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A Career Life-Cycle Perspective on Women's Health and Safety

By: Robert S. Kaplan, Chizoba L. Chukwura, Gregory H. Gorman, Vivian S. Lee, Chester B. Good, Kathleen L. Martin, Gregory A. Ator and Michael D. Parkinson
Women's health has demanded more attention from employers as women integrated into the workforce. Traditionally male-dominant fields and occupations require special attention to workplace design, physical standards for entry, employment practices, equipment, and health... View Details
Keywords: Women's Health; Healthcare Access; Workplace Design; Military Health System; Occupational Health; Medical Equipment ＆ Devices; Employees; Gender; Personal Development and Career
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  • 2019
  • Working Paper

Migrant Inventors and the Technological Advantage of Nations

By: Prithwiraj Choudhury
We investigate the relationship between the presence of migrant inventors and the dynamics of innovation in the migrants’ receiving countries. We find that countries are 25% to 50% more likely to gain advantage in patenting in certain technologies given a twofold... View Details
Keywords: Innovation; Migration; Patent; Immigration; Innovation and Invention; Patents; Information Technology; Knowledge Dissemination
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  • 08 Feb 2000
  • Research & Ideas

Building Effective R&D Capabilities Abroad

present an instructive contrast. Xerox established a home-base-augmenting laboratory in Grenoble, France. Its objective: to tap new knowledge from the local scientific community and to transfer it back to... View Details
Keywords: by Walter Kuemmerle
  • 2024
  • Working Paper

The Value of AI Innovations

By: Wilbur Xinyuan Chen, Terrence Tianshuo Shi and Suraj Srinivasan
We study the value of AI innovations as it diffuses across general and application sectors, using the United States Patent and Trademark Office’s (USPTO) AI patent dataset. Investors value these innovations more than others, as AI patents exhibit a 9% value premium,... View Details
Keywords: AI and Machine Learning; Valuation; Technological Innovation; Open Source Distribution; Patents; Policy; Knowledge Sharing; Technology Industry
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  • 24 Aug 2020
  • Working Paper Summaries

When Do Experts Listen to Other Experts? The Role of Negative Information in Expert Evaluations for Novel Projects

Keywords: by Jacqueline N. Lane, Misha Teplitskiy, Gary Gray, Hardeep Ranu, Michael Menietti, Eva C. Guinan, and Karim R. Lakhani
  • 2009
  • Article

Modeling Expert Opinions on Food Healthfulness: A Nutrition Metric

By: Jolie M. Martin, John Beshears, Katherine L. Milkman, Max H. Bazerman and Lisa Sutherland

Research over the last several decades indicates the failure of existing nutritional labels to substantially improve the healthiness of consumers' food and beverage choices. The difficulty for policy-makers is to encapsulate a wide body of scientific knowledge in a... View Details

Keywords: Judgments; Food; Nutrition; Labels; Knowledge Use and Leverage; Demand and Consumers; Measurement and Metrics; Mathematical Methods
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  • 12 Apr 2022
  • Blog Post

The Many Languages of Medicine to Impact Care Delivery

Before this, I had spent years solidifying my knowledge of disease mechanisms, understanding clinical medicine paradigms, and most importantly, learning how to empathize with patients from all walks of life. Over time, I learned a common... View Details

    Act Like a Scientist: Great Leaders Challenge Assumptions, Run Experiments, and Follow the Evidence

    Though they’ve been warned for decades about the dangers of overrelying on gut instinct and personal experience, managers keep failing to critically examine—much less challenge—the ideas their decisions are based on. To correct this problem they need to think and... View Details

    • 05 Mar 2009
    • What Do You Think?

    How Frank or Deceptive Should Leaders Be?

    responses to these questions? Do leaders face special challenges in an age of, in her words, "Twitter Congressmen and Senators, Facebook, DIGG and other social media in undoing all the mistrust that has surfaced as a result of all of... View Details
    Keywords: by Jim Heskett
    • November 2009 (Revised January 2011)
    • Case

    International AIDS Vaccine Initiative

    By: Allen S. Grossman and Cathy Ross
    Dedicated to accelerating the development of a safe, effective, accessible, preventive HIV vaccine, the International AIDS Vaccine Initiative (IAVI) pioneered ways of addressing the inadequate incentive structures that prevented progress toward vaccines for AIDS and... View Details
    Keywords: Developing Countries and Economies; Globalized Firms and Management; Health Care and Treatment; Health Disorders; Business and Government Relations; Partners and Partnerships; Research and Development; Social Enterprise; Health Industry
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    Marginality and Problem-Solving Effectiveness in Broadcast Search

    By: Lars Bo Jeppesen and Karim R. Lakhani
    We examine who the winners are in science problem-solving contests characterized by open broadcast of problem information, self-selection of external solvers to discrete problems from the laboratories of large R&D intensive companies, and blind review of solution... View Details
    Keywords: Competition; Open Source Distribution; Knowledge Use and Leverage; Markets; Independent Innovation and Invention; Problems and Challenges; Research and Development; Gender; Science
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    • 20 Jun 2019
    • Blog Post

    What is the MS/MBA Biotechnology: Life Sciences Program? A Q&A with Bill Anderson, Senior Lecturer on Stem Cell and Regenerative Biology

    this field. Furthermore, these advances raise a host of ethical issues in terms of diseases targeted, types of therapies, and accessibility. Given the rich experience of translational science in the Harvard system (Cambridge, Longwood, and the affiliated hospitals),... View Details
    • November 2006 (Revised May 2007)
    • Case

    Hewlett-Packard Company: The War Within

    By: Krishna G. Palepu, Jay W. Lorsch, Carin-Isabel Knoop and Eliot Sherman
    In September 2006 it was revealed that the Hewlett-Packard Company (HP) had been carrying out an extended investigation of its own employees, board members, and journalists outside the company. The investigation was launched in response to a series of leaks to the... View Details
    Keywords: Problems and Challenges; Employee Relationship Management; Corporate Accountability; Corporate Governance; Governing and Advisory Boards; Management Analysis, Tools, and Techniques; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Communication Technology; Conflict and Resolution; Newspapers; Computer Industry; Information Technology Industry
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      Michael W. Toffel

      Professor Toffel is the Senator John Heinz Professor of Environmental Management. His research examines how companies are addressing climate change (especially decarbonization) and other environmental and working condition issues in their operations and supply... View Details

      • 29 Jul 2021
      • Blog Post

      Exploring the Intersection of Business & Health Care: Summer Fellow Derek Soled (MD/MBA 2022)

      are working around the world to develop skills and knowledge while having significant responsibility and high impact. What are you working on this summer? This summer, I am serving as an Advisor on the View Details
      • 20 Sep 2011
      • First Look

      First Look: September 20

      place. The leading players in these clusters are multilocation firms that organize and integrate knowledge across sites worldwide. Strong internal links across locations allow these firms to leverage View Details
      Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
      • 05 Jul 2006
      • Working Paper Summaries

      Implementing New Practices: An Empirical Study of Organizational Learning in Hospital Intensive Care Units

      Keywords: by Anita L. Tucker, Ingrid M. Nembhard & Amy C. Edmondson; Health

        Gerald Zaltman

        *Joined Harvard Faculty: 1991
        Prior Faculty Appointments: Northwestern University, 1968-75;
        University of Pittsburgh, 1975-91

        *Doctoral Degree in Sociology Received from: The John Hopkins University;
        MBA Degree Received from: The University of... View Details

        Keywords: advertising; apparel; automotive; beverage; biotechnology; consumer products; entertainment; financial services; food; health care; marketing industry; pharmaceuticals; retailing; sports; telecommunications
        • 22 Apr 2016
        • HBS Seminar

        Dr. Milt McColl, MD, Gauss Surgical, CEO

        • 21 Apr 2009
        • First Look

        First Look: April 21, 2009

        institutional theory, and economic theory. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/08-025.pdf Broadening Focus: Spillovers and the Benefits of Specialization in the Hospital Industry Authors:Jonathan R. Clark and Robert S.... View Details
        Keywords: Martha Lagace