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- 03 Dec 2001
- Research & Ideas
Healthcare Conference Looks At Ailing Industry
was developed elsewhere, such as a digital form of DNA. The goal now is to redefine disease based on the underlying biological mechanisms, Lander said. By that token, diseases are going to surprise us. Reclassifying them means that some... View Details
- 30 Sep 2019
- Book
Book Excerpt: Why a Volume on Race, Work, and Leadership
construction of blackness has been an economic tool for centuries; it has been used as a means of sourcing under- or wholly unpaid labor, rationalized by an attribution of blacks’ biological inferiority. Though research has since amassed... View Details
Keywords: Re: Andi Wang
- 29 Oct 2020
- Research & Ideas
The COVID Gender Gap: Why Fewer Women Are Dying
Experts have cited several factors that may make men more vulnerable to severe illness, including biological differences, higher smoking rates, and a greater reluctance to seek health care. This new study points to another reason men may... View Details
- 15 Sep 2009
- First Look
First Look: September 15
company, with a focus on changing relationships between manufacturing technology and R&D between the mid-1940s and the mid-1960s. Pfizer first moved into pharmaceuticals through participation in the U.S. government's penicillin effort during World War II. Having... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Aug 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, August 1
drugs (chemically-synthesized, “small-molecule” drugs) face price competition from generic drugs after patent expiration, biosimilars—biologic drugs that have been shown to be therapeutically equivalent to an already approved original View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 14 May 2020
- Research & Ideas
What Leaders Can Do to Fight the COVID Fog
working its magic. You cannot optimize the brain to focus during all waking hours. Mind-wandering is an important biological function; a feature, not a bug. Since it will happen whether you allow time for it or not, best it happens when... View Details
Keywords: by Boris Groysberg and Robin Abrahams
- 10 Aug 2020
- Research & Ideas
COVID's Surprising Toll on Careers of Women Scientists
timed experiments—like biological and chemical fields—research time slid 30 to 40 percent. Overall, 55 percent of the respondents reported a decline in total work hours, 27 percent indicated no change, and 18 percent said they were... View Details
- 18 Aug 2011
- Lessons from the Classroom
Business Plan Contest: 15 Years of Building Better Entrepreneurs
during all my consulting days before business school." DFA's breakthrough is a postage stamp-sized square that wicks biological fluids, such as blood or saliva, through treated paper to provide instant diagnostic results in parts of the... View Details
- 30 Mar 2010
- First Look
First Look: March 30
to balance his role as a business leader and a political ruler. Purchase this case:http://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cb/product/410063-PDF-ENG SIPEF: Biological Assets at Fair Value under IAS 41 Edward J. Riedl and Kristin MeyerHarvard Business... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 18 Apr 2018
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, April 18, 2018
product upon entry, however only a few biosimilars have been approved in the U.S. since 2015, thereby largely preserving biologics from competition. We analyze European markets, which have had biosimilar competition since 2006. Using our... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 12 Mar 2013
- First Look
First Look: March 12
bottleneck. Historically, prize-based contests have had striking success in attracting unconventional individual who can overcome difficult challenges. To determine whether this approach could solve a real big-data biologic algorithm... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 18 Dec 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, December 18, 2018
the threshold for research and development (R&D) investment in an economically viable product. Further, the small size of patient populations for orphan drugs, together with the increasing prevalence of biologics among orphan drugs,... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 21 Aug 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, August 21, 2018
growing share of the U.S. drug market. Traditional “small molecule” generics quickly erode the price and share of the branded product upon entry; however, only a few biosimilars have been approved in the U.S. since 2015, thereby largely preserving View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 06 Jun 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas: June 6, 2017
Pharmacyclics is a biotechnology company that had received FDA approval in late 2013 for its flagship asset Imbrivica (ibrutinib), a biologic treatment for chronic lymphocytic leukemia and two other even rarer blood malignancies. Entering... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 07 Aug 2007
- First Look
First Look: August 7, 2007
and issues around current practices. Purchase this note: http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=807124 U.S. Food and Drug Administration Harvard Business School Note 807-050 Describes the U.S. FDA with particular emphasis on its role in the... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 12 Oct 2011
- First Look
First Look: October 12
and software to meet a wide range of needs from basic scientific research in the biological and medical sciences to clinical applications, materials science, and industrial sectors. Modularity also provided Carl Zeiss engineers the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 10 Oct 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, October 10, 2017
Sigman Abstract—We study desensitization to crime in a lab experiment by showing footage of criminal acts to a group of subjects, some of whom have been previously victimized. We measure biological markers of stress and behavioral indices... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 05 Dec 2013
- What Do You Think?
Is Walmart Defying Economic Gravity?
Original Article There is a body of research that seeks to relate economics to human biology. It's usually associated with the notion that the life cycles of businesses parallel stages of biological life: birth, rapid growth, maturity,... View Details
- 01 May 2007
- First Look
First Look: May 1, 2007
(along with personal relations), laws and regulations can evolve to facilitate real estate investments. Purchase this case: http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=207090 The Convention on Biological Diversity:... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 07 Sep 2016
- What Do You Think?
How Can the Threat of Networks Be Reduced?
networks as we know them, with their devices, will cease to exist within the next decade. These bit based clod machines will yield to a kind of biologic environment, where the systems are secondary to the need constantly adapting and... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett