaching Note for (9-500-008). View Details
- 28 May 2014
- Research & Ideas
Building Histories of Emerging Economies One Interview at a Time
business has a role to play in addressing it." For example, in one video clip, Yusuf Hamied, chairman of Mumbai-based pharmaceutical company Cipla, comments, "I'm a firm believer that if you're in the health care business like Cipla is,... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna