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- 2024
- Working Paper
Mammography - Early Detection, Precise Diagnoses: Case Histories of Transformational Advances
By: Amar Bhidé, Srikant M. Datar and Katherine Stebbins
This case history describes how the development of x-ray-based techniques and equipment (“mammography”) led to widespread screening for breast cancer and enabled “minimally invasive” biopsies of breast tumors. Specifically, we chronicle how: 1) new protocols and... 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. "Mammography - Early Detection, Precise Diagnoses: Case Histories of Transformational Advances." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 20-002, July 2019. (Revised May 2024.)
regulating — and competing with — decentralized software platforms
New platforms reinvent traditional markets as varied as transport, short-term accomodations, and media. (Consider Uber, Airbnb, and YouTube.) With new business models come new questions of regulation which Edelman and coauthor Damien Geradin assess in View Details
- November 1997
- Case
Odwalla, Inc.
By: Ray A. Goldberg and Tom Clay
Odwalla suffered one of the worst food safety crises in history and not only survived but continued to grow. Now they need to decide how the crisis affected their business and how to expand their business. View Details
Keywords: Growth and Development; Crisis Management; Safety; Expansion; System Shocks; Food and Beverage Industry
Goldberg, Ray A., and Tom Clay. "Odwalla, Inc." Harvard Business School Case 598-047, November 1997.
- 09 Jun 2021
- News
Employees Are Lonelier Than Ever. Here’s How Employers Can Help.
- 29 Jan 2020
- News
Fear Is A Bad Leadership Team Principle
- 04 May 2021
- News
Workplace Diversity: Managers Must Build a Culture of Belonging
- 13 Apr 2016
- News
Women-only Car Services Fill a Niche, But Are They Legal?
- 01 Dec 2015
- News
In Praise Of Seat Belts
- 21 May 2012
- Research & Ideas
OSHA Inspections: Protecting Employees or Killing Jobs?
killing jobs at a time when the United States can ill afford to lose them. Few regulatory agencies have a more direct effect on businesses than the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA), the federal agency responsible for... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 25 Feb 2016
- News
What Google Learned From Its Quest to Build the Perfect Team
- October 2013 (Revised November 2021)
- Case
Cynthia Carroll at Anglo American (A)
By: Gautam Mukunda, Lisa Mazzanti and Aldo Sesia
In 2007, Cynthia Carroll, the newly-appointed chief executive of mining giant Anglo American, was considering shutting down mines in South Africa for safety reasons, namely worker fatalities. No company had ever done so before. Carroll felt that operating a company... View Details
Keywords: Culture; Leadership; Gender; Safety; Working Conditions; Business Exit or Shutdown; Organizational Culture; Change Management; Mining; Mining Industry; South Africa
Mukunda, Gautam, Lisa Mazzanti, and Aldo Sesia. "Cynthia Carroll at Anglo American (A)." Harvard Business School Case 414-019, October 2013. (Revised November 2021.)
- July 2019
- Article
Challenges and Opportunities in Software-Driven Medical Devices
By: William J. Gordon and Ariel Dora Stern
The safety and security of medical devices driven by software, the software-development processes, and the need for data collection and privacy, all offer challenges and opportunities for device regulation and clinical care. View Details
Keywords: Medical Devices; Healthcare; Health Care; Health Care and Treatment; Applications and Software; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Medical Devices and Supplies Industry
Gordon, William J., and Ariel Dora Stern. "Challenges and Opportunities in Software-Driven Medical Devices." Nature Biomedical Engineering 3, no. 7 (July 2019): 493–497.
- 11 Mar 2014
- News
Health companies eye predictive software for patient care
- 15 Aug 2020
- Video
Returning to Campus Safely
- March 2011
- Case
Terror at the Taj Bombay: Customer-Centric Leadership
By: Rohit Deshpande
On November 26, 2008, heavily armed terrorists launched a series of attacks throughout the western-Indian city of Mumbai (formerly Bombay). One of the locations attacked was the Taj Mahal Palace and Tower, which was occupied by the terrorists for over three days,... View Details
Keywords: Safety; Leadership; National Security; Service Delivery; Organizational Culture; Crisis Management; Customer Focus and Relationships; Brands and Branding; Accommodations Industry; Mumbai
Deshpande, Rohit. "Terror at the Taj Bombay: Customer-Centric Leadership." Harvard Business School Multimedia/Video Case 511-703, March 2011.
- 15 Mar 2021
- News
Why Is It So Hard to Speak Up at Work?
- 27 Apr 2023
- Video
IFC Intro: GEO, Financial Aid, Registrar Services
- 12 Dec 2012
- Research & Ideas
Power to the People: The Unexpected Influence of Small Coalitions
Harvard Business School Professor J. Gunnar Trumbull balks at the ubiquitous idea that the concentrated power of a few billionaires controls public policy and government regulation. Exaggeration of the impact of big business on public policy, he says, comes at a high... View Details
Keywords: by Kim Girard
- 14 Jul 2006
- News