Platform Trials - Publications - Faculty & Research

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Manufacturing Moderna's Future

In 2019, Moderna faced long odds of survival having failed to develop a successful clinical program out of the vast platform technology they had built around mRNA. Nearly overnight, the company skyrocketed to success with a vaccine for COVID-19, leading to an extremely... View Details

Keywords: Health Pandemics; Health Testing and Trials; Technological Innovation; Product Development; Production; Science-Based Business; Biotechnology Industry

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22 May 2018
First Look

New Research and Ideas, May 22, 2018

trust, the two sides may circumvent the intermediary to avoid the intermediary’s fees. We investigate the relationship between increased trust and disintermediation by leveraging a randomized control trial on a major online freelance... View Details

Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

01 Dec 2023
News

Joint Venture

recalls. The chemically engineered cartilage platform had enormous potential for patients with osteoarthritis—more than 650 million people suffer from the degenerative joint disorder worldwide—and other kinds of joint pain. Surakanti and... View Details

Keywords: Shoshi Parks

08 Aug 2022
HBS Case

Building an 'ARMY' of Fans: Marketing Lessons from K-Pop Sensation BTS

also consider adopting to grow their customer base: Express a social conscience. From the get-go, BTS produced songs that commented on social issues and had a consistent message of self-love. The first three albums delved into the trials... View Details

Keywords: by Shalene Gupta; Media & Broadcasting; Music

21 Apr 2009
First Look

First Look: April 21, 2009

have assumed greater roles in defining disease categories than in the past and now influence clinical trials and participate in regulatory decision making. Yet these developments are far from universal and are taking very different forms... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

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Entrepreneurship - Faculty & Research

analyze thermal images and detect tumors. Its patented solution leveraged big data analytics, AI, and ML for reliable, early, and accurate breast cancer screening. Early clinical trials showed that the solution was equal to or, in some... View Details

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Topics - HBS Working Knowledge

Entrepreneurship (5) Corporate Finance (12) Corporate Governance (33) Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact (121) Corporate Strategy (97) Cost Accounting (3) Cost Management (9) Cost of Capital (1) Cost vs Benefits (8) Cost (15) Country (4) Courts and View Details

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Financial Accounting Online Course | HBS Online

a Trial Balance Show Hide Details Concepts Journal Entries and T-Accounts Advanced Journal Entries The Trial Balance Featured Exercises Record business transactions as journal entries Construct a View Details

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Health Care - Faculty & Research

machine learning algorithms to analyze thermal images and detect tumors. Its patented solution leveraged big data analytics, AI, and ML for reliable, early, and accurate breast cancer screening. Early clinical trials showed that the... View Details

01 Jan 2007
News

Jaime Augusto Zobel de Ayala, MBA 1987

began in 1981. "My father offered me the opportunity to test the work environment in the Philippines at Ayala for a three-year trial period," he recalls. Although considering other options, Zobel took to his work at Ayala "like a fish to... View Details

01 Mar 2024
News

On the Radar

to make everything from life-saving medicines to juicy meatless burgers. Early on, Ginkgo had plans to branch out into biosecurity. The thinking was, McKnight says, “If we’re going to build a bioengineering platform, then we’d better also care how that View Details

Keywords: Janine White; Justice, Public Order, and Safety Activities; Government

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Winners & Runners-Up | New Venture Competition

Building a zero-fee money transfer platform for African migrants. Feather Health Kirsten Soong (MBA 2022) Daniel Navarro Mariya Rivkin (MBA 2022) Social Enterprise Track Runner-Up An AI driven digital View Details

09 Oct 2020
Blog Post

4 Things To Know About the MS/MBA Biotech

and pharmaceutical management. I learned about value-based approaches to drug pricing and concluded that overseeing a mission-driven pharmaceutical company would provide me with the platform and the opportunity to lower prices and expand... View Details

13 Mar 2023
Blog Post

Career Journey: Karan Khimji, Co-Founder of 44.01

wells and the rate of CO2 injection affect the mineralization process. We’re also working to refine and improve our technology, for example by trialing using seawater at our site in the UAE. Our next two projects – in the UAE and in Oman... View Details

13 Jun 2011
HBS Case

Mobile Banking for the Unbanked

WIZZIT's founders thought there was a noble and viable business model in bringing banking to the poor, via a mobile banking platform that could be used on even the most primitive cell phone. They succeeded in finding an engineer to... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Banking; Communications; Telecommunications

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Technology & Operations Management Awards & Honors - Faculty & Research

into Platform Markets” with Feng Zhu, Xinxin Li, and Ehsan Valavi. Christian Kaps : Winner of the 2019 Dutch Material Handling Thesis Award for “Towards Better Warehouse Efficiency Distinction through Cross-Efficiency Measurement.“... View Details

01 Jun 2018
News

Floor It

case study with the Multiple Myeloma Research Foundation, GNS Healthcare, the Moffitt Cancer Center’s ORIEN program, and biotech firm Foundation Medicine. Rethinking Drug Trials In an adaptive platform... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; illustration by Mengxin Li

24 Sep 2020
News

The Race for a Vaccine

technology offered two advantages. First, the company had been focused on creating not a single drug, but a platform for analyzing proteins and producing synthetic mRNA. That same process could be used to analyze the proteins on a virus... View Details

Keywords: April White; COVID-19; Scientific Research and Development Services

Fast Answer

Pharmaceuticals: Pipeline

member states and European Economic Area and clinical trials which are conducted outside the EU/EEA if they form part of a pediatric investigation plan. May use the Advanced search function for efficient searching. International Clinical... View Details

15 Jan 2018
Research & Ideas

A Better Business Model for Fighting Cancer

benefits of sharing data, which can then be used to more quickly identify the most pressing targets and design trials to address them. Innovations to the typical clinical trial model are also being used. In... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Health; Pharmaceutical

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