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- 08 Oct 2013
- First Look
First Look: October 8
countless incremental fixes-attacking fraud, reducing errors, enforcing practice guidelines, making patients better "consumers," implementing electronic medical records-but none have had much impact. It's time for a...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 05 Sep 2023
- Blog Post
Solving Climate Change Starts with an Idea
your idea, leveraging tools to test the viability of your idea, connecting with fellow climate entrepreneurs to hear their stories, and building your network. What inspired you to create this? I was meeting with students and alumni during office hours – View Details
- 14 Aug 2018
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, August 14, 2018
the startup struggles with various operational and cultural organizational tensions. These challenges are described from the perspective of the founders and through the eyes of Deepika Thakur, one of the early employees. By 2014, in order...
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by Sean Silverthorne
- 02 Oct 2015
- News
The ‘F’ Word
startup to Dropbox, Carpenter is the protagonist of another case coauthored by Eisenmann and Alison Berkley Wagonfeld (MBA 1996). “Steven Carpenter at Cake Financial” details his efforts to build and grow an online financial services...
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Walt Disney Studios
- 02 Mar 2023
- Blog Post
Women, Work, and the "M" Word
I’m the eldest of three daughters in a medical family. With a urogynecologist and primary care doctor as parents, I grew up thinking it was normal to talk about all topics of women’s health around the dinner table, from menstruation to...
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- 01 Mar 2023
- News
Clearing the Air
startup in the direct air capture space, focused on discovering materials that will make carbon capture more efficient. His company, Carbon Vacuum, won the 2022 New Venture Competition’s Tough Tech Prize. Aaron Sabin (MS/MBA 2023) is...
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- 06 Dec 2021
- News
New Wave
electricity—enough to power approximately 150 households. The turbines are the spinning heart of the Roosevelt Island Tidal Energy (RITE) Project, an initiative undertaken by Verdant Power, the startup that Smith cofounded in 2000 to...
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- 16 Sep 2015
- News
Built for Speed
engineering major with a goal of building cars, he saw a future spent designing door handles in some automaker’s basement and switched to international affairs and foreign policy. After graduation, he spent three years in China helping his father build a View Details
- 05 Dec 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, December 5, 2017
Scientific Collaborations By: Lakhani, Karim R., Kevin Boudreau, Tom Brady, Ina Ganguli, Patrick Gaule, Eva C. Guinan, and Anthony Hollenberg Abstract—We present the results of a field experiment conducted at Harvard Medical School to...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Sep 2008
- News
Balanced Equation
still true today: eBay enables users to trade with other people without regard to time and distance. It makes inefficient markets efficient. What kind of communications devices do you use? I may be the last person on earth who does not...
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- 06 Jun 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas: June 6, 2017
leader. Zimmer is a major medical device firm, but the Spine division has underperformed, and its core technology did not get the expanded FDA label that had been expected. The case reviews the industry, the...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 22 Mar 2016
- First Look
March 22, 2016
Wikipedia, there are aspects, such as NPOV, that the community does not always achieve successfully. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=50783 March 4, 2016 Harvard Business Review (website) Startups Can’t...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Jun 2010
- News
MBAs on a Mission
Dallas Children’s Museum. One of her pressing details involves predicting the future of handheld technology at the museum. “Right now we need to figure out which handheld device people will own when the museum opens in three years,” says...
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- 12 May 2009
- First Look
First Look: May 12, 2009
These contractual devices provide insurance to the shareholders of the target and may protect the buyer as well. The purpose of this note is to define the main categories of price protection and explain their impact on the payoffs and...
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Martha Lagace
- 04 May 2010
- First Look
First Look: May 4
Biomedical: Making Pigs Fly Richard G. Hamermesh, Lauren Barley, and Ginger L. GrahamHarvard Business School Case 809-051 Proteus is a healthcare start-up that has developed technology to embed electronics for computing and sensing in existing View Details
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Martha Lagace
- 07 Aug 2007
- First Look
First Look: August 7, 2007
products, and medical devices today. Provides context for the drug approval process by describing the FDA's history and organizational structure. Purchase this note:...
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Martha Lagace
- 19 Jul 2011
- First Look
First Look: July 19
J. DeLong, and Jevan SooHarvard Business School Case 411-031 Describes the problems facing a recent MBA graduate in his job as general manager of a medical device company owned by a parent corporation....
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Sean Silverthorne
- Web
Winners & Success Stories | New Venture Competition
more reliable and more robust network services. Diagnostic-for-All (DFA) Jon Puz, MBA 2008 Gilbert Tang, MBA 2008 Krishna Yeshwant, MBA 2009 Diagnostic-For-All (DFA) is a non-profit enterprise that seeks to deliver affordable point-of-care diagnostic solutions to the...
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- 14 Nov 2006
- First Look
First Look: November 14, 2006
device company selling products to physicians for use with patients suffering chronic end-stage disease, to a medical technology company providing life-long solutions for people with chronic diseases. With...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 05 May 2009
- First Look
First Look: May 5, 2009
the launch of several eBook devices such as Amazon's Kindle. Yet E Ink still faced the question of how to turn its technology into a profitable business amid competing technologies and financial challenges. Purchase this case:...
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Martha Lagace