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The International Experience at HBS - MBA
Business & Environment Career Change Career and Professional Development Case Method Clubs Curriculum Digital Entrepreneurship FIELD Financial Aid Health Care Instagram Takeover JD/MBA Leadership Letters to... View Details
- 03 Dec 2015
- Op-Ed
How "New Nuclear" Power Could Save the Planet—If Regulators Would Allow It
Leaders from some 150 nations have convened in Paris this week for the COP21 conference with a singular goal: to fight the global threat of climate change. Each of them have brought to Paris their own national plan for reducing greenhouse gas emissions that drive... View Details
- 11 May 2010
- First Look
First Look: May 11
understood, even as the United States, Germany, and the United Kingdom instituted reforms in early 2010. Presenting opportunities for cross-national policy learning, this case describes the political economy of healthcare reform. In late... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 15 Mar 2011
- First Look
First Look: March 15
tax policy. Teams and Team Effectiveness in Health Services Organizations Authors:Bruce J. Fried, Sharon Topping, and Amy C. Edmondson Publication:In Health Care Management: Organization Design and Behavior.... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 11 Sep 2012
- First Look
First Look: September 11
capital shortages, distributed urban territory to assuage losers of reform and promote economic growth. The findings suggest that 1) growth strategies, and the territorial politics they produce, are products of the post-Mao urban... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- Web
Meet the HBS Women’s Association - MBA
Business & Environment Career Change Career and Professional Development Case Method Clubs Curriculum Digital Entrepreneurship FIELD Financial Aid Health Care Instagram Takeover JD/MBA Leadership Letters to... View Details
- 01 May 2007
- First Look
First Look: May 1, 2007
property rights in developing countries on the level and composition of industrial development. We develop a North-South product cycle model in which Northern innovation, Southern imitation, and FDI are all endogenous. Our model predicts that IPR View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 2008
- Chapter
Where is the Pharmacy to the World? Pharmaceutical Industry Location and International Regulatory Variation
By: Arthur A. Daemmrich
A consumer-oriented model for drug development and use has attracted attention in recent years as an alternative to the much-maligned approach of mass-marketing blockbuster drugs. In a parallel development, patients and disease-based organizations have assumed greater... View Details
Keywords: Geographic Location; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Health Testing and Trials; Demand and Consumers; Pharmaceutical Industry; European Union; Germany; United States
Daemmrich, Arthur A. "Where is the Pharmacy to the World? Pharmaceutical Industry Location and International Regulatory Variation." Chap. 16 in Ways of Regulating: Therapeutic Agents between Plants, Shops, and Consulting Rooms. Vol. 363, edited by Jean Paul Gaudillière and Volker Hess, 271–290. Berlin, Germany: Max-Planck-Institut für Wissenschaftsgeschichte, 2008.
- 2024
- Working Paper
Magnetic Resonance Imaging—High Quality and Radiation Free: Case Histories of Transformational Advances
By: Srikant M. Datar, Amar Bhidé and Katherine Stebbins
This case history describes how Magnetic Resource Imaging (MRI) came to complement – and partially replace -- computed tomography (CT) imaging of soft tissue. Specifically, we chronicle 1) the development of foundational techniques and prototypes (through the 1970s);... View Details
Keywords: Health Care and Treatment; Technological Innovation; Innovation Strategy; Technology Adoption; Collaborative Innovation and Invention; Innovation and Invention; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms
Datar, Srikant M., Amar Bhidé, and Katherine Stebbins. "Magnetic Resonance Imaging—High Quality and Radiation Free: Case Histories of Transformational Advances." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 20-001, July 2019. (Revised May 2024.)
- 2024
- Working Paper
Antibiotic Treatments for Ulcers--Eradicating H-Pylori Infections: Case Histories of Transformational Advances
By: Amar Bhidé, Srikant M. Datar and Katherine Stebbins
This case history describes how a chance discovery of bacteria that infect stomach linings completely changed how physicians treat ulcers. Specifically, we chronicle how: 1) two Australian physicians brought the bacterial infection to the world’s attention and... View Details
Keywords: Health Care and Treatment; Technological Innovation; Innovation Strategy; Technology Adoption; Collaborative Innovation and Invention; Innovation and Invention; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms
Bhidé, Amar, Srikant M. Datar, and Katherine Stebbins. "Antibiotic Treatments for Ulcers--Eradicating H-Pylori Infections: Case Histories of Transformational Advances." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 20-006, July 2019. (Revised May 2024.)
- June 2020
- Article
How Scheduling Can Bias Quality Assessment: Evidence from Food Safety Inspections
By: Maria Ibanez and Michael W. Toffel
Accuracy and consistency are critical for inspections to be an effective, fair, and useful tool for assessing risks, quality, and suppliers—and for making decisions based on those assessments. We examine how inspector schedules could introduce bias that erodes... View Details
Keywords: Assessment; Bias; Inspection; Scheduling; Econometric Analysis; Empirical Research; Regulation; Health; Food; Safety; Quality; Performance Consistency; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms
Ibanez, Maria, and Michael W. Toffel. "How Scheduling Can Bias Quality Assessment: Evidence from Food Safety Inspections." Management Science 66, no. 6 (June 2020): 2396–2416. (Revised February 2019. Featured in Harvard Business Review, Forbes, Food Safety Magazine, Food Safety News, and KelloggInsight. (2020 MSOM Responsible Research Finalist.))
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Alumni-Authored Books | Baker Library
Cost of the Iraq Conflict . Dennis, Steve: Remarkable Retail: Winning in the Age of Digital Disruption . Draper, Timothy (Tim). How to Be the Startup Hero: A Guide and Textbook for Entrepreneurs and Aspiring Entrepreneurs . VanAuken,... View Details
- 20 Jan 2017
- Research & Ideas
Here’s How Businessman Trump Is Likely to Approach the Presidency
vantage point, not in sight here. I don’t see it. And I’m most troubled by that. Push and pull marketing to build public support John A. Quelch, Charles Edward Wilson Professor of Business Administration and professor in health policy and... View Details
Keywords: by Christina Pazzanese
- 01 Jul 2002
- Research & Ideas
What it Takes to Lead Through Turmoil
Succeeding in the Digital Culture of Tomorrow. Denial The "change journeys" of the leaders and laggards, which often come in three phases, could not be more different. For laggards, that journey looks like this, Kanter said.... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 04 Mar 2008
- News
HBS Blogs
MBA 1979I Marv Slovacek, Czech Prague Mission Experience, 2007-2010, http://www.theslovaceks.blogspot.com/ (the Slovaceks' experiences while presiding over the Czech Prague LDS mission; archived since June 2007) MBA 1980I Sheryle Bolton,... View Details
- 12 Dec 2018
- News
Lesson Plan
the imperative to improve school quality and its key importance to the health of a regional economy. She also cited her work in the US Treasury during the financial crisis: “I witnessed that it’s possible to address enormous problems if... View Details
- 06 Dec 2021
- News
What's the Word?
number of working women who’ve experienced negative health consequences as a result of the pandemic is 10 to 12 percentage points higher than men. It’s stress, a sense of being overwhelmed, depression—all of the conditions that occur when... View Details
- 09 Jul 2001
- Research & Ideas
Does Misery Love Companies? How Social Performance Pays Off
micrograms of total suspended particulates per cubic meter, yet the World Health Organization establishes 90 as a maximum safe level (Berlin's level is 50). Over 25,000 square kilometers of land were deforested in Brazil each year from... View Details
Keywords: by Joshua D. Margolis & James P. Walsh
- March 2023 (Revised June 2023)
- Teaching Note
Ransomware Attack at Springhill Medical Center
By: Suraj Srinivasan and Li-Kuan (Jason) Ni
Teaching Note for HBS Case No. 123-065. In July, 2019, Springhill Medical Center (“SMC”) in Mobile, Alabama fell prey to a malicious ransomware attack that crippled the hospital’s internal network systems and public-facing web page. While the hospital rushed to... View Details
Keywords: Disruption; Communication; Communication Strategy; Decision Making; Decision Choices and Conditions; Judgments; Corporate Accountability; Corporate Disclosure; Corporate Governance; Governance Controls; Policy; Employees; News; Cybersecurity; Digital Strategy; Information Infrastructure; Information Management; Internet and the Web; Crisis Management; Business or Company Management; Resource Allocation; Risk Management; Negotiation Tactics; Failure; Business and Stakeholder Relations; Attitudes; Behavior; Perception; Reputation; Trust; Public Opinion; Social Issues; Health Industry; Alabama; United States
- 14 Feb 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research: February 14
Flows in the Global Economy Digital Labor Markets and Global Talent Flows By: Horton, John, William R. Kerr, and Christopher Stanton Abstract—We review the rapid development of digital labor markets that... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne