Publications
Publications
- February 2010
- HBS Case Collection
Organization and Strategy at Millennium (B)
By: Julie M. Wulf and Scott Waggoner
Abstract
This case examines Millennium's strategic and organizational responses to the rapid evolution of the biopharmaceutical industry. In the early 2000s, as Millennium's competitive advantage in early-stage research slipped away and its losses mounted, founder CEO Mark Levin moved the firm downstream away from research and towards drug development and commercialization, while narrowing horizontal breadth from over a dozen therapeutic classes to just three. In 2005, Levin hired Deborah Dunsire from Novartis as CEO to lead Millennium's continuing transformation. Students are asked to put themselves in the shoes of incoming CEO Dunsire and to provide organizational recommendations to execute the new strategy.
Keywords
Leading Change; Transformation; Decision Choices And Conditions; Crisis Management; Competitive Advantage; Commercialization; Selection And Staffing; Product Development; Organizational Change And Adaptation; Pharmaceutical Industry
Citation
Wulf, Julie M., and Scott Waggoner. "Organization and Strategy at Millennium (B)." Harvard Business School Supplement 710-418, February 2010.