Health Acceleration Challenge - Publications - Faculty & Research

01 Feb 2022
Book

Innovation Isn’t Just for Startups: How Big Companies Can Succeed

professor at Stanford University. The book examines how the best corporate explorers create new enterprises inside large corporations. The authors explain the challenges explorers face, along with the strategies they need to gather... View Details

Keywords: by Lane Lambert

09 May 2017
First Look

New Research and Ideas, May 9

platform, open/user innovation, and ecosystem strategies. We focus on managerial and organizational challenges for organizations pursuing these strategies and identify four institutional logic shifts associated with these strategic... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

10 Sep 2001
What Do You Think?

Do MBAs Need More Street Smarts?

suggests a complementary relationship, commenting that, while no substitute for street smarts, the MBA provides "tools and strategic understanding skills that accelerate an average human being's learning curve." Will the... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

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Climate Impact - Business & Environment

Alumni Climate Impact Alumni Climate Impact Alumni Founders: How is Your Company Accelerating Climate Solutions? Eric Adamson MBA 2013 | Co-Founder & CEO, Tortuga AgTech “At Tortuga AgTech, we’re building AI-driven robotics to enable... View Details

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General Management Curriculum - Faculty & Research

Rigol Fall 2025 Q1Q2 3.0 Capitalism and the State (CATS) (also listed under Business, Government & the International Economy) Debora L. Spar Fall 2025 Q1Q2 3.0 Challenges and Opportunities in the Restaurant Industry (also listed under... View Details

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Harvard Environmental Centers - Business & Environment

deliver measurable financial, environmental, and social impacts. Harvard University Office for Sustainability Our mission is to advance solutions to evolving global health and environmental challenges that... View Details

Program

Public Education Leadership Project

backgrounds, industries, and school districts across the U.S. Build relationships with a diverse group of peers who can provide wide-ranging insights into your business challenges and career decisions Gain access to a valuable network of... View Details

15 Oct 2001
Research & Ideas

What You Don’t Know About Making Decisions

Alternatively, the group may designate "intellectual watchdogs" who are assigned the task of scrutinizing the process for unchecked assumptions and challenging them on the spot. Well-Defined Criteria. Without crisp, clear goals,... View Details

Keywords: by David A. Garvin & Michael A. Roberto

May 2023 (Revised June 2023)
Supplement

Novartis (C): Reimagining Medicine

By: Ramon Casadesus-Masanell, Claudio Feser, Karolin Frankenberger and David Redaschi

This case unfolds around the first-ever approved personalized cancer treatment, how Novartis wrapped it into a new business model design, and how Novartis scaled it. Novartis — one of the largest pharmaceutical companies in the world — is, among other ventures,... View Details

Keywords: Health Testing and Trials; Health Care and Treatment; Business Model; Problems and Challenges; Pharmaceutical Industry; Switzerland

Citation

14 Oct 2021
In Practice

Reunited and It Feels (Not) So Good: Tips for Managing a Rocky Return

COVID-19 variants snuffed out the brief period of vaccination-injected optimism earlier this year, as childcare and school disruptions lingered. Despite such resistance and health concerns, some employees have joyfully returned to their... View Details

Keywords: by Kristen Senz

22 Apr 2008
First Look

First Look: April 22, 2008

borrowers in the London market, we challenge the traditional view that gold-standard adherence worked as a credible commitment mechanism that was rewarded by financial markets with lower borrowing costs. We demonstrate that in the poor... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

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Frequently Asked Questions | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School

leaders across all sectors to tackle society’s toughest challenges and make a difference in the world. How can I get involved? The Social Enterprise Initiative at HBS is a focal point for the creativity and energy of its worldwide... View Details

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Business Finance Course Online | HBS Online

Finance offered the perfect opportunity to refresh my core finance skills and interact with a global group of colleagues in an online format that was ideal for my schedule. Praveen Jayakumar Medical Director & Co-CMO at Culinary Health... View Details

13 May 2014
First Look

First Look: May 13

publicly stated goals. Publisher's link: http://hbr.org/2014/05/how-to-outsmart-activist-investors/ar/1 August 2013 Harvard Business Review Making 'Freemium' Work: Many Start-ups Fail to Recognize the Challenges of This Popular Business... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

07 May 2020
Research & Ideas

The One Good Thing Caused by COVID-19: Innovation

distancing. New patterns of consumer and worker behavior and expectations have emerged during the first weeks of the crisis. COVID-19 represents a tremendous economic shock and burden. In recent weeks, the focus has begun to shift towards ways to address its View Details

Keywords: by Hong Luo and Alberto Galasso

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Published CSV Cases - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness

course, visit the HBS Executive Education site . For more information about a published case, click its title. CVS currently in development Founded in 1963, CVS Health (CVS) was the leading drugstore chain in the United States.... View Details

01 Nov 2022
Research & Ideas

A Penny for Your Thoughts? For Big-Picture Ideas, the Right Pay Structure Matters

to focus employees on a particular task and base their pay on the workers’ performance need to be aware of the potential tradeoff when it comes to the willingness of workers to develop innovative ideas, she says. “Companies want more employee-initiated innovation, but... View Details

Keywords: by Scott Van Voorhis

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Online Learning Model | HBS Online

Harvard Business School’s signature case method. Business leaders will share challenges they’ve faced. As the story unfolds, you’ll leverage course concepts, vital tools and frameworks, and the diversity of your peers’ perspectives to... View Details

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Baker Library / Bloomberg Center | About

challenge for future generations of HBS leaders and students, Baker elaborated, “It must be remembered always that the standard of excellence which must be maintained comes not simply from the outside of the buildings, but from the work... View Details

August 2017
Case

Hacking Heroin

By: Mitchell Weiss and Sarah Mehta

"Hacking Heroin" was the first hackathon that Annie Rittgers, founder of Cincinnati-based 17a, had organized or even attended. "There will continue to be a lot of preventable overdose deaths and wasted potential if the opioid crisis continues unabated," she said.... View Details