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- 20 Dec 2010
- Research & Ideas
Panama Canal: Troubled History, Astounding Turnaround
Congress's wheels in approving the Panama route for the canal, William Cromwell, convinced Stevens to take the job. Stevens accepted on condition that he "was not to hampered or handicapped by anyone, high or low." “There are three View Details
- 10 Feb 2023
- Research & Ideas
COVID-19 Lessons: Social Media Can Nudge More People to Get Vaccinated
Public health officials who took to social media to push people to get the COVID-19 vaccine may have wondered if they were screaming into a void. Over the course of the pandemic, health agencies around the world—ranging from the World Health Organization to the Center... View Details
- 18 Dec 2013
- HBS Case
Lessons from the Lance Armstrong Cheating Scandal
scandal hurt not only Armstrong's own reputation, but the reputations of his teammates. Photo: iStockPhoto More than that, Armstrong had transcended himself to become an icon, having overcome testicular cancer and then raising nearly $400 million to fight the View Details
- 30 Jul 2007
- Research & Ideas
Repugnant Markets and How They Get That Way
was get some of the gains from exchange without exciting the repugnance that forbids markets. One could imagine that a law about kidney sales might come about if the courts decided that it was unreasonable for someone who was dying of kidney View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 11 Jul 2016
- HBS Case
Neurodiversity: The Benefits of Recruiting Employees with Cognitive Disabilities
time when many bemoan the lack of skilled workers. ASD is an umbrella term for several cognitive impairments, including Asperger syndrome. The United States Centers for Disease Control estimates one in 68 children have been diagnosed with... View Details
- 21 Feb 2018
- Research & Ideas
When a Competitor Abandons the Market, Should You Advance or Retreat?
Administration. He looked most closely at decisions made during phase two clinical trials—the period when diseased patients are treated with the test drug and results are compared with patients randomly receiving a placebo. The trials can... View Details
- 20 Aug 2008
- Op-Ed
The Time is Right for Creative Capitalism
forces operating today, business and consumer spending, in service toward eradicating deadly disease in Africa. Kiva connects small lenders-many of whom lend $50 or less-with promising entrepreneurs, mostly in developing countries. Three... View Details
Keywords: by Nancy Koehn
- 19 Jan 2015
- Research & Ideas
Is Wikipedia More Biased Than Encyclopædia Britannica?
likely to be adequately covered by Wikipedia editors. "When it comes to their capabilities, Britannica may be able to do a much better job of marketing itself as the expert on topics that Wikipedia can't cover well, such as obscure View Details
- 13 Jul 2020
- Research & Ideas
Merck CEO Ken Frazier Discusses a COVID Cure, Racism, and Why Leaders Need to Walk the Talk
actually tell the public not to do the things that the public needs to do like wear the damn masks. Okay? We were so unprepared for this pandemic. It's not even funny on so many levels. I learned about it in mid-January or so, but fortunately our researchers who engage... View Details
- 02 Apr 2020
- What Do You Think?
What Are Lessons for Leaders from This Black Swan Crisis?
doubts were expressed by readers of this column about whether it even qualifies as a Black Swan. Let’s turn to some of the responses. “We are not dealing here with a Black Swan,” Tom Coyne commented. “The potential for, and impact of, a global respiratory View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 13 Nov 2013
- Research & Ideas
Should Men’s Products Fear a Woman’s Touch?
Most eight-year-olds are familiar with cooties: an imaginary infectious disease spread through proximity to children of the opposite sex. We eventually outgrow the silly idea. But when it comes to the world of consumer products, fear of... View Details
- 22 Aug 2022
- Research & Ideas
Can Amazon Remake Health Care?
we desperately need more meaningful innovation for a whole host of diseases—diabetes, cardiovascular disease, Parkinson’s, Alzheimer’s, and ALS. We want cures, not chronic disease management. How does Amazon’s foray into health care help... View Details
- 21 Oct 2015
- Research & Ideas
How to Predict if a New Business Idea is Any Good
industry like drug development, it’s not like you can just switch from one disease to another disease,” she says. While R&D-intensive ventures can shift the application of their underlying technology, Shu continues, the fact they are... View Details
- 16 Mar 2020
- Research & Ideas
How the Coronavirus Is Already Rewriting the Future of Business
Kanter (@RosabethKanter) is the Ernest L. Arbuckle Professor of Business Administration. John Macomber: Employees and buildings will be healthier COVID-19 will change the nature of our offices, apartments, hospitals, schools, and government buildings. Concern about... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 01 Jun 2015
- Research & Ideas
The Surprising Benefits of Oversharing
respondent admitted to frequently hiding a sexually transmitted disease from a partner, 64 percent of participants chose that person over the person who decided not to answer the STD question. One explanation for this result may be that... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 15 Nov 2018
- Book
Can the Global Food Industry Overcome Public Distrust?
JamesBrey Food is the largest segment of the global economy. It is also widely recognized as more critical for human health than any pharmaceutical drug on the planet. But significant changes in the industry are making people lose trust in many institutions involved in... View Details
- 22 Feb 2022
- Research & Ideas
Lack of Female Scientists Means Fewer Medical Treatments for Women
we can open the spigot and then those ideas would flow out. Our results suggested that there is.” Women-led inventions benefit everyone Although women often invent products or solve problems for their own sex, they don’t do so exclusively. Female-led teams also study... View Details
Keywords: by Kristen Senz
- 26 Nov 2001
- Research & Ideas
How Toyota Turns Workers Into Problem Solvers
Healthcare Initiative, with broad community support, with cooperation from the Centers for Disease Control, and with backing from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. Also, we've been testing these ideas with our students: Kent in the... View Details
- 09 Jun 2008
- Lessons from the Classroom
Monetizing IP: The Executive’s Challenge
issues elsewhere, such in new biotechnology-related fields. For instance, a great deal of interest has surrounded proposals to use patent pools to address the multiplicity of rights that are slowing research in critical diseases such as... View Details
- 24 Jan 2018
- Research & Ideas
How to Get People Addicted to a Good Habit
A few years ago, Reshmaan Hussam and colleagues decided to find out why many people in the developing world fail to wash their hands with soap, despite lifesaving benefits. Every year more than a million children under the age of five die from diarrheal View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel