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- 26 Feb 2021
- News
Latinx on Boards; High-Tech Reforestation
the company’s trust and foundation. Aymeric Maudous, CEO and Founder of Lord of the Trees (far left) watches a test flight of a seed-planting drone. Aymeric Maudous holds one of the proprietary tree seed pods that are planted by drones.... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 25 Aug 2021
- News
Reimagining Chicago’s Schools
Back in 2011, when Melissa Zaikos (MBA 2000) first began digging deeply into the standardized test scores of the Chicago Public Schools system, she saw that elementary schools seemed to be getting better in the Chicago area. But once... View Details
- 01 Jun 2006
- News
Entrepreneur's Notebook with Kevin Przybocki (MBA '91)
test network software and hardware by injecting impairments like errors or delays into network traffic on fiber-optic or copper cable. If you are an equipment maker or network manager, you can use our product to make sure your routers or... View Details
- 12 Dec 2022
- Research & Ideas
Buy-In from Black Patients Suffers When Drug Trials Don’t Include Them
October. However, when the drug testing panel includes a proportionate share of Black participants, doctors are much more willing to write a prescription. Black patients, in turn, were more likely to trust a medicine when clinical trials... View Details
- 26 Sep 2017
- Blog Post
A Summer Internship with the International Rescue Committee
was to focus not on the feasibility of the solution but on the attractiveness. With a full portfolio of potential solutions we set back out into the field, creating rudimentary prototypes to elicit reactions directly from refugees and IRC caseworkers. When View Details
- 01 Dec 2015
- News
Complements to the Case Method
industry or region, and then going out and testing them in real life, that students can find those tiny gaps where it’s wrong— and where they can leverage with smart investments. “We don’t want the course to just be about polishing... View Details
- 16 Dec 2020
- News
Our Favorite Stories of 2020
Can This Man Change the American Diet? Clover Food Lab takes a transparent approach to bringing its unique style of vegetarian, fast-casual food to customers. In this episode of Skydeck, we meet Ayr Muir, Clover’s founder, and listen in on a food development meeting... View Details
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The Spread and Adoption of Option Pricing Models - Option Pricing in Theory & Practice: The Nobel Prize Research of Robert C. Merton - Exhibits - Historical Collections
published. An equally eager audience of financial advisors, portfolio managers and securities traders awaited the option pricing model. In the same year that Merton published his article on option pricing theory (1973), the Chicago Board Options Exchange opened and... View Details
- Web
The Formula - Option Pricing in Theory & Practice: The Nobel Prize Research of Robert C. Merton - Exhibits - Historical Collections
there. Over the next several years, these three economists both independently and collaboratively created option pricing theory. Early empirical tests of what became known as the Black-Scholes formula were published in 1972. The... View Details
- 01 Mar 2014
- News
No Small Beer
often it is ruined by improper storage, handling, or service," says Daniels, who started the program in 2008. "We teach and test the right way to do things—and also cover beer history, culture, and a solid understanding of flavor." So... View Details
- 2013
- Article
Planning Prompts as a Means of Increasing Preventive Screening Rates
By: Katherine L Milkman, John Beshears, James J. Choi, David Laibson and Brigitte C. Madrian
Keywords: Reminder Systems; Communication; Economics; Behavioral; Primary Prevention; Colonoscopy; Memory; Behavior; Health Care and Treatment; Health Testing and Trials; Communication Strategy; Health Industry
Milkman, Katherine L., John Beshears, James J. Choi, David Laibson, and Brigitte C. Madrian. "Planning Prompts as a Means of Increasing Preventive Screening Rates." Preventive Medicine 56, no. 1 (January 2013): 92–93.
- 15 Jan 2018
- News
A Better Business Model for Fighting Cancer
- 07 Aug 2006
- Research & Ideas
Whatever Happened to Caveat Emptor?
Its early milestones—comparative product tests launched by Consumer Reports in 1936, the Kennedy administration's Consumer Bill of Rights in 1960, Ralph Nader's critique of the U.S. automobile industry in Unsafe at Any Speed in... View Details
- Profile
Mike Monagle
business and then moved into a strategic role managing company interests in Asia. As it became clearer that Mike wanted to build a business of his own, he recognized a need to expand his skills and “reflect on my future,” he says. “In the right program, I could View Details
- February 2020
- Teaching Note
Theranos: Who Has Blood on Their Hands? (A) and (B)
By: Nien-he Hsieh and Christina R. Wing
Teaching Note for HBS Nos. 619-039 and 320-091. View Details
- November 2009 (Revised March 2010)
- Case
Managing Drugs on the Forefront of Personalized Medicine: The Erbitux and Vectibix Story
By: Richard G. Hamermesh, Raju Kucherlapati and Rachel Gordon
In May 2007, Amgen Inc. (Amgen) received disappointing news from the European Medicines Agency (EMEA) that its drug Vectibix, developed to fight metastatic colorectal cancer, had been rejected. This was especially surprising news given that a similar rival drug had... View Details
Keywords: Entrepreneurship; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Health Testing and Trials; Marketing Strategy; Product Positioning; Genetics; Biotechnology Industry; Europe; United States
Hamermesh, Richard G., Raju Kucherlapati, and Rachel Gordon. "Managing Drugs on the Forefront of Personalized Medicine: The Erbitux and Vectibix Story." Harvard Business School Case 810-066, November 2009. (Revised March 2010.)
- May 1999 (Revised July 2000)
- Teaching Note
Reading Rehabilitation Hospital: Implementing Patient-Focused Care TN
By: Jody H. Gittell and Sandra J. Sucher
Teaching Note for (9-898-172). A rewritten version of an earlier teaching note. View Details
- 06 Jul 2015
- Research & Ideas
Money and Quotas Motivate the Sales Force Best
randomly by branch, interspersed with control weeks. At the beginning of a test week, the company would send a text message to members of the sales force in a given branch, telling those employees they were getting a certain bonus. The... View Details
- 09 Sep 2009
- First Look
First Look: September 9
Many organizations have implemented incident reporting systems to highlight actual and potential operational failures in order to encourage problem solving and prevent subsequent failures. Our study is among the first to develop and empirically View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace