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- 03 Oct 2006
- First Look
First Look: October 3, 2006
social norms shift away from single-sex education, the school's enrollment is falling and deficits are becoming the norm. At the same time, the modern vision for girls' education requires an even greater investment in science and... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- January 1996
- Case
Biogen, Inc.: rBeta Interferon Manufacturing Process Development
Biogen, Inc., a Cambridge, MA-based biotechnology company, is wrapping up a project to develop a new manufacturing process for a new drug product that will reposition the company from a purely research-oriented company to a fully integrated pharmaceutical manufacturing... View Details
Keywords: Learning; Technological Innovation; Management Analysis, Tools, and Techniques; Product Development; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Projects; Research and Development; Corporate Strategy; Biotechnology Industry
Wheelwright, Steven C. "Biogen, Inc.: rBeta Interferon Manufacturing Process Development." Harvard Business School Case 696-083, January 1996.
- 29 Apr 2020
- Book
The Key to Powerful Social Change: Small Villages
Who will solve the great problems facing humanity, a list of critical issues that only begins with the current pandemic? In the interview below, Rosabeth Moss Kanter discusses her recent book, Think Outside the Building, and her view that solutions are most likely to... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 25 May 2016
- Research & Ideas
How Consumers and Businesses are Reshaping Public Health
explore interactions between private business and public health, and demonstrate how consumers can create better and less expensive care for themselves. Book Excerpt: Consumer Power in Shaping Public Health Healthcare and education are... View Details
- 17 Sep 2013
- First Look
First Look: September 17
Economics Prizes, Publicity, and Patents: Non-Monetary Awards as a Mechanism to Encourage Innovation By: Moser, Petra, and Tom Nicholas Abstract—This paper exploits the selection of prize-winning technologies among exhibitors at the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 09 May 2017
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, May 9
governance-related frictions. Collectively, these findings provide new evidence on the explicit practice of using relative performance benchmarks and on its implications for corporate governance and firm performance. Flexing the Frame: TMT Framing and the Adoption of... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 16 Jul 2013
- First Look
First Look: July 16
America By: Fourcade, Marion, and Rakesh Khurana Abstract—This article draws on historical material to examine the co-evolution of economic science and business education over the course of the twentieth century, showing that fields... View Details
Keywords: Anna Secino
- 17 Jan 2012
- First Look
First Look: January 17
spending on the private sector. Our key innovation is to use changes in congressional committee chairmanship as a source of exogenous variation in state-level federal expenditures. In doing so, we show that fiscal spending shocks appear... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 25 Mar 2014
- Research & Ideas
China’s Economic System has Difficult Road Overcoming its Political System
very sophisticated economy with some of the most educated and most successful business people in the world," Kirby continues. "But they will only be leaders if the Chinese government steps back." He is the T. M. Chang Professor of China... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 19 May 2009
- First Look
First Look: May 19, 2009
Working PapersDon't Just Survive—Thrive: Leading Innovation in Good Times and Bad (revised) Authors:Lynda M. Applegate and Bruce Harreld Abstract Battered by contracting markets and frozen credit, many businesses today are fighting for... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 07 Apr 2015
- First Look
First Look: April 7
Legal Education What Courses Should Law Students Take? Lessons from Harvard's Big Law Survey By: Coates, John C., Jesse M. Fried, and Kathryn E. Spier Abstract—No abstract available. Publisher's link:... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 02 Sep 2014
- First Look
First Look: September 2
across geographies is a fool's errand. Best practices simply don't travel well across borders. That's because conditions not just of economic development but of institutional maturity, educational norms, language, and culture vary... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 10 Mar 2015
- First Look
First Look: March 10
and then go further to consider ways the domain of innovation itself has changed. We suggest that because of fundamental shifts in communication and information processing costs and the increasing modularity of products and services, the... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 07 Jun 2019
- Book
Are You a Digital Manager?
Lagace: As you teach MBA students and Executive Education participants, are they describing new pressures that weren’t there before? Hill: Leadership is truly getting more demanding. I don’t think anyone ever succeeded by him- or herself... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 12 Mar 2014
- Research & Ideas
Entrepreneurship and Multinationals Drive Globalization
systems conducive to modern entrepreneurship. The particular focus in this book is why multinational firms were not better transferors of innovation and entrepreneurial capabilities from the West to the Rest. The historical evidence makes... View Details
- 12 Oct 1999
- Research & Ideas
The Intellectual Underpinnings of Entrepreneurial Management
or an old idea applied to a new setting. (More broadly and more famously, he described capitalism as a form of "creative destruction," often involving the dismantling of old modes of doing business.) Schumpeter's definition of entrepreneurship as View Details
- 14 Feb 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research: February 14
methodological innovations to the marketing literature. First, we correct for endogeneity with regard to both store entry and mall sales to identify the causal effect of store entry on mall sales. Second, we address multiple equilibria by... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 17 Dec 2013
- First Look
First Look: December 17
unmatched and unchecked culture of engineering ambition, of rote learning and educational experimentation, of sophisticated tastes along with basic concerns with food safety. It is a country that is at once cosmopolitan and confused about... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 14 Nov 2006
- First Look
First Look: November 14, 2006
in markets around the world. They prided themselves on their sustainable fishing practices, which were not the norm for the industry. Seafood buyers traditionally bought on price. Clearwater's innovations and technology investments... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 23 Apr 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, April 23, 2019
implementation: (a) whether “reciprocity practitioners” can compete in a world dominated by shareholder value maximizers, and (b) if so, what asset holders and asset managers, corporate directors, and educators can do—and, in some... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman