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- 19 Jan 2023
- News
Forged in Fire
Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Hi, this is Dan Morrell, host of Skydeck. When he was just three years old, Chad Foster (PLDA 21, 2016) was diagnosed with retinitis pigmentosa, a degenerative condition that would ultimately leave him...
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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
- March 2017
- Case
Cantel Medical
By: John R. Wells and Gabriel Ellsworth
Cantel Medical Corporation provided infection prevention and control products and services for patients, caregivers, and other healthcare providers. In 2016, Cantel generated sales of $665 million and net profits of $60 million, double the levels of five years earlier....
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Cantel;
Charles Diker;
Furniture Industry;
Matrix Organization;
Acquisition;
Mergers and Acquisitions;
Business Conglomerates;
Business Units;
Business Growth and Maturation;
Business Organization;
For-Profit Firms;
Chemicals;
Profit;
Revenue;
Geographic Scope;
Multinational Firms and Management;
Health;
Health Care and Treatment;
Business History;
Business or Company Management;
Goals and Objectives;
Growth and Development Strategy;
Organizational Structure;
Problems and Challenges;
Research and Development;
Opportunities;
Strategy;
Adaptation;
Business Strategy;
Competitive Strategy;
Corporate Strategy;
Diversification;
Expansion;
Information Technology;
Pharmaceutical Industry;
Pharmaceutical Industry;
Pharmaceutical Industry;
Pharmaceutical Industry;
Pharmaceutical Industry;
Pharmaceutical Industry;
United States;
New Jersey
Wells, John R., and Gabriel Ellsworth. "Cantel Medical." Harvard Business School Case 717-482, March 2017.
- 26 Apr 2011
- Op-Ed
HBS Faculty Comment on Environmental Issues for Earth Day
Earth Day focuses the world's attention on the both the dangers and opportunities facing the planet. But sustainability and the intersection between business and the environment are issues that need to be addressed all the time, as cities grow, resources diminish, and...
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- 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:...
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Martha Lagace
- 04 Sep 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, September 4, 2018
It subsequently became much more arduous for pharmaceutical firms to bring new drugs to market. Some critics therefore argued that the new regulations were actually detrimental, as they prevented or delayed good drugs from coming to...
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Dina Gerdeman
- 24 Jan 2012
- First Look
First Look: Jan. 24
This chapter proposes a new lens to understand corruption, using internal records collected from firms that pay bribes. We examine widespread corruption in three industries in an Asian developing country: procurement, pharmaceutical...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 24 May 2011
- First Look
First Look: May 24
case:http://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cb/product/211086-PDF-ENG Innovation and Growth at Actelion Ltd Gary P. Pisano, Daniela Beyersdorfer, and Ruth DittrichHarvard Business School Case 611-065 : In late 2010, Jean-Paul Clozel, CEO of the Swiss biotech View Details
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Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Jun 2024
- News
Quantum Leap
pharmaceutical and chemical industries have taken note: The venture capital arm of the pharma giant Merck, for instance, invested $5 million in SEEQC’s Series A round, where it was joined by the South Korean chemical company LG Chem,...
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- 01 Apr 2000
- News
Getting the Message
Sponsorships allow advertisers to offer content that is related to their products or services and valued by the target audience. For example, a pharmaceutical company might sponsor a bulletin board for consumers with a specific ailment....
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Susan Young
- 12 Apr 2010
- Research & Ideas
One Report: Better Strategy through Integrated Reporting
electronics company Philips; the Danish pharmaceutical company Novo Nordisk; the Brazilian cosmetics company Natura; and the U.S.-based technology and aerospace company United Technologies all come to mind. All have done a very good job...
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by Martha Lagace
- 24 Apr 2018
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, April 24, 2018
opposed. Which path should ZappRx take? The case is a window into the early go-to-market and business model decisions that an entrepreneur must make, in this case in the face of pushback from her own management team. The case also provides a detailed picture of the...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 12 Jan 2010
- First Look
First Look: Jan. 12
and illustrates, via a detailed description of the successful strategic alliance between Solvay Pharmaceuticals Inc. and Quintiles company how the creation of a strategy map and Balanced Scorecard helps align the separate interests of...
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Martha Lagace
- 10 Jan 2005
- Research & Ideas
Motivation and the Cross-Sector Alliance
medicines. Furthermore, Chile offers no reimbursements for pharmaceutical expenses, so this tends to add to customers' negative disposition." To respond to this situation, FASA considered a possible collaboration with the Fundación...
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- 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...
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- 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...
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Martha Lagace
- 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...
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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
- 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...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 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...
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Sean Silverthorne