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  • 2014
  • Working Paper

The Organizational and Geographic Drivers of Absorptive Capacity: An Empirical Analysis of Pharmaceutical R&D Laboratories

By: Francesca Lazzeri and Gary P. Pisano
Scholars and practitioners alike now recognize that a firm's capacity to assimilate and use know-how from external sources—what Cohen and Levinthal (1990) called "absorptive capacity"—plays a central role in innovation performance. In recent years, a common strategy... View Details
Keywords: Geographic Location; Industry Clusters; Knowledge Acquisition; Pharmaceutical Industry; San Francisco; San Diego; Massachusetts
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  • 19 Feb 2019
  • First Look

New Research and Ideas, February 19, 2019

forthcoming Journal of Political Economy CEO Behavior and Firm Performance By: Bandiera, Oriana, Stephen Hansen, Andrea Prat, and Raffaella Sadun Abstract— We measure the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • December 2004
  • Teaching Note

Yield Curves and Bond Ratings Tutorial (TN)

By: William E. Fruhan Jr.
Teaching Note to (9-204-712). View Details
Keywords: Internet and the Web; Education; Debt Securities; Service Operations; Measurement and Metrics; Performance Evaluation; Education Industry
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  • 20 Nov 2018
  • First Look

New Research and Ideas, November 20, 2018

implementing value-based reimbursement models. Infrastructure requirements, including information technology (indicated by 42% of respondents), and changing regulation/policy (34%) are the top two. There is strong consensus on the broad... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 09 Jun 2021
  • Research & Ideas

How Tennis, Golf, and White Anxiety Block Racial Integration

team showed hundreds of survey participants maps of a fictional city with varying degrees of racial diversity and segregation near places considered relevant to participants’ imagined lives, such as homes, offices, banks, shopping malls,... View Details
Keywords: by Jay Fitzgerald
  • 07 Nov 2017
  • First Look

New Research and Ideas: November 7, 2017

questions about what model is best suited to the integration of nonfinancial concerns. Does the joint pursuit of commercial and social objectives require new ways of organizing? In this essay we argue that it does. Or at least—to put our... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 01 Dec 2006
  • What Do You Think?

How Important Is Quality of Labor? And How Is It Achieved?

discussion arose as to just what quality of labor is and how it can be measured and developed on the national level. To Nari Kannan, "Quality of labor is such a broad... View Details
Keywords: by by Jim Heskett
  • 01 Jun 2018
  • News

June 2018 Alumni and Faculty Books

Innovation in Health Care: How to Make Value-Based Delivery Work by Vijay Govindarajan (DBA 1978) and Ravi Ramamurti (DBA 1982) HBR Press Though still a pipe dream in the US, value-based competition (value as View Details
  • 31 Oct 2017
  • News

Giving Doctors What They Need to Avoid Burnout

  • 15 Jan 2019
  • First Look

New Research and Ideas, January 15, 2019

the earnings call, CEO Jack Dorsey and CFO Ned Segal had emphasized a slightly different and much better-looking metric: non-GAAP net income of $329M. This adjusted version of net income was a View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 19 Mar 2019
  • First Look

New Research and Ideas, March 19, 2019

Accounting Review Rethinking Measurement of Pay Disparity and Its Relation to Firm Performance By: Rouen, Ethan Abstract—I develop measures of firm-level pay disparity View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 26 Jun 2018
  • First Look

New Research and Ideas, June 26, 2018

measures of constraints. These findings imply a high degree of market segmentation and suggest that frictions within specialized financial institutions prevent capital from flowing into the market at shorter... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 2019
  • White Paper

Impact-Weighted Financial Accounts: The Missing Piece for an Impact Economy

By: George Serafeim, T. Robert Zochowski and Jennifer Downing
Reimagining capitalism is an imperative. We need to create a more inclusive and sustainable form of capitalism that works for every person and the planet. Massive environmental damage, growing income and wealth disparity, stress, and depression within developed... View Details
Keywords: Impact-Weighted Accounts; IWAI; Background; Economic Systems; Economy; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Measurement and Metrics; Financial Statements
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  • 12 Jun 2018
  • First Look

New Research and Ideas, June 12, 2018

provided expert domain specific knowledge, and analyze their productivity as measured by accuracy and speed in identifying prior art relevant for patent claims adjudication. We... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • March 2014 (Revised September 2014)
  • Supplement

Cancer Treatment Centers of America® (B)

By: Regina E. Herzlinger and Natalie Kindred
This case, a follow-up to Cancer Treatment Centers of America (A), HBS No. 313-012, begins with the debate over New Hampshire's certificate-of-need (CON) law, which restricts hospital expansion. This debate ignited significant public criticism of Cancer Treatment... View Details
Keywords: Cancer; Cancer Treatment; Accountability; Outcomes; Outcomes Reporting; Outcomes Measurement; Survival; For-profit Hospitals; Health Care; Healthcare; Hospital; Certificate Of Need; Health Care and Treatment; Outcome or Result; Corporate Accountability; Policy; Health Industry; United States
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  • August 1993
  • Case

Applichem (A) (Abridged)

By: Janice H. Hammond and Gary P. Pisano
Applichem manufactures the same chemical product in four plants, each of which is located in a different country. The company has completed a major study comparing the productivity and performance of these plants. Using the data from the study, students must decide... View Details
Keywords: Business or Company Management; Management Practices and Processes; Performance Productivity; Performance Efficiency; Performance Evaluation; Strategy; Judgments; Factories, Labs, and Plants; Business Exit or Shutdown; Chemical Industry
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  • 22 May 2018
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New Research and Ideas, May 22, 2018

Claudine, Andrea Prat, and George Serafeim Abstract—We construct a measure of corporate purpose within a sample of U.S. companies based on approximately 500,000 survey responses of worker perceptions about... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 2019
  • Working Paper

Golden Opportunity? Voluntary Sustainability Standards for Artisanal and Small-scale Gold Mining and the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals

By: Kristin Sippl
While much is known about voluntary sustainability standards' contributions to certain issues in certain sectors, less is known about their contributions to the realization of the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). This paper helps balance the... View Details
Keywords: Sustainability Standards; Gold; Certification; Eco-labeling; International Law; Extractive Industries; Fair Trade; United Nations; Sustainable Development; Environmental Sustainability; Standards; Adoption; Governance; Global Range; Luxury; Mining Industry
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  • 10 Jul 2018
  • First Look

New Research and Ideas, July 10, 2018

improves financial performance on measures such as profitable investments at the individual portfolio-company level and overall fund returns. And even though associating with... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 24 Jul 2018
  • First Look

New Research and Ideas, July 24, 2018

evaluation of submitted ideas. Methodology/Approach: The contest held in a hospital cardiac center invited all clinicians and support staff (n = 1,400) to participate. We used the 27-item Learning Organization Survey to View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman