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• Working Paper | HBS Working Paper Series | 2020

  Chimeric Antigen Receptor (CAR) T-Cell Therapy: Case Histories of Significant Medical Advances

  Amar Bhidé and Srikant M. Datar

  In 2017, the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved an immunotherapeutic treatment, called CAR-T therapy, for two kinds of blood cancers—acute leukemia (ALL) and a lymphoma. We describe 1) how CAR-T works; 2) the foundational advances and discoveries; 3) development of CAR-T therapy; and 4) the situation in 2019.

  Keywords: immunotherapy; Health Care and Treatment; Innovation and Invention; Research and Development; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms;

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  Bhidé, Amar, and Srikant M. Datar. "Chimeric Antigen Receptor (CAR) T-Cell Therapy: Case Histories of Significant Medical Advances." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 21-034, August 2020.  View Details

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• Working Paper | HBS Working Paper Series | 1992

  Employment versus Sub-Contracting: The Real Trade-Offs

  Amar Bhide and Howard Stevenson

  By many accounts, sub-contracting is in the vogue while traditional employment relationships are on the outs. Ten years ago free-lancers, independent subcontractors and the like accounted for about 10 percent of the labor force; today they constitute 25 percent. Of the 23 million net new jobs generated in the U.S. since 1974, 60 percent have been for free-lancers and subcontractors. The phenomenon appears especially strong in the large publicly traded firms - while revenue growth in Fortune 500 companies has kept up with GNP, these companies have added virtually no new jobs since the early 1970s and have increasingly become what BusinessWeek calls "hollow corporations".

  Keywords: sub-contracting; freelancers; Employment; Organizations; Theory;

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  Bhide, Amar, and Howard Stevenson. "Employment versus Sub-Contracting: The Real Trade-Offs." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 88-046, March 1987. (Revised March 1992.)  View Details

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• Case | HBS Case Collection | December 2012 (Revised August 2020)

  Rodan + Fields Dermatologists

  Das Narayandas, Michael Roberts and Liz Kind

  The case focuses on issues involved in managing the direct multilevel marketing sales consultants who sell R+F skin care products. The company is trying to better manage the inconsistent and highly variable recruitment behavior of the sales force i.e., the degree to which existing consultants recruit new consultants. The company utilizes a range of periodic incentives for recruitment, but hopes to build a system of salesforce compensation and management that relies more on intrinsic rewards and less on these periodic incentive programs. The case forces students to address principles of compensation system design, as well as more fundamental issues around what they believe motivates this "volunteer" (i.e., non-employee) sales force.

  Keywords: marketing; Marketing; Salesforce Management; Recruitment; Compensation and Benefits; Consumer Products Industry; Beauty and Cosmetics Industry; California;

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  Narayandas, Das, Michael Roberts, and Liz Kind. "Rodan + Fields Dermatologists." Harvard Business School Case 513-067, December 2012. (Revised August 2020.)  View Details

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