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- 30 Apr 2024
- Book
When Managers Set Unrealistic Expectations, Employees Cut Ethical Corners
the United States. In that work, I learned that company management had known about the dangers of asbestos since the 1930s but had actively suppressed information linking it to cancer to protect the business. I became deeply curious about... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 03 Oct 2023
- Research Event
Build the Life You Want: Arthur Brooks and Oprah Winfrey Share Happiness Tips
said, is that good? It's all right? Good for you? And Beyonce when she finished doing-- teaching me how to twerk said, was that all right? When I interviewed a woman who had lost three of her children to cancer she said, did I do OK? And... View Details
Keywords: by HBS Staff
- 26 Jan 2015
- Research & Ideas
National Health Costs Could Decrease if Managers Reduce Work Stress
to examine such issues as adverse drug interactions and cost-effectiveness of cancer screening. "Structuring the world mathematically can lead to insights and ideas that might not be obvious," he says. Sources Of Stress For... View Details
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Health-care Applications
Active postmarketing drug surveillance. There is substantial interest within the U.S. health community and among health policymakers in developing a surveillance system that scans public health databases in order to proactively detect potential drug safety... View Details
- 22 Aug 2022
- Research & Ideas
Can Amazon Remake Health Care?
know how to land a human on Mars. The sobering reality of health care is that terrible things—Alzheimer’s or cancer or an accident—can happen to anyone, including very healthy people. And that’s the bulk of health care spending. The... View Details
- 04 Jun 2012
- Research & Ideas
The Business of Life
found. He's also faced a series of powerful setbacks. So far in his life, Christensen has lived with Type I diabetes, survived a massive heart attack, endured lymphoma (the same type of cancer that killed his father), and, 18 months ago,... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 17 Feb 2022
- Book
When Employees Feel a Sense of Purpose, Companies Succeed
worth living, while others took the opportunity to divulge very personal information. In one case, a female employee shocked her colleagues by relating that she had breast cancer and had been having treatments for months. On that... View Details
Keywords: by Ranjay Gulati
- 22 Mar 2021
- Research & Ideas
How to Learn from the Big Mistake You Almost Make
For example, providers must check cancer patients undergoing radiation for pacemakers, which can malfunction during the treatment. Employees were asked to rank the likelihood that they would report the following near-miss scenarios, which... View Details
- 30 Jun 2014
- Lessons from the Classroom
The Role of Emotions in Effective Negotiations
A Happier Ending In an "alternate ending" to the story, Kate apologizes for how the negotiation has gotten out of control, and asks if they can start over. She shares her own anxieties and frustrations about an important conference call regarding FDA approval... View Details
- 29 Oct 2019
- Sharpening Your Skills
Robots in the Boardroom
effective targets. Open Innovation Contestants Build AI-Based Cancer ToolRadiation oncologists are few in number, especially if you are nowhere near a cancer facility. Could artificial intelligence be used... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 18 Dec 2013
- HBS Case
Lessons from the Lance Armstrong Cheating Scandal
scandal hurt not only Armstrong's own reputation, but the reputations of his teammates. Photo: iStockPhoto More than that, Armstrong had transcended himself to become an icon, having overcome testicular cancer and then raising nearly $400... View Details
- 22 Feb 2022
- Research & Ideas
Lack of Female Scientists Means Fewer Medical Treatments for Women
Rembrand Koning and colleagues. With women representing only 13 percent of patent holders in the United States, the lack of female-driven inventions may well be having a direct impact on health outcomes, Koning says. If fewer inventors are focused on, say, personalized... View Details
Keywords: by Kristen Senz
- 25 Jun 2007
- Research & Ideas
HBS Cases: Beauty Entrepreneur Madam Walker
nourished and lived in conditions of poor hygiene and constant labor. Hair loss was psychologically debilitating for early 20th-century women, as it is today for female cancer patients enduring the ordeals of chemotherapy, for instance,... View Details
- 21 Aug 2017
- Lessons from the Classroom
Companies Love Big Data But Lack the Strategy To Use It Effectively
industry? How will better data collection transform the ways in which we do clinical trials for new cancer drugs? It is both staggering and exciting to imagine how data and analytic capabilities will transform entire industries and it was... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 01 May 2019
- What Do You Think?
What Should the Leadership of YouTube Do?
the notion that hate speech had no place on the site, Wojcicki rejected the idea that sites containing conspiracy theories or other borderline content such as “Every Cancer Can Be Cured in Weeks” should be barred from the site. Instead,... View Details
- 11 Apr 2011
- Lessons from the Classroom
Teaching a ‘Lean Startup’ Strategy
that you have to spend a whole lot of money before you know if the product is going to work," he says. To that end, Eisenmann teaches the cases "Predictive Biosciences" and "Aquion Energy." In studying Predictive, a venture-backed,... View Details
- 16 Sep 2019
- Research & Ideas
Crowdsourcing Is Helping Hollywood Reduce the Risk of Movie-Making
writer based in the Boston area. [Image: CasarsaGuru] Related Reading: Related Reading Black Business Leaders Series: Franklin Leonard, 'Black List' Mastermind Should Entrepreneurs Pitch Products or Ideas for Products? Open Innovation Contestants Build AI-Based View Details
- 19 Sep 2016
- Research & Ideas
Why Isn't Business Research More Relevant to Business Practitioners?
news hook, although it may not be as obvious as, say, a breakthrough in cancer research. Remember the aforementioned research by Bazerman et al., which explained the unconscious biases that cause auditors to do a bad job of auditing?... View Details
- 07 Aug 2000
- Research & Ideas
The Business of Biotech
cancer and AIDS. Those working in the biotech trenches, however, point out that the real work has only just begun. Dr. Robert Tepper, chief scientific officer for Millennium Pharmaceuticals, Inc., put it this way in a Business Week... View Details
- 29 Mar 2016
- First Look
March 29, 2016
Oncology Value-Based Breast Cancer Care: A Multidisciplinary Approach to Defining Patient-Centered Outcomes By: Feeley, Thomas W., Fayanju M. Oluwadamilola, Tinisha L. Mayo, Tracy E. Spinks, Seohyun Lee, Carlos H. Barcenas, Benjamin D.... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne