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Hidden Workers, Untapped Talent - Managing the Future of Work

Francis Hintermann 03 OCT 2024 Companies have long ignored the caregiving responsibilities of employees, compromising both performance and access to talent. With the rising burden of childcare and eldercare, it's in the best interest of... View Details

01 Feb 2022
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Innovation Isn’t Just for Startups: How Big Companies Can Succeed

traditional core. She hired computational chemists, genetic scientists, and pharmaceutical business experts. They dressed and spoke differently from the famously staid IBM executive. The best Corporate Explorers not only disrupt the View Details

Keywords: by Lane Lambert

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Information Technology - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness

(IT) is needed. There have been major efforts to accelerate the adoption of IT in health care over the last decades, which have made substantial headway. The adoption of... View Details

21 Feb 2018
Research & Ideas

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

themselves. Furthermore, that decision to abandon ship is often the wrong decision. “There is potentially a great market opportunity when a competitor drops out,” says Joshua Lev Krieger, an assistant professor View Details

Keywords: by Rachel Layne; Health; Health

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student statements made in class. Commercial Videotaping & Photography Commercial videotaping and still photography on the Harvard Business School campus and within its buildings by outside agencies is not allowed without permission from... View Details

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General Internal Medicine Challenges and Facilitators in Implementing Remote Patient Monitoring Programs in Primary Care By: Ruth Hailu, Jessica Sousa, Mitchell Tang , Ateev... View Details

24 Oct 2018
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Startup or Established Company? Which Is Best for You?

What are the tradeoffs between going to a startup versus joining a mature company? Having done both, several times, I get this question all the time. There are many things to consider and lots of “it depends” when it comes to where you are View Details

Keywords: by Julia B. Austin

April 2003 (Revised October 2004)
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Novartis: The Challenge of Success (A)

By: Sandra J. Sucher and Stacy McManus

Preliminary results from Phase 1 clinical trials of a newly developed compound, STI571, showed that 31 out of 31 patients with chronic myelogenous leukemia (CML) had their blood counts return to normal. In the world of oncology, this was unheard of. This was the... View Details

Keywords: Decision Making; Health Testing and Trials; Innovation and Invention; Markets; Distribution; Product Development; Production; Problems and Challenges; Research; Research and Development; Complexity; Biotechnology Industry; Pharmaceutical Industry

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responsibility at the Proctor & Gamble company where she was a Brand Manager and a Regional Marketing Manager. She began her business career in the buying office as an Area Manager at Macy's Stores... View Details

22 Jul 2019
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How to Be a Digital Platform Leader

becomes, which lowers the likelihood of a winner-take-all outcome. Lastly, the truly successful firms in a platform world tend to have meaningful supply-side scale economies. Markets with large economies of... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

27 May 2015
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Build 'Scaffolds' to Improve Performance of Temporary Teams

you have effective teamwork when you can't have the traditional structural features of effective teams, [and so] I shifted my emphasis from teams to 'teaming,'" Edmondson says. Valentine shared that interest in "messy"... View Details

Keywords: by Roberta Holland; Health

14 Jan 2019
Op-Ed

These 4 CEOs Created a New Standard of Leadership

Mayo Clinic in 2009, the world-famous medical center was struggling financially. Congress would soon be negotiating the terms of the Affordable Care Act (ACA), the Obama Administration’s signature View Details

Keywords: by Bill George; Health; Health; Health; Health

31 Jul 2019
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Distressed Employees? Try Resilience Training

Resource Management, Improving Resilience Among Employees High in Depression, Anxiety, and Workplace Distress, which shows that a workplace-based wellness program can help employees suffering from mental View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Health

09 Apr 2007
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Industry Self-Regulation: What’s Working (and What’s Not)?

"Self-regulation" increasingly rings like a mantra in business. Just think of topics in the news over the past couple of months, such as the Italian fashion industry's move toward self-regulation to... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

06 Dec 2022
Research & Ideas

Latest Isn’t Always Greatest: Why Product Updates Capture Consumers

Suppose you’re in the market for a new selfie stick for an upcoming vacation. You see two models online—one that extends to 24 inches and the other to 16. Seems obvious that you’d pick the longer one, right?... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Consumer Products; Retail

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Business History - Faculty & Research

safety, morals, and health could be protected. Article Intermediary Functions and the Market for Innovation in Meiji and Taisho Japan By: Tom Nicholas and Hiroshi Shimizu Japan... View Details

22 Feb 2023
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Meet the Disability Advocacy and Affinity Group (DAAG)

VP of Marketing and Events I’m a first-year student at Harvard Business School and my primary focus within DAAG is developing comprehensive branding and awareness of the group within the HBS community. I was diagnosed with an autoimmune... View Details

January 2001
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Abgenix and the XenoMouse

By: Robert J. Dolan

Abgenix has a unique method for generating antibodies useful in treating a number of diseases, including cancer. In early 2000, the company's cancer has performed very well in animal testing and is moving to early stage human testing. Abgenix must decide whether to... View Details

Keywords: Product Development; Marketing Strategy; Health Testing and Trials; Risk and Uncertainty; Technological Innovation; Innovation Strategy; Science-Based Business; Biotechnology Industry