Extend Fertility: Conceiving the Market for Egg Preservation (A)
Synopsis
In April 2003, entrepreneur and MBA student Christy Jones was planning a new venture to help women preserve their fertility. Her company, Extend Fertility, would commercialize a technique known as egg freezing, in which a woman's eggs were extracted and stored at low temperatures until she was ready to become a mother. To date, the emerging technology had mostly been used to preserve the fertility of cancer patients whose treatment course could damage their eggs. Jones's business would target a massively broader population: healthy women wishing to postpone motherhood. Before Jones could launch Extend Fertility, she needed to answer two pressing questions. What, exactly, would an egg-freezing service be selling? And to whom?
- कॉपीराईट:
- 2019 HBS
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- Harvard Business Publishing
- Date of Addition:
- 2019-11-09T20:56:32Z
- भाषा:
- English
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- This is a copyrighted book.