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  • August 3, 2011
  • Article

Defining Success for Translational Research Organizations

By: Robert C. Pozen
Keywords: Success; Research; Organizations
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  • Research Summary

article on how to evaluate "success" in translational medical research

the article provides a framework for organizations sponsoring translational research on how to evaluate "success".  It urges these organizations to articulate specific goals and concrete metrics on seven dimensions of translational medical research --... View Details
  • March 2010 (Revised April 2010)
  • Case

Deworming Kenya: Translating Research into Action (A)

By: Nava Ashraf, Neil Buddy Shah and Rachel Gordon
Karen Levy and her colleague, Margaret Ndanyi, have spent the last six months planning and preparing for a national Kenyan program to target school children most at risk for parasitic worm infection. One week after its launch, the program seemed to be going well but... View Details
Keywords: Planning; Risk and Uncertainty; Mission and Purpose; Performance Efficiency; Programs; Problems and Challenges; Research; Policy; Health Care and Treatment; Management Practices and Processes; Kenya
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  • March 2010
  • Supplement

Deworming Kenya: Translating Research into Action (B)

By: Nava Ashraf, Neil Buddy Shah and Rachel Gordon
Karen Levy and her colleague, Margaret Ndanyi, learn the results of their nation-wide effort to rid Kenyan school children of parasitic worm infection. View Details
Keywords: Programs; Health Care and Treatment; Research; Policy; Outcome or Result; Kenya
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  • June 2010 (Revised March 2014)
  • Teaching Note

Deworming Kenya: Translating Research into Action (A) and (B)

By: Nava Ashraf, Neil Buddy Shah, Rachel Gordon and Elena Moroz
Teaching Note for 910001. View Details
Keywords: Health Disorders; Research and Development; Health Care and Treatment; Kenya
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  • September 2014
  • Case

Pfizer's Centers for Therapeutic Innovation (CTI)

By: Gary Pisano, James Weber and Kait Szydlowski
In 2010, Pfizer established four small research units in New York, Boston, San Francisco, and San Diego located close to several premier Academic Medical Centers (AMCs), or hospitals with adjoining medical schools. The goal of these units was to redesign collaboration... View Details
Keywords: Drug Development; Academic Collaboration; Research And Development; Innovation; Translational Research; Management; Operations; Problems and Challenges; Research; Science; Information Technology; Strategy; Biotechnology Industry; Pharmaceutical Industry; North and Central America; Europe; Asia
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  • 16 Sep 2013
  • Research & Ideas

Earnings Calls That Get Lost in Translation

reaction on capital markets. It was written by Harvard Business School assistant professors Gwen Yu and Francois Brochet, with MIT Sloan of Management doctoral student Patricia Naranjo. Although targeted at foreign executives, the View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
  • 2014
  • Working Paper

Bridging Science and Technology Through Academic-Industry Partnerships

By: Sen Chai and Willy C. Shih
Scientific research and its translation into commercialized technology is a driver of wealth creation and economic growth. Partnerships to foster the translational processes from public research organizations, such as universities and hospitals, to private firms are a... View Details
Keywords: Innovation; Firm Performance; Public-private Partnership Funding; Translational Research; Small And Medium Enterprises; Partners and Partnerships; Public Sector; Private Sector; Performance; Science-Based Business; Innovation and Invention
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  • 14 Feb 2013
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Fostering Translational Research: Using Public-Private Partnerships to Improve Firm Survival, Employment Growth, and Innovative Performance

Keywords: by Sen Chai & Willy C. Shih; Education
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Research

Professor Karmarkar's research in consumer behavior develops theory-driven frameworks “from the brain up”. In particular, using a combination of consumer psychology, behavioral economics, and insights from neuroscience, she investigates the factors that consciously... View Details

  • January 25, 2021
  • Blog Post

Lower Income Translates to Fewer Happy Experiences—Here Is How We Can Fix It

By: Jon M. Jachimowicz and Adam Eric Greenberg
Can money actually buy happiness? Research shows that having more money makes people evaluate their lives more favorably (what researchers call “life satisfaction”). Surprising as it may seem, whether money leads to greater life satisfaction because it makes people... View Details
Keywords: Life Satisfaction; Social Justice; Money; Happiness; Satisfaction; Well-being
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  • 19 Sep 2016
  • Research & Ideas

Why Isn't Business Research More Relevant to Business Practitioners?

relevant research not only helps improve the research, but also increases the likelihood that practitioners will subsequently read and appreciate a translation of that work,” Toffel writes. “This can yield... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Education
  • 09 Apr 2019
  • First Look

New Research and Ideas, April 9, 2019

Stolarz-Fantino argue that specific design features of our research mean that it cannot have policy implications and that researchers “need to consider profit maximization in menu design or studies are... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 22 May 2018
  • First Look

New Research and Ideas, May 22, 2018

sustainability strategy and integrating it across all of its business units. The case provides a deep dive into the challenges and successes of trying to integrate impact, sustainability, and ESG across the firm and how that strategy View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 27 Feb 2018
  • First Look

First Look at New Research and Ideas, February 27, 2018

December 2017 Journal of Creative Behavior In Pursuit of Everyday Creativity By: Amabile, Teresa M. Abstract—Creativity researchers have long paid careful attention to individual creativity, beginning with studies of well-known geniuses... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 02 Oct 2018
  • First Look

New Research and Ideas, October 2, 2018

paper we draw on the recent literature to highlight areas in which history has played a particularly prominent role in improving our understanding of growth dynamics. Research at the intersection of historical data, theory, and empirics... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 22 Jan 2019
  • First Look

New Research and Ideas, January 22, 2019

willingness to experiment. They’re seen as being psychologically safe, highly collaborative, and nonhierarchical. And research suggests that these behaviors translate into better innovative performance. But... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 01 Aug 2017
  • First Look

First Look at New Research and Ideas, August 1

for more engagement at the micro level of business enterprises. While recognizing that the context of institutions, education, and culture plays a role in explanations of wealth and poverty, the paper calls for a closer engagement with the processes of how these... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 14 Nov 2017
  • First Look

New Research and Ideas: November 14, 2017

Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=53461 2017 Making Research Matter: A Psychologist's Guide to Public Engagement Government and Organizations: Transforming Institutions Using Behavioral Insights By: Dalton,... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 05 Dec 2017
  • First Look

First Look at New Research and Ideas, December 5, 2017

S. Fader, Sunil Gupta, Bruce Hardie, Aurelie Lemmens, Barak Libai, David T. Neal, Foster Provost, and Rom Schrift Abstract—In today’s turbulent business environment, customer retention presents a significant challenge for many service companies. Academics have... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

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