Food And Drug Administration - Publications - Faculty & Research

11 Apr 2023
Op-Ed

The First 90 Hours: What New CEOs Should—and Shouldn't—Do to Set the Right Tone

additional changes three months in. Don’t let perfection be the enemy of progress. Signal your values. You might see mountains of food go to waste at your welcome receptions and decide that all View Details

Keywords: by John Quelch

10 Feb 2022
Research & Ideas

Why Are Prices So High Right Now—and Will They Ever Return to Normal?

tend to drive up prices, typically for three to four months. But as the COVID-19 pandemic wears on, some shortages, especially food and electronics, are likely to linger much longer. That means higher prices... View Details

Keywords: by Rachel Layne

05 May 2014
Research & Ideas

Reflecting on Work Improves Job Performance

Professor of Business Administration at HBS; Giada Di Stefano, an assistant professor at HEC Paris; and Bradley Staats, an associate professor at the University of North Carolina's Kenan-Flagler Business... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

15 Nov 2022
Book

Stop Ignoring Bad Behavior: 6 Tips for Better Ethics at Work

also advising the government—the drug-regulation division of the US Food and Drug Administration—on how to strengthen its oversight of pharma. In addition to this alleged... View Details

Keywords: by Pamela Reynolds

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Curriculum - Case Method Project

Interstate Commerce Commission; meatpacking; railroads; regulation; regulatory capture; interest groups; food safety; Upton Sinclair; President Theodore Roosevelt; Meat Inspection Act; Food View Details

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Blavatnik Fellowship in Life Science Entrepreneurship - Health Care

future leaders who want to make important advancements, take risks, and commercialize biomedical discoveries. ” Srikant M. Datar George F. Baker Professor of Administration Dean of the Faculty How to Apply... View Details

11 Apr 2024
In Practice

Why Progress on Immigration Might Soften Labor Pains

lack of talent and saying, “Gosh, we need to find more workers.” The unemployment rate is still less for computer programmers than it is for workers who take jobs in fast food restaurants, but both... View Details

Keywords: by Rachel Layne

14 Feb 2023
HBS Case

Is Sweden Still 'Sweden'? A Liberal Utopia Grapples with an Identity Crisis

immigration Spar, the Jaime and Josefina Chua Tiampo Professor of Business Administration and senior associate dean for Business and Global... View Details

Keywords: by Lane Lambert

07 Feb 2017
First Look

First Look at New Research: February 7

deploy a manager to one of several possible contexts is endogenous to unobservable factors, and selection makes it challenging to disentangle the effect of workplace context on individual career advancement. We work around this problem by... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

01 Jun 2023
News

Pet Project

simple-ingredient, raw-food diet. Spies couldn’t find such a thing in the pet aisle, so she started making it herself and quickly maxed out the freezer of her San Francisco kitchen with dog food. Within a month, George’s energy View Details

Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint; Sporting Goods, Hobby, Musical Instrument, and Book Stores; Sporting Goods, Hobby, Musical Instrument, and Book Stores; Sporting Goods, Hobby, Musical Instrument, and Book Stores; Sporting Goods, Hobby, Musical Instrument, and Book Stores

02 Mar 2007
What Do You Think?

What Is the Government’s Role in US Health Care?

Newman), the high cost of new technology, artificial restrictions on the supply of drugs (Sergey Mirkiin) and healthcare providers (David Stahl and Michael Robbins), the size... View Details

Keywords: by Jim Heskett; Health

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Policies, Rules & Guidelines | About

flights; the purpose of this policy is to help clarify acceptable use and safety of UAS on or above the HBS campus. Drug & Alcohol Policy Harvard Business School’s policy on View Details

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Podcast - Business & Environment

Conversation with CEO Fabian Barthel 23 APR 2025 | Climate Rising Fabian Barthel, Co-Founder of Vytal, a circular economy packaging-as-a-service startup, joins host Mike Toffel to explore the innovation, behavioral science, and... View Details

15 Jul 2013
Research & Ideas

Five Imperatives for Improving Health Care

Business Administration at HBS and a member of the Forum's faculty steering committee. Other committee members include William W. Chin, Executive Dean for Research at HMS; Richard G. Hamermesh, MBA Class of... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Health

01 Dec 2023
News

Wide Horizon

Friday night and they were on their way home. The streets were packed. As he drove, he watched a car approach in the distance, swerving and traveling at a very high speed. The car ultimately hit a telephone... View Details

Keywords: Dan Morrell; Photos by Sarah Wilson

01 Sep 2023
News

Solving for Z

trauma, described how they overcame drug addiction, and talked about how they rebuilt their lives after a period of incarceration. And Chen has found that younger employees... View Details

Keywords: Alexander Gelfand; Illustrations by Doug Chayka; Administration of Human Resource Programs; Administration of Human Resource Programs

03 Jan 2023
What Do You Think?

How Would the Leadership Style of Girl Scouts' Frances Hesselbein Fare Today?

the Food and Drug Administration issued no warnings. Hesselbein expressed her confidence that the American public would not let that stop cookie... View Details

Keywords: Re: James L. Heskett

21 Feb 2018
Research & Ideas

When a Competitor Abandons the Market, Should You Advance or Retreat?

test results, changing market conditions, deteriorating financials of the host company, or escalating project costs. Krieger chose to focus on drug development, in part, because in the United States companies follow a well-defined,... View Details

Keywords: by Rachel Layne; Pharmaceutical; Health

01 Jun 2023
News

Curb Appeal

provides and make the city cleaner, safer, and healthier. “We haven’t really changed the way we collect trash in decades,” Tisch says. She aims to fix that. Over the past year, Tisch has leveraged a... View Details

Keywords: Alexander Gelfand; photography by Vance Jacobs; Justice, Public Order, and Safety Activities; Justice, Public Order, and Safety Activities

22 Aug 2005
Research & Ideas

Restoring a Global Economy, 1950–1980

Africa had accounted for 33 percent of global liabilities. In the 1990s, they accounted for 11 percent.2 World trade barriers were reduced under the auspices of the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT) signed in 1947. This... View Details

Keywords: by Geoffrey Jones

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