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- December 2005 (Revised October 2013)
- Case
Fred Khosravi and AccessClosure (A)
By: Richard Hamermesh and Liz Kind
Fred Khosravi is a serial medical device entrepreneur. In his latest venture, he must decide whether to sell now or continue to develop his current product and whether to market it, sell the company, or IPO.
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Keywords:
Negotiation;
Medical Devices;
Venture Capital;
Life Sciences;
Health Care Industry;
Healthcare Technology;
Healthcare Ventures;
Business Startups;
Decision Choices and Conditions;
Entrepreneurship;
Growth and Development Strategy;
Medical Devices and Supplies Industry;
United States
Hamermesh, Richard, and Liz Kind. "Fred Khosravi and AccessClosure (A)." Harvard Business School Case 806-044, December 2005. (Revised October 2013.)
- 02 Jan 2020
- Op-Ed
Medicare for All or Public Option: Can Either Heal Health Care?
The United States has serious health care problems: More than 27 million uninsured people, costs that are growing faster than income, and a staggering $37 trillion of unfunded liabilities View Details
- 15 Feb 2022
- Blog Post
Health Is Wealth | The Path To Creating A Venture
Rachel Sanders (MBA 2017) started her professional career working in healthcare focused investment banking. After spending four years working at Raymond James focused on middle market transactions, M&A,...
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- 30 Jun 2015
- Video
Gender Differences in Health, Wellness, and Healthcare
- March 2015
- Teaching Note
CVS Health: Promoting Drug Adherence
Email mking@hbs.edu for a courtesy copy.
This Teaching Note explains the theory of the case and teaching plan for the case: CVS Health: Promoting Drug Adherence (515010). The case finds Helena Foulkes, Executive... View Details
This Teaching Note explains the theory of the case and teaching plan for the case: CVS Health: Promoting Drug Adherence (515010). The case finds Helena Foulkes, Executive... View Details
Keywords:
Medication Adherence;
Affordable Care Act (ACA);
Marketing Strategy;
Communication Strategy;
Customer Value and Value Chain;
Decisions;
Health Care and Treatment;
Goals and Objectives;
Resource Allocation;
Marketing Communications;
Consumer Behavior;
Measurement and Metrics;
Service Delivery;
Behavior;
Motivation and Incentives;
Social Issues;
Information Technology;
Value Creation;
Health Industry;
Health Industry;
Health Industry;
Health Industry;
Health Industry;
United States
John, Leslie, John Quelch, and Robert Huckman. "CVS Health: Promoting Drug Adherence." Harvard Business School Teaching Note 515-086, March 2015. (Email mking@hbs.edu for a courtesy copy.)
- Web
Women, Work, and the “M” Word - Blog: Health Supplement
Public Health I’m the eldest of three daughters in a medical family. With a urogynecologist and primary care doctor as parents, I grew up thinking it was normal to talk about...
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- 18 Sep 2017
- Research & Ideas
'Likes' Lead to Nothing—and Other Hard-Learned Lessons of Social Media Marketing
target market and they don’t care if they alienate others.” “The challenge is to find the nugget of insight from this huge amount of data” Not every brand can get away with political messaging, however. John...
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- November 2022 (Revised March 2024)
- Case
Replika AI: Monetizing a Chatbot
By: Julian De Freitas and Nicole Tempest Keller
In early 2018, Eugenia Kuyda, co-founder and CEO of San Francisco-based chatbot Replika AI, was deciding how to monetize the app she had built. Launched in 2017, Replika was a consumer AI “companion app” developed by a team of AI software engineers originally based in...
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Keywords:
Mental Health;
Subscriber Models;
TAM;
Monetization Strategy;
Marketing Strategy;
Product Marketing;
AI and Machine Learning;
Applications and Software;
Product Positioning;
Health Disorders;
Technology Industry
De Freitas, Julian, and Nicole Tempest Keller. "Replika AI: Monetizing a Chatbot." Harvard Business School Case 523-016, November 2022. (Revised March 2024.)
- January 2011
- Case
Clean Edge Razor: Splitting Hairs in Product Positioning
By: John A. Quelch and Heather Beckham
After three years of development, Paramount Health and Beauty Company is preparing to launch a new technologically advanced vibrating razor called Clean Edge. The innovative new design of Clean Edge provides superior performance by stimulating the hair follicles to...
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Keywords:
Project Management;
Interdepartmental Relations;
Organizational Change;
Organizational Change and Adaptation;
Leadership;
Conflict Management;
Product Positioning;
Marketing Strategy;
Relationships;
Product Development;
Consumer Products Industry;
Beauty and Cosmetics Industry
Quelch, John A., and Heather Beckham. "Clean Edge Razor: Splitting Hairs in Product Positioning." Harvard Business School Brief Case 114-249, January 2011.
- 11 Jun 2020
- Working Paper Summaries
Paying It Backward and Forward: Expanding Access to Convalescent Plasma Therapy Through Market Design
- Article
Are All Certified EHRs Created Equal? Assessing the Relationship between EHR Vendor and Hospital Meaningful Use Performance
By: A Jay Holmgren, Julia Adler-Milstein and Jeffrey McCullough
Objective
The federal electronic health record (EHR) certification process was intended to ensure a baseline level of system quality and the ability to support meaningful use criteria. We sought to assess whether there was variation across EHR vendors in the... View Details
The federal electronic health record (EHR) certification process was intended to ensure a baseline level of system quality and the ability to support meaningful use criteria. We sought to assess whether there was variation across EHR vendors in the... View Details
Keywords:
Hospitals;
Electronic Health Records;
Digital Health;
Health Care and Treatment;
Information Technology;
Service Delivery;
Performance Evaluation
Holmgren, A Jay, Julia Adler-Milstein, and Jeffrey McCullough. "Are All Certified EHRs Created Equal? Assessing the Relationship between EHR Vendor and Hospital Meaningful Use Performance." Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association 25, no. 6 (June 2018): 654–660. (Editor's Choice.)
- 2013
- Working Paper
Work Design Drivers of Organizational Learning about Operational Failures: A Laboratory Experiment on Medication Administration
By: Anita L. Tucker
Operational failures persist in hospitals, in part because employees work around them rather than attempt to prevent recurrence. Drawing on a process improvement tool—the Andon cord—we examine three work design components that may foster improvement-oriented behaviors:...
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Keywords:
Health Care;
Process Improvement;
Organizational Learning;
Behavioral Operations;
Prosocial Behavior;
Experiments;
Organizational Change and Adaptation;
Behavior;
Performance Improvement;
Health Care and Treatment;
Business Processes;
Health Industry
Tucker, Anita L. "Work Design Drivers of Organizational Learning about Operational Failures: A Laboratory Experiment on Medication Administration." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 13-044, November 2012. (Revised September 2013.)
- 23 Jan 2020
- News
Five Ways Hospitals Will Change in Next Decade
- 01 May 2020
- News
The Business of Medicine in the Era of COVID-19
- Article
The Impact of COVID-19 on Small Business Outcomes and Expectations
By: Alexander Bartik, Marianne Bertrand, Zoë B. Cullen, Edward L. Glaeser, Michael Luca and Christopher Stanton
To explore the impact of COVID on small businesses, we conducted a survey of more than 5,800 small businesses between March 28 and April 4, 2020. Several themes emerged. First, mass layoffs and closures had already occurred—just a few weeks into the crisis. Second, the...
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Bartik, Alexander, Marianne Bertrand, Zoë B. Cullen, Edward L. Glaeser, Michael Luca, and Christopher Stanton. "The Impact of COVID-19 on Small Business Outcomes and Expectations." Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 117, no. 30 (July 28, 2020): 17656–66.
- 04 Nov 2015
- News
M.B.A.s Get Lessons in Income Inequality
- Web
The Institute for Cancer Care Innovation - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness
Michael Porter and his work to promote value-based health care delivery in the U.S. health care system. By...
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- August 2021
- Case
Livongo: Scaling a Purpose-Driven Organization in Healthcare
By: Ranjay Gulati, Aseem Shukla and Reva Nohria
When seasoned entrepreneur Glen Tullman founded the chronic health care startup Livongo in 2014, it was personal. His son lived with diabetes, and Tullman knew firsthand how taxing it could be to manage such an unrelenting disease. Livongo set out to empower people...
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Keywords:
Healthcare Industry;
Scaling;
Telehealth;
Health Care and Treatment;
Small Business;
Internet and the Web;
Customer Focus and Relationships;
Growth and Development Strategy;
Opportunities;
Mergers and Acquisitions;
Health Industry
Gulati, Ranjay, Aseem Shukla, and Reva Nohria. "Livongo: Scaling a Purpose-Driven Organization in Healthcare." Harvard Business School Case 422-017, August 2021.
- September 2020 (Revised January 2021)
- Case
Catalys Pacific
In 2019, BT Slingsby founds Catalys Pacific, the first biotech “venture creation” fund in Tokyo. After convincing some of the biggest Japanese pharmaceutical firms to invest, BT hopes the fund can make a big splash and transform biotechnology innovation in Japan. After...
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Keywords:
Pharmaceutical Companies;
Biotech;
Health Care;
Entrepreneur;
Innovation;
International Business;
Entrepreneurial Finance;
Entrepreneurship;
Finance;
Innovation Strategy;
Venture Capital;
Strategy;
Cross-Cultural and Cross-Border Issues;
Pharmaceutical Industry;
Biotechnology Industry;
Tokyo
Krieger, Joshua Lev. "Catalys Pacific." Harvard Business School Case 821-035, September 2020. (Revised January 2021.)
- Web
Video Clips & Discussion Questions - Creating Emerging Markets
AzizManaging Director of Sefam Private Limited, explains how, in the early 1980s, she and her brother decided to innovate the entire production chain of Pakistani cotton embroidery in order to prove that...
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