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- 15 Aug 2006
- First Look
First Look: August 15, 2006
financial markets change the interaction between banks and corporations? This paper compares the importance of interlocking boards of directors between corporations and banks in Brazil, Mexico, View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 25 Sep 2000
- Research & Ideas
More Than the Sum of Its Parts: The Impact of Modularity on the Computer Industry
cost-effective to experiment and incorporate the results of the experimentation into the system. KB: So a modular design with, say, ten modules might justify ten or more trial designs per module. The module... View Details
- 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
- 18 Jul 2018
- Research & Ideas
No More General Tso's? A Threat to 'Knowledge Recombination'
Cohly was skilled in Ayurveda, the ancient Indian practice of herbal medicine, and suggested they try using turmeric to heal the wound instead. The spice worked, and Das and... View Details
- 11 Nov 2014
- First Look
First Look: November 11
reached their limits; third, some products affecting the health and rights of the people as well as the related entities' behavior are challenging the legal and moral bottom... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 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 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
- 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
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A Jay Holmgren
assisted with his father’s care. “I had this gigantic binder of test results that I would have to fax to different specialists and providers,” he explains. “I thought to myself, ‘Why do I still have this... View Details
- 02 Aug 2011
- News
A Fearless Force for Change
founded with her husband Dave Linn (MBA '00) to fund research and clinical trials at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center. Linn died July 20 at the age of 40. Diagnosed with a soft-tissue sarcoma (a... View Details
- 03 Mar 2017
- News
Big Blue’s Big Bet
MORE Behind IBM's High-Risk Decision to Put Watson on Jeopardy MORE Behind IBM's High-Risk Decision to Put Watson on Jeopardy One day not long ago, a Japanese woman in her 60s walked into a hospital in Tokyo, worried she might have cancer. Doctors ran View Details
Keywords: Paul Kix; illustrations by Dan Page
- 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
- 23 Jan 2019
- News
The Promise of Personalized Medicine
dose them. And there’s a lot of infrastructure that needs to change around that, right? The traditional model is test in animals, test in humans. 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
- 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
- 24 Jul 2019
- Lessons from the Classroom
Can These Business Students Motivate Londoners to Do the Right Thing?
unintended consequences..." The approach has really taken hold in policy settings, and there are now many teams in governments focused on bringing behavioral insights and randomized controlled View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 16 Feb 2016
- First Look
February 16, 2016
tools can be applied. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=50595 in press Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America Cognitive Fatigue Influences Students' Performance on Standardized View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 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
- 03 Dec 2015
- Op-Ed
How "New Nuclear" Power Could Save the Planet—If Regulators Would Allow It
Leaders from some 150 nations have convened in Paris this week for the COP21 conference with a singular goal: to fight the global threat of climate change. Each of them have brought to Paris their own national plan for reducing greenhouse gas emissions that drive... View Details
- 10 Oct 2007
- First Look
First Look: First Look: October 10
to customize therapy for individuals. However, adoption of this approach has progressed slowly and unevenly because the trial-and-error treatment model still governs how the health care system develops,... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace