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  • 12 Mar 2013
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First Look: March 12

Diagnostic Tests Ashraf, Nava, and Natalie KindredHarvard Business School Case 911-007 This case describes barriers to adoption of malaria rapid diagnostic tests in Zambia and highlights the importance of... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 20 Sep 2016
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September 20, 2016

School Case 816-072 Neurotrack and the Alzheimer's Puzzle Elli Kaplan founded Neurotrack in 2012 with a breakthrough noninvasive cognitive diagnostics test that will detect Alzheimer's disease in its earliest pre-symptomatic stages. While... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 25 Jun 2013
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First Look: June 25

Accountability and Span of Control to Implement Business Strategy By: Simons, Robert Abstract—This study focuses on the relationship between business strategy, organization structure, and diagnostic control systems. The project analyzes... View Details
Keywords: Anna Secino
  • 12 Feb 2019
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New Research and Ideas, February 12, 2019

have important benefits in workplace settings. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=55598 Diagnostic Bubbles By: Bordalo, Pedro, Nicola Gennaioli, Spencer Yongwook Kwon, and Andrei Shleifer Abstract— We... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 14 Jun 2016
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June 14, 2016

individual and organizational capabilities and presents the theory and research on deep smarts. The six most universally found characteristics of this particular kind of expertise are deep domain knowledge, pattern recognition–based decision making, system perspective,... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 12 Aug 2008
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First Look: August 12, 2008

Commercializing a Diagnostic Test Harvard Business School Case 308-090 What are the barriers and opportunities to commercializing genetic diagnoses for disease? Purchase the case:... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 03 Jan 2017
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January 3, 2017

risk—operations risk, asset impairment risk, and competitive risk—and demonstrates how these risks can undermine an entire business. To assist in the identification of these risks, the risk exposure calculator is introduced as a View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 19 Jul 2004
  • Research & Ideas

Why Innovations Sit on the Shelf

Why are so many businesses—though seemingly intent on fostering innovation—unable to get new products through their organizations and into the marketplace? Ed Ludwig faced such circumstances as the new president of New Jersey-based Becton Dickinson's View Details
Keywords: by Michael Beer, Russell Eisenstat & Derek Schrader
  • 13 Jun 2017
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First Look at New Research and Ideas, June 13

history. Sensitivity to ambiguity was lower in individuals who met diagnostic criteria for Antisocial Personality Disorder. Lower ambiguity sensitivity was also associated with higher externalizing (but not psychopathy) scores and with... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 24 Sep 2007
  • Research & Ideas

The FDA: What Will the Next 100 Years Bring?

they hear the words "national health insurance," but it is disturbing that we fail to provide health care to so many of our citizens. At the same time, firms in the United States are global leaders in inventing and bringing to market new drugs, devices, View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Biotechnology; Consumer Products; Food & Beverage; Health
  • 31 Oct 2004
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Bypass Marketing: Are Docs Influenced?

actions were taken by physicians following DTCA discussions with patients. Such actions involved referring the patient to a specialist, suggesting a lifestyle change, and recommending an OTC (over-the-counter) drug or diagnostic test. For... View Details
Keywords: by Manda Salls
  • 28 Apr 2015
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First Look: April 28

digital assessment and print-based workbook series called Ready®, Ready® Common Core, and i-Ready® Diagnostic and Instruction. In 2014, as sales are booming, Waldron and his team wonder how CA can stay competitive in the rapidly evolving... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 03 May 2011
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First Look: May 3

small cancer diagnostics start-up is deciding whether to acquire a laboratory to make and sell its bladder cancer test or build its own manufacturing and sales team. Purchase this case:http://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cb/product/811015-PDF-ENG... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 12 Oct 1999
  • Research & Ideas

A Perfect Fit: Aligning Organization & Strategy

their espoused strategy and management principles. Beer and Eisenstat began implementing the process ten years ago at Becton Dickinson and Company, a medical products and diagnostic systems supplier. "Ray Gilmartin, who was CEO at... View Details
Keywords: by Judith A. Ross
  • 04 Sep 2019
  • Research & Ideas

'I Know Why You Voted for Trump' and Other Motivation Misperceptions

lies; were Clinton voters exaggerating the importance of immigration, or were Trump voters underreporting it?” Barasz says. “But these perceptions really affected how people felt about each other. Clinton voters felt like they had this View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
  • 12 May 2009
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First Look: May 12, 2009

Sermo, Inc. Harvard Business School Case 809-142 Sermo operates the leading online professional network for physicians in the United States. Doctors use Sermo free of charge to post surveys regarding diagnostic and treatment concerns and... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 15 Jun 2020
  • Research & Ideas

A Mass Crisis Can Overwhelm Health Care. Liberia Found a Solution.

recruits workers who are “literate and numerate, but otherwise not experienced in the health sciences” and trains them in the basics of health diagnostics and treatment, such that they can play an important role in a health outbreak,”... View Details
Keywords: by Rachel Layne; Health
  • 07 Oct 2002
  • Research & Ideas

What Leaders Need to Do To Restore Investor Confidence

powerful in communicating what that company stands for—they're not just neutral mechanisms.—Thomas R. Piper In the good times, it seemed as if most of the emphasis was on diagnostic performance measures—which were often incomplete and... View Details
Keywords: by Harvard Management Update
  • 12 Jan 2015
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Regulators Ease Up on Companies Generating Political Benefits

regulators realize they may need to do something about it, they back off a little bit," says Heese. Given the bruising political fights over health-care reform, politicians may see the lack of enforcement as a more expedient public-policy strategy than changing... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
  • 29 Jun 2010
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First Look: June 29

spraying, rapid diagnostic tests, and artemisinin-based combination therapy. We discuss the timing and regional coverage of the program and critically review the available health and program rollout data. To estimate the health benefits... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace

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