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- 09 Oct 2012
- First Look
First Look: October 9
this time. Read the article: http://hbr.org/2012/10/great-leaders-dont-need-experience/ar/1 Working PapersTeam Scaffolds: How Minimal In-Group Structures Support Fast-Paced Teaming Authors:Melissa Valentine and Amy C. Edmondson Abstract Across many industries,... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- May 2018
- Case
The Multiple Myeloma Research Foundation's Answer Fund
By: Richard G. Hamermesh and Matthew G. Preble
Keywords: Data Analytics; Customer Focus and Relationships; Customer Relationship Management; Cost vs Benefits; Investment Return; Health Care and Treatment; Innovation Leadership; Intellectual Property; Knowledge Sharing; Knowledge Dissemination; Leadership; Leading Change; Resource Allocation; Goals and Objectives; Marketing Communications; Performance; Programs; Projects; Business and Community Relations; Business and Stakeholder Relations; Networks; Partners and Partnerships; Research and Development; Genetics; Behavior; Motivation and Incentives; Social and Collaborative Networks; Nonprofit Organizations; Strategy; Health Industry; Health Industry; Health Industry; United States
- 19 Jun 2007
- First Look
First Look: June 19, 2007
company and a publicly-traded company. Purchase this case: http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=507001 Arizona Department of Public Health: The Challenges of Preparing for a Public Health Emergency Harvard... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 2024
- Working Paper
Cephalosporins—Fighting Hospital Infections: Case Histories of Transformational Advances
By: Amar Bhidé, Srikant Datar and Katherine Stebbins
This case history describes the development of three generations of cephalosporins – antibiotics that have significantly reduced hospital infections. Specifically, we chronicle how: 1) Early (pre-cephalosporin) antibiotics were developed in the first half of the 20th... View Details
Keywords: Health Care and Treatment; Technological Innovation; Innovation Strategy; Technology Adoption; Collaborative Innovation and Invention; Innovation and Invention; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms
Bhidé, Amar, Srikant Datar, and Katherine Stebbins. "Cephalosporins—Fighting Hospital Infections: Case Histories of Transformational Advances." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 20-133, July 2020. (Revised May 2024.)
- 2024
- Working Paper
Tamoxifen—Reducing Breast Cancer Risks: Case Histories of Transformational Advances
By: Amar Bhidé, Srikant Datar and Katherine Stebbins
We describe the development of tamoxifen, considered a “gold standard” treatment for
millions of breast cancer patients. Specifically, we describe breast cancer treatments before tamoxifen’s
development; the initial development of tamoxifen from 1960 to 1973;... View Details
Keywords: Health Care and Treatment; Technological Innovation; Innovation and Invention; Innovation Strategy; Technology Adoption; Collaborative Innovation and Invention; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms
Bhidé, Amar, Srikant Datar, and Katherine Stebbins. "Tamoxifen—Reducing Breast Cancer Risks: Case Histories of Transformational Advances." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 20-134, July 2020. (Revised May 2024.)
- 2024
- Working Paper
Laparoscopy—Minimally Invasive Surgery: Case Histories of Transformational Advances
By: Amar Bhidé, Caitlin N. Bowler and Srikant M. Datar
We describe how operations through laparoscopes – tubular instruments inserted into abdominal cavities – revolutionized gynecological and other surgeries inside the abdomen, such as gall bladder removal. Specifically, we chronicle the 1) foundational contributions of... View Details
Keywords: Health Care and Treatment; Technological Innovation; Innovation Strategy; Technology Adoption; Collaborative Innovation and Invention; Innovation and Invention; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms
Bhidé, Amar, Caitlin N. Bowler, and Srikant M. Datar. "Laparoscopy—Minimally Invasive Surgery: Case Histories of Transformational Advances." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 20-008, July 2019. (Revised May 2024.)
- 2025
- Working Paper
Computed Tomography (CT)--Beyond Traditional X-Rays: Case Histories of Transformational Advances
By: Amar Bhidé, Srikant M. Datar and Katherine Stebbins
This case history describes how Computed Tomography (CT) scanners - that combine Xrays
and computers to image soft tissues of the brain and other organs -- have become a widely used
diagnostic tool. Specifically, we chronicle the 1) initial development of CT... View Details
Keywords: Health Care and Treatment; Technological Innovation; Innovation Strategy; Technology Adoption; Collaborative Innovation and Invention; Innovation and Invention; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms
Bhidé, Amar, Srikant M. Datar, and Katherine Stebbins. "Computed Tomography (CT)--Beyond Traditional X-Rays: Case Histories of Transformational Advances." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 20-004, July 2019. (Revised January 2025.)
- 11 Feb 2019
- Research & Ideas
The Business of Saving the Planet
"The fact that the benefits of addressing the problem of climate change almost certainly outweigh the costs ... does not make concerted global action to address the problem easy." —Climate Change in 2018: Implications for Business If there is one positive... View Details
- 05 Aug 2015
- What Do You Think?
What Happened to the ‘Innovation, Disruption, Technology’ Dividend?
W. Norton & Company, 2014). Martin Ford, Rise of the Robots: Technology and the Threat of a Jobless Future (New York: Basic Books, 2015). James L. Heskett, W. Earl Sasser, Jr., and Leonard A. Schlesinger, What Great Service Leaders Know and Do: Creating... View Details
- 18 Feb 2015
- First Look
First Look: February 18
https://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cbmp/product/715411-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 715-423 Discovery Limited Discovery Limited is a South-African based insurance company. Started in the early 1990s, Discovery used behavioral economics and data collection to innovate... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 10 Jun 2002
- Research & Ideas
Disruption: The Art of Framing
potential shared resources. Johnson & Johnson has done this effectively with many of its health care companies—acquiring separate platforms of growth and leaving them largely independent. Knight Ridder... View Details
Keywords: by Clark Gilbert & Joseph L. Bower
- 11 Oct 2024
- Research & Ideas
How AI Could Ease the Refugee Crisis and Bring New Talent to Businesses
instance, Paulson says she recently had a conversation with an executive MBA student who is designing a platform for matching patients with mental health care providers and wanted to learn from the... View Details
- September 2010
- Teaching Note
Acumen Fund: Measurement in Impact Investing (TN) (A) and (B)
By: Alnoor Ebrahim
Teaching Note for 310011 and 310017. View Details
- 03 Apr 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, April 3, 2018
of spending on traditional aid programs in areas such as health care and food access in developing countries, GiveDirectly transfers cash directly to the poor. As experiments have shown this approach to be... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 07 Oct 2002
- Research & Ideas
What Leaders Need to Do To Restore Investor Confidence
systems, compliance systems. [Markets] do not punish with sufficient speed and force to eliminate the incentive for misconduct. Q: So the problem was making the maximization of shareholder wealth the primary goal? A: The idea of... View Details
Keywords: by Harvard Management Update
- 18 Dec 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, December 18, 2018
R&D-intensive firms react to negative shocks to their existing products? We explore this question using detailed project-level data from drug development firms. Using FDA Public Health Advisories as an exogenous and idiosyncratic... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 22 Apr 2002
- Research & Ideas
Profits and Prophets: The Role of Values in Investment
provided a good return for a pension fund holder at some point, but that investor and society pay more in the end through increased health care costs. Hayes said that Domini's picture of a system run amok,... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 09 Apr 2014
- Research & Ideas
A Playbook for Small-Business Job Creation
As Administrator of the Small Business Administration (SBA), Karen Mills spent four years as part of President Barack Obama's senior economic team and a member of his Cabinet, specifically focused on the health and growth of America's... View Details
- 15 Jan 2013
- First Look
First Look: January 15
circumscribe citizen-employees, and they engage in production and trade. But individual corporations are no longer adequate to serve as the primary unit of analysis. Over the years, systems of distributed innovation-so-called business... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 2024
- Working Paper
Coronary Artery Bypass Grafting—Impossible to Routine: Case Histories of Transformational Advances
By: Amar Bhidé, Srikant M. Datar and Fabio Villa
We describe how Coronary Artery Bypass Grafting (CABG, or more popularly, “bypass”) operations
revolutionized the treatment of coronary disease (that can produce fatal heart attacks and debilitating
angina). Specifically, we chronicle the: 1) development of the... View Details
Keywords: Health Care and Treatment; Technological Innovation; Innovation Strategy; Technology Adoption; Collaborative Innovation and Invention; Innovation and Invention; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms
Bhidé, Amar, Srikant M. Datar, and Fabio Villa. "Coronary Artery Bypass Grafting—Impossible to Routine: Case Histories of Transformational Advances." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 20-010, July 2019. (Revised May 2024.)