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  • 25 Jul 2023
  • Research & Ideas

Could a Business Model Help Big Pharma Save Lives and Profit?

access to therapies in low- and middle-income countries, told the BiGS Fix: “It is no longer acceptable that these highly innovative medicines and vaccines are only available to high-income countries. The rationale for this dichotomy is... View Details
Keywords: by Esther Schrader; Pharmaceutical; Health
  • 16 Nov 2015
  • Research & Ideas

Does Competition Make Us More Creative?

much competition pushes them in the opposite direction. The findings could help organizations generate more innovative ideas, sharpen R&D, and even improve “bake-off” competitions between vendors used to award contracts. “You could... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Advertising
  • 22 May 2007
  • First Look

First Look: May 22, 2007

Wood, George Westerman, and Charles O'Reilly Abstract This paper empirically explores the relations between alternative organizational designs and a firm's ability to explore as well as exploit. We operationalize exploitation and exploration in terms of View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 11 Jan 2021
  • Research & Ideas

Is A/B Testing Effective? Evidence from 35,000 Startups

incremental changes to their websites, such as improving elements of design and presentation, also facilitated an increased focus on big-picture strategy and innovation, says Koning. "A/B testing also allows the firm to free up the time... View Details
Keywords: by Kristen Senz
  • 27 Feb 2019
  • Research & Ideas

The Hidden Cost of a Product Recall

device industry. That allowed the researchers to evaluate how a recall’s severity and proximity—the degree of product market overlap between recalled and competing products—may stall or speed innovation in a product market. Among their... View Details
Keywords: by Danielle Kost; Manufacturing; Consumer Products; Auto; Medical Devices & Supplies
  • 17 Apr 2007
  • First Look

First Look: April 17, 2007

who offer innovative products. Buyers who trust their current suppliers are less likely to seek information about the new product and they express less interest in purchasing it. Once the product becomes available, they do in fact make... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 01 Sep 2023
  • News

Research Brief: Making Way for Moonshots

Josh Krieger (Courtesy subject) Josh Krieger (Courtesy subject) Many innovations in modern medicine have come about due to cutting-edge drugs—advances that required both a scientific leap and a willingness to take risks. And while most pharmaceutical companies would... View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint
  • 18 Feb 2019
  • Book

What’s Really Disrupting Business? It’s Not Technology

to it. Finally, the format clarifies for all interested parties—including advisors, investors, and employees—the incremental value of the proposed business idea relative to the traditional approach. Further, it reveals the hidden... View Details
Keywords: by Danielle Kost; Beauty & Cosmetics; Insurance; Service; Retail
  • Web

Human Behavior & Decision-Making - Faculty & Research

utility of LLMs as key ideators versus humans as key ideators, conceptualized through the LLM ideation roles of Designer and Writer and of Interviewer and Actor. While LLMs excel in generating incremental improvements, their potential for... View Details
  • 31 Jan 2023
  • Op-Ed

Can Insurance Technology Solve the Uninsured Driver Problem?

drumming up hundreds of dollars households may not be able to afford. How technology can help Innovations in insurance technology can address the problems of high fees by automating away many of the transaction costs, indexing the amount... View Details
Keywords: by Ray Kluender; Insurance
  • 28 Oct 2008
  • First Look

First Look: October 28, 2008

implications of this result for both innovating managers, as well as researchers in the field. We also assess how future work in this area might proceed, based upon these first steps in measuring "design." Download the paper:... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 12 Jun 2018
  • Research & Ideas

In a Landscape of 'Me Too' Drug Development, What Spurs Radical Innovation?

innovation rolling down the runway. “It's a good thought exercise to say, ‘What if we had all the cash we needed versus the cash that we actually have today,’” Krieger says. “Is our focus on incremental drug... View Details
Keywords: by Rachel Layne; Health; Pharmaceutical
  • 19 Apr 2011
  • First Look

First Look: April 19

robust evidence that market leaders were significantly more likely to adopt the incremental innovation of e-buying but commensurately less likely to adopt the more radical practice of e-selling. The findings... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 14 Jul 2014
  • Research & Ideas

Pay Attention To Your ‘Extreme Consumers’

typical consumers think. That's fine if you only want to keep making incremental improvements to your products, says Jill Avery, senior lecturer at Harvard Business School and a former brand manager at Gillette, Samuel Adams, and... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
  • Research Summary

Overview

My focus is empirical financial accounting research, with particular interests in governance, valuation, M&A, and short-sellers. All three of my papers to date fall under the broad heading of “alternative governance mechanisms”—studies of how accounting information is... View Details
Keywords: Mergers and Acquisitions; Corporate Governance; Valuation; Law
  • Research Summary

Overview

My focus is empirical financial accounting research, with particular interests in governance, valuation, M&A, and short-sellers. All three of my papers to date fall under the broad heading of “alternative governance mechanisms”—studies of how accounting information is... View Details
Keywords: Mergers and Acquisitions; Corporate Governance; Valuation; Law
  • 14 Jan 2020
  • Research & Ideas

The Business Case for Becoming a Jack-of-All-Trades

papers created by the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers. (Often innovation research looks at patents; however, given the time it takes for research to be commercialized, academic papers provide a much quicker gauge for the... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
  • 16 Jul 2020
  • Research & Ideas

Restaurant Revolution: How the Industry Is Fighting to Stay Alive

investment firm Act III Holdings, said that although sales at restaurants in his investment portfolio were initially down more than 80 percent, he’s seen incremental improvements each week as more locations implement creative ways to... View Details
Keywords: by Michael S. Kaufman, Lena G. Goldberg, and Jill Avery; Food & Beverage
  • 01 Mar 2024
  • News

Alumni and Faculty Books and Podcasts

Leaders Leap: Transforming Your Company at the Speed of Disruption By Steve Dennis (MBA 1984) Wonderwell Renowned thought leader on business strategy and innovation Steve Dennis argues that most business transformations are doomed to fail... View Details
Keywords: Publishing Industries (except Internet); Information
  • Web

Research - Behavioral Finance & Financial Stability

MAR 2017 The standard expectation hypothesis posits that long term interest rates are expected sum of all the short term interest rates between issuance and maturity. Researchers Hanson, Lucca, and Wright document that the correlation of long term interest rates to... View Details
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