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- 18 Dec 2012
- First Look
First Look: December 18
pharmaceutical company GSK must choose how much to integrate a recently acquired biotechnology firm, Sirtris. Moncef Slaoui, GSK's global head of R&D, championed the acquisition of Sirtris to gain access to its potentially... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 05 Aug 2008
- First Look
First Look: August 5, 2008
/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=808167 The Coartem Challenge (A) Harvard Business School Case 706-037 In November 2005, Novartis, a major global pharmaceutical firm, is reviewing its Coartem program, an ambitious attempt to deliver... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- July 2013 (Revised November 2021)
- Module Note
Exploration vs. Exploitation
By: Willy Shih
This module note introduces James March's concept of exploration and exploitation, and the management challenge of balancing the allocation of resources to the two activities in the firm. The note also touches on the O'Reilly and Tushman paper on the ambidextrous... View Details
Keywords: Exploration And Exploitation; Exploitation; Research; Scientific Research; Product Commercialization; Innovation and Invention; Innovation and Management; Innovation Leadership; Innovation Strategy; Technological Innovation; Knowledge Acquisition; Growth and Development Strategy; Resource Allocation; Strategic Planning; Research and Development; Science-Based Business; Corporate Strategy; Knowledge Sharing; Pharmaceutical Industry; Pharmaceutical Industry; Pharmaceutical Industry; Pharmaceutical Industry; Pharmaceutical Industry; Pharmaceutical Industry; Pharmaceutical Industry; United States
Shih, Willy. "Exploration vs. Exploitation." Harvard Business School Module Note 614-004, July 2013. (Revised November 2021.)
- 24 Sep 2013
- First Look
First Look: September 24
models a negotiation between two pharmaceutical companies-Johnson & Johnson and Merck-concerning the international distribution rights for Remicade, a blockbuster anti-arthritis drug. At odds over the original distribution contract,... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Sep 2014
- News
Afghanistan’s Hope and Light
considerably. He went on to earn advanced degrees in biochemistry and management science and immigrated with his new wife, Shainoor, to Vancouver. After a brief stint at a pharmaceutical company (“I’m an entrepreneur; I just didn’t fit”),... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 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
- 01 Dec 2010
- News
This Is What I Do
thus deserve our support.” The MJFF raises about $50 million a year. There are prominent backers, such as Google’s Sergey Brin and his wife, Anne Wojcicki, but nearly 55,000 other people made contributions last year. To date the MJFF has supported about ninety biotech... View Details
- 15 Dec 2015
- News
The Year in Ideas 2015
classmate Hampus Hillerstrom (MBA 2007) conducted a field study at HBS on the pharmaceutical market potential of preclinical assets like his mother’s virus, Solomon had a revelation: His low-key mother, an accomplished scientist whose... View Details
- 07 Feb 2012
- First Look
First Look: February 7
commitment of a European pharmaceutical company, Novo Nordisk, to integrated reporting. Novo Nordisk is one of the pioneers of integrated reporting, which emerged out of its commitment to a "triple bottom line approach to managing... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 10 Sep 2007
- Research & Ideas
High Note: Managing the Medici String Quartet
The panel consisted of Bob Frosch, who used to head NASA and R&D for GM; Vicki Sato, who was president of Vertex Pharmaceuticals and is now on the HBS faculty; and Peter Hanke, a conductor. These people have had a lot of experience... View Details
- 29 Jan 2013
- First Look
First Look: Jan. 29
facing the scientific founder and CEO of a promising, early stage bio-pharmaceuticals company. Should the company establish a proposed alliance with a pharmaceutical firm? Should it create a nutraceuticals business in parallel to its... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 24 Feb 2009
- First Look
First Look: February 24, 2009
http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=909036 Esser & Ackermann at Mannesmann Harvard Business School Case 209-095 No abstract is available at this time. Purchase this case:... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- May 25, 2016
- Comment
How Consumers and Businesses are Reshaping Public Health
By: John A. Quelch
Healthcare and education are two issues in which citizens around the world, rich and poor, are passionately interested. It has long been appreciated that the way that a society treats its youngest and oldest members says much about its moral maturity. Economic... View Details
Keywords: Healthcare; Consumer Power; Innovation In Healthcare Delivery; Mobile Healthcare; Transition; Transformation; Trends; Customer Satisfaction; Customer Value and Value Chain; Health Care and Treatment; Information; Collaborative Innovation and Invention; Independent Innovation and Invention; Innovation and Management; Innovation Leadership; Management; Marketing; Markets; Planning; Problems and Challenges; Pharmaceutical Industry; Pharmaceutical Industry; Pharmaceutical Industry; Pharmaceutical Industry; Pharmaceutical Industry; Pharmaceutical Industry; Pharmaceutical Industry; Pharmaceutical Industry; Pharmaceutical Industry; Pharmaceutical Industry; Pharmaceutical Industry; Pharmaceutical Industry; South America; North and Central America; Middle East; Europe; Asia
Quelch, John A. "How Consumers and Businesses are Reshaping Public Health." Harvard Business School Working Knowledge (May 25, 2016).
- 01 Dec 2008
- News
A Force for Good
do. He and Dick Nesson considered trying to set up a “health-care high school” in Boston, but the educational bureaucracy proved insurmountable. Reflecting his continuing interest in health care, he joined the board of pharmaceutical... View Details
- 12 Jul 2021
- News
Alumni Confront the COVID-19 Crisis
the availability of critical resources, and the efficacy of both pharmaceutical and non-pharmaceutical interventions. The company has created a set of free publicly available visual analytic dashboards. "The algorithms highlight the... View Details
- 2011
- Article
Strategic Change and the Jazz Mindset: Exploring Practices That Enhance Dynamic Capabilities for Organizational Improvisation
By: Ethan S. Bernstein and Frank J. Barrett
How can leaders adopt a mindset that maximizes learning, remains responsive to short-term emergent opportunities, and simultaneously strengthens longer-term dynamic capabilities of the organization? This chapter explores the organizational decisions and practices... View Details
Keywords: Dynamic Capabilities; Strategic Change; Jazz; Jazz Mindset; Improvisation; Innovation; Change Management; Collaborative Innovation and Invention; Innovation and Management; Innovation Leadership; Knowledge Use and Leverage; Leading Change; Leadership Style; Leadership; Management; Management Style; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Organizational Culture; Organizations; Creativity; Strategy; Pharmaceutical Industry; Pharmaceutical Industry; Pharmaceutical Industry; Pharmaceutical Industry; Pharmaceutical Industry; Pharmaceutical Industry; Pharmaceutical Industry; Pharmaceutical Industry; Pharmaceutical Industry; Pharmaceutical Industry; Pharmaceutical Industry; Pharmaceutical Industry; Pharmaceutical Industry; Pharmaceutical Industry; Pharmaceutical Industry; Pharmaceutical Industry; Pharmaceutical Industry; Pharmaceutical Industry; Pharmaceutical Industry; Pharmaceutical Industry; United States; Japan; Taiwan; Europe; Asia
Bernstein, Ethan S., and Frank J. Barrett. "Strategic Change and the Jazz Mindset: Exploring Practices That Enhance Dynamic Capabilities for Organizational Improvisation." Research in Organizational Change and Development 19 (2011): 55–90.
- 03 Mar 2009
- First Look
First Look: March 3, 2009
pharmaceutical division and a diagnostic division. The company's antiviral drug Tamiflu dominates the market for prevention and treatment of seasonal influenza (flu). Tamiflu, however, could also play an important role in responding to... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
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health care sector, including bricks and mortar primary care centers, insurance, bricks and mortar and virtual health care services, AI, digital health, medical devices, biopharma, diagnostics, payment and delivery intermediaries, telemedicine, DTC and PBM View Details
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drug development blueprint may just end up saving the pharmaceutical industry too. Faster, Bigger, Stronger: Supersizing the NFL The world's premier league of spectacle and sport has an ambitious plan for growth. But some formidable... View Details
- 2016
- Book
Consumers, Corporations, and Public Health: A Case-Based Approach to Sustainable Business
By: John A. Quelch
The public health footprint associated with corporate behavior has come under increased scrutiny in the last decade, with an increased expectation that private profit not come at the expense of consumer welfare.
Consumers, Corporations, and Public... View Details
Consumers, Corporations, and Public... View Details
Keywords: Consumer; Corporate Culture; Public Health; Consumer Behavior; Marketing Strategy; Corporate Strategy; Health; Innovation and Invention; Innovation and Management; Supply Chain Management; Pharmaceutical Industry; Pharmaceutical Industry; Pharmaceutical Industry; Pharmaceutical Industry; Pharmaceutical Industry; Pharmaceutical Industry; Pharmaceutical Industry; Pharmaceutical Industry; Pharmaceutical Industry; Pharmaceutical Industry; Pharmaceutical Industry; Pharmaceutical Industry; Pharmaceutical Industry; Pharmaceutical Industry; Pharmaceutical Industry; Pharmaceutical Industry; Pharmaceutical Industry; Pharmaceutical Industry; Pharmaceutical Industry; Pharmaceutical Industry; Pharmaceutical Industry; Asia; Oceania; North and Central America; Middle East; Latin America; Europe
Quelch, John A. Consumers, Corporations, and Public Health: A Case-Based Approach to Sustainable Business. New York: Oxford University Press, 2016.