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- 10 Jan 2005
- Research & Ideas
Motivation and the Cross-Sector Alliance
The first question focuses on motivations, while the second one has more to do with the benefits sought in interactions with future partners. Altruism As a general rule, collaboration efforts between companies and CSOs have an inherent...
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- 26 Apr 2011
- Op-Ed
HBS Faculty Comment on Environmental Issues for Earth Day
have been experimenting with integrated project delivery—a collaborative process that involves unprecedented teamwork and shared decision making throughout a design and building project. A number of companies are developing...
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- 01 Sep 2014
- News
All For One
breath, then begins to recount her first excited trips to unlock the paradox of what made Pixar special. At the time, the company was in the midst of producing the movie Ratatouille—an unlikely story about a rat in Paris who yearns to be...
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- 13 Jan 2009
- First Look
First Look: January 13, 2009
Case 708-479 This case on the globalization of East Asian pop music is useful for teaching concepts of regional business strategy and also of cultural arbitrage. Music companies in the case must examine why certain markets are clearly...
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Martha Lagace
- 01 Jan 2003
- News
Greylock
One of the country's most renowned venture capital firms, for nearly four decades Greylock has emphasized building businesses rather than stocks, providing hands-on assistance to entrepreneurs, and helping companies contribute new...
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- 01 Dec 2010
- News
How to Survive Past Start-up
Cenedella tried several other ideas for job-industry companies before he came up with the idea for TheLadders. Michel spent years searching for the right business idea — even helping to start a View Details
- 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...
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Julia Hanna
- 27 May 2009
- First Look
First Look: May 27, 2009
Case 509-048 The case describes the effort of Merck, a global leader in pharmaceuticals, in making available its medicines to the poor. The challenge for the company (or for that matter, any pharmaceutical...
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Martha Lagace
- 01 Feb 2001
- News
Drilling Down
The news last October of Chevron's proposed acquisition of Texaco for $36 billion in stock was hardly surprising to industry analysts. The planned merger — which would streamline projects and save some $1.2 billion annually — was considered the most logical path for...
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- 24 May 2011
- First Look
First Look: May 24
4,646 public companies in many industries, headquartered in 46 countries during 2005-2008, when environmental disclosure increased among many global corporations. Controlling for a host of organizational, industry, and national...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 23 May 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Ideas and Research: May 23, 2017
of one of the top pharmaceutical companies in the world. Vasella, an avowed advocate of diversification, had expanded the scope of the company and structured it into 16...
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Carmen Nobel
- 16 Dec 2020
- Blog Post
Faculty Books Published in 2020
business models, or developing new products, even the most experienced managers often get it wrong. They discover that intuition, experience and big data alone don’t work. What does work? Running disciplined business experiments. And what if View Details
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- 03 Nov 2015
- First Look
November 3, 2015
quantify the impact of scientific grant funding at the National Institutes of Health (NIH) on patenting by pharmaceutical and biotechnology firms. Our paper makes two contributions. First, we use newly constructed bibliometric data to...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 20 Jan 2015
- First Look
First Look: January 20
School Case 514-084 Vision 2020: Takeda and the Vaccine Business In 2014, Yasuchika Hasegawa was orchestrating the transformation of Takeda from a Japanese pharmaceutical company with a global footprint into...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 17 Sep 2001
- Research & Ideas
Why E-commerce Didn’t Die With the Fall of Webvan
conspicuous successes in online commerce came from companies that already had a pretty good catalog or direct mail business. Staples and Dell migrated successful catalog businesses onto the Web. Merck-Medco had done a terrific job of...
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- 12 Jan 2016
- First Look
January 12, 2016
November–December 2015 Operations Research Active Postmarketing Drug Surveillance for Multiple Adverse Events By: Goh, Joel, Margrét V. Bjarnadóttir, Mohsen Bayati, and Stefanos A. Zenios Abstract—Postmarketing drug surveillance is the process of monitoring the adverse...
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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...
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Martha Lagace
- 26 Jul 2010
- Research & Ideas
Yes, You Can Raise Prices in a Downturn
As economic turmoil continues, many companies are reconsidering their strategies with an eye toward going lean and slashing prices. And that might work for a few companies—but very few. Instead, companies...
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- 03 Feb 2015
- First Look
First Look: February 3
architecture, including business- and technology-related aspects. We apply our methodology to data gathered in a large pharmaceutical firm. We show that this methodology helps to identify layers in the firm's architecture associated with...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Mar 2014
- News
My HBS Eureka Moment
uncomfortable with the ethnic background of the proponents, who were proposing to start a pharmaceutical company in Mexico. I could never get comfortable, and missed a huge opportunity. The product was the...
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