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- 12 May 2009
- First Look
First Look: May 12, 2009
These contractual devices provide insurance to the shareholders of the target and may protect the buyer as well. The purpose of this note is to define the main categories of price protection and explain their impact on the payoffs and...
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Martha Lagace
- 09 Jun 2015
- First Look
First Look: June 9, 2015
Philips had strong equity in the healthcare technology space due to its extensive portfolio of medical devices and related software sold primarily to hospitals. Philips designed the first two apps for the...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Jun 2010
- News
MBAs on a Mission
Dallas Children’s Museum. One of her pressing details involves predicting the future of handheld technology at the museum. “Right now we need to figure out which handheld device people will own when the museum opens in three years,” says...
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- 19 Jul 2011
- First Look
First Look: July 19
J. DeLong, and Jevan SooHarvard Business School Case 411-031 Describes the problems facing a recent MBA graduate in his job as general manager of a medical device company owned by a parent corporation....
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Sean Silverthorne
- 25 Jul 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas: July 25, 2017
case: https://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cbmp/product/902412-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 117-012 ATH Technologies: Making the Numbers An exercise that takes students through five stages of growth in an entrepreneurial start-up in the View Details
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Carmen Nobel
- 04 May 2010
- First Look
First Look: May 4
Biomedical: Making Pigs Fly Richard G. Hamermesh, Lauren Barley, and Ginger L. GrahamHarvard Business School Case 809-051 Proteus is a healthcare start-up that has developed technology to embed electronics for computing and sensing in existing View Details
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Martha Lagace
- 21 Jul 2009
- First Look
First Look: July 21
Mortgage Backed Security (CMBS) Loan, which involves multiple parties, ambiguous relationships, and bifurcated responsibilities. Purchase this case: http://hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=209154 Cincinnati Children's Hospital View Details
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Martha Lagace
- 07 Aug 2007
- First Look
First Look: August 7, 2007
products, and medical devices today. Provides context for the drug approval process by describing the FDA's history and organizational structure. Purchase this note:...
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Martha Lagace
- 06 Feb 2018
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas: February 6, 2018
consumers use “smart” devices to discover online prices in stores. Our findings provide insights for managers on how and when self-matching can be an effective pricing strategy. Publisher's link:...
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- 14 Nov 2006
- First Look
First Look: November 14, 2006
device company selling products to physicians for use with patients suffering chronic end-stage disease, to a medical technology company providing life-long solutions for people with chronic diseases. With...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 23 Oct 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, October 23, 2018
to market? Using data from the U.S. medical device industry, we find that pioneer (dis-)advantages in a market for technology setting are similar to those typically seen in product markets but different in...
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Dina Gerdeman
- July 2022 (Revised February 2024)
- Teaching Note
The DivaCup: Navigating Distribution and Growth
By: Ayelet Israeli
Teaching Note for HBS Case No. 519-055. When the mother-daughter founders of DivaCup set out with a mission to disrupt the menstrual care industry with an innovative product form, they initially struggled to gain legitimacy and convince retailers to carry their unique...
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Female;
Female Ceo;
Female Entrepreneur;
Female Protagonist;
Health & Wellness;
Healthcare;
Price Policies;
Minimum Advertised Price;
Differentiation;
Positioning;
Growth;
Health;
Health Care and Treatment;
Price;
Disruption;
Distribution;
Distribution Channels;
Competitive Strategy;
Competition;
Growth Management;
Mission and Purpose;
Product Development;
Product Marketing;
Product Launch;
Product Positioning;
Advertising;
Business Startups;
Internet and the Web;
Entrepreneurship;
Social Entrepreneurship;
Social Issues;
Social Enterprise;
Medical Devices and Supplies Industry;
Medical Devices and Supplies Industry;
Medical Devices and Supplies Industry;
Medical Devices and Supplies Industry;
Medical Devices and Supplies Industry;
Medical Devices and Supplies Industry;
Medical Devices and Supplies Industry;
Medical Devices and Supplies Industry;
Canada;
United States;
United Kingdom
- March 2019 (Revised April 2021)
- Case
The DivaCup: Navigating Distribution and Growth
By: Ayelet Israeli
When the mother-daughter founders of DivaCup set out with a mission to disrupt the menstrual care industry with an innovative product form, they initially struggled to gain legitimacy and convince retailers to carry their unique product. Fifteen years later, the...
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Keywords:
Female;
Female Ceo;
Female Entrepreneur;
Female Protagonist;
Health & Wellness;
Healthcare;
Price Policies;
Minimum Advertised Price;
Differentiation;
Positioning;
Growth;
Health;
Health Care and Treatment;
Price;
Disruption;
Distribution;
Distribution Channels;
Competitive Strategy;
Competition;
Growth Management;
Mission and Purpose;
Product Development;
Product Marketing;
Product Launch;
Product Positioning;
Advertising;
Business Startups;
Internet and the Web;
Entrepreneurship;
Social Entrepreneurship;
Social Issues;
Social Enterprise;
Medical Devices and Supplies Industry;
Medical Devices and Supplies Industry;
Medical Devices and Supplies Industry;
Medical Devices and Supplies Industry;
Medical Devices and Supplies Industry;
Medical Devices and Supplies Industry;
Medical Devices and Supplies Industry;
Medical Devices and Supplies Industry;
Canada;
United States;
United Kingdom
Israeli, Ayelet. "The DivaCup: Navigating Distribution and Growth." Harvard Business School Case 519-055, March 2019. (Revised April 2021.)
- 19 May 2022
- News
Leading to Salvation
president and CFO of Medtronic, overseeing a number of acquisitions and sales at the medical device company and broadening its reach to include a more global investor base. In this special edition of Skydeck...
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- 06 Jun 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas: June 6, 2017
leader. Zimmer is a major medical device firm, but the Spine division has underperformed, and its core technology did not get the expanded FDA label that had been expected. The case reviews the industry, the...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 25 Apr 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research, April 25
the disinterested shares. This article also identifies ways that the Delaware courts can encourage the use of these more potent devices when appropriate: through the threat of entire fairness review, the application of Revlon duties, and...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 28 Apr 2009
- First Look
First Look: April 28, 2009
invest in a medical technology company that licenses intellectual property from a privately held IP holding company based on a platform technology. Entrepreneurs Amar Sawhney and Fred Khosravi founded Incept LLC to commercialize their...
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Martha Lagace
- 02 Mar 2010
- First Look
First Look: March 2
"l" Author:Richard Bohmer Publication:British Medical Journal, January 27, 2010 Abstract What exactly do we mean by leadership in health care? Does it mean to take formal positions in senior leadership teams in hospitals,...
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Martha Lagace
- 01 Feb 2011
- First Look
First Look: Feb. 1
Medical Richard G. Hamermesh and Lauren BarleyHarvard Business School Case 810-027 Novasys has developed a new medical device and procedure for the treatment of female stress...
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- 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...
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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;
Medical Devices and Supplies Industry;
Medical Devices and Supplies Industry;
Medical Devices and Supplies Industry;
Medical Devices and Supplies Industry;
Medical Devices and Supplies Industry;
Medical Devices and Supplies Industry;
Medical Devices and Supplies Industry;
Medical Devices and Supplies Industry;
Medical Devices and Supplies Industry;
Medical Devices and Supplies Industry;
Medical Devices and Supplies Industry;
Medical Devices and Supplies 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).