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- 12 May 2008
- Research & Ideas
Accounting Information as Political Currency
developed and fast-developing nations. Data on legislative-election vote shares are also likely available for many jurisdictions. The data on cash contributions from companies to politicians will be tricky—the United States has relatively... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- Web
Rare Disease Day – Small Numbers, Big Challenges… and Big Opportunities - Blog: Health Supplement
pharma – but the tides are changing. The underserved nature of the rare disease population combined with increases in federal funding, biotech and medical advancements are spurring optimism for the future. Growth in the markets for clinical trials, View Details
- 01 Oct 2021
- News
From Scholarship to Life-Saving Impact
ending up with huge medical bills we couldn’t pay.” Inspired by this personal experience, Rabah chose to build a career in health care. She studied biology as an undergraduate at Cornell, where she developed a strong interest in View Details
- 05 Jul 2006
- Research & Ideas
The Accidental Innovator
direct special attention to it." Similarly, Daguerre, who invented photography, made his breakthrough when he put an exposed plate into a cabinet in which a thermometer had earlier shattered; mercury vapors from the broken thermometer View Details
Keywords: by Sarah Jane Gilbert
- 01 Dec 2019
- News
Remix
city’s darkest days, during the drug and murder epidemics of the late 1980s and early 1990s. When Mayor Marion Barry was busted in an FBI sting for smoking crack in 1990, Dixon’s mother, Sharon Pratt, won the election to replace him,... View Details
- 31 Mar 2023
- Research & Ideas
Can a ‘Basic Bundle’ of Health Insurance Cure Coverage Gaps and Spur Innovation?
policies that amount to a “fragmented insurance system” that leaves 10 percent of the population uninsured, according to research by Harvard Business School Professor Amitabh Chandra. “The United States spends substantially more on health care than most View Details
- 08 Feb 2000
- Research & Ideas
Building Effective R&D Capabilities Abroad
"Building Effective R&D Capabilities Abroad," Walter Kuemmerle looks at changes in the research & development function in the global economy. A centralized R&D approach will no longer suffice, says Kuemmerle, for two... View Details
Keywords: by Walter Kuemmerle
- 06 Jun 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas: June 6, 2017
importance; the development of capabilities; and competition. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=52725 forthcoming Management Science Strategy and the Strategist: How It Matters Who View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Jun 2023
- News
From Big Pharma to Startup
pitch their experience and skills to each other. That’s how Goble met Dr. Wayne Lencer, a Harvard Medical School professor who had spent a decade developing technology to enable the oral delivery of biological medicines—therapies created... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 01 Mar 2024
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books and Podcasts
will solve real problems, from climate change and hunger to obesity and menstrual pain. They envision a future in which biotechnologists work from a platform that enables them to develop effective drugs... View Details
- 20 Oct 2011
- Research & Ideas
Getting the Marketing Mix Right
to the effectiveness of their marketing instruments” Thomas J. Steenburgh, an associate professor in the Marketing Unit at Harvard Business School, has developed a new analytical tool that more accurately measures the effectiveness of... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 21 Oct 2015
- Research & Ideas
How to Predict if a New Business Idea is Any Good
entrepreneurship herself, even applying to the MIT Venture Mentoring Service (MIT VMS)—a program that connects budding entrepreneurs to successful businesspeople to develop their ideas. Whenever an entrepreneur applies to the program, a... View Details
- 15 Nov 2018
- Book
Can the Global Food Industry Overcome Public Distrust?
JamesBrey Food is the largest segment of the global economy. It is also widely recognized as more critical for human health than any pharmaceutical drug on the planet. But significant changes in the industry are making people lose trust in many institutions involved in... View Details
- 12 Oct 2006
- First Look
First Look: October 12, 2006
differently than many companies' product development processes, but allows this company to produce very high profit margin products that retain their margins for a very long time in an industry in which products come and go very quickly.... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 12 Oct 2017
- News
Fighting Poverty One Neighborhood at a Time
in the mid-1990s had one of the highest crime rates in the country, a significant drug problem, and a failing school. Local real estate developer and philanthropist Tom Cousins, who became the founder of... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg
- 31 May 2023
- News
Alumni Achievement Awards 2023
perspective, and I really enjoyed that.” Pivot: “A few years after medical school, I was teaching, seeing patients, and researching interesting science problems, but I wasn’t transforming human disease. I realized that what I wanted to do is discover and View Details
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Ken Zeng
business leaders must make, whether it's closing a mine due to uncertain safety concerns, pricing essential drugs in developing nations, or taking a stance on contentious societal issues as a company. It is... View Details
- 07 Jan 2002
- Research & Ideas
How Marketing Can Reduce Worldwide Poverty
on-the-ground advocacy—to go get a free eye exam or a blood pressure check-up. Easy. Your basic principles of sales and promotion will carry the day. If your charge is minimizing smoking or drug use, well, your job becomes rather more... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 10 Oct 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, October 10, 2017
fruitful new agendas for research on the political-economic nexus as it has developed in the Western world since the end of the Middle Ages. New Perspectives on the History of Political Economy brings together a select group of young and... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 03 Mar 2009
- First Look
First Look: March 3, 2009
The use of Tamiflu in such a crisis would allow the world to respond immediately, rather than having to wait for development of a vaccine which had limitations in its effectiveness, and the drug had been... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace