Drug Pricing - Publications - Faculty & Research

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Ken Zeng

business leaders must make, whether it's closing a mine due to uncertain safety concerns, pricing essential drugs in developing nations, or taking a stance on contentious societal issues as a company. It is... View Details

01 Mar 2024
News

Alumni and Faculty Books and Podcasts

will solve real problems, from climate change and hunger to obesity and menstrual pain. They envision a future in which biotechnologists work from a platform that enables them to develop effective drugs within months for any emerging... View Details

Keywords: Publishing Industries (except Internet); Information

20 Oct 2011
Research & Ideas

Getting the Marketing Mix Right

when a company attempts to move in on its market share, perhaps by offering price discounts. Since this strategy is viewed as more threatening, the competitor can be expected to retaliate with prejudice—often by firing off a campaign to... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman

15 Nov 2018
Book

Can the Global Food Industry Overcome Public Distrust?

JamesBrey Food is the largest segment of the global economy. It is also widely recognized as more critical for human health than any pharmaceutical drug on the planet. But significant changes in the industry are making people lose trust in many institutions involved in... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Agriculture & Agribusiness

25 Aug 2003
Research & Ideas

Why IT Does Matter

Radio-frequency identification devices for grocery stores, smart cards, and automated ordering systems for hospital physicians are all examples of new process targets that technologies will soon address. In the more distant future we will see the improved creation of... View Details

Keywords: by F. Warren McFarlan & Richard L. Nolan

29 Jan 2013
First Look

First Look: Jan. 29

business units and improving their leadership skills. The CDC has adopted an innovative pricing structure. Rather than charging direct fees for these consulting services, it proposed to the client that it contract with the firm for five... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

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Charts & Statistics - Leadership

Oklahoma City bombing Influence: Medium-Low 1900 s 19 First significant enforcement of Sherman Antitrust Act Pure Food and Drug Act; breakup of beef trust Excise Tax imposed on corporations Tariff Act forces corporations to open their... View Details

29 Jan 2021
Op-Ed

How Influencers, Celebrities, and FOMO Can Win Over Vaccine Skeptics

temporary price promotion strategy can create an act-now force related to the FOMO on the benefit. Any skepticism on pricing needs to heavily emphasize the cons of not taking the vaccine, such as the... View Details

Keywords: by Rohit Deshpandé, Ofer Mintz, and Imran S. Currim

19 Sep 2016
Research & Ideas

Why Isn't Business Research More Relevant to Business Practitioners?

disciplines, where academic research is leading to the development of a second skin that could improve drug delivery or alerting farmers and scientists on how to reduce nitrous oxide emissions from agricultural farming. Harvard Business... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Education

01 Dec 2019
News

The Race Against Resistance

the hospital, which we can then use to price our drug appropriately,” Kimble says. Kimble and Triola also stress the importance of developing antibiotics that can be used both in a hospital setting and at... View Details

Keywords: Lisa Scanlon Mogolov

08 Dec 2003
Research & Ideas

Why Europe Lags in Pharmaceuticals and Biotech

worldwide pharmaceuticals spending, according to Food and Drug Administration Commissioner Mark McClellan.) One problem, several panelists noted, is that European healthcare systems do not reimburse the high View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Biotechnology; Health; Pharmaceutical; Technology

31 Oct 2004
Research & Ideas

Bypass Marketing: Are Docs Influenced?

physicians whether an available alternative drug was more or less costly than the advertised drug, primarily because physicians are not always aware of drug prices. Economic research is needed on the... View Details

Keywords: by Manda Salls

01 Dec 2017
News

2017 in Health Care: Telemedicine Has Arrived

telemedicine services available next year to employees in states that allow it. We’re going to see a lot more investment in this area, from both established health care companies and startups. What’s next in health care? “More constraints on View Details

Keywords: Halle Tecco (MBA 2011), founder emeritus, Rock Health; angel investor; adjunct professor, Columbia Business School

01 Mar 2016
News

Off Script

top posts at Schering-Plough and Wyeth. Are there structural reforms that could be implemented in the drug industry to lower the market-driven price of drugs? Forcing pharma firms to invest in R&D a minimum... View Details

Keywords: Insurance Carriers and Related Activities; Finance

01 Dec 2004
News

Finding a Balance

period, multinational pharmas reported a growth rate of only 1 percent.) The case outlines Hamied’s impact — for one, pressuring global pharmas to cut the price of AIDS drugs by exporting a low-cost... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

Student-Profile

Olivia Zhao

write prescriptions. For the longest time, doctors didn’t know the costs that their patients would incur. Today, there are new electronic tools that show doctors the price of a given drug, as well as lower-cost alternatives. I’m curious... View Details

Fair Competition

unions, and specialty producers. Retail pharmacists extended these occupational exemptions and pressured drug manufacturers to maintain minimum prices throughout the Depression. The article fits into a... View Details

09 Aug 2016
First Look

August 9, 2016

spending in the United States, accounting for less than 1% of prescriptions filled but nearly 28% of drug spending. Whereas traditional (chemically synthesized, "small-molecule") drugs have... View Details