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- 26 Nov 2007
- Research & Ideas
Best Practices of Global Innovators
single-site projects, related to dividing tasks, sharing artifacts, and coordinating and integrating work. Rarely does a firm's default process adequately address these activities. Effective approaches are... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 17 Jun 2020
- News
Toronto Copes with COVID-19 Via Webinars; Alumni Respond to Pandemic in Philippines
schedule. Massive testing is considered to be a cornerstone of the national COVID-19 response strategy.” Jaime I. Ayala (MBA 1988) Founder and CEO, Hybrid Social Solutions, Inc. (HSSI): “In the war against... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- Profile
Raymond Hwang
symptoms, test results, examination findings, and patient preferences. The surgeon’s job is essentially to distill this diverse information into a diagnosis and treatment plan.... View Details
- 09 Feb 2010
- First Look
First Look: Feb. 9
human patients. Doyle believes NovoCure has the potential to become an important company with a major new cancer therapy platform but must complete pivotal (Phase III) clinical trials and receive FDA... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 09 Dec 2014
- First Look
First Look: December 9
Experimentation By: Thomke, Stefan, and Jim Manzi Abstract—The data you already have can't tell you how customers will react to innovations. To discover if a truly novel concept will succeed, you must subject it to a rigorous experiment.... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 17 Oct 2006
- First Look
First Look: October 17, 2006
http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=407025 Finance Leadership in Novartis Consumer Health Businesses Harvard Business School Case 406-102 Describes and contrasts the roles View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 17 Aug 2020
- News
Democratizing Medicine
Inspired by a family member’s experience with a lack of timely access to health care, Carlos Reines (MBA 2014) built RubiconMD make sure others get the medical expertise they need, when they need it. In this interview, he talks about how... View Details
- 29 Sep 2015
- First Look
September 29, 2015
patients; however, organizations have struggled to obtain outcomes data from electronic health record (EHR) systems. This study describes how Texas Children’s Hospital customized a commercial EHR system and... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Sep 2008
- News
Mara Aspinall
carried out, not for time they spent gathering information and thinking about patient diagnosis. Diagnostic tests account for only 3 percent of health-care spending, but drive 70 percent of all medical... View Details
- 01 Sep 2012
- News
Start It Up
Mojave Desert of Earl Energy’s 18-kilowatt hybrid generators showed as much as a 90 percent reduction in fuel use. The Marines are now testing them at frontline command centers in Afghanistan, and if further... View Details
- 01 Dec 2019
- News
The Race Against Resistance
people die as a result. And yet, there are only 42 antibiotics currently in clinical development, and typically only 20 percent of infectious disease drugs that enter phase 1 clinical View Details
Keywords: Lisa Scanlon Mogolov
- 01 Mar 2009
- News
A New Approach to Health-Care Reform
CHRISTENSEN: “By some estimates, 50 percent of all health care is driven by physician and hospital supply, not by patients’ needs.” An acclaimed author and expert on the... View Details
- 11 Mar 2008
- First Look
First Look: March 11, 2008
implementation of an innovative, but ultimately unsuccessful strategy. Quarterly strategic reviews, based in part on the firm's balanced scorecard, led executives at Store24 to identify problems with, and eventually abandon, this strategy... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 24 Aug 2020
- Blog Post
My Journey to Joining the first MS/MBA Biotechnology: Life Sciences Cohort
at Merck in their Screening and Protein Sciences Department. There, we ran tests to identify potential therapeutic candidates. Through this research, I started to see the link between bench science View Details
- 19 May 2020
- Blog Post
The Aspen Fellowship: MBA Student Launches Program Supporting Black Undergrads
common questions is “what skills got you to where you are today”? It is important to acknowledge that there is no singular path to a successful career, nor have I figured out the best one yet! I continue to learn through trial View Details
- 30 Jan 2012
- Research & Ideas
Measuring the Efficacy of the World’s Managers
highest overall management scores in retail, health care, and manufacturing. But US schools scored comparatively lower, coming in fourth behind the United Kingdom, Sweden, and... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 01 Dec 2020
- News
A New Approach to Contact Tracing
implemented a tried and tested tool to help contain infectious disease: human-led contact tracing, the process of tracking down and notifying individuals who have been exposed... View Details
- 31 May 2016
- First Look
May 31, 2016
employee’s desk is only 166 meters from the clinic. Base proximity does not predict vaccination probability. Conclusions and Relevance: Minor changes in the environment can have substantial effects on the probability of vaccination. If... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 02 Aug 2024
- HBS Case
How a Mission to Cut Food Waste Launched a Multimillion-Dollar Venture
On a hectic Friday in October 2016, Josh Domingues wondered if he had made a mistake quitting the security of a well-paying job managing contracts for professional hockey players to start a new venture selling nearly expired groceries at discount prices. After all, a... View Details
- 04 Jul 2016
- Research & Ideas
Is Your Org Chart Stuck in a Rut? Try a Scientific Experiment
which made it to the “refinement” stage, including Regan’s. “The hypothesis that we are testing is that if a complex legal brief is viewed firstly as a bundle of tasks to be integrated to create a customer outcome, productivity View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel