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- 07 Aug 2006
- Research & Ideas
Whatever Happened to Caveat Emptor?
basic material needs to concerns about the safety and quality of these products. When products did fail—as happened dramatically in the late 1950s with the antinausea drug Thalidomide—such cases became the... View Details
- 02 Sep 2008
- First Look
First Look: September 3, 2008
cultivators, especially on public lands. This reduced the costs of tenure insecurity. Political constraints prevented the government from subsidizing land reforms to a greater degree. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/09-023.pdf View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 17 Nov 2008
- Research & Ideas
Decoding the Artful Sidestep
topic to understand better. Q: How did you go about designing your study in order to get a handle on this topic? A: It actually took us a couple of tries to come up with this design. The challenge was coming up with an experimental design where the objective View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 03 Mar 2009
- First Look
First Look: March 3, 2009
of its pricing, the strategic interaction between prices set by the content provider and by the platforms leads to a non-monotonic relationship between exclusivity and content quality: both high- and low-quality content will multihome and join both platforms, but there... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 24 May 2011
- First Look
First Look: May 24
1839 and 1939. We find large effects of the prizes on competitive entry and the quality of contemporaneous patents, especially when prize categories were set by a strict rotation scheme, thereby mitigating the potentially confounding... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 03 Jul 2012
- Research & Ideas
HBS Faculty on Supreme Court Health Care Ruling
invasive surgery, radiation, and chemotherapy for cancer, for example) with drugs that can palliate and perhaps cure genetically-linked diseases. But like most new technologies, these are hugely expensive to develop, and initially, to... View Details
- 16 Oct 2013
- Op-Ed
Response to Readers: Combating Climate Change with Nuclear Power and Fracking
supply contamination, etc.), as long as production takes place in a state or other legal jurisdiction with a history of sensible oil and gas production regulations and regulatory capacity in-place to enforce those regulations. “Cleaning up Chinese air View Details
- 25 Aug 2015
- First Look
First Look Tuesday
increase in revenue for established schools whereas invitations to prestigious postseason bowl games play a big part for less-established schools. Furthermore, we find that student population and education quality dissipate the effect of... View Details
- 11 Jan 2017
- Research & Ideas
The Paradoxical Quest to Make Food Look 'Natural' With Artificial Dyes
all-year-round—even though the true color of butter fluctuated throughout the year. “Uniformity of color was one of the qualities that butter color makers stressed to their customers,” Hisano writes, citing a 1905 advertisement in which... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 01 Sep 2007
- News
Riding It Out
uncomfortable question in the age of globalization. At a time when the ingredients of our foods and medicines, parts for our cars, and toys for our children come from countries around the world, who is minding the store? What is the best way to ensure View Details
- 29 May 2001
- Research & Ideas
How Technological Disruption Changes Everything
HBS Professor Clayton Christensen sees disruptive innovation as a threat to everything from Microsoft to Japan—and even to a certain prominent business school. But through that disruption comes improved quality of life—and major... View Details
- 18 Aug 2011
- Lessons from the Classroom
Business Plan Contest: 15 Years of Building Better Entrepreneurs
separate track for social enterprise ventures, and in 2009 the contest opened to first-year students with the understanding that it shouldn't detract from coursework preparations. “If you look at the quality of ideas that have converted... View Details
- 25 May 2016
- Research & Ideas
How Consumers and Businesses are Reshaping Public Health
commercialization of important new drugs to the detriment of consumers. Interestingly, though, at public hearings, the AstraZeneca chief executive championed the interests of patients in opposing the proposed merger. Consumers worldwide... View Details
- 08 Jun 2010
- First Look
First Look: June 8
case:http://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cb/product/810123-PDF-ENG Myelin Repair Foundation: Accelerating Drug Discovery Through Collaboration Karim R. Lakhani and Paul R. CarlileHarvard Business School Case 610-074 This case presents the Myelin... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 02 Jan 2020
- Op-Ed
Medicare for All or Public Option: Can Either Heal Health Care?
coverage—and improve the quality of care. Insurers could also offer plans that would be politically unfeasible for the public option. For example, private insurers can offer policies that transport members from high-cost locations for... View Details
- 27 Jan 2003
- Research & Ideas
New Cluster Mapping Project Helps Companies Locate Facilities
competitive today? A: There has been a tendency to look too narrowly at location decisions, focusing just on labor cost, electricity costs, tax breaks, etc. But input costs are not what matters. What matters is total cost, which depends on the View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 16 Jul 2008
- Op-Ed
What Should Employers Do about Health Care?
increasing employee attendance and productivity through comprehensive health and wellness programs. What is the best way for employers to address their health benefits issues? Here again, fuzzy thinking has made the problem worse. In every other aspect of their... View Details
- 17 Oct 2006
- First Look
First Look: October 17, 2006
signal and infer quality of difficult-to-observe management practices. Prior evaluations of voluntary management programs have focused on those that lack verification mechanisms and have found little evidence that they legitimately... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 02 Nov 2022
- Blog Post
Climate Stories Episode #11: Mary Jo Veverka (HBS 1978): Fostering Actionable Climate Literacy
has had a storied business career. In the 1980s, she became the first female partner at Booz, Allen and helped build the consulting firm’s pharmaceutical practice. In the early 1990s, she was a deputy commissioner at the Food & Drug... View Details
- 01 May 2007
- First Look
First Look: May 1, 2007
Working PapersGrowth and the Quality of Foreign Direct Investment: Is All FDI Equal? Authors:Laura Alfaro and Andrew Charlton Abstract In this paper we distinguish different "qualities" of FDI to re-examine the relationship... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne