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The Information Age has introduced well-received opportunities to track performance. Fitbits and Fuelbands allow individuals to track their own performance; companies like Uber and leading hospitals help you choose a driver or a doctor based on how others rated... View Details

Keywords: Management Accounting; Disclosure; Performance Measurement; Incentives; Control; Education; Health Industry; Health Industry; Health Industry; Health Industry; Health Industry; United States; Japan; India

    Lauren H. Cohen

    Lauren Cohen is the L.E. Simmons Professor in the Finance & Entrepreneurial Management Units at Harvard Business School and a Research Associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research. He is an Editor of the Review of Financial... View Details

    Keywords: asset management; brokerage; financial services; federal government; investment banking industry; state government
    • 2021
    • Chapter

    Multinationals' Need for State Protection: The Creation of the Swiss Investment Risk Guarantee in the 1960s

    By: Sabine Pitteloud
    This chapter focuses on the role of Industrie-Holding, the Federation of Swiss Industrial Multinational Companies, in the introduction of an investment risk guarantee during the 1960s. The chapter therefore contributes to a) the growing body of literature on how... View Details
    Keywords: Investments; Multinational Companies; Political Risk; Business ＆ Government Relations; Investment; Multinational Firms and Management; Risk and Uncertainty; Business and Government Relations; Switzerland
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    • 2015
    • Working Paper

    Public R&D Investments and Private-sector Patenting: Evidence from NIH Funding Rules

    By: Pierre Azoulay, Joshua S. Graff Zivin, Danielle Li and Bhaven N. Sampat
    We quantify the impact of scientific grant funding at the National Institutes of Health (NIH) on patenting by pharmaceutical and biotechnology firms. Our paper makes two contributions. First, we use newly constructed bibliometric data to develop a method for flexibly... View Details
    Keywords: Economics Of Science; Patenting; Academic Reserach; NIH; Knowledge Spillovers; Patents; Research; Government and Politics
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    • December 2017 (Revised April 2018)
    • Case

    The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia: Network Strategy 2016

    By: Michael E. Porter, Thomas W. Feeley and Toyin J. Okanlawon
    Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP) began as a stand-alone hospital in the heart of downtown Philadelphia in 1855. By 2016 the CHOP Care Network stretched across Pennsylvania, New Jersey, and the New York metropolitan area, providing a wide range of services... View Details
    Keywords: Communication; Health Care and Treatment; Service Delivery; Organizational Structure; Networks; Integration; Strategy; Health Industry; Philadelphia
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    • September 2012 (Revised August 2015)
    • Case

    Shanghai Pharmaceuticals

    By: Regina E. Herzlinger and Natalie Kindred
    Shanghai Pharmaceuticals (SPH), a vertically integrated Chinese pharmaceutical conglomerate, was considering its strategic options in the context of a rapidly evolving industry, policy, and economic environment. The company—essentially a collection of subsidiaries... View Details
    Keywords: Business Subsidiaries; Business Conglomerates; Vertical Integration; Decision Choices and Conditions; Mergers and Acquisitions; Consolidation; Health Care and Treatment; Global Strategy; State Ownership; Health Industry; Health Industry; Shanghai; United States; Europe
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      Brian L. Trelstad

       

      Brian Trelstad is a Senior Lecturer at Harvard Business School in the General Management Unit and the Faculty Chair of the Advanced Leadership Initiative. He teaches elective courses on Social Entrepreneurship and Systems... View Details

      Keywords: health care; health care; health care; health care; health care; health care

        The Elasticity of Science

        The adjustment costs of science -- getting scientists to study what you want them to -- are very large.

        Abstact: This paper identifies the degree to which scientists are willing to change the direction of their work in exchange for resources.... View Details
        • 07 Mar 2019
        • News

        Digital-Health Startup Livongo Eyes 2019 IPO

        • May 2013 (Revised October 2014)
        • Case

        Novartis: Leading a Global Enterprise

        By: William W. George, Krishna G. Palepu and Carin-Isabel Knoop
        Novartis, the world's leading healthcare company, was formed in 1996 out of a merger of two very different, mid-tier Switzerland-based pharma companies. The case traces the company's evolution over the past 17 years, as it transformed into a truly global enterprise... View Details
        Keywords: Multinational Firms and Management; Talent and Talent Management; Organizational Structure; Organizational Culture; Success; Globalized Markets and Industries; Management Teams; Change Management; Business History; Mergers and Acquisitions; Global Strategy; Health Care and Treatment; Health Industry; Health Industry; Switzerland
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        Big Names or Big Ideas: Do Peer-Review Panels Select the Best Science Proposals?

        By: Danielle Li and Leila Agha
        This paper examines the success of peer-review panels in predicting the future quality of proposed research. We construct new data to track publication, citation, and patenting outcomes associated with more than 130,000 research project (R01) grants funded by the U.S.... View Details
        Keywords: Patents; Research; Entrepreneurship; Forecasting and Prediction; Innovation and Invention; Business and Government Relations; United States
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        • 30 Mar 2010
        • First Look

        First Look: March 30

        individuals in Great Britain, Canada, France, and Germany, all countries with universal health care systems. At the national level, reductions in medical care are related to the degree to which individuals... View Details
        Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
        • 15 Jun 2010
        • First Look

        First Look: June 15

        HerzlingerHarvard Business School Case 310-071 Vitality is part of a $2 billion start-up South African and U.K. health insurance firm. It has achieved excellent results in rewarding people for promoting... View Details
        Keywords: Martha Lagace
        • 31 Oct 2014
        • Op-Ed

        Ebola’s Call To Arms About Disaster Preparedness

        and we're seeing some real heroes in our public health system, too. Once we get beyond the individual heroics, however, we should be quite concerned about breakdowns of protocol in the nation's hospitals. Ironically, part of the problem... View Details
        Keywords: by Gautam Mukunda; Health
        • May 2020
        • Case

        Big Boom Beverages: Fight or Flight?

        By: Stephen A. Greyser and William Ellet
        Four college friends market a beverage that combines ingredients like those in a drink they consumed in college bars. It includes a caffeinated energy drink, malt liquor, and a soft drink flavoring. They launch the business, Big Boom Beverages (BBB), with their own... View Details
        Keywords: Alcoholic Beverages; Energy Drinks; Regulation; Entrepreneurship; Ethics; Marketing Communications; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Reputation; Communication Strategy; Decision Making
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          Michael W. Toffel

          Professor Toffel is the Senator John Heinz Professor of Environmental Management. His research examines how companies are addressing climate change (especially decarbonization) and other environmental and working condition issues in their operations and supply... View Details

          • 20 May 2013
          • Op-Ed

          Making America an Industrial Powerhouse Again

          industries. Research funded by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) sowed the seeds for the internet and advanced computer graphics. And massive investments by the National Institutes of View Details
          Keywords: by Gary Pisano; Manufacturing
          • 2015
          • Working Paper

          Expertise vs. Bias in Evaluation: Evidence from the NIH

          By: Danielle Li
          Evaluators with expertise in a particular field may have an informational advantage in separating good projects from bad. At the same time, they may also have personal preferences that impact their objectivity. This paper develops a framework for separately identifying... View Details
          Keywords: Prejudice and Bias; Performance Evaluation; Experience and Expertise
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          • April 2007 (Revised March 2008)
          • Case

          Dr. Iqbal Survé at Sekunjalo Investment Group (A)

          By: Linda A. Hill and Emily Stecker
          Dr. Iqbal Surve, a self-described "medical doctor, philanthropist, and social entrepreneur," was born in 1963 and grew up in poverty, like virtually all non-white South Africans during apartheid. During the 1970s and 1980s, he served in leadership positions in the ANC,... View Details
          Keywords: Crime and Corruption; Social Entrepreneurship; Investment; Leadership; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Partners and Partnerships; South Africa
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          • Summer 2021
          • Article

          The Cost and Evolution of Quality at Cipla Ltd, 1935–2016

          By: Muhammad H. Zaman and Tarun Khanna
          This article examines the evolution of Indian pharmaceutical manufacturer Cipla towards producing drugs that met the quality standards of European and U.S. regulators. It employs new research in Cipla’s corporate archives, the Creating Emerging Markets database, and... View Details
          Keywords: Cipla; Pharmaceuticals; Drug Quality; Generics; Quality; Standards; Information Technology; Cost; Organizational Culture; Business History; Pharmaceutical Industry; India
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