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  • 01 Sep 2012
  • News

What’s the Big Idea?

international divisions. “Goldman Sachs in New York is different from Goldman Sachs in Asia,” he observes, adding that the same is true for conglomerates operating in industries as different as pharmaceuticals and aircraft engines.... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons;Julia Hanna;Roger Thompson; Corporate Services; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services; Management
  • 27 May 2009
  • First Look

First Look: May 27, 2009

Case 509-048 The case describes the effort of Merck, a global leader in pharmaceuticals, in making available its medicines to the poor. The challenge for the company (or for that matter, any pharmaceutical company) is how to integrate its... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 22 Apr 2008
  • First Look

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... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 23 Oct 2019
  • News

After the Storm

class. When I started at Johnson & Johnson right after business school, I remember being the only African American female pharmaceutical sales rep in the mid-Atlantic region at that time. It’s a sad reality, but that is also why I get so... View Details
Keywords: Elementary and Secondary Schools; Educational Services
  • 2018
  • Working Paper

Information Provision and Innovation: Natural Experiment of Herbal Patent Prior Art Adoption at the United States and European Patent Offices

By: Prithwiraj Choudhury and Tarun Khanna
We exploit a natural experiment to study how codifying information about prior innovation affects subsequent innovation. A codified database of traditional Indian herbal formulations was adopted by the European Patent Office (EPO) and the U.S. Patent and Trademark... View Details
Keywords: Patents; Plant-Based Agribusiness; Ethnicity; Health Care and Treatment; Pharmaceutical Industry; Pharmaceutical Industry; China; India
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  • December 2010 (Revised April 2012)
  • Background Note

Stalemate at the WTO: TRIPS, Agricultural Subsidies, and the Doha Round

By: Arthur A. Daemmrich
This note analyzes disputes over intellectual property enforcement and agricultural trade barriers at the center of the Doha Round of World Trade Organization (WTO) negotiations. Fundamental principles of intellectual property rights and agricultural subsidies are... View Details
Keywords: Agribusiness; Trade; Globalization; Governance; International Relations; Intellectual Property; Agreements and Arrangements; Pharmaceutical Industry; Pharmaceutical Industry
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  • 30 Aug 2016
  • First Look

August 30, 2016

our propositions using empirical data from a large pharmaceutical firm encompassing 407 architectural components and 1,157 dependencies between them. We show that different components occupy different positions in the IT architecture and... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 17 Sep 2001
  • Research & Ideas

Why E-commerce Didn’t Die With the Fall of Webvan

induced about 12 percent of the pharmaceutical market to buy that way. Once that was done, it was comparatively straightforward to use the same inducements to persuade people who had Web access to do that over the Internet, saving the... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Consumer Products; Retail
  • March 2017
  • Case

Cantel Medical

By: John R. Wells and Gabriel Ellsworth
Cantel Medical Corporation provided infection prevention and control products and services for patients, caregivers, and other healthcare providers. In 2016, Cantel generated sales of $665 million and net profits of $60 million, double the levels of five years earlier.... View Details
Keywords: Cantel; Charles Diker; Furniture Industry; Matrix Organization; Acquisition; Mergers and Acquisitions; Business Conglomerates; Business Units; Business Growth and Maturation; Business Organization; For-Profit Firms; Chemicals; Profit; Revenue; Geographic Scope; Multinational Firms and Management; Health; Health Care and Treatment; Business History; Business or Company Management; Goals and Objectives; Growth and Development Strategy; Organizational Structure; Problems and Challenges; Research and Development; Opportunities; Strategy; Adaptation; Business Strategy; Competitive Strategy; Corporate Strategy; Diversification; Expansion; Information Technology; Pharmaceutical Industry; Pharmaceutical Industry; Pharmaceutical Industry; Pharmaceutical Industry; Pharmaceutical Industry; Pharmaceutical Industry; United States; New Jersey
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  • 28 Apr 2009
  • First Look

First Look: April 28, 2009

tilted towards old age than annuities. Several advantages of this are discussed, including some that may explain why tontines have proven popular with consumers in the past. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/09-121.pdf   PublicationsWhere Is the... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 28 Oct 2014
  • First Look

First Look: October 28

Business School Case 515-007 Pfizer and AstraZeneca: Marketing an Acquisition (A) In 2014, Pfizer proposed a friendly acquisition of AstraZeneca, but the AstraZeneca board resisted over price and strategy concerns. Was this good for View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 28 Aug 2017
  • Research & Ideas

Should Industry Competitors Cooperate More to Solve World Problems?

Source: Cecilie_Arcurs George Serafeim has a startling suggestion to fix the world’s biggest environmental, social, and governance (ESG) problems such as water pollution, deforestation, and wealth inequality: encourage companies within industries to do less competing... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Financial Services; Manufacturing; Agriculture & Agribusiness; Mining
  • 28 May 2008
  • First Look

First Look: May 28, 2008

goals? Purchase the case: http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=308030 Can PACIV (Puerto Rico) Serve European Customers? Harvard Business School Case 808-099 Jorge Rodriguez-Gonzalez, PACIV's (Puerto Rico) founding CEO, is considering expanding... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 07 Apr 2003
  • Research & Ideas

XTV: Xerox’s Attempted Recovery From “Fumbling the Future”

with researchers at PARC. Much of that time was occupied with interviewing prospective customers who had significant problems with document management. For example, a pharmaceutical company that was applying for FDA approval had to manage... View Details
Keywords: by Henry Chesbrough
  • 01 Sep 2014
  • News

All For One

industries as diverse as automobiles and pharmaceuticals and began to interview and observe them to see how they created environments ripe for innovation. “We didn’t want to just espouse platitudes,” Hill says. “We wanted to tell full... View Details
Keywords: Michael Blanding; faculty; research; Market Research, Photo, Translation, Veterinary and Other Services; Professional Services
  • Web

Lessons from History - Creating Emerging Markets

watched a short video of Yusuf Hamied discussing the necessity of incremental innovation in the pharmaceuticals industry in the 2000s. Lively discussion then ensued, moderated by HBS Professors Tarun Khanna, Srikant Datar, and Geoffrey... View Details
  • 27 Aug 2019
  • News

A Shot at Success

says Feickert of the Seattle Seahawks quarterback. “But most people don’t know his older brother, Harrison, was also a standout Division I football player who has had a very successful career as an entrepreneur and in the pharmaceutical... View Details
Keywords: April White
  • 12 Jan 2016
  • First Look

January 12, 2016

November–December 2015 Operations Research Active Postmarketing Drug Surveillance for Multiple Adverse Events By: Goh, Joel, Margrét V. Bjarnadóttir, Mohsen Bayati, and Stefanos A. Zenios Abstract—Postmarketing drug surveillance is the process of monitoring the adverse... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • Web

Winners & Success Stories | New Venture Competition

Pharmaceuticals Alec Machiels, MBA 2001 Potentia is a clinical-stage biotechnology company with a world-class scientific team and scientific advisory board. The company’s mission is to bring the first treatment targeting the root cause of... View Details
  • 26 Jan 2009
  • Research & Ideas

Where is Home for the Global Firm?

you share these ideas? A: Of course, once you write something like this, you come to see many things through these lenses. As reported in the Financial Times in October, several UK firms including Shire Pharmaceuticals and WPP Group have... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace