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  • 28 Mar 2023
  • Research & Ideas

The FDA’s Speedy Drug Approvals Are Safe: A Win-Win for Patients and Pharma Innovation

spent $83 billion on research and development (R&D) in 2019, according to a 2021 report from the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office (CBO). The median cost to develop one drug was $900 million, with half of that amount going... View Details
Keywords: by Kasandra Brabaw; Pharmaceutical
  • 14 Dec 2010
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First Look: Dec. 14

Carliss Y. Baldwin Abstract The existing theory of modularity explains how modular designs create value. We extend this theory to address value appropriation. A product or process design that is modular with respect to intellectual... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 23 Oct 2007
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First Look: October 23, 2007

Review 49, no. 1 (fall 2007) Abstract The largely erroneous perception that breakthroughs are impossible to predict arises from the tendency to focus on just the breakthroughs while ignoring the iterative process of invention and its... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 22 Sep 2009
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First Look: September 22

experience high costs of capital that are only partly mitigated by the presence of venture capital, the evidence for high costs of R&D capital for large firms is mixed. Nevertheless, large established... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 08 Aug 2005
  • Research & Ideas

A Balanced Scorecard Approach To Measure Customer Profitability

the cost of processing large quantities of small customer orders. Customized pricing policies should be at the heart of any strategy to manage customer profitability. The company can set a base price for a... View Details
Keywords: by Robert S. Kaplan
  • 07 Oct 2008
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First Look: October 7, 2008

Lawrence Summers had presided over the final interviews of world-renowned architects being considered for the science complex planned for Harvard's expanded campus in Allston. The selection process had absorbed nine months in 2005 and... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • Fall 2018
  • Article

What Problems Will You Solve with Blockchain?: Before Jumping on the Bandwagon, Companies Need to Carefully Consider how Ledger Technologies Fit into their Overall Strategy

By: Teppo Felin and Karim R. Lakhani
Distributed ledger technologies — collectively known as blockchain — have burst onto the business scene, accompanied by a significant amount of hype.They are widely expected to disrupt existing industries and lead to the creation of new types of companies. Some of the... View Details
Keywords: Blockchain; Technology Adoption; Strategy; Business Processes; Innovation Strategy
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  • 21 Aug 2000
  • Research & Ideas

Inside the OR: Disrupted Routines and New Technologies

technology. Much of the research to date on innovation has focused on factors in an organization—timing of adoption decisions, overall organizational support of innovation, and an organization's history of innovation—that are one step removed from the actual View Details
Keywords: by Hilah Geer
  • 03 Feb 2009
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First Look: February 3, 2009

exploratory study of learning processes in globally dispersed new product development teams. These qualitative data are used to investigate components of team learning previously highlighted in the team learning literature—namely... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 04 Nov 2014
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First Look: November 4

Decision Processes Poker-faced Morality: Concealing Emotions Leads to Utilitarian Decision Making By: Gino, Francesca, and J.J. Lee Abstract—This paper examines how making deliberate efforts to regulate aversive affective responses... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 09 Apr 2007
  • Research & Ideas

Industry Self-Regulation: What’s Working (and What’s Not)?

increasingly important. In some ways it seems obvious, but verification requirements can be enormously complicated to implement and it can dramatically increase the cost of adoption. Q: How do self-regulation programs affect managers as... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
  • 30 May 2018
  • Research & Ideas

Should Retailers Match Their Own Prices Online and in Stores?

undecided consumers who start their purchasing process with a visit to the store. “Webroomers”—the decided consumers who research online first—receive the lower online price by asking the store to self-match, while undecided consumers who... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Retail
  • 28 Apr 2015
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First Look: April 28

annual public outcomes report. They also introduce bundled payment contracts with three insurers for orthopedic surgeries and join a multi-hospital study for applying time-driven activity-based costing to identify View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 30 Oct 2007
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First Look: October 30, 2007

cognitive processes through which a problem is interpreted associatively in terms of something that has been experienced in the past. Despite recognition's centrality to strategic choice, we have limited knowledge of its nature and its... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 16 Mar 2010
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First Look: March 16

learns that the most profitable 1% of the division's customers generate 100% of profits, and that two of the division's largest customers lose 50% of profits. The division has just finished a project to install a time-driven activity-based View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 23 Aug 2016
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August 23, 2016

companies has become available in the past 10 years. Myth Number 5: ESG adds value almost entirely by limiting risks. Reality: Along with lower risk and a lower cost of capital, companies with high ESG scores have also experienced... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 18 Aug 2009
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First Look: August 18

experience and performance fails to find a consistent effect of diversity in experience on performance. The problem is that diversity in experience improves a team's information processing capacity and knowledge base but also creates... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 27 Mar 2007
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First Look: March 27, 2007

with Abernathy, Rebecca Henderson and Carliss Baldwin, Clark placed product and process designs at the center of his explanation of how innovation determines the structure and evolution of industries. Download the paper:... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 08 Sep 2014
  • Research & Ideas

The Strategic Way To Hire a Sales Team

Cespedes explains a strategic process for hiring and managing an effective salesforce: book excerpt Build your Team: Recruitment And Selection From Aligning Strategy and Sales By Frank Cespedes Putting the right team on the field is... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
  • 17 Dec 2013
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First Look: December 17

boundaries, and information processing challenges associated with distant search. Information processing, storage, and communication costs have long been an important constraint on innovation and a reason... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel

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