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01 Dec 2019
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running throughout—you have to page back to an earlier chapter of Dixon’s life, in 2017. That’s when the bottom dropped out. That fall, she was raising money for a tech/beauty startup called EverythingDid, designed to help women and girls of color manage the View Details

Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint; photographed by Chris Sorensen; #MeToo; DefJam; Arts, Entertainment

August 2017 (Revised July 2018)
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MannKind Corporation: Take a Deep Breath, This Time Afrezza Will Work

By: Elie Ofek and Amanda Dai

In June 2014, MannKind Corporation announced that after years of development and billions of dollars in expenses, the FDA had finally approved its drug, Afrezza. MannKind would thus be the only company with an inhalable insulin on the market. As an alternative to... View Details

Keywords: Health Care and Treatment; Product Launch; Product Positioning; Marketing Strategy; Adoption; Pharmaceutical Industry

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26 Feb 2019
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Theresa May met with her European counterparts in an attempt to renegotiate the “Brexit deal” she had reached with them only weeks earlier; the deal was facing harsh criticism and almost certain rejection at home. Perhaps only the keenest... View Details

Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

January 2020
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Assessing the Safety of Electronic Health Records: A National Longitudinal Study of Medication-related Decision Support

By: A Jay Holmgren, Zoe Co, Lisa Newmark, Melissa Danforth, David Classen and David Bates

Background Electronic health records (EHR) can improve safety via computerised physician order entry with clinical decision support, designed in part to alert providers and prevent potential adverse drug events at entry and before they reach the patient.... View Details

Keywords: Hospital; Electronic Health Records; Health Care and Treatment; Information Technology; Safety; Performance; Quality; Performance Improvement

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29 Mar 2016
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March 29, 2016

providers, healthcare systems, and even countries. Similar value-based breast cancer care frameworks are also being pursued internationally. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=50865 forthcoming The Oxford... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

02 Jun 2021
Research & Ideas

A Rare Find in Health Care: A Simple Solution to Racial Inequity

specialists, pulmonary and critical care doctors, and virologists, probably had a much better sense of what treatments to use and when relative to smaller hospitals that are close by.” By directing Black... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Health

28 Nov 2005
Research & Ideas

Unilever: Transformation and Tradition

Unilever's market positions in detergents. The attempts to find more profitable growth opportunities through innovation, in products as diverse as fresh dairy and feminine hygiene, largely came to naught, as did attempts to buy into the fast-growing personal View Details

Keywords: by Geoffrey Jones; Consumer Products

01 May 2012
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superior CSR record. Rather than acting as an effective form of insurance, our results suggest that a strong CSR record can be a liability. Moreover, the tone of coverage is no less critical for organizations with a greener reputation. At... View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

03 Dec 2020
Research & Ideas

Cut Payroll Costs with Transparency, Fairness, and Compassion

reopen or what our ability to rehire will be at that time. We chose a course of action where we could be upfront and transparent with impacted employees, offer severance, and open the door for employees to seek other immediate work.” Like Bird, Sephora was View Details

Keywords: by Boris Groysberg and Sarah Abbott

01 Mar 2024
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rather than vilified. What Have They Done By Benjamin Campbell (MBA 1992) Teutoburg Forest Press Set in 2023, What Have They Done is the sequel to the critically acclaimed Nothing They Won’t Do. It’s five years later, and Putin and Iran... View Details

Keywords: Publishing Industries (except Internet); Information

07 Jun 2021
Book

9 Tips from an Expert Fundraiser: Help Donors 'Invest in Their Passion'

His 2011 book Joining a Nonprofit Board explored high-level governance strategy issues. His new book offers pragmatic advice about the critical endeavor of fundraising. This book “is devoted to helping improve raising of financial... View Details

Keywords: by Danielle Kost

01 Jun 2007
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How Should Pay Be Linked to Performance?

sustainable outcomes to the benefit of shareholders." However, Gary Johnson cautions that "Because excitement is so critical to success, pay for performance value can be diminished the longer the time delay for receiving... View Details

Keywords: by Jim Heskett

17 Jan 2019
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Why Business Should Support Employees Who Are Caregivers

supporting caregivers a critical talent management issue, according to a new report, The Caring Company: How Employers Can Cut Costs and Boost Productivity by Helping Employees Manage Caregiving Needs, by... View Details

Keywords: by Danielle Kost; Health

22 Apr 2009
Working Paper Summaries

Where is the Pharmacy to the World? International Regulatory Variation and Pharmaceutical Industry Location

Keywords: by Arthur Daemmrich; Pharmaceutical

28 Jan 2016
Blog Post

Why Get an MBA?

a personal one but allow me to share one person’s journey. The start of 2013 was a critical turning point for me. I was three years out of NYU Stern undergrad and asking myself that familiar question, “what do I want to do with my... View Details

26 Nov 2001
Research & Ideas

How Toyota Turns Workers Into Problem Solvers

flexible production over time and broadly based across the system. It was from observations such as these that Kent and I started to form the impression that despite all the attention that had already been paid to Toyota, something View Details

Keywords: by Sarah Jane Johnston; Manufacturing; Transportation; Auto

16 Jan 2006
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Adam Smith, Behavioral Economist?

field of behavioral economics, which economists usually think of as a "new" field, was in fact rigorously studying the very factors that Smith, arguably the "father" of modern-day economics, had always thought were View Details

Keywords: by Ann Cullen

25 Jan 2010
Research & Ideas

A Macroeconomic View of the Current Economy

certain strategic assets that are important for building critical military equipment. One can be too cautious about reliance on foreigners. In the early 19th century, the British thought their grain supply was strategic, and they... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

09 Aug 2016
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August 9, 2016

lead to it, consequences for customers and for Target, and the company's response. Additionally, the case discusses the role of management and the board of directors in cyber security at Target. Target's board of directors was subject to intense View Details