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- November 2017
- Case
The 'Wonder Drug' That Killed Babies
By: Joshua Lev Krieger, Tom Nicholas and Matthew Preble
In the early 1960s, a popular drug taken by patients worldwide for a range of maladies was found to cause severe birth defects and other health problems in babies born to mothers who had taken it during a certain stage of fetal development. As many as 10,000 children... View Details
Keywords: Regulation; Business and Government Relations; Business and Community Relations; Business and Stakeholder Relations; Product Marketing; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Business History; Health; Government Legislation; Corporate Accountability; Ethics; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Pharmaceutical Industry; Public Administration Industry; United States; United Kingdom; Australia; Germany; Europe
Krieger, Joshua Lev, Tom Nicholas, and Matthew Preble. "The 'Wonder Drug' That Killed Babies." Harvard Business School Case 818-044, November 2017.
- Web
Health Care - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness
78.6 yrs is the US life expectancy which is lower than many nations who spend far less on health care 5.9 deaths per 1000 births is the US infant mortality rate which is higher than many nations spending far less on thealth care.... View Details
- 20 Aug 2020
- Book
From the Plow to the Pill: How Technology Shapes Our Lives
For centuries, the creation of innovative technology—from steam engines and automobiles to computers and smartphones—has dramatically changed the nature of our work. Less deeply understood has been the impact of technology on the inner currents of our personal lives,... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 18 Mar 2013
- HBS Case
HBS Cases: LEGO
birth rates declined, children had less time to play and not much interest in toys that didn't offer instant gratification. "These changes did not play well to our strengths," observed current CEO Jørgen Vig Knudstorp in the... View Details
- Web
Skydeck - Alumni
Origin Stories Recipients of the 2024 Alumni Achievement Award reflect on how family and where they grew up formed them—personally and professionally Mission Control Space entrepreneur Peter Platzer (MBA 2002) on the process of finding... View Details
- 24 Feb 2016
- Research & Ideas
Why It's Best to Take Tests Early in the Day
devoted to satisfy our needs—coffee, cigarettes, Facebook, etc.—can increase productivity.” Results and implications The researchers crunched the data to show the difference in average tests scores for tests taken between 8 a.m. and 1 p.m. They View Details
- 29 Jun 2016
- Research & Ideas
The $1 Trillion Link Between Mental Health and Economic Productivity
in the context of health programs and policies in developing nations. But her findings yield lessons that apply to almost everyone. For instance, in a recent study in Lusaka, Zambia, Ashraf and her colleagues found that providing women with access to long-term View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 04 Oct 2021
- What Do You Think?
How Do We Make Sure the Right People End Up with Power in Organizations?
leaders, and cooperation between the police and neighborhoods in the control of crime. Still, he found himself facing questions from the public about the improper behavior of members of the force. He concluded that one reason was that too... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 17 Nov 2016
- Op-Ed
What's Behind the Unexpected Trump Support from Women
access to birth control and health care. Those of us striving to advance gender equity must continue to join with the leaders and thinkers working to advance the rights of other disadvantaged groups to forge... View Details
Keywords: by Laura Morgan Roberts and Robin Ely
- 11 May 2022
- Blog Post
MoMBAs: The Inspiring Student Mothers of HBS
was out on parental leave, my classes were recorded. During each Finance class recording my professor would ask "Do we have a baby yet?"... until one day the recording showed our section president receive a text (that I sent from the hospital). He stopped the class to... View Details
- 07 Apr 2015
- News
Warrior Spirit
74-year-old doctor.” Sityodtong himself started in Muay Thai when he was in his early teens, training under Kru Yodtong Senanan of Sityodtong Camp in Pattaya. (High-ranking fighters are given the training camp’s name as their own by its grandmaster. Chatri’s View Details
- 13 Jul 2011
- Research & Ideas
Experimental Researcher Helps Improve Health Care in Zambia
get people to use them." In one study exploring the country's high birth rates, 1,031 women were randomly chosen to receive a voucher guaranteeing free and immediate access to a range of modern contraceptives through a private... View Details
- 28 Jun 2011
- News
Beyond Case Writing
people to use them.” In one study exploring the country’s high birth rates, 1,031 women were randomly chosen to receive a voucher guaranteeing free and immediate access to a range of modern contraceptives through a private appointment... View Details
- Portrait Project
Chirag Shah
A single, impoverished mother, only 15 years old, gave birth to the first baby I delivered in medical school. Bringing a new life into the world was nothing short of a miracle. However, caring for this young woman, all alone, through the... View Details
- 02 Sep 2014
- Research & Ideas
Food Stamp Entrepreneurs: How Public Assistance Enables Business Bootstrapping
bootstrapped the funds to launch a vocational training program for dental assistants. Revenue from the new business pushed them out of poverty and into the middle class. Olds, a budding economist, was intrigued. “The rate of new business View Details
- 09 Jan 2018
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, January 9, 2018
have identical resumes. Using a novel control condition, we document that this discrimination is not specific to gender. Employers are simply less willing to hire a worker from a group that performs worse on average, even when this group... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 30 Oct 2006
- First Look
First Look: October 31, 2006
framework for sovereign capital structure analysis. It is useful for assessing vulnerability, policy analysis, risk management, investment analysis, and design of risk control strategies. Both public and private sector participants can... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 23 Mar 2016
- Research & Ideas
Researchers Prove C-Suite Gender Gap—but Can’t Explain It
factors like chauvinism. They mostly failed. But in failing to find a quantifiable explanation, they succeeded to challenge a commonly held notion that the corporate gender gap can be attributed to observable, measurable, controllable... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 13 May 2014
- Op-Ed
The Alibaba Effect
Thus, founder Jack Ma and his management team, who own a little over 9 percent of the company, can still retain control of its destiny. (Meanwhile, although Hong Kong stock market authorities are officially pleased to stay true to their... View Details
- 03 Jun 2020
- News
Keeping a Community Connected
other. That gives me hope. In the midst of crisis, sometimes we can give birth to better ways of doing things—figuring out how to control housing costs, provide better education and childcare, improve... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young