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- August 2023
- Supplement
Parexel (B): The Future of the CRO Industry
By: Regina E. Herzlinger and Ben Creo
How should Parexel respond to the rapidly changing environment in clinical research, now that it is owned by a private equity firm and its founder is no longer with the firm?
Parexel, a major clinical research organization, has experienced substantial... View Details
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- Portrait Project
Jason George
ever experienced anything unbearable in her life. Her answer was immediate, and unequivocal: Nothing at all. So I will reflect, and find joy in such simplicity. I will recognize that the unheralded and seemingly ordinary is often far more worthy than the celebrated. I...
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- 15 Jun 2020
- Research & Ideas
A Mass Crisis Can Overwhelm Health Care. Liberia Found a Solution.
test people, then process the tests and take them to a waiting area.” When Ebola began ravaging the country in 2014, Liberia’s government came knocking on Last Mile Health’s door. The organization helped the...
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- 12 Dec 2022
- Research & Ideas
Buy-In from Black Patients Suffers When Drug Trials Don’t Include Them
October. However, when the drug testing panel includes a proportionate share of Black participants, doctors are much more willing to write a prescription. Black patients, in turn, were more likely to trust a medicine when clinical trials...
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- 10 Aug 2020
- Blog Post
HBS Summer Fellows Focus on Racial Equity and Justice
Boston, initially stocked with 30 books each, and garner used and new book donations to promote a continual exchange of books. After establishing a process for exchanging books and knowledge on racial justice, I plan to test different...
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- Portrait Project
Grace Hou
I am a fighter. I might not look like a heavyweight champion, given my petite stature and frame. But my fight is much more than a test of physical strength. When my body was debilitated from open-heart surgery at the age of twelve, I had...
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- 13 Aug 2018
- Research & Ideas
Women Heart Patients Have Better Survival Odds with Women Doctors
"experimental interventions, or tests of more targeted training, to examine how exposing male physicians more thoroughly” to what female symptoms look like, the researchers wrote.
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- 25 Jun 2018
- Blog Post
The Internship Search: “Is this just a personal interest, or is there a real professional opportunity here?”
marketing. And he wanted to test his interest in health and wellness. “Is this just a personal interest, or is there a real professional opportunity here?” Aaron asked himself. With an eye toward experiencing a new location outside the...
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- Profile
Sara Roedner
to focus. What do you want most among so many options?" Sara has already tested herself as a leader at HBS. As section president, she notes, "you're navigating a leadership position among your peers, which can be difficult. But...
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Michelle Lee
differentiate learning for their students, showed Michelle "how a company builds from the ground up. I learned what I really love is the early stages of a company where you're figuring out the unknown, testing out different...
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Kimball Thomas
with his cousin Davis in the Silicon Valley where they will “crank on new business ideas.” Kimball will test the best of them in the Business Plan Competition next year. Meanwhile, Kimball never studies alone; he’s joined at HBS by his...
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Arum Kang
As an assistant buyer fresh out of college, Arum Kang felt ready to test her quantitative skills on the retail floors of Lord & Taylor in New York City. "I'm very analytical," Arum says. "Working with consumer data and...
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- 01 Sep 2015
- News
Data-Driven Diligence
that sold them on Casper—it was the numbers. The company had tested well in a revolutionary predictive model built by the venture firm. The idea to vet possible investments in such a way hit Coats about a decade ago: Maybe, he figured, he...
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- 01 Sep 2009
- News
How to Fix Wall Street
cannot ensure good behavior. Nor can it guarantee the good judgment and sound decision-making that we so desperately need from today’s financial and other business institutions. For that, we need business leaders who are committed to building companies that meet the...
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- 01 Mar 2015
- News
Ink
testing of content, technology, and facilities. Education’s work is never done, so creating a culture of continual improvement is vital. “Making progress and never standing still is a hallmark of a healthy society and healthy schools, and...
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- 05 Apr 2017
- Research & Ideas
For Women Especially, It Pays to Know What Car Repairs Should Cost
be), or misinformed (provides an expected price of $510, way above the market average). Consumers who display knowledge about repair costs can get a better price. SOURCE: Kali9 A second part of the study tested how willing shops were to...
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- 25 Sep 2000
- Research & Ideas
More Than the Sum of Its Parts: The Impact of Modularity on the Computer Industry
modularity does not happen by accident; it has to be designed into the system. You have to invest in the architecture and interfaces among modules and test performance at the modular level. The whole system has to work, as do the...
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Sheila Lirio Marcelo
Care.com. “We got together on October 30, 2006 and we launched the first test website in January,“ she said. “We launched the entire business that May. The only way were able to do that was because we had all worked...
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- 16 Oct 2013
- Op-Ed
Response to Readers: Combating Climate Change with Nuclear Power and Fracking
With more than 7,500 views and 180-plus tweets, I want to thank everyone for taking the time to read the original HBS Working Knowledge piece, The Case for Combating Climate Change with Nuclear Power and Fracking, and, in particular, for sharing your thoughts with one...
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- 01 Apr 2001
- News
New Ventures New Gains
realities. “In recent years, the student appetite for entrepreneurial ventures has increased significantly,” says HBS professor of management practice Myra M. Hart, who has studied the career trends of HBS graduates. “The contest gives them an excellent opportunity to...
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