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- 31 May 2011
- First Look
First Look: May 31
confident of the market potential for mobile payments, they recognized the challenges they faced in scaling their current business model. Purchase this case:http://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cb/product/811029-PDF-ENG Office of Technology Transfer—Shanghai Institutes for View Details
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Sean Silverthorne
- 11 Sep 2007
- First Look
First Look: September 11, 2007
developing proven molecules from strategic partners to leapfrog competition and create large molecule biologics in India. The company understood that its transition from an API to an innovation-led company focused on new View Details
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Martha Lagace
- 05 Dec 2013
- What Do You Think?
Is Walmart Defying Economic Gravity?
Original Article There is a body of research that seeks to relate economics to human biology. It's usually associated with the notion that the life cycles of businesses parallel stages of biological life: birth, rapid growth, maturity,...
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- 30 Sep 2019
- Book
Book Excerpt: Why a Volume on Race, Work, and Leadership
construction of blackness has been an economic tool for centuries; it has been used as a means of sourcing under- or wholly unpaid labor, rationalized by an attribution of blacks’ biological inferiority. Though research has since amassed...
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- 07 Aug 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, August 8, 2018
Free Speech at Google In August 2017, Google fired James Damore, a 28-year-old software engineer who had been employed by the company since 2013. The move came after Damore penned an internal company memo titled “Google’s Ideological Echo Chamber,” which posited that...
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by Sean Silverthorne
- 24 Sep 2007
- Research & Ideas
The FDA: What Will the Next 100 Years Bring?
responsible for the safety and effectiveness of prescription drugs, biologics (biotech products derived from living sources such as cells), over-the-counter medicines, medical devices, cosmetics, nutritional supplements, and all food...
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- 07 Sep 2016
- What Do You Think?
How Can the Threat of Networks Be Reduced?
networks as we know them, with their devices, will cease to exist within the next decade. These bit based clod machines will yield to a kind of biologic environment, where the systems are secondary to the need constantly adapting and...
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by James Heskett
- 24 Mar 2020
- Research & Ideas
These Coronavirus Heroes Show Us How Crisis Leadership Works
for COVID-19 and is currently able to run 1,000 tests per day. David A. Ricks, CEO of Eli Lilly. Under Ricks’ guidance, Lilly has teamed with AbCellera Biologics to find antibodies to disarm COVID-19. Looking for the correct antibody...
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- 01 Aug 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, August 1
drugs (chemically-synthesized, “small-molecule” drugs) face price competition from generic drugs after patent expiration, biosimilars—biologic drugs that have been shown to be therapeutically equivalent to an already approved original View Details
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Sean Silverthorne
- 03 Dec 2001
- Research & Ideas
Healthcare Conference Looks At Ailing Industry
was developed elsewhere, such as a digital form of DNA. The goal now is to redefine disease based on the underlying biological mechanisms, Lander said. By that token, diseases are going to surprise us. Reclassifying them means that some...
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- 29 Oct 2020
- Research & Ideas
The COVID Gender Gap: Why Fewer Women Are Dying
Experts have cited several factors that may make men more vulnerable to severe illness, including biological differences, higher smoking rates, and a greater reluctance to seek health care. This new study points to another reason men may...
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- 20 Mar 2012
- First Look
First Look: March 20
through a largely unguided process like biological evolution with a gradual impact upon the distribution of power among economic and political actors, the emergence of factor markets typically required fundamental reordering of power...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 15 Sep 2009
- First Look
First Look: September 15
company, with a focus on changing relationships between manufacturing technology and R&D between the mid-1940s and the mid-1960s. Pfizer first moved into pharmaceuticals through participation in the U.S. government's penicillin effort during World War II. Having...
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Martha Lagace
- 18 Apr 2018
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, April 18, 2018
product upon entry, however only a few biosimilars have been approved in the U.S. since 2015, thereby largely preserving biologics from competition. We analyze European markets, which have had biosimilar competition since 2006. Using our...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 28 Aug 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, August 28, 2018
software—is similar to constant social influence: it increases mean performance but decreases exploration Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=54901 August 19, 2018 Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B, View Details
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Dina Gerdeman
- 12 Mar 2013
- First Look
First Look: March 12
bottleneck. Historically, prize-based contests have had striking success in attracting unconventional individual who can overcome difficult challenges. To determine whether this approach could solve a real big-data biologic algorithm...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 18 Dec 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, December 18, 2018
the threshold for research and development (R&D) investment in an economically viable product. Further, the small size of patient populations for orphan drugs, together with the increasing prevalence of biologics among orphan drugs,...
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Dina Gerdeman
- 14 May 2020
- Research & Ideas
What Leaders Can Do to Fight the COVID Fog
working its magic. You cannot optimize the brain to focus during all waking hours. Mind-wandering is an important biological function; a feature, not a bug. Since it will happen whether you allow time for it or not, best it happens when...
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by Boris Groysberg and Robin Abrahams
- 07 Aug 2007
- First Look
First Look: August 7, 2007
and issues around current practices. Purchase this note: http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=807124 U.S. Food and Drug Administration Harvard Business School Note 807-050 Describes the U.S. FDA with particular emphasis on its role in the...
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Martha Lagace
- 18 Aug 2011
- Lessons from the Classroom
Business Plan Contest: 15 Years of Building Better Entrepreneurs
during all my consulting days before business school." DFA's breakthrough is a postage stamp-sized square that wicks biological fluids, such as blood or saliva, through treated paper to provide instant diagnostic results in parts of the...
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