• 30 Jul 2007
• Research & Ideas

Repugnant Markets and How They Get That Way

"Kidney exchange is something we have gotten going in New England and elsewhere that doesn't involve any monetary transfers," Roth explains. "It has not aroused any repugnance at all. We've just gotten legislation through the House and the Senate... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

• 05 May 2009
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First Look: May 5, 2009

high switching cost channels are retained with greater frequency. Managerial implications of these findings are discussed, as well as opportunities for future research. Putting Patients First: Social Marketing Strategies for Treating HIV in View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

• 26 Aug 2008
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First Look: August 26, 2008

developed a revolutionary video pill for imaging the small bowel in the gastro-intestinal tract. The development has required the integration of a wide variety of technologies. GI founder and CEO Gabriel... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

• 16 Jul 2013
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First Look: July 16

influence when the vast majority can't? The authors tracked 68 change initiatives in the UK's National Health Service, an organization whose size, complexity, and tradition can make reform difficult. They discovered several predictors of... View Details

Keywords: Anna Secino

• 15 Dec 2003
• Research & Ideas

The New Global Business Manager

competitive by integrating activities and coordinating resources across national borders. At the same time, they also need to be sensitive and responsive to national differences in consumer tastes and... View Details

Keywords: by Cynthia Churchwell

• 19 Mar 2007
• Research & Ideas

Handicapping the Best Countries for Business

the present. Q: One of the payoffs in your book for global strategists is an analysis of the top ten countries in terms of economic development and potential trajectories. Obviously each situation is different, but which countries would... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

• 12 Nov 2019
• Research & Ideas

Corporate Innovation Increasingly Benefits from Government Research

Business Administration and co-head of the Strategy Unit at Harvard Business School. Consider that between the 1950s and 1980s, Uncle Sam’s spending on research and development (R&D) rose fivefold from less than $20 billion to more... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

• 30 May 2007
• Research & Ideas

Health Care Under a Research Microscope

including Bohmer, a physician; Bill George, former chairman and CEO of Medtronic; Raymond Gilmartin, former chairman, president, and CEO of Merck & Co.; Robert Huckman, a former health care consultant and now Faculty Research Fellow in the health care program of... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Health; Biotechnology

• 22 Jul 2008
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First Look: July 22, 2008

Financial Development, Bank Ownership, and Growth. Or, Does Quantity Imply Quality? Authors:Shawn A. Cole Abstract In 1980, India nationalized its large private banks. This induced different bank ownership patterns across different towns,... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

• 21 Jun 2011
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First Look: June 21

http://www.penguin.co.uk/nf/Book/BookDisplay/0,,9781846142734,00.html?strSrchSql=Civilization%3A+The+West+and+the+Rest/Civilization_Niall_Ferguson Accelerating Energy Innovation: Insights from Multiple Sectors Authors: Rebecca Henderson and Richard G. Newell, eds.... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

• 03 Mar 2003
• Research & Ideas

Top Ten Legal Mistakes Made by Entrepreneurs

the patent application, the invention is unpatentable in that country. For example, if the invention is publicly disclosed to a Japanese national visiting a tradeshow in the United States, then under Japanese patent law, if no patent... View Details

Keywords: by Staff