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  • September 1996
  • Case

Food and Drug Administration: Business as Unusual at CDER

By: Steven C. Wheelwright and James Leonard
Keywords: Government Administration; Pharmaceutical Industry; Pharmaceutical Industry
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  • November 1998
  • Case

Wegmans Food Markets: Diabetes Counseling

By: Ray A. Goldberg, David E. Bell and Ann Leamon
Danny Wegman, president of Wegmans Food Markets, is trying to decide how to evaluate the success of a nutrition-counseling program for diabetics, and whether and how to expand the program beyond the two stores currently involved. Wegmans, with 57 stores and $2.3... View Details
Keywords: Performance Evaluation; Expansion; Programs; Human Needs; Financial Management; Health Care and Treatment; Nutrition; Consumer Behavior; Pharmaceutical Industry; Pharmaceutical Industry
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  • 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
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  • 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
  • 01 Feb 2000
  • News

Executives Convene to Discuss Consumer-Driven Health Care

alumni event attracted more than sixty HBS graduates representing biotechnology, e-commerce, managed care, and pharmaceutical companies. The program featured briefings from HBS faculty members interested in issues related to health-care... View Details
  • 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
Keywords: Hanna, Julia; Frank Batten (MBA '52); Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services
  • 2022
  • Book

Les multinationales suisses dans l'arène politique (1942–1993) [Swiss Multinationals in the Political Arena (1942–1993)]

By: Sabine Pitteloud
En décembre 2020, les Suisses votaient sur l’initiative populaire « pour des multinationales responsables ». Cet épisode récent a rappelé que la régulation de l’activité des sociétés multinationales fait l’objet de luttes politiques, auxquelles participent les... View Details
Keywords: Multinational Enterprise; Multinational Companies; Multinational Corporations; Lobbying; Business ＆ Government Relations; Labor Relations; Relocation; Offshoring And Outsourcing; Corporate Regulation; Transnational Regulation; Multinational Firms and Management; Business and Government Relations; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; International Relations; Pharmaceutical Industry; Pharmaceutical Industry; Pharmaceutical Industry; Switzerland
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  • 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
  • 12 Nov 2013
  • First Look

First Look: November 12

GlaxoSmithKline: Sourcing Complex Professional Services Pharmaceutical company GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) uses an innovative new approach to procuring outside legal counsel: it replaces relationship-based selection and law firms' traditional... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 25 Oct 2004
  • Research & Ideas

Planning for Surprises

just two suppliers, while Great Britain has five suppliers to reduce the risk of supply disruptions. While fear of lawsuits has played a role, the fundamental problem is that the economics of vaccine production are unattractive for View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
  • 09 Feb 2004
  • Research & Ideas

Got a New Strategy? Now Make it Happen

It does so by fitting the organization to the strategy and increasing fitness, the capacity of the organization to learn and change. Since then, this process has been used in more than 150 businesses in the retail, hospitality, high technology, banking, and View Details
Keywords: by Michael Beer & Russell A. Eisenstat
  • 30 Jun 2003
  • Research & Ideas

Computer Security is For Managers, Too

each warrants. A bank, for instance, might assign the greatest amount of protection to the database that stores its customers' financial information. For a pharmaceutical company, it might be the research servers that hold data on... View Details
Keywords: by Robert D. Austin & Christopher A.R. Darby
  • 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
  • February 1993 (Revised August 1995)
  • Case

Medicare Payment for Drugs and Medical Devices

By: Regina E. Herzlinger
Keywords: Health Care and Treatment; Business and Government Relations; Pharmaceutical Industry; Pharmaceutical Industry; Pharmaceutical Industry
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  • 11 Nov 2015
  • Working Paper Summaries

Public R&D Investments and Private-sector Patenting: Evidence from NIH Funding Rules

Keywords: by Danielle Li; Pharmaceutical; Pharmaceutical; Pharmaceutical; Pharmaceutical
  • September 2003 (Revised January 2004)
  • Case

PolyMedica Corporation (B)

By: David F. Hawkins and Jacob Cohen
Supplements the (A) case. View Details
Keywords: Pharmaceutical Industry; Pharmaceutical Industry
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  • 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