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    Robert S. Huckman

    Robert Huckman is the Albert J. Weatherhead III Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School, the Howard Cox Faculty Chair of the HBS Healthcare Initiative, and the Senior Associate Dean for External... View Details

    Keywords: biotechnology; health care; manufacturing; pharmaceuticals
    • May 2006 (Revised November 2006)
    • Case

    IKEA's Global Sourcing Challenge: Indian Rugs and Child Labor (A)

    By: Christopher A. Bartlett, Vincent Marie Dessain and Anders Sjoman
    Traces the history of IKEA's response to a TV report that its Indian carpet suppliers were using child labor. Describes IKEA's growth, including the importance of a sourcing strategy based on its close relationships with suppliers in developing countries. Details the... View Details
    Keywords: Developing Countries and Economies; Moral Sensibility; Policy; Employment; Contracts; Supply Chain Management; Organizational Culture; Natural Environment; Non-Governmental Organizations; Social Issues
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    • 2016
    • Book

    Antonio Serra and the Economics of Good Government

    By: Rosario Patalano and Sophus A. Reinert
    Little is known of Antonio Serra except that he wrote his extraordinary 1613 Short Treatise on the Causes That Make Kingdoms Abound in Gold and Silver even in the Absence of Mines in a Neapolitan jail and that he died there soon afterwards. However, the... View Details
    Keywords: History; Books; Government and Politics; Economics
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    • March 2009
    • Case

    Incept LLC and Confluent Surgical (A)

    By: Bhaskar Chakravorti, Toby E. Stuart and James Weber
    A venture capitalist must decide whether to invest in a medical technology company that licenses intellectual property from a privately held IP holding company based on a platform technology. Entrepreneurs Amar Sawhney and Fred Khosravi founded Incept LLC to... View Details
    Keywords: Business Model; Entrepreneurship; Intellectual Property; Rights; Agreements and Arrangements; Partners and Partnerships; Trust; Medical Devices and Supplies Industry
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    • 2014
    • Working Paper

    The Organizational and Geographic Drivers of Absorptive Capacity: An Empirical Analysis of Pharmaceutical R&D Laboratories

    By: Francesca Lazzeri and Gary P. Pisano
    Scholars and practitioners alike now recognize that a firm's capacity to assimilate and use know-how from external sources—what Cohen and Levinthal (1990) called "absorptive capacity"—plays a central role in innovation performance. In recent years, a common strategy... View Details
    Keywords: Geographic Location; Industry Clusters; Knowledge Acquisition; Pharmaceutical Industry; San Francisco; San Diego; Massachusetts
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      Debora L. Spar

      Debora Spar is the Jaime and Josefina Chua Tiampo Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School and Senior Associate Dean for Business and Global Society. Her current research focuses on issues of gender and technology, and the interplay between... View Details

      Keywords: biotechnology; broadcasting; communications; entertainment; federal government; health care; information; internet; music; pharmaceuticals
      • 2024
      • Working Paper

      Migration, Climate Similarity, and the Consequences of Climate Mismatch

      By: Marguerite Obolensky, Marco Tabellini and Charles Taylor
      This paper examines the concept of “climate matching” in migration—the idea that migrants seek out destinations with familiar climates. Focusing on the US, we document that temperature distance between origin and destination predicts the distribution of migrants across... View Details
      Keywords: Migration; Climate; Immigration; Residency; Weather; Ethnicity; Climate Change; Geographic Location; Policy; United States
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      • 18 Feb 2020
      • Working Paper Summaries

      A Preliminary Framework for Product Impact-Weighted Accounts

      Keywords: by George Serafeim, Katie Trinh, and Robert Zochowski
      • 09 Sep 2010
      • Working Paper Summaries

      Boundary Spanning in a For-Profit Research Lab: An Exploration of the Interface Between Commerce and Academe

      Keywords: by Christopher C. Liu & Toby E. Stuart; Biotechnology
      • August 2012 (Revised July 2025)
      • Module Note

      Evaluating the Viability of Innovative Technology-Commercializing Ventures

      By: Regina E. Herzlinger
      This case enables evaluation of innovative health care technologies by those who are not an expert in the technology by introduction of a framework for evaluating technology - commercializing innovation. It is the introductory case for the first of four modules in a... View Details
      Keywords: Medical Devices and Supplies Industry; Health Industry
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        Srikant M. Datar

        Srikant M. Datar became the eleventh dean of Harvard Business School on 1 January 2021. During his tenure as a faculty member, he served as Senior Associate Dean for University Affairs (including Faculty Chair of the Harvard Innovation Lab), for Research, for... View Details

        Keywords: accounting industry; airline; automobiles; banking; biotechnology; communications; consumer products; e-commerce industry; health care; high technology; investment banking industry; management consulting; manufacturing; pharmaceuticals; venture capital industry
        • 10 May 2016
        • First Look

        May 10, 2016

        build a literature more effectively than they could with less diverse approaches to gathering data. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=51015 April 29, 2016 Science The Growing Problem of Patent Trolling By:... View Details
        Keywords: Carmen Nobel
        • 14 Apr 2022
        • Blog Post

        Trust the Process, and Trust Yourself Even More: Interview with Wellness and Empowerment Leader, Dilan Gomih (MBA 2019)

        didn’t just change the way she thought about fitness, it changed the trajectory of her life and career. Stocks, Storytelling, and Spin Bikes That second spin class, and all the exciting adventures that followed, may never have happened if... View Details
        • July 2024
        • Article

        How Artificial Intelligence Constrains Human Experience

        By: A. Valenzuela, S. Puntoni, D. Hoffman, N. Castelo, J. De Freitas, B. Dietvorst, C. Hildebrand, Y.E. Huh, R. Meyer, M. Sweeney, S. Talaifar, G. Tomaino and K. Wertenbroch
        Many consumption decisions and experiences are digitally mediated. As a consequence, consumer behavior is increasingly the joint product of human psychology and ubiquitous algorithms (Braun et al. 2024; cf. Melumad et al. 2020). The coming of age of Large Language... View Details
        Keywords: Large Language Model; User Experience; AI and Machine Learning; Consumer Behavior; Technology Adoption; Risk and Uncertainty; Cost vs Benefits
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        Curriculum | MBA

        Curriculum MS/MBA Biotechnology: Life Sciences Students complete degree requirements over two academic years, augmented by coursework during August at the beginning of the program and during both January... View Details
        • 01 Dec 2021
        • What Do You Think?

        How Will the Metaverse Affect Productivity?

        (iStockphoto/tolgart) In 1992, the very funny cyberpunk novelist Neal Stephenson brought “the pizza Deliverator,” also known as Hiro Protagonist, to life along with the notion of the Metaverse in his book Snow Crash. Hiro, a “member of... View Details
        Keywords: by James Heskett

          Samuel L. Hayes

          Samuel L. Hayes holds the Jacob H. Schiff Chair in Investment Banking Emeritus, at the Harvard Business School.  He has taught at the School since 1970, prior to which he was a tenured member of the faculty of the Columbia University Graduate School of Business. He... View Details

          • 25 Aug 2022
          • News

          GOP Fury Over ESG Triggers Backlash With US Pensions at Risk

          • 03 Nov 2021
          • News

          Business Leaders Must Take Action on Climate and Voting Rights

          • Web

          Admissions & Financial Aid | MBA

          Admissions & Financial Aid MS/MBA Biotechnology: Life Sciences The program seeks a diverse group of outstanding students who have an undergraduate degree in life View Details