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- 18 Jun 2014
- Research & Ideas
Leading Innovation is the Art of Creating ‘Collective Genius’
(GFS), designed for Google web searches. One team, called Big Table, argued for adding systems on top of GFS; the other team, called Build from Scratch, wanted to replace GFS entirely. Coughran decided to give the two teams space to defend their ideas, letting them...
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by Kim Girard
- 19 Aug 2013
- Research & Ideas
Studying How Income Inequality Shapes Behavior
voting. Moss offers a simple analogy: Imagine you want to test a theory that punches cause stomachaches. If you examine the data and find that some people get punched without getting stomachaches, and that others get stomachaches without...
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by Michael Blanding
- 01 Oct 1998
- News
Andresen Becomes First European and First Exec. Ed. Graduate to Endow HBS Professorship
Andresen's 1986 departure). Andresen took time out to attend Harvard's Advanced Management Program in 1974 in order "to test my standards of management," he says. "I had been working nonstop for over five years and felt the need to take...
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- 01 Jun 2012
- News
Around the World
in January, when nearly the entire class of 905 traveled to one of 12 cities in 10 countries for a weeklong immersion to test their ideas in the local marketplace, make adjustments as needed, and deliver a final proposal to their global...
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- September 2020
- Case
Merck: COVID-19 Vaccines
By: Willy C. Shih
COVID-19 infections were still climbing across the U.S. and many other parts of the world in September 2020, and it seemed that every time Ken Frazier, the CEO of Merck & Co. consented to an interview in recent months he always seemed to hear the same question,...
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Vaccines;
COVID-19 Pandemic;
Health Pandemics;
Health Testing and Trials;
Innovation and Management;
Innovation Strategy;
Technological Innovation;
Business Strategy;
Product Launch;
Pharmaceutical Industry
Shih, Willy C. "Merck: COVID-19 Vaccines." Harvard Business School Case 621-028, September 2020.
- Profile
David Gellis
Care Center. Under the tutelage of center director Laura Esserman, MD/MBA, David examined ways to leverage information systems to improve breast-cancer treatment. "Dr. Esserman used her clinic as a lab to test ideas for improving...
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- 2008
- Article
Entrepreneurial Ventures and Whole-body Donations: A Regional Perspective from the United States
By: Michel Anteby and Mikell Hyman
Human cadavers are crucial to medical science. While the debate on how to secure sufficient cadavers has focused primarily on donors' behaviors, procuring organizations' roles in increasing donations remain less explored. The United States offers a unique setting in... View Details
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Entrepreneurship;
Behavior;
Programs;
Nonprofit Organizations;
Business Ventures;
Health Testing and Trials;
Demand and Consumers;
Supply Chain;
For-Profit Firms;
Organizations;
Training;
United States
Anteby, Michel, and Mikell Hyman. "Entrepreneurial Ventures and Whole-body Donations: A Regional Perspective from the United States." Social Science & Medicine 66, no. 4 (2008): 963–969.
- 13 Feb 2017
- Research & Ideas
Paid Search Ads Pay Off for Lesser-Known Restaurants
maybe they don’t. Why don’t we collaborate on an experiment testing their impact?” That was music to Donaker’s ears. Yelp had run experiments to optimize advertisements and had consultants try to figure out the impact of ads. But in the...
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- 24 Mar 2014
- Research & Ideas
The Surprising Link Between Language and Corporate Responsibility
company's native language can affect its policies.Photo: iStockPhoto "It seemed to me to be an amazing finding if it were true," Marquis says. "We asked, what are some other tests that could be done in a business context?" The research...
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by Michael Blanding
- 01 Dec 2003
- News
Nonprofits: Choosing a Path for Growth
growth and is interested in testing and refining its model in new locations; or when a nonprofit has less ambitious, less geographically dispersed expansion plans. We were not surpised that our research suggests that there is no single,...
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- 26 Nov 2007
- Research & Ideas
Best Practices of Global Innovators
single-site projects, related to dividing tasks, sharing artifacts, and coordinating and integrating work. Rarely does a firm's default process adequately address these activities. Effective approaches are discovered through informed trial and error, using pilot...
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by Sean Silverthorne
Joseph M. Segel
A prolific entrepreneur, Segel has founded many successful companies including The Franklin Mint and National Software testing Laboratories. His biggest success was the formation of QVC, which stands for quality, value and convenience....
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Entertainment & Broadcast Media
- 13 May 2020
- Blog Post
Crisis Leadership with Nikhil Patel: The Critical Importance of Trust
says Patel. At the same time, he crafted models “for addressing mental health issues and comorbidities” while negotiating services and soliciting potential funders for money. Finally, Patel coordinated Detroit’s Rapid Abbott COVID-19 View Details
- 04 Aug 2020
- Blog Post
HBS Career & Professional Development Responds to COVID-19
previous recessions with our current students. Offered a full-time data science course over the summer for students to invest in themselves. The course culminated with students putting their skills to the test at the end of the summer...
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A Jay Holmgren
assisted with his father’s care. “I had this gigantic binder of test results that I would have to fax to different specialists and providers,” he explains. “I thought to myself, ‘Why do I still have this physical folder? Why don’t we have...
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- 01 Jun 2012
- News
Social Enterprise Start-Ups Recognized for Bold Ideas
start-up in Bangalore cofounded by CEO Sidhant Jena (MBA 2011), has developed a mobile phone attachment that will enable patients to test their blood sugar and seamlessly transmit the results to a physician or nurse for appropriate...
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- 01 Jun 2008
- News
Faculty Books
forecasts and activity-based costing); and test and update the strategy (using carefully designed management meetings to review operational and strategic data). Marketing Metaphoria: What Deep Metaphors Reveal about the Minds of Consumers...
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- 01 Jun 1999
- News
Spangler Center Groundbreaking
superintendents who had gathered for the occasion. The idea was to guess the correct amounts of the various building materials needed to construct the facility. The numbers are based on estimates from Spangler Center project managers William Barry & Son. View Details
- 01 Mar 2019
- News
Case Study: Off to a Fine Art
all in, purchasing inventory at volume up front to enter the market with an abundance of options? Or should the company continue to take pieces on consignment, offering a limited assortment of plates and bowls to test the demands of the...
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Jen McFarland Flint
- July 2021 (Revised July 2022)
- Case
Brigham & Women's Hospital: Using Patient Reported Outcomes to Improve Breast Cancer Care
By: Robert S. Kaplan, Navraj S. Nagra and Syed S. Shehab
Dr. Andrea Pusic, breast cancer reconstruction surgeon, wants to extend outcomes measurement beyond traditional surgical metrics of infections, complications, and survival rates. The case describes her development of a new mobile phone app, which collects patients’...
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Health Care and Treatment;
Outcome or Result;
Cost Management;
Activity Based Costing and Management;
Mobile and Wireless Technology;
Health Testing and Trials;
Surveys;
Health Industry;
Boston
Kaplan, Robert S., Navraj S. Nagra, and Syed S. Shehab. "Brigham & Women's Hospital: Using Patient Reported Outcomes to Improve Breast Cancer Care." Harvard Business School Case 122-010, July 2021. (Revised July 2022.)