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- 30 Jun 2008
- Research & Ideas
Rethinking Retirement Planning
know we should be saving for retirement, but how much should we be squirreling away? And of the funds our company's plan offers, which should we choose? According to Harvard Business School professor Robert C. Merton, the defined... View Details
- 18 Nov 2014
- First Look
First Look: November 18
https://hbr.org/product/indus-towers-from-infancy-to-maturity/415005-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 814-031 Homestrings, Inc.: Diaspora-Based Financing and the Crowd Funding of Development Homestrings is an online investment... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 12 Jan 2016
- First Look
January 12, 2016
medical devices after they are approved by the appropriate regulatory authorities. Historically, such surveillance was based on voluntary reports by medical practitioners, but with the widespread adoption of... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- March 2020 (Revised June 2023)
- Case
EyeControl: Inspiring Communication
By: Paul A. Gompers and Danielle Golan
Eye-controlled communication device startup EyeControl was founded in Tel Aviv, Israel in 2016 by cofounders with a shared personal connection to locked-in syndrome—a neurological disorder that left sufferers cognitively sound, yet paralyzed, with the exception of eye... View Details
Keywords: Health Disorders; Communication Technology; Business Startups; Expansion; Finance; Decision Making; Social Enterprise; Medical Devices and Supplies Industry
Gompers, Paul A., and Danielle Golan. "EyeControl: Inspiring Communication." Harvard Business School Case 820-078, March 2020. (Revised June 2023.)
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Great American Business Leaders of the 20th Century - Leadership
Massive dust storms uproot millions Smallest ten-year increase in population: 123-132 million Influence: Medium-High 40 1940 19 Baby boom begins Suburbs start to form Influence: High 50 1950 19 Medical advances extend life expectancy More... View Details
- December 1999 (Revised August 2001)
- Case
Millennium Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (A)
By: Stefan H. Thomke and Ashok Nimgade
Focuses on Millennium's strategy to grow and revolutionize drug development through the use of new technologies such as genomics. Describes how Millennium Pharmaceuticals--a fast-growing biotechnology firm in Cambridge, MA--has used strategic alliances to finance the... View Details
Keywords: Cost Management; Financing and Loans; Medical Specialties; Retention; Growth and Development Strategy; Time Management; Product Development; Problems and Challenges; Alliances; Technology; Biotechnology Industry; Pharmaceutical Industry; Cambridge
Thomke, Stefan H., and Ashok Nimgade. "Millennium Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (A)." Harvard Business School Case 600-038, December 1999. (Revised August 2001.)
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Technology & Operations Management - Faculty & Research
life sciences has consequential implications for medicine and subsequent medical innovations. Using publications in leading life science journals to measure fundamental knowledge, we document large agglomerations in the institutions where... View Details
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Accounting & Management - Faculty & Research
initiatives to the specific needs of their communities and capabilities. Developed through in-depth study of Boston Medical Center’s Health Equity Accelerator, the framework emphasizes four foundational principles—hyper-locality,... View Details
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Podcast - Business & Environment
Wildlife Fund Debora L. Spar, Jaime and Josefina Chua Tiampo Professor of Business Administration; Senior Associate Dean for Business and Global Society; Board Director, Thermo Fisher Scientific Bonita... View Details
- 01 Dec 2023
- News
Wide Horizon
able to contribute anything new? There was also the issue of how to fund this new venture. None of the existing medical nonprofit strategies seemed right for him. There was the nonprofit model, which raises... View Details
Keywords: Dan Morrell; Photos by Sarah Wilson
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Blavatnik Fellowship in Life Science Entrepreneurship - Health Care
funding rounds, seed, grants, and venture funding. An additional $244M was raised when a Blavatnik Fellow's venture went public. Leadership The Fellowship is led by executive fellow Debra Peattie, PhD, MBA and Tracy Perry, associate... View Details
- 26 Feb 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, February 26, 2019
large database of management practices and skills in hospitals across nine countries. We find that hospitals that are closer to universities offering both medical education and business education have higher management quality, more... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
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MBA Experience - Health Care
MBA Experience Academics As part of the MBA curriculum, students analyze many cases focused on health care, and can customize their second-year experience by choosing courses, projects, papers, and independent studies specific to health care. Joint Degree Programs... View Details
- 08 Sep 2010
- First Look
First Look: September 8, 2010
trade in intellectual property are fragmentary. The intangibility of the trade makes measurement difficult, but budget cuts have added to the difficulties. Modest funding increases would result in data more useful for research and policy... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 02 Mar 2007
- What Do You Think?
What Is the Government’s Role in US Health Care?
free-market capitalist who realizes capitalism has no place in healthcare provision." But Tery Tennant asks what is perhaps the ultimate philosophical question: " when did an individual's medical needs become an inalienable right that the... View Details
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HBS Alumni Conference: Accelerating Climate Solutions - Alumni
Carter Roberts (MBA 1988) , President & CEO, World Wildlife Fund Debora L. Spar (PMD 62, 1991) , Jaime and Josefina Chua Tiampo Professor of Business Administration; Senior Associate Dean for Business and Global Society; Board Director,... View Details
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HBS - The year in Review
among HBS, the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, and Harvard Medical School through the Harvard Department of Stem Cell and Regenerative Biology. In addition, 20 students in the Doctoral Program earned PhD degrees in programs offered... View Details
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Leadership - Faculty & Research
of caring for not only the corporation and shareholders but also the patients and medical professionals. How should leaders of health-related businesses weigh the demand for efficiency and profit alongside the care of patients and the... View Details
- 12 Dec 2023
- Blog Post
Bridging Science and Business: My Summer Internship at Eli Lilly
projects, helping to nourish nascent scientific concepts through tailored funding mechanisms like sponsored research agreements. This was a proactive stance designed to allow budding ideas to mature into future therapies. For my specific... View Details
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Health Care - Faculty & Research
community hospital to establish Hoag Orthopedic Institute, a for-profit hospital and two ambulatory service centers. By controlling and integrating all aspects of the patients' medical treatment, the physicians deliver superior outcomes,... View Details