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- 09 Jan 2019
- Research & Ideas
The UK Needs a Bold Strategy Around Competition to Survive Brexit
UK economy for years, starting with a white paper solicited by the government in 2003. He recently published the paper, "UK Competitiveness after Brexit." Despite a stated emphasis on pro-growth policies since then, there has... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 16 Feb 2012
- Op-Ed
Nitin Nohria: Why US Competitiveness Matters
economic inequality worrisome. They see that US corporations are skittish about making investments in a time of uncertainty about government policy, taxes, and regulations. They hear too many American CEOs talk about choosing to postpone... View Details
Keywords: by Nitin Nohria
- 29 Feb 2016
- HBS Case
Bigbelly's Big Bet on the Digital Trash Can
cities” field. “I wanted to explore the opportunities and challenges of selling to government in a company that is moving from selling hardware in big chunks to selling software as a service,” says Weiss, the MBA Class of 1961 Senior... View Details
- 03 Oct 2012
- What Do You Think?
Can We Bring Back the “Industrial Commons” for Manufacturing?
argument is more basic. It is that the innovative capabilities critical to maintaining industrial leadership are being threatened and need defending. Rebuilding the industrial commons will, they argue, require efforts by both View Details
- 22 Feb 2011
- Research & Ideas
The Most Important Management Trends of the (Still Young) Twenty-First Century
environment. Teresa Amabile Over the past decade, nothing has had a more profound impact on business management than information technology. Ten years ago, many of us in business, academia, and government were wondering where it was all... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 20 May 2013
- Research & Ideas
The Long-Term Fix to US Competitiveness
beginning of the Industrial Age that the advent of mass production would mean there would be no jobs for the vast majority of the population, but we reinvested and gained productivity and expanded the economy." Innovation has driven... View Details
Keywords: by Stephanie Schorow & Harvard Gazette
- 08 Sep 2009
- Research & Ideas
The Height Tax, and Other New Ways to Think about Taxation
Harvard economist N. Gregory Mankiw, Weinzierl coauthored the HBS working paper "The Optimal Taxation of Height: A Case Study of Utilitarian Income Redistribution" [PDF]. The main framework economists use to think through tax policy supposes that when a View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 07 Jan 2009
- What Do You Think?
Is the World Really Flat?
"With the virtual mobility of global labor insured, only those companies and nations will grow ... that make the best use of entrepreneurial qualities...." How governments should spend money in support of View Details
Keywords: by Jim Heskett
- 05 Jun 2013
- Op-Ed
Corporate Leaders Need to Step Up on Climate Change
governments can provide, firms serious about addressing it have a critical role well beyond greening their own operations. They must spur government action. But few are. "Green business" as... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Toffel & Auden Schendler
- 17 Jul 2000
- What Do You Think?
Where Is the Microsoft Board?
Summing Up The predominance of opinions expressed a concern about what happened in Microsoft's dispute with the Government and laid the blame at the feet of both the company's leadership and of board members who either supported the... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 25 May 2016
- Research & Ideas
How Consumers and Businesses are Reshaping Public Health
be headquartered in England in order to achieve a lower corporate tax rate. The British government favored the merger as it would boost the high-priority life sciences sector, but little attention was paid to whether the integration of... View Details
- 2024
- Working Paper
Coronary Artery Bypass Grafting—Impossible to Routine: Case Histories of Transformational Advances
By: Amar Bhidé, Srikant M. Datar and Fabio Villa
We describe how Coronary Artery Bypass Grafting (CABG, or more popularly, “bypass”) operations
revolutionized the treatment of coronary disease (that can produce fatal heart attacks and debilitating
angina). Specifically, we chronicle the: 1) development of the... 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
Bhidé, Amar, Srikant M. Datar, and Fabio Villa. "Coronary Artery Bypass Grafting—Impossible to Routine: Case Histories of Transformational Advances." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 20-010, July 2019. (Revised May 2024.)
- 06 Apr 2007
- What Do You Think?
Will Market Forces Stop Global Warming?
Summing Up Debate on this month's questions occurred on at least three levels. Is global warming occurring? Do humans (primarily through CO2 emissions) have much to do with it? Should we rely on market forces to provide appropriate responses, or will this require... View Details
- 17 Oct 2012
- Research & Ideas
America Needs a Manufacturing Renaissance
sciences that laid the institutional foundations for innovations in semiconductors, high-speed computers, computer graphics, broadband communications, mobile telephony, the Internet, and modern genomics-based methods of drug discovery.... View Details
- 26 Oct 2017
- Research Event
In an Era of 'Fake News,' What is the Future of Advertising and Publishing?
White House popularized the term “fake news,” the influence of social media advertising and online publishing requires serious reexamination. That began to happen October 24 at the The Future of Advertising and Publishing conference held at the Harvard View Details
- 01 Aug 2011
- Research & Ideas
Immigrant Innovators: Job Stealers or Job Creators?
specifically for beneficiaries who have received advanced degrees in the United States.) "It's a lightning rod for a very heated debate," says William Kerr, a professor at Harvard Business School who studies how immigration affects View Details
- 14 Apr 2021
- Research & Ideas
The High Cost of the Slow COVID Vaccine Rollout
Government officials should have poured much more money into producing and distributing COVID-19 vaccines to save more lives and rescue the economy faster, according to new research co-authored by 16 researchers including Harvard Business... View Details
- 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
Bhidé, Amar, Srikant Datar, and Katherine Stebbins. "Cephalosporins—Fighting Hospital Infections: Case Histories of Transformational Advances." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 20-133, July 2020. (Revised May 2024.)
- 2024
- Working Paper
Tamoxifen—Reducing Breast Cancer Risks: Case Histories of Transformational Advances
By: Amar Bhidé, Srikant Datar and Katherine Stebbins
We describe the development of tamoxifen, considered a “gold standard” treatment for
millions of breast cancer patients. Specifically, we describe breast cancer treatments before tamoxifen’s
development; the initial development of tamoxifen from 1960 to 1973;... View Details
Keywords: Health Care and Treatment; Technological Innovation; Innovation and Invention; Innovation Strategy; Technology Adoption; Collaborative Innovation and Invention; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms
Bhidé, Amar, Srikant Datar, and Katherine Stebbins. "Tamoxifen—Reducing Breast Cancer Risks: Case Histories of Transformational Advances." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 20-134, July 2020. (Revised May 2024.)