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  • 2024
  • Working Paper

Cephalosporins—Fighting Hospital Infections: Case Histories of Transformational Advances

By: Amar Bhidé, Srikant Datar and Katherine Stebbins
This case history describes the development of three generations of cephalosporins – antibiotics that have significantly reduced hospital infections. Specifically, we chronicle how: 1) Early (pre-cephalosporin) antibiotics were developed in the first half of the 20th... View Details
Keywords: Health Care and Treatment; Technological Innovation; Innovation Strategy; Technology Adoption; Collaborative Innovation and Invention; Innovation and Invention; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms
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  • 2024
  • Working Paper

Laparoscopy—Minimally Invasive Surgery: Case Histories of Transformational Advances

By: Amar Bhidé, Caitlin N. Bowler and Srikant M. Datar
We describe how operations through laparoscopes – tubular instruments inserted into abdominal cavities – revolutionized gynecological and other surgeries inside the abdomen, such as gall bladder removal. Specifically, we chronicle the 1) foundational contributions of... View Details
Keywords: Health Care and Treatment; Technological Innovation; Innovation Strategy; Technology Adoption; Collaborative Innovation and Invention; Innovation and Invention; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms
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  • 24 Sep 2019
  • News

Connecting Patients and Providers

businessman, he also saw the medical industry’s lost opportunity. The solution, Jarzabek says, is Trustedoctor’s secure online platform that streamlines communication between inbound patients and doctors. Hospitals that adopt the... View Details
  • November 2008
  • Case

Syngenta International AG: Tropical Sugar Beet

By: Ray A. Goldberg and Alwin R. Kopse
Syngenta has developed a new sugar beet crop especially useful to tropical climates that enable double cropping to take place and provide both food and energy from the soil. Thus both the governments of Colombia and India are enthused about the new technological... View Details
Keywords: Food; Government and Politics; Technological Innovation; Performance Improvement; Performance Productivity; Research and Development; Environmental Sustainability; Technology Adoption; India; Colombia
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  • 25 Aug 2003
  • Research & Ideas

Studying Japan from the Inside

Harvard Business School started its Japan Research Office in December 2001—smack in the middle of an incredibly turbulent time for the country's economy. The boom years of the 1970s and 1980s—when Japanese management practices and View Details
Keywords: by Cynthia Churchwell
  • 01 Jun 2011
  • News

Faculty Books

human connection); the destructive behaviors they adopt to relieve their anxiety (busyness, comparing themselves to others, and blaming others for their frustrations); and the behaviors they must adopt to... View Details
Keywords: Credit Intermediation and Related Activities; Finance; Funds, Trusts, and Other Financial Vehicles; Finance
  • 13 Feb 2006
  • Research & Ideas

The Hidden Market for Babies

and children are sold via fertility clinics, sperm banks, women selling their eggs, surrogates, and adoption services. We don't couch these transactions in terms of profit-making businesses. Orphans aren't sold—they are... View Details
Keywords: by Manda Salls; Biotechnology; Health; Technology
  • 09 Dec 2020
  • Blog Post

How to Create a Psychologically Safe Workplace

is good for business – incorporating new perspectives encourages innovation and can also increase productivity and safety. In a psychologically safe workplace, when mistakes are made and learned from, the company can move forward instead... View Details
  • September 1994
  • Case

American Airlines: Object Oriented Flight Dispatching Systems

By: F. Warren McFarlan and Espen Andersen
American Airlines Describes has organized and developed their Systems Operation Control (SOC) center in Dallas, from which the day-to-day running of the airline takes place. This case details the decision support system used by the flight dispatchers, and the... View Details
Keywords: Technological Innovation; Product Development; Programs; Complexity; Technology Adoption; Air Transportation; Air Transportation Industry; United States
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  • August 2001 (Revised October 2001)
  • Case

What a Great Idea

By: Myra M. Hart and Susan Harmeling
Charles "Chic" Thompson has created a successful business as a professional speaker, consultant, and author of two books on creativity. He is challenged to institutionalize his knowledge and brand in an organization that will outlive his involvement. This case examines... View Details
Keywords: Knowledge Management; Entrepreneurship; Management Teams; Organizational Design; Technological Innovation; Technology Adoption; Service Industry; Education Industry
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  • 01 Mar 2019
  • News

Ask the Expert: Auto Pilot

When Mayfield Fund Managing Director Raj Kapoor (MBA 1996), the cofounder and former CEO of Snapfish and fitmob, joined Lyft as chief strategy officer in 2016, he was intent on finding ways to reduce human impact on climate change. The solution turned out to be so... View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint; Motor Vehicle and Parts Dealers; Retail Trade
  • 2024
  • Working Paper

HIV Tests and AIDS Treatments—Containing a Fearsome Pandemic: Case Histories of Transformational Advances

By: Amar Bhidé, Srikant M. Datar and Katherine Stebbins
This case history describes how a diverse cast of characters, including public health organizations, research laboratories, for-profit healthcare companies, activists, and regulators, rolled back the outbreak of HIV/AIDS in just fifteen years. Moreover, as the case... View Details
Keywords: Health Care and Treatment; Technological Innovation; Innovation Strategy; Technology Adoption; Collaborative Innovation and Invention; Innovation and Invention; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms
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  • October 2004
  • Case

World Wide Licenses Ltd.: From Disney to Polaroid

World Wide Licenses (WWL) was a low-technology firm that licensed famous brands, which it then applied to timepieces, stationery, and back-to-school products. It transformed into a digital imaging company and landed worldwide rights to the Polaroid brand name. Explores... View Details
Keywords: Organizational Change and Adaptation; Leadership Development; Brands and Branding; Technology Adoption; Technological Innovation; Transformation
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  • 19 Sep 2024
  • Blog Post

A Day at Royal FloraHolland: The Epicenter of the Global Flower Market

employing orange oil and predator insects to fend off pests, ensuring their flowers are pesticide-free—a quality highly prized by retailers. To combat frostbite, RFH adopts innovative techniques such as... View Details
  • 01 Sep 2015
  • News

High Yields

Illustration by Chris Philpot Hobbyist drones might make headlines with their crashes on the White House lawn, but the market for unmanned vehicles is rapidly expanding beyond the niche: Over the next decade, according to industry trade group forecasts, commercial... View Details
Keywords: Francis Storrs
  • 24 Sep 2014
  • Op-Ed

Tackling Climate Change Will Cost Less Than We Think

massive shift —of the same order of magnitude as the diffusion of globalization, the mechanization of agriculture, the widespread adoption of computers or the diffusion of the Internet and the digitization of almost everything. It will... View Details
Keywords: by Rebecca Henderson; Energy; Utilities
  • 03 Feb 2003
  • Research & Ideas

Homeland Security: A Ready-made Market

panelists at Harvard Business School's Cyberposium 2003 to address the technology trends, developing markets, and pressing concerns of a swiftly developing market. At this point, panelists agreed little new innovation is necessary.... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Service
  • 06 Oct 2020
  • News

Clearing the Path to Citizenship

hoped to start a new life with their young son in their adopted country, but the immigration process would not be an easy one. “Everything was opaque and scary,” Wang says. “It was our one shot at being able to stay.” Stymied by the... View Details
Keywords: April White
  • Blog

Lessons from Jazz in the Live Online Classroom

familiar? Barrett explained that business executives can keep their careers moving forward, expand their leadership potential, and support a culture of innovation by adopting some key principles of jazz... View Details
  • Web

Generative AI for Business Leaders - Course Catalog

delves into critical questions at the heart of this transformation: How will GenAI reshape modern enterprise? What strategies should businesses adopt to integrate this technology effectively? How can existing data be leveraged to unlock... View Details