Publications

May 2021
Article

Risk-Mitigating Technologies: The Case of Radiation Diagnostic Devices

By: Alberto Galasso and Hong Luo

We study the impact of consumers’ risk perception on firm innovation. Our analysis exploits a major surge in the perceived risk of radiation diagnostic devices following extensive media coverage of a set of over-radiation accidents involving CT scanners in late 2009.... View Details

Keywords: Risk Perception; Innovation; Medical Devices; Liability Risk; Risk and Uncertainty; Perception; Technological Innovation

2022
Working Paper

Overreaction and Diagnostic Expectations in Macroeconomics

By: Pedro Bordalo, Nicola Gennaioli and Andrei Shleifer

We present the case for the centrality of overreaction in expectations for addressing important challenges in finance and macroeconomics. First, non-rational expectations by market participants can be measured and modeled in ways that address some of the key challenges... View Details

Keywords: Overreaction; Rational Expectations; Macroeconomics; Market Participation; Social Psychology

1977
Chapter

A Diagnostic Model for Organizational Behavior

By: D. Nadler and M. Tushman

Keywords: Mathematical Methods; Organizational Design; Organizational Structure; Behavior

May 1993
Teaching Note

Becton Dickinson: Advanced Diagnostics Division TN

By: Marco Iansiti

Keywords: Business Divisions

March 1986 (Revised February 1989)
Case

Westinghouse Steam Turbine Generator Diagnostic System (A)

02 Jul 2019
Working Paper Summaries

Risk-Mitigating Technologies: The Case of Radiation Diagnostic Devices

Keywords: by Alberto Galasso and Hong Luo; Medical Devices & Supplies

March 1986
Case

Westinghouse Steam Turbine Generator Diagnostic System (C)

14 May 2020
News

Perspectives in Health: Everlywell, Diagnostics and COVID

20 Jul 2017
News

Life Lab Nurtures Early Stage Startup Day Zero Diagnostics

Melis Anahtar in the Life Lab If you’ve ever been hospitalized with an infection and had to wait days for test results and a treatment plan, you understand the problems that Day Zero Diagnostics (DZD) is addressing. The company is one of... View Details

Keywords: Scientific Research and Development Services

01 Nov 2000 - 05 Nov 2000
Conference Presentation

Psychological Sequelae of Early Trauma: Comorbid Diagnoses or Diagnostic Entity?

By: Margaret E. Blaustein, Joseph Spinazzola, William B. Simpson and Bessel A. van der Kolk

Keywords: Health; Health Disorders

March 2014
Teaching Note

Uptake of Rapid Diagnostic Tests: A Development Challenge

By: Nava Ashraf, Andrew Boozary and Kristin Johnson

Keywords: Developing Countries and Economies; Health Pandemics; Technology; Health Care and Treatment; Policy; Behavior; Prejudice and Bias; Zambia

August 2023
Background Note

A Note on the Differences Between Therapeutics, Medical Devices, and Diagnostics

By: Satish Tadikonda, Ananya Zutshi, Hunter Goble and William Marks

Educators

2019
Article

Can Big Data Improve Firm Decision Quality? The Role of Data Quality and Data Diagnosticity

By: Maryam Ghasemaghaei and Goran Calic

Anecdotal evidence suggests that, despite the large variety of data, the huge volume of generated data, and the fast velocity of obtaining data (i.e., big data), quality of big data is far from perfect. Therefore, many firms defer collecting and integrating big data as... View Details

Keywords: Big Data; Analytics and Data Science; Decisions; Quality

2013
Working Paper

Helping You Help Me: The Role of Diagnostic (In)congruence in the Helping Process within Organizations

By: Colin M. Fisher, Julianna Pillemer and Teresa M. Amabile

Through an inductive, multi-method field study at a major design firm, we investigated the helping process in project work and how that process affects the success of a helping episode, as perceived by help-givers and/or -receivers. We used daily diary entries and... View Details

Keywords: Groups and Teams; Knowledge Management; Performance; Cooperation

SSRN

10 Dec 2001
Conference Presentation

Psychological Sequelae of Early Trauma II: Comorbid Diagnoses or Diagnostic Entity?

By: Margaret E. Blaustein, Joseph Spinazzola, William B. Simpson and Bessel van der Kolk

Keywords: Health; Health Disorders

February 2016 (Revised September 2017)
Case

Neurotrack and the Alzheimer's Puzzle

By: Richard G. Hamermesh, Liz Kind and Carin-Isabel Knoop

Elli Kaplan founded Neurotrack in 2012 with a breakthrough noninvasive cognitive diagnostics test that will detect Alzheimer's disease in its earliest pre-symptomatic stages. While the company has gained great traction in the three years since it was started, with no... View Details

Keywords: Alzheimer's Disease; Diagnostics; Healthcare; Entrepreneurship; Health Disorders; Science-Based Business; Business Model; Medical Devices and Supplies Industry; United States

Educators

2019
Case

Krueger-Gilbert Health Physics: Can a Serial Acquisition Strategy Work for a Diagnostic Consulting Firm?

By: Jason Pananos and A.J. Wasserstein

July 2014
Article

Second-Opinion Pathologic Review is a Patient Safety Mechanism That Helps Reduce Error and Decrease Waste

By: Lavinia Middleton, Thomas W. Feeley, Heidi W. Albright, Ronald Walters and Stanley Hamilton

We have a crisis in health care delivery, originating from increasing health care costs and inconsistent quality-of-care measures. During the past several years, value-based health care delivery has gained increasing attention as an approach to control costs and... View Details

Keywords: Pathology; Diagnostic Errors; Health Care and Treatment; Health Industry; North and Central America

November 1996
Article

Localized Autocorrelation Diagnostic Statistic for Sociological Models: Times-series, Network, and Spatial Datasets

By: C. I. Nass and Y. Moon

Keywords: Society; Analytics and Data Science; Information