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- 19 Jun 2012
- First Look
First Look: June 19
making complex decisions. Under some circumstances, unconscious thought improves decisions even more than conscious thought. Executive functioning depends on energy provided by glucose, and we know from previous research that the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 13 May 2014
- First Look
First Look: May 13
during the interview process. Research shows that companies with more women on their boards have higher return on sales, higher return on invested capital, and higher return on equity. This article explains what boards need to ask to... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 09 Feb 2010
- First Look
First Look: Feb. 9
characteristic of emerging markets is the lack of institutions (credit-card systems, intellectual-property adjudication, data research firms) that facilitate efficient business operations. While such "institutional voids"... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 21 Feb 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research: February 21
Systematic Approach to Discussing Active Surveillance with Patients with Low-risk Prostate Cancer By: Ehdaie, Behfar, Melissa Assel, Nicole Benfante, Deepak Malhotra, and Andrew Vickers Abstract—A systematic approach to counseling—using... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 25 Jun 2007
- Research & Ideas
HBS Cases: Beauty Entrepreneur Madam Walker
grit—complete with a social conscience—form the basis of a new Harvard Business School case, "Madam C.J. Walker: Entrepreneur, Leader, and Philanthropist." Professor Nancy F. Koehn, a leading historian, coauthored the case with HBS View Details
- 18 Dec 2013
- HBS Case
Lessons from the Lance Armstrong Cheating Scandal
scandal hurt not only Armstrong's own reputation, but the reputations of his teammates. Photo: iStockPhoto More than that, Armstrong had transcended himself to become an icon, having overcome testicular cancer and then raising nearly $400... View Details
- 22 Aug 2022
- Research & Ideas
Can Amazon Remake Health Care?
has to retail shopping. Amitabh Chandra is the Henry and Allison McCance Professor of Business Administration and faculty chair of the M.S./M.B.A. program in life sciences at Harvard Business School. He is also Ethel Zimmerman Wiener Professor of Public Policy and... View Details
- 11 Dec 2012
- First Look
First Look: Dec. 11
what they should decide. Paper: http://hbr.org/2012/12/how-much-is-sweat-equity-worth/ar/1 When Identities, Interests, and Information Collide: How Subgroups Create Hidden Profiles in Teams Authors:Polzer, Jeff, and Lisa Kwan Publication:In View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 29 Mar 2016
- First Look
March 29, 2016
Oncology Value-Based Breast Cancer Care: A Multidisciplinary Approach to Defining Patient-Centered Outcomes By: Feeley, Thomas W., Fayanju M. Oluwadamilola, Tinisha L. Mayo, Tracy E. Spinks, Seohyun Lee, Carlos H. Barcenas, Benjamin D.... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 10 Apr 2012
- First Look
First Look: April 10
revealing but also because it came at a time of intense personal reflection: Christensen had just overcome the same type of cancer that had taken his father's life. As Christensen struggled with the disease, the question "How do you... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- Research Summary
Mastering Strategy Execution
By: Robert Simons
Professor Robert Simons’ research encompasses three areas of management accountability that are the foundation for successful strategy execution: organization design, performance measurement and control, and risk management. In addition, Simons is interested in the... View Details
- 05 Jun 2006
- Research & Ideas
Using Competition to Reform Healthcare
hypertension. The medical condition is not orthopedic care, but several conditions, including spine disorders, hip disorders, and so forth. Cancer care also involves many distinct medical conditions. Aligning an organization's view of... View Details
- 24 Jan 2005
- Research & Ideas
Entrepreneurial Hospital Pioneers New Model
Hospital, London. He returned to India in 1989 to co-found a state-of-the-art center in Calcutta, the B.M. Biria Heart Research Center, which soon added pediatric cardiac surgical facilities. It was India's... View Details
- 29 May 2001
- Research & Ideas
Genomics: Can We Start Making Money Now?
Stefan Thomke, assistant professor Jonathan West, and Senior Research Fellow Juan Enriquez-Cabot. On February 12th of this year, this latest scientific revolution was launched in earnest when two research... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 02 Mar 2010
- First Look
First Look: March 2
innovation in a wide range of other industries, including pharmaceuticals and biotechnology, IT and telecommunications, defense, chemicals, and agriculture. We believe that there are valuable lessons in this research for the energy... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 24 Jul 2018
- Op-Ed
4 Ways Managers Can Exercise Their 'Agency' to Change the World
previously underserved parts of the population. So, how does a person—whether the newly employed graduate or the experienced executive—exercise his or her latent agency to bring profit-making and social good together in a company? In my View Details
Keywords: by George Serafeim
- 07 Aug 2000
- Research & Ideas
The Business of Biotech
cancer and AIDS. Those working in the biotech trenches, however, point out that the real work has only just begun. Dr. Robert Tepper, chief scientific officer for Millennium Pharmaceuticals, Inc., put it this way in a Business Week... View Details
- 23 Dec 2008
- First Look
First Look: December 23, 2008
http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/09-005.pdf Cases & Course MaterialsAmerican Cancer Society: Access to Care Harvard Business School Case 109-015 CEO John Seffrin decides to radically change the strategy of the American View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 29 Apr 2014
- First Look
First Look: April 29
Ullman? Can J.C. Penney get back on its feet? Purchase this case: http://hbr.org/product/j-c-penney-s-fair-and-square-strategy-c-back-to-the-future/an/514073-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 514-057 Cancer Screening in Japan: Market... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 24 Sep 2007
- Research & Ideas
The FDA: What Will the Next 100 Years Bring?
facilities each year, an increasing number of which are on foreign soil. "Without the FDA, each of us would individually spend a lot more time researching where products come from and what ingredients they contain," says Harvard Business... View Details