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- 29 Jun 2010
- First Look
First Look: June 29
spraying, rapid diagnostic tests, and artemisinin-based combination therapy. We discuss the timing and regional coverage of the program and critically review the available health and program rollout data. To estimate the health benefits...
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Martha Lagace
- 11 Jun 2012
- Research & Ideas
When Business Competition Harms Society
Agency to institute such a program. The researchers examined the prevailing inspection system called On-Board Diagnostics II (OBD-II), which tests for excessive carbon monoxide, hydrocarbons, and nitrogen oxides, and also checks the...
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- 18 Apr 2019
- Research & Ideas
Open Innovation Contestants Build AI-Based Cancer Tool
LISH team: LISH has longstanding interest in and experience with solving problems in computer vision, image analysis, and advanced analytics through crowdsourcing. We have extended our work and research into the field of medical image analysis. So rather than focus on...
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- 03 Aug 2009
- Research & Ideas
Corporate Social Responsibility in a Downturn
the firm's business practices. We have built a simple classification system that when combined with an "assessment" model could yield powerful diagnostics on how to migrate and manage a company's portfolio of CSR programs....
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by Martha Lagace
- 05 Dec 2007
- Sharpening Your Skills
Sharpening Your Skills: Managing Marketing
productivity, says Professor Gail J. McGovern. In this Q&A, she discusses what executives can do to repair the split and introduces a new diagnostic tool for measuring marketing performance used in the HBS Executive Education program....
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- 12 Oct 1999
- Research & Ideas
A Perfect Fit: Aligning Organization & Strategy
their espoused strategy and management principles. Beer and Eisenstat began implementing the process ten years ago at Becton Dickinson and Company, a medical products and diagnostic systems supplier. "Ray Gilmartin, who was CEO at...
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by Judith A. Ross
- 23 May 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Ideas and Research: May 23, 2017
decision-making “Minds”—Ideal Point Mind, Market Comparison Mind, Local Comparison Mind, and Image Mind—lead to very different outcomes and behaviors. We have developed the 4 Minds framework to serve as a diagnostic tool to help identify...
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Carmen Nobel
- 15 Sep 2003
- Lessons from the Classroom
HBS Cases: Developing the Courage to Act
thus serve three distinct roles. First, they help students develop diagnostic skills in a world where markets and technologies are constantly changing. "The purpose of business education," a business-school professor noted more...
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by David A. Garvin
- 04 Sep 2019
- Research & Ideas
'I Know Why You Voted for Trump' and Other Motivation Misperceptions
lies; were Clinton voters exaggerating the importance of immigration, or were Trump voters underreporting it?” Barasz says. “But these perceptions really affected how people felt about each other. Clinton voters felt like they had this View Details
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by Dina Gerdeman
- 13 Jan 2009
- First Look
First Look: January 13, 2009
structurally attractive for soft drink firms, and b) if so, how can Pepsi best "catch-up" with Coca-Cola in a given market. Purchase this case: http://harvardbusinessonline.hbsp.harvard.edu/ b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=709451 View Details
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Martha Lagace
- 10 Apr 2013
- Research & Ideas
Learning Curve: Making the Most of Outsourcing
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. “When this type of work is outsourced it should not be viewed as a mere commodity.” Teleradiology is the reading and interpretation of CT, MRI, X-ray, and other diagnostic images. Increasingly,...
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- 16 Jul 2013
- First Look
First Look: July 16
Management Distinguished Fellows Award, given at Columbia University, June 18, 2012. We wrote this article at Paul's request. Download working paper: http://ssrn.com/abstract=2241548 Helping You Help Me: The Role of Diagnostic...
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Anna Secino
- 25 May 2016
- Research & Ideas
How Consumers and Businesses are Reshaping Public Health
savings. In the area of prevention, the spread of ever-cheaper mobile smart phones enables citizens in remote rural areas to receive online medical consultations, treatment suggestions, and prescriptions. Readings on diagnostic machines...
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- 06 Mar 2012
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First Look: March 6
Hamermesh, Mona Sinha, and Elizabeth VrolykHarvard Business School Case 812-020 Healthpoint Services sought to address rural India's shortage of quality and affordable healthcare with a multi-service platform that comprised telemedical health clinics called...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 14 Jul 2009
- First Look
First Look: July 14
Course MaterialsThe DiagnoFirst Opportunity Harvard Business School Case 309-112 John Mason, a principle at Oldwell Partners, was facing a decision of whether or not to invest in DiagnoFirst, a molecular diagnostics firm. DiagnoFirst's...
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Martha Lagace
- 09 Nov 2010
- First Look
First Look: November 9, 2010
access to greater capital be the best strategy or would this cause the organization to lose its social mission? Salud Digna provided diagnostic medical tests to the poor, had experienced rapid growth, and was financially self-sufficient....
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Sean Silverthorne
- 18 Oct 2016
- First Look
October 18, 2016
diagnostic firm, is evaluating the offer made by Ron Zwanziger, the firm’s founder and former CEO, to acquire the company and take it private. The offer arrives at the end of a tumultuous year for the company, which saw Zwanziger fighting...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 10 Apr 2012
- First Look
First Look: April 10
consider: Where are you in the senior executive life cycle? How much cross-organization collaboration is required? How much time do you spend on activities outside your direct span of control? What's the scope of your role? What's the best mix of roles for your team? A...
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Carmen Nobel
- 17 Jan 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research: January 17
the Levers of Control to Implement Strategy This module reading pulls together key concepts and techniques from the Strategy Execution series into an integrated model—the levers of control. The four levers are (1) belief systems, (2) boundary systems, (3) View Details
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Sean Silverthorne
- 20 Mar 2013
- Research & Ideas
How CEOs Sustain Higher-Ambition Goals
of Quest Diagnostics who now serves as dean of Boston University School of Management. Freeman said that when he became dean, his plush CEO-like office was on the top floor, so he decided to move to a small windowless office in close...
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by Dina Gerdeman