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- 10 Aug 2015
- Research & Ideas
New Medical Devices Get To Patients Too Slowly
Delicate Balance For nearly 80 years, the FDA has performed a delicate balancing act between getting life-saving drugs to market, and ensuring that those drugs will be safe when taken by patients. In order to serve that dual function, the FDA has drawn up View Details
- 08 Dec 2020
- Research & Ideas
Why Companies Hunt for Talent on Digital Platforms, Not in Resume Piles
colleagues also find that companies are becoming more sophisticated about identifying talent. By analyzing the skills that US firms want from prospective human resource workers, the researchers discovered that companies are increasingly... View Details
- 01 Mar 2004
- News
Derek Ferguson
this on my own, without a sophisticated businessperson at the helm. Just think of what we can do together.’ He was a good salesman.” The businesses that today make up Bad Boy consist of more than its popular music label, however, a fact... View Details
- 02 Jun 2021
- Research & Ideas
A Rare Find in Health Care: A Simple Solution to Racial Inequity
sophisticated interventions, such as cardiac catheterization and bypass surgery. Big problems with meaningful solutions While the study couldn’t determine why Black patients ended up at lower-quality hospitals, Chandra is investigating... View Details
- 15 Dec 2003
- Research & Ideas
The New Global Business Manager
ask, "What is it that we could learn from the leading-edge environmental trends in Germany? Or the more sophisticated consumers in Japan? Or from our toughest competitor who happens to be coming at us out of India?" Having that... View Details
Keywords: by Cynthia Churchwell
- 12 Oct 1999
- Research & Ideas
Porter’s Perspective: Competing in the Global Economy
each distinct product area, where strategy is set, core product and process technology are maintained, and a critical mass of sophisticated production and service activities reside. A clear locational core, combined with selective... View Details
Keywords: Re: Michael E. Porter
- 07 Jun 2004
- Research & Ideas
What Drives Supply Chain Behavior?
provide prescriptive recommendations, many of these papers pursue an optimizing approach given the assumption of a completely rational decision maker. Testament to the complexity of these activities is the high level of mathematical View Details
Keywords: by Sarah Jane Johnston
- 13 Apr 2009
- Research & Ideas
Kind of Blue: Pushing Boundaries with Miles Davis
Ask jazz fans the world over to name their favorite compilation, and chances are their response is Kind of Blue. With music that is sophisticated and sublime, spare yet complex, trumpeter and composer Miles Davis (1926-1991) reached... View Details
- 24 Nov 2003
- Research & Ideas
Boards and Corporate Governance: A Balanced Scorecard Approach
framework can serve as the cornerstone of both effective management and sound governance. Key Learnings · A sophisticated governance system is necessary in a complex capitalistic economy to ensure that capital funds the best ideas. The... View Details
Keywords: Re: Robert S. Kaplan & Krishna G. Palepu
- 15 Jun 2007
- Research & Ideas
Remembering Alfred Chandler
network of individual contracts or the vision of its entrepreneur. The people inside firms learned, developed effective routines, and innovated. While we have sophisticated theories of competition in economics, the cooperative teamwork... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 20 Jan 2023
- News
Free Spirits
a beginning, a middle, and a finish. Their ready-to-drink cocktails are naturally low in sugar and calories (less than 2 grams and 35 calories). They are bottled and labeled with a sense of sophistication that would feel right at home on... View Details
- 22 Jul 2019
- Book
How to Be a Digital Platform Leader
members of the platform community policing themselves? Facebook, for example, has about 30,000 people working on curation of the Facebook platform. The problem is there are more than 2.5 billion users. Thirty thousand people, even with the help of AI and View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
Henry F. Henderson, Jr.
After working at Richardson Scale Company for a number of years, Henderson’s entrepreneurial spirit led him to start Henderson Industries (HI) in 1952. Winning a contract from Richardson, HI began growing rapidly. Manufacturing View Details
Keywords: Fabricated Goods
- Fast Answer
HBS Course: Private Equity Finance
target="_blank">LSEG Workspace PE data includes investments, portfolio company and firm profiles, exits and fundraising information. Generous data download limit. Capital IQ Data on PE transactions, public and private companies, investment firms, and people.... View Details
- 02 Apr 2013
- First Look
First Look: April 2
users-sophisticated and unsophisticated. Only sophisticated users adjust their expectations in response to platforms' price changes. We study the effect of the fraction of sophisticated users on platform... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 13 Aug 2019
- Blog Post
What is the MS/MBA Biotechnology: Life Sciences Program?
in biotechnology leadership, financing, and social ramifications. The seamless integration of all these elements prepares students for life and leadership in the biotechnology-related arena in a sophisticated manner not available through... View Details
- 15 Jun 2021
- News
Elevator Pitch: Dress Code
around each user. Leveraging AI and machine learning, the app uses a sophisticated algorithm to streamline and personalize a dynamically adaptive online feed of potential purchases based on yes or no responses to simple questions, getting... View Details
- Profile
Elisabeth Ndour
HBS. In Nairobi, she’ll work with a startup that allows SMBs to accept mobile payments. “It’s a life-changing technology for people without computers or bank accounts,” Elisabeth explains. “And it represents a whole new level of View Details
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Ty Geri | MBA
Ty Geri Computer Science, Secondary in Economics Leverett 2023 Cohort 4 I'm excited to be surrounded by a group of entrepreneurial problem-solvers who can challenge my ideas and help each other build sophisticated solutions that match the... View Details
An Wang
Labs’ sales exploded. Later products included several lines of sophisticated mini computers and such revolutionary word processing software as the Office Information Systems (OIS) series. By the end of Wang’s tenure, Wang Labs’ revenue... View Details
Keywords: Computers & Electronics