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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

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Biotechnology; Consumer Products; Food & Beverage; Health

21 Nov 2012
Research & Ideas

What Health Care Managers Need to Know--and How to Teach Them

business models; an enhanced focus on organizational innovation and implementation; and increased field-based learning." The Diagnosis As source material for the conference, Herzlinger arranged for market research firm Scriplogix to... View Details

Keywords: by Paul Guttry; Health; Education

12 Aug 2014
First Look

First Look: August 12

in entrepreneurship despite earning low risk-adjusted returns. This has lead to attempts to provide explanations-using both standard economic theory and behavioral economics-for why certain individuals may be attracted to such an apparently unprofitable activity.... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

12 Nov 2015
Research & Ideas

Can Consumers be Trusted with Their Own Health Care?

engaging the patient to the point that she may take action that is not in her best interest?” (The American Cancer Society in October pushed back its age for recommended mammograms in part because they can lead to false positives and... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Health

28 Apr 2014
Research & Ideas

Football Stars Debate ‘The Social Capital of the Savvy Athlete’

Association and an MBA candidate in the class of 2015 at Harvard Business School. The event was moderated by Anita Elberse, the Lincoln Filene Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School, whose research focuses on... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Sports

06 Sep 2011
Research & Ideas

How Small Wins Unleash Creativity

researchers then analyzed the data, totaling some 12,000 daily diaries, looking for commonalities that influenced "inner work life," which the book defines as "the confluence of perceptions, emotions, and motivations that... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

22 May 2020
In Practice

Post-COVID Health Care: More Screens, Less Red Tape?

precision diagnostics. It is a travesty that we don’t have simple tests that can distinguish between the common cold, seasonal allergies, and various strains of the flu, let alone the sophisticated diagnostics needed to guide the treatment of View Details

Keywords: by Danielle Kost

04 Jun 2007
Research & Ideas

Is Health Care Making You Better—or Dead?

book, Who Killed Health Care? We asked Herzlinger, the Nancy R. McPherson Professor of Business Administration Chair at the Harvard Business School, to discuss her latest work and her more than 30 years of research in the health care... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Health

09 Nov 2006
Research & Ideas

Andy Grove: A Biographer’s Tale

most interesting one there is. And so the chance to write about him was an opportunity I didn't want to give up. Q: HBS is famous for field-based research where faculty members go out into the field and observe a company or workers or... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Computer

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