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- 25 Apr 2005
- Research & Ideas
New Learning at American Home Products
accounted for 13 percent. In the early 1980s American Home Products decided to enlarge its higher-value-added healthcare business by attaching medical equipment to its portfolio and by divesting itself of the lower-margin non-healthcare... View Details
- 29 Jul 2008
- First Look
First Look: July 29, 2008
patent records to explore these trends with greater detail. The contributions of Chinese and Indian scientists and engineers to U.S. technology formation increase dramatically in the 1990s. At the same time, these ethnic inventors became... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 15 Feb 2011
- First Look
First Look: Feb. 15
Bill Bornstein, chief quality and medical officer of Emory Healthcare in Atlanta, is responsible for the smooth implementation of CPOE at Emory Healthcare, which is a vital part of its $50 million electronic... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 02 Feb 2004
- Research & Ideas
Where Does Apple Go From Here?
company's long-term success. And Job's track record is hit or miss, he says. Take Apple's return to investors. Yoffie says that if you invested a dollar in Apple in 1992, it would be worth $.79 today. The S&P 500 over that same time... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 10 Sep 2008
- Research & Ideas
Long-Tail Economics? Give Me Blockbusters!
development projects, some with predictable sales results, others more risky. The former pay for the company's daily bread and butter and fund R&D on future blockbusters. Inverness Medical Innovations, for example, is following... View Details
- 01 Dec 2008
- Lessons from the Classroom
How Many U.S. Jobs Are ‘Offshorable’?
account the potential for an occupation's tasks to move offshore over the next 10 years, assuming a normal rate of technological progress (particularly in the area of electronic communications). They also had to indicate a likely... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna
- 05 Aug 2014
- News
A Diversified Portfolio
funded. Dodi doesn't think VCs do this intentionally, "It's just that people invest in what they know and in who they are most comfortable with. When it's a choice between one team and another, they'll tend to fund people that are more like them." Dodi has a long View Details
Keywords: Constantine von Hoffman
- 28 Aug 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, August 28, 2018
and from electronic communication servers—the effect of open office architectures on employees' face-to-face, email, and instant messaging (IM) interaction patterns. Contrary to common belief, the volume of face-to-face interaction... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 03 Apr 2019
- News
Finding Common Ground
shelters, Shumway talked to homeless residents about their circumstances. “These are good people,” he says. “They may have started to self-medicate with drugs or alcohol because they didn’t have access to the psychiatric or medical... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg
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Financing New Ideas - Georges F. Doriot : Educating Leaders, Building Companies, Baker Library, Harvard Business School
continued to invest in innovative startups. ARD portfolio companies included Textron Electronics (aerospace, industrial, and metal products); Cordis Corporation (therapeutic medical equipment including... View Details
- 18 Mar 2021
- News
Authentically Leading with Blind Ambition
upcoming book Blind Ambition: How to Go from Victim to Visionary. In this program, the two discuss how finding the courage to authentically lead offers us a path forward in life, regardless of our circumstances. View the recording from... View Details
- 16 May 2018
- News
ALUMNI NVC Finals and Regional Roundup
hassle out of moving and furnishing a new residence. The runner-up spot went to Tom DeBrooke (MBA 1972) and his company, Vascular Perfusion Solutions, Inc., which has developed a new system to extend the viability of human organs and limbs during transport between... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 01 Mar 2017
- News
How Deep Brain Stimulation Could Change Medicine
engineers to tweak preexisting medical instruments or develop entirely new medical devices. The general deep brain stimulation procedure is now established practice: For over a decade, neurosurgeons have... View Details
Keywords: Janelle Nanos
- Web
1.23 Pregnancy, Childbirth & Adoption during Business School | MBA
1.23 Pregnancy, Childbirth & Adoption during Business School 1.0 Academic Information & Policies Medical Leave Policy and Resources for Students Giving Birth While Enrolled at HBS Students who will be giving birth should contact MBA... View Details
- 25 Jun 2020
- News
Covering All Corners
the design specifications and granted us the rights to produce it. So with very little infrastructure in the medical-technology industry in Egypt, a consortium was formed—our business school association, a group of scholars, and an Egyptian View Details
- 15 Apr 2022
- News
Funding His Purpose
institution for nonprofits and for-profit social or environmental impact companies. Instead of relying on often restrictive grants, nonprofits with revenue-creating programs—say, an organization that offered free medical treatment in... View Details
- 29 Jun 2022
- Blog Post
Harvard Business School Announces the 2022-2023 Blavatnik Fellows
medicines. Hunter plans to use the Blavatnik Fellowship year to refine strategy and business development for the company’s novel drug delivery platform with his co-founders, Harvard Medical School Professor Dr. Wayne Lencer and Justin... View Details
- 12 Jul 2021
- News
Alumni Confront the COVID-19 Crisis
Commons Project, a nonprofit that in April launched Common Health, an Android app that allows users to securely download their health information from Electronic Health Records (EHR) and lab sources (similar... View Details
- 01 Sep 2024
- News
The Exchange: Lessons from the Edge
Image by John Ritter Professors Geoff Jones and Tarun Khanna had been toiling away from their respective HBS offices for many years, each of them interested in emerging markets but expressed through different disciplines: Jones, a historian, was studying how the world... View Details
- 21 Apr 2014
- Research & Ideas
Bio-Piracy: When Western Firms Usurp Eastern Medicine
the 1990s involved traditional Indian medicine, and many lawsuits ensued. But it was difficult to invalidate the novelty of any given remedy without published proof of prior use. To that end, the Indian government spearheaded an effort in 2001 to create a massive View Details