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- June 2021
- Technical Note
Introduction to Linear Regression
By: Michael Parzen and Paul Hamilton
This technical note introduces (from an applied point of view) the theory and application of simple and multiple linear regression. The motivation for the model is introduced, as well as how to interpret the summary output with regard to prediction and statistical... View Details
- August 2020 (Revised January 2022)
- Case
1928 Diagnostics: Fighting Antibiotics Resistance
By: Ariel D. Stern and Daniela Beyersdorfer
In 2019, the co-founders of the Swedish medical start-up 1928 Diagnostics, CEO Dr. Kristina Lagerstedt and COO Dr. Susanne Staaf, had to pick the right business model to commercialize their novel technology to hospitals and health care providers. Developed in... View Details
Keywords: Health Care and Treatment; Entrepreneurship; Leadership; Science-Based Business; Growth and Development Strategy; Business Growth and Maturation; Business Model; Information Technology; Digital Platforms; Health Disorders; Market Entry and Exit; Value Creation; Business and Stakeholder Relations; Health Industry; Medical Devices and Supplies Industry; Technology Industry; Europe; Sweden
Stern, Ariel D., and Daniela Beyersdorfer. "1928 Diagnostics: Fighting Antibiotics Resistance." Harvard Business School Case 621-025, August 2020. (Revised January 2022.)
- October 2023 (Revised June 2024)
- Case
Revvity: A Symbol of Change
By: Satish Tadikonda and William Marks
After selling the PerkinElmer name and several ancillary business units, Prahlad Singh (CEO) and his team at the newly christened Revvity faced a challenge on how best to capitalize on the opportunities ahead for the business and emerge as winners within the Life... View Details
Tadikonda, Satish, and William Marks. "Revvity: A Symbol of Change." Harvard Business School Case 824-071, October 2023. (Revised June 2024.)
- 2016
- Chapter
Evaluating the Effects of Large Scale Health Interventions in Developing Countries: The Zambian Malaria Initiative
By: Nava Ashraf, Gunther Fink and David N. Weil
Since 2003, Zambia has been engaged in a large-scale, centrally coordinated national anti-Malaria campaign, which has become a model in sub-Saharan Africa. This paper aims at quantifying the individual and macro-level benefits of this campaign, which involved mass... View Details
Ashraf, Nava, Gunther Fink, and David N. Weil. "Evaluating the Effects of Large Scale Health Interventions in Developing Countries: The Zambian Malaria Initiative." Chap. 1 in African Successes, Volume 2: Human Capital, edited by Sebastian Edwards, Simon Johnson, and David N. Weil. University of Chicago Press, 2016.
- 2010
- Working Paper
Evaluating the Effects of Large-Scale Health Interventions in Developing Countries: The Zambian Malaria Initiative
By: Nava Ashraf, Gunther Fink and David N. Weil
Since 2003, Zambia has been engaged in a large-scale, centrally coordinated national anti-malaria campaign which has become a model in sub-Saharan Africa. This paper aims at quantifying the individual and macro level benefits of this campaign, which involved mass... View Details
Keywords: Cost vs Benefits; Developing Countries and Economies; Health Care and Treatment; Health Disorders; Performance Evaluation; Programs; Health Industry; Zambia
Ashraf, Nava, Gunther Fink, and David N. Weil. "Evaluating the Effects of Large-Scale Health Interventions in Developing Countries: The Zambian Malaria Initiative." NBER Working Paper Series, No. 16069, June 2010.
- 10 Oct 2007
- First Look
First Look: First Look: October 10
two bands they had signed, Maroon 5 and Flyleaf. Known for its grassroots marketing campaigns, Octone operated through a unique joint-venture model with SonyBMG Music Entertainment's RCA Music Group, which enabled the nimble record label... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 06 Jul 2011
- Research & Ideas
Are You a Level-Six Leader?
"transactional" leaders. Level One: Sociopath At the base of the model is the person who literally serves no one: the Sociopath. The Sociopath, afflicted with what the Diagnostic and Statistical... View Details
Keywords: by Mitch Maidique
- 09 Mar 2009
- Research & Ideas
How to Revive Health-Care Innovation
fundamental question: How do we make health care affordable? Most disruptions have three enablers: a simplifying technology, a business model innovation, and a disruptive value network. The technological enabler transforms a technological... View Details
- 15 Jun 2020
- Research & Ideas
A Mass Crisis Can Overwhelm Health Care. Liberia Found a Solution.
country, Liberia, that was able to meet a similar, deadly threat by supplementing a health care system emerging from decades of civil strife with a cadre of less trained, but highly capable, community health workers. Could the Liberian View Details
- 07 Feb 2012
- First Look
First Look: February 7
unavailable at this time. Read the paper: http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/gsj.28/abstract Modeling a Paradigm Shift: From Producer Innovation to User and Open Collaborative Innovation Authors:Carliss Baldwin and Eric von Hippel... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 12 Aug 2008
- First Look
First Look: August 12, 2008
conceptual model and propositions that highlight the attributes of effective workforce diversity initiatives and the process through which workforce diversity initiatives become effective. We focus on knowledge-intensive work and argue... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 21 Jan 2014
- First Look
First Look: January 21
increase performance while social comparison reduces it, especially for low-ability trainees. These effects appear when treatments are announced and persist through training. The findings are consistent with a model of optimal... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 20 Dec 2017
- Lessons from the Classroom
How to Design a Better Customer Experience
into consideration the intense emotions of parents and children. So Dietz and his team embarked on a patient-centered redesign by attempting to view the diagnostic procedure through the eyes of a child. The result: Adventure Series... View Details
- 07 May 2020
- Research & Ideas
The One Good Thing Caused by COVID-19: Innovation
businesses." At the same time, some market segments will continue to prefer the physical interactions embodied in the "old" model and will be willing to pay a premium for high-quality and safe physical consumption.... View Details
Keywords: by Hong Luo and Alberto Galasso
- 02 Oct 2006
- Research & Ideas
Negotiating in Three Dimensions
broad diagnostic questions follow our three-dimensional scheme. First, you should ask whether it is a tactical or people-related barrier like communication, trust, misperceptions, or the like. Second, you should ask whether the problem is... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 21 Aug 2017
- Lessons from the Classroom
Companies Love Big Data But Lack the Strategy To Use It Effectively
the class toward her personal passion, precision medicine. “Health care is rife with examples like these—and such applications of big data will only expand over the coming years. I spend a lot of time thinking about questions like, How will artificial intelligence... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 20 Oct 2010
- Op-Ed
Export Competitiveness: Reversing the Logic
voiced about the term competitiveness more broadly already more than 15 years ago (Krugman, 1994). As an alternative, the note outlines a growth approach in which exports are a diagnostic instrument and the associated policies focused on... View Details
Keywords: by Christian Ketels
- 16 Jul 2013
- First Look
First Look: July 16
more or less effective? Does bundling serve as a complement or substitute to network effects? To address these questions, we develop a consumer-choice model from micro-foundations to capture the essentials of our setting, the handheld... View Details
Keywords: Anna Secino
- 18 Aug 2011
- Lessons from the Classroom
Business Plan Contest: 15 Years of Building Better Entrepreneurs
risk because I was still a student," he says. Initially, EyeView's model was devoted to helping businesses create and post online video content. About a year later, the company shifted its focus to creating customized videos that target... View Details
- 04 Oct 2016
- First Look
October 4, 2016
Abstract—We build a tractable growth model where multi-product incumbents invest in internal innovations to improve their existing products, while new entrants and incumbents invest in external innovations to acquire new product lines.... View Details