Publications

October 2020 (Revised June 2021)
Case

What Will Best Serve Humanity? Accelerating Uses for CRISPR at the Broad Institute

By: Amitabh Chandra, Matthew C. Weinzierl, Lisa Marrone and Spencer Lee-Rey

October 2016 (Revised September 2017)
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The CRISPR-Cas9 Quarrel

By: Richard G. Hamermesh and Matthew G. Preble

In mid-2016, the Broad Institute and the University of California, Berkeley were in the middle of a contentious patent dispute over which entity controlled a breakthrough gene editing technology called CRISPR-Cas9. With CRISPR-Cas9, scientists might soon be able to... View Details

Keywords: CRISPR; Broad Institute; University Of California Berkeley; Intellectual Property; Patents; Law; Lawsuits and Litigation; Science; Genetics; Entrepreneurship; Biotechnology Industry; United States

01 Dec 2009
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Broad Range of Interests Among Nine New Faculty

which all technological shifts are.” During the winter term, Henderson will coteach the first-year course Leadership and Corporate Account-ability, which she says has broad relevance to her work. “LCA really looks at the responsibilities... View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley

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About the Institute - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness

HBS ISC About the Institute About the Institute Contact Us Faculty & Staff Institute Associates Ludcke FAQs About the Institute The View Details

June 2009 (Revised August 2010)
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How Institutional Investors Think About Real Estate

By: Arthur I Segel

Real estate is an increasingly important component in the portfolios of institutional investors. This note discusses the issues these investors must consider when investing in real estate from the legal forms of ownership, to separate or commingled funds, to property... View Details

Keywords: Investment; Investment Funds; Investment Portfolio; Property; Financial Services Industry

22 Jan 2014
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Leading Investors Leaving Mark in City Philanthropy

Keywords: Youth Villages; homeless; Children; Baupost; Jewish; Broad Institute; Funds, Trusts, and Other Financial Vehicles; Finance

2012
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Institutional Pressures and Organizational Characteristics: Implications for Environmental Strategy

By: Magali A. Delmas and Michael W. Toffel

A broad literature has emerged over the past decades demonstrating that firms' environmental strategies and practices are influenced by stakeholders and institutional pressures. Such findings are consistent with institutional sociology, which emphasizes the importance... View Details

Keywords: Management Practices and Processes; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Business and Stakeholder Relations; Natural Environment; Business Strategy

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Institutional Voice | About

rather than issuing broad official statements. Examples If the University were told by an outside entity who it was allowed to admit to its academic programs, the leaders could speak out on behalf of the View Details

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The Diamond Model - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness

Conditions Related & Supporting Industries Many things matter for competitiveness. Successful economic development is a process of successive upgrading , in which the business environment improves to enable increasingly sophisticated ways of competing. This environment... View Details

01 Oct 1999
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Historic Gift from HBS to New Radcliffe Institute

Fund, which was established last year to encourage unrestricted donations. The new Radcliffe Institute will be an academic community where individuals can pursue advanced work in the academic disciplines, professions, or creative arts.... View Details

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Geography of Care - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness

basis with respect to concordance with MD Anderson clinical care guidelines for different cancer conditions. These tended to be relatively small medical oncology practices. They then expanded further by affiliating with large partner View Details

2001
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From Heresy to Dogma: An Institutional History of Corporate Environmentalism

By: Andrew J. Hoffman

This is a pathbreaking account of how the environmental movement has led to profound changes in the perceptions and practices of large-scale corporations, as shown here in the chemical and petroleum industries. The book traces how market, social, and political... View Details

Keywords: Organizational Culture; Environmental Sustainability; Public Opinion; Social Issues

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Ethical AI | Institute for Business in Global Society

Ethical AI As artificial intelligence becomes integral to business operations, it is imperative to understand the technology’s broad potential impact on society. BiGS and our partners at Harvard’s D^3 View Details

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Global Trade, Capital and National Institutions - Course Catalog

course has been designed to give students an appreciation of the critical role of institutions and policies in affecting patterns of international trade, services, and capital flows and the government's abilities to manage them... View Details

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Strategy for Health Care Delivery - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness

offered in cooperation with the HBS Institute for Strategy and Competitiveness (ISC). Key Benefits In this program, you will use a value framework—first introduced by HBS professor Michael E. Porter in his book Redefining Health Care—as a... View Details

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Value Measurement for Health Care - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness

selections that balance each participant's experience, scope of current responsibilities, and type of organization. HBS seeks candidates who reflect a broad range of industries, functions, countries, and backgrounds. We review... View Details

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Executive Education Courses - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness

makes selections that balance each participant's experience, scope of current responsibilities, and type of organization. HBS seeks candidates who reflect a broad range of industries, functions, countries, and backgrounds. We review... View Details

2000
Article

Georgia Regional Transportation Authority: A Case Study of an Innovative Regional Planning Institution

By: Brian Trelstad

The Georgia Regional Transportation Authority (GRTA), a new regional planning institution, is a governor-appointed body of 15 regional leaders with broad authority over land use and transportation planning throughout the state. Created in the summer of 1999, GRTA... View Details

Keywords: Transportation; Planning; Business and Community Relations; Georgia (state, US); Atlanta

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May 15, 2012
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Ensuring Quality Cancer Care: A Follow-Up Review of the Institute of Medicine’s 10 Recommendations for Improving the Quality of Cancer Care in America

By: Tracy E. Spinks, Heidi W. Albright, Thomas W. Feeley, Ron Walters, Thomas W. Burke, Thomas Aloia, Eduardo Bruera, Aman Buzdar, Lewis Foxhall, David Hui, Barbara Summers, Alma Rodriguez, Raymond DuBois and Kenneth I. Shine

Responding to growing concerns regarding the safety, quality, and efficacy of cancer care in the United States, the Institute of Medicine (IOM) of the National Academy of Sciences commissioned a comprehensive review of cancer care delivery in the US health care system... View Details

Keywords: Cancer; Quality; Cancer Care In The U.S.; Quality Improvement; Health Care and Treatment; Health Industry; North and Central America