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  • 2024
  • Working Paper

Laparoscopy—Minimally Invasive Surgery: Case Histories of Transformational Advances

By: Amar Bhidé, Caitlin N. Bowler and Srikant M. Datar
We describe how operations through laparoscopes – tubular instruments inserted into abdominal cavities – revolutionized gynecological and other surgeries inside the abdomen, such as gall bladder removal. Specifically, we chronicle the 1) foundational contributions of... 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
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  • November 2000
  • Case

WARDA: Leading a Rice Revolution in West Africa

By: Ray A. Goldberg, Carin-Isabel Knoop and Cate Reavis
The West Africa Rice Development Association, along with various national and international partners, was developing and transferring new rice technologies to farmers throughout West and Central Africa. While production in West Africa was growing faster than any other... View Details
Keywords: Private Sector; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Policy; Government and Politics; Technological Innovation; Leadership; Performance Effectiveness; Problems and Challenges; Research and Development; Nonprofit Organizations; Agriculture and Agribusiness Industry; Africa
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  • 13 Jul 2011
  • Research & Ideas

Experimental Researcher Helps Improve Health Care in Zambia

get people to use them." In one study exploring the country's high birth rates, 1,031 women were randomly chosen to receive a voucher guaranteeing free and immediate access to a range of modern contraceptives through a private... View Details
Keywords: by Roger Thompson; Health
  • 14 Dec 2009
  • Research & Ideas

Can Entrepreneurs Drive People Movers to Success?

and enlarging the stations, which led to a cost spiral. These days, designers understand the crucial importance of small vehicles to limiting system cost. Another key improvement: Robust computer control is... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Transportation
  • 05 Dec 2011
  • Research & Ideas

It’s Alive! Business Scholars Turn to Experimental Research

traditionally have depended on hard corporate data, previous literature, and insular theories, they are increasingly hinging their hypotheses on proactive sociological and psychological experiments—both in... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
  • 13 Oct 2003
  • Research & Ideas

How to Pick Managers for Disruptive Growth

We suspect that the mistakes happen when firms choose managers at any level—from CEO to business unit head to project manager—based on what we call "right stuff" thinking, borrowing the term from Tom Wolfe's famous book and the... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Raynor
  • 31 Aug 2011
  • Research & Ideas

Improving Fairness in Flight Delays

Assistant Professor Douglas Fearing doesn't have the magic bullet to make this painful part of air travel a thing of the past. But his research on evaluating and improving the performance of complex systems such as air traffic View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Entertainment & Recreation; Air Transportation
  • 25 Nov 2013
  • Research & Ideas

Hiding From Managers Can Increase Your Productivity

together to facilitate visibility. The idea was that watching the workers would help managers improve operations and replicate innovations on one line across others, thus increasing productivity View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Manufacturing
  • 2024
  • Working Paper

Chimeric Antigen Receptor T-Cell Therapy—Living Drugs: Case Histories of Transformational Advances

By: Amar Bhidé and Srikant M. Datar
In 2017, the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved an immunotherapeutic treatment, called CAR-T therapy, for two kinds of blood cancers—acute leukemia (ALL) and a lymphoma. We describe 1) how CAR-T works, 2) the foundational advances and discoveries, 3) the... View Details
Keywords: Immunotherapy; Health Care and Treatment; Innovation and Invention; Research and Development; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms
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  • 01 Jun 2011
  • News

All in Good Time

O’Kelly’s mind, as is, ironically, maintaining balance in her own life. “Amid ups and downs, I do feel like I’m achieving it,” says O’Kelly, who declined venture capital funding so that she could maintain... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna; staffing agencies; parenthood; Accounting, Tax, Bookkeeping, Payroll Services; Professional Services
  • February 2024
  • Teaching Note

Fusion Industry Association: Igniting the Future of Clean Energy

By: Kyle Myers, Joshua Lev Krieger, Walter Frick and Jim Matheson
Teaching Note for HBS Case No. 624-064. This Teaching Note explores the Fusion Industry Association's efforts to advance commercial fusion energy, highlighting challenges in innovation, regulation, market structure, and financing within the emerging technology sector... View Details
Keywords: Financing and Loans; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Technological Innovation; Industry Growth; Energy Industry
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  • 01 Jun 2014
  • News

Ask the Expert: Braving an Insecure New World

always outpace static compliance requirements, so trying to meet them amounts to a misallocation of resources, often costly and with little promise of better security. The ever-increasing data gathered by Internet giants such as Google... View Details
Keywords: cybersecurity; Information
  • 20 Mar 2012
  • First Look

First Look: March 20

circumstances, including human purposes, evolved. While the invisible hand of the pricing mechanism can balance supply and demand on a global basis, or in subunits thereof, the visible hand of political... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 01 Dec 1998
  • News

Managing the Business of Life

With the 15th Reunion for the Class of 1984 just around the corner, the Bulletin revisits five members of the class we've been keeping tabs on over the years to learn how they're balancing family and... View Details
  • January 2012
  • Article

How Leaders Kill Meaning at Work

By: Teresa Amabile and Steven J. Kramer
Senior executives routinely undermine creativity, productivity, and commitment by damaging the inner work lives of their employees in four avoidable ways. This article is based on analysis of hundreds of work diaries from professionals describing everyday events that... View Details
Keywords: Leadership; Creativity; Performance Productivity; Motivation and Incentives; Innovation Strategy; Performance; Strategic Planning; Leading Change; Balanced Scorecard; Mission and Purpose
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  • 2024
  • Working Paper

Fecal Microbiota Transplants —Too Simple to be Safe? Case Histories of Transformational Advances

By: Amar Bhide and Srikant M. Datar
By 2013, after many decades of very slow development and adoption, Fecal Microbiota Transplantation procedures were attracting widespread attention. This case history chronicles the: 1) pioneering fecal transplants performed in the 20th century; 2) development of the... View Details
Keywords: Health Care and Treatment; Innovation and Invention; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms
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  • 17 Nov 2003
  • Research & Ideas

The Business Case for Diabetes Disease Management

What should business people in particular know about the pros and cons of attempts to treat and control diabetes—or indeed other chronic diseases? That was the focus of a... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Health
  • 19 Jul 2019
  • Blog Post

Making a Broader Impact with Multiple Disciplines

The idea that novel engineering techniques could be used for medical purposes fascinated me and I sought to build smart devices for other anatomical and physiological needs. While LEGO provided an easy... View Details
  • 16 Jul 2024
  • Op-Ed

Corporate Boards Are Failing in Their No. 1 Duty

with Azure, acquiring LinkedIn in social media and Activision/Blizzard in gaming, and investing in OpenAI to gain control of ChatGPT. Equally important, he transformed the... View Details
Keywords: by Bill George
  • 01 Jul 2013
  • Research & Ideas

Crowdfunding a Poor Investment?

checks and balances to keep them accountable, including detailed financial reporting, private companies have no such thing. Because of that, the SEC currently allows only accredited investors—meaning those... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Financial Services