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- 15 Sep 2009
- First Look
First Look: September 15
Working PapersThe CHAT Dataset Authors:Diego A. Comin and Bart Hobijn NBER Working Paper Series, No. 15319, September 2009 Abstract This note accompanies the Cross-country Historical Adoption of Technology (CHAT) dataset. CHAT is an... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 20 Mar 2020
- Research & Ideas
How Small Businesses Can Survive the Coronavirus Outbreak
businesses often have less than 20 days’ worth. While forecasts vary, many public health experts don’t expect the coronavirus outbreak to subside for at least eight weeks, assuming that social distancing and other mitigation efforts can... View Details
- 10 Mar 2015
- Research & Ideas
The Surprising Winners and Losers in the Retail Revolution
technology and processes to support customers that align with their entrepreneurial culture. If you are a professional today buying from Home Depot, an app on your phone lets you order directly from the job site and gives you the option... View Details
- 10 Jan 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research: January 10, 2017
and provide the impetus for evaluating research on disruptive innovation in management and strategy. We trace disruptive innovation theory’s intellectual history, noting both how core principles have crystallized through a process of anomaly-seeking research and how it... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 17 Nov 2020
- In Practice
How Retailers Can Thrive in a Shopping Season Like No Other
season and what it will take to win over anxious customers. Here's what they said. Jill J. Avery: Mind the details and focus on customer service Persistent unemployment plagues many families, and people are saving more and spending less as they anticipate difficult... View Details
- 01 Sep 2020
- News
The Devil You Don’t Know
that war, without realizing that their current adversary is adjusting, changing, and developing new technologies to fight the next war. Falling into this trap is potentially devastating, leaving you unprepared to fight the actual war that... View Details
- 01 Dec 2010
- News
How to Survive Past Start-up
Art by Craig Frazier Related Links Alumni New Venture Contest Opens Webinar series (ongoing) Entrepreneurship at HBS (video) Harvard Launches Innovation Incubator Why is it that even when smart, educated, well-networked people launch new companies, a few strike gold,... View Details
- 09 Aug 2004
- Research & Ideas
A Diagnostic for Disruptive Innovation
established market. Mapping a product's or service's delivery chain can identify opportunities where removing a link from the delivery chain will allow people to do for themselves what they previously had to rely on others to do for them. The View Details
- August 2012 (Revised August 2024)
- Case
ABC Pharmaceuticals
By: Regina E. Herzlinger and Erik R. Sparks
This case asks students to price a new drug that is in Stage II of its clinical trials. It contains detailed estimates of the time required and costs for all the steps needed to commercialize a drug in the U.S. Students will learn virtually all the steps required to... View Details
Keywords: Drug Development; Price; Product; Product Launch; Health Industry; Health Industry; Health Industry
Herzlinger, Regina E., and Erik R. Sparks. "ABC Pharmaceuticals." Harvard Business School Case 313-041, August 2012. (Revised August 2024.)
- 16 May 2016
- Blog Post
Career Resources for International Students
large U.S. technology firm would be more likely to participate in the dedicated interview process, while those looking for roles in health care in South Africa or retail in Brazil will utilize CPD’s career... View Details
- July 2023
- Case
Moderna: Everything, Everywhere, All at Once
By: Satish Tadikonda, Shikhar Ghosh and William Marks
Coming out of the COVID-19 pandemic, Moderna was riding the successes of developing a vaccine in record time and helping stem the tide of the crisis. However, the company had grown at an incredible rate, more than doubled its number of employees, and had to put on hold... View Details
Keywords: Health Pandemics; Selection and Staffing; Growth Management; Management Succession; Retirement; Technological Innovation; Corporate Strategy; Biotechnology Industry
Tadikonda, Satish, Shikhar Ghosh, and William Marks. "Moderna: Everything, Everywhere, All at Once." Harvard Business School Case 824-021, July 2023.
- 12 Oct 1999
- Research & Ideas
Porter’s Perspective: Competing in the Global Economy
and prosperous than others. And the third, which arose from the second, examines how you can take competitive thinking and apply it to social problems such as the environment, inner cities, and health care. Most of my readers have tended... View Details
Keywords: Re: Michael E. Porter
- 20 Nov 2015
- News
Room to Grow
values of local, sustainable, healthy food, they can have a huge economic, environmental, and health benefit throughout their institutions.” The University of Massachusetts at Amherst—the largest institutional food operation in the... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 02 Jul 2024
- Blog Post
Climate Story #19: Nicole Neeman Brady (MBA 2008): The Critical Role of Business in Tackling Water Challenges
the energy lobby and the power missing from the water lobby. The energy sector, Thompson said, “....is dominated by private companies that are developing new technologies and implementing them with public support. Between 2001–14,... View Details
- 24 Apr 2018
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, April 24, 2018
In October 2015, ZappRx founder Zoe Barry is deciding between two business models for her health technology start-up. Her product, a software application that aims to expedite the prescription fulfillment... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- Web
From the Chief Financial Officer - Annual Report 2020
Doctoral Programs to resume virtually after spring break ended. Additionally, HBS faculty members mobilized to generate timely new research exploring how organizations were managing through a dramatic confluence of events—a global health... View Details
- 08 Sep 2015
- First Look
September 8, 2015
the need for increased upfront financing, but this protection lowers the real option value of the new venture. In equilibrium, financing risk disproportionately impacts innovative ventures with the greatest real option value. We propose that extremely novel View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 14 Jun 2016
- First Look
June 14, 2016
small inventors. NPE patent trolling has a real negative impact on targeted firms, without any increase in innovation, technology transfer, or other counterbalancing benefits measured thus far. Publisher's link:... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 22 Aug 2005
- Research & Ideas
Balancing the Future Against Today’s Needs
bonus program tied to growth targets across all three media," according to the authors. To give focus to both growth and core initiatives throughout his organization, PacifiCare Health Systems chairman and CEO Howie Phanstiel took a... View Details
Keywords: by Paul Michelman
- 04 Jul 2016
- Research & Ideas
Is Your Org Chart Stuck in a Rut? Try a Scientific Experiment
If you want to be awed by the pace of technological advancement over the past few decades, compare the capabilities of a bulky PC from 1984 with those of a sleek smartphone in 2016. You’ll find stark differences. But if you want to be... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel