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- January 2018 (Revised January 2019)
- Case
ZappRx
By: Jeffrey J. Bussgang and Olivia Hull
In October 2015, ZappRx founder Zoe Barry is deciding between two business models for her health technology start-up. Her product, a software application that aims to expedite the prescription fulfillment process for patients with rare diseases, has attracted interest... View Details
- 15 Feb 2000
- Research & Ideas
Growing Pains: Prescriptions for U.S. Health Care
examples have already begun to appear in the form of specialized treatment centers that concentrate, for instance, on cardiac or renal disorders or high-tech medical imaging. This narrow focus minimizes overhead costs and increases... View Details
- 2006
- Book
Science Business: The Promise, the Reality, and the Future of Biotech
By: Gary P. Pisano
Why has the biotechnology industry failed to perform up to expectations—despite all its promise? In Science Business, Gary P. Pisano answers this question by providing an incisive critique of the industry. Pisano not only reveals the underlying causes of... View Details
Pisano, Gary P. Science Business: The Promise, the Reality, and the Future of Biotech. Boston: Harvard Business School Press, 2006.
- 24 Apr 2018
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, April 24, 2018
Tella, and Lucas Llach Abstract—This article is an introduction to the special collection on Argentine Exceptionalism. First, we discuss why the case of Argentina is generally regarded as exceptional: the country was among the richest in... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 16 Jan 2018
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, January 16, 2018
on average, more valuable—they are more clinically effective; have higher patent citations; lead to more revenue and to higher stock market value. Using variation in the expansion of Medicare prescription drug coverage, we show that firms... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 19 Feb 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, February 19, 2019
https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=55632 forthcoming Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes Active Choice, Implicit Defaults, and the Incentive to Choose By: Beshears, John, James J. Choi, David Laibson, and Brigitte C. Madrian Abstract—... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 29 Jan 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, January 29, 2019
managers formulate problems, evaluate their difficulty, define “good enough solutions,” and optimize the ways in which they will solve them in advance of attempting to solve them. The paper introduces both a framework for the analysis of strategic problems in... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 02 Oct 2006
- Research & Ideas
Negotiating in Three Dimensions
is an essential skill, and where the science of negotiation is headed. Negotiation is a core competence for life, "not merely an important skill to be wheeled out for special occasions," they argue. James K. Sebenius is the... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 05 May 2011
- What Do You Think?
How Ethical Can We Be?
they make diagnoses and prescriptions biased by their special training while maintaining their belief that they are putting their patients first. It helps explain why people systematically regard themselves... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Heskett
- 25 Mar 2019
- Research & Ideas
The Secret Life of Supply Chains
For many politicians and policymakers, the best prescription is to rebuild the country’s ability to make things, particularly end products. The new supply chain research suggests an expanded view that innovation and well-paying jobs can... View Details
- 18 Aug 2003
- Research & Ideas
How New Managers Become Great Managers
chapters and a more prescriptive style to reflect today's world of expanding globalization, accelerated change, and increased complexity. This excerpt discusses the importance for young managers to continue to develop as professionals via... View Details
Keywords: by Linda Hill
- 01 Dec 2007
- News
Faculty Books
also knows its people, suppliers, customers, and future direction. Bower describes the inside outsider’s attributes and reveals how to recruit, nurture, and promote this special type of leader. With a healthy supply of qualified internal... View Details
- 01 Jun 2010
- News
Health IT at the Bedside
prescription from CVS and automatically check for any drug interactions. The hospital, like many community hospitals and doctors’ offices, did not have electronic records, but his office did. Would he ever go back to a paper View Details
- Profile
Behrad Mahdi
efforts and provide incentives." Seeking a more sustainable leadership experience, he became a special assistant to the founders of City Year. Learning leadership through regular practice "Working at the national level,"... View Details
- 01 Mar 2017
- News
How Deep Brain Stimulation Could Change Medicine
targeted approach gives Bennet hope that Harmoni can benefit not only people suffering from movement disorders, but also a whole class of psychiatric patients who, until now, had few options beyond prescription drugs to help lessen the... View Details
Keywords: Janelle Nanos
- 01 Jun 2018
- News
The Long Run
trajectory of overdose deaths from prescription drugs and heroin. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the US death rate from opioid overdose has increased over 400 percent since 1999; the picture is even grimmer... View Details
- 12 Jul 2020
- Research & Ideas
Solving COVID'S Mental Health Crisis
community-based organizations. COVID-19 has disrupted GPP’s school-based activities, which include teacher training and the Teen Advisory Council, a program that supports students as they educate their peers about the dangers of View Details
- 01 Mar 2009
- News
A New Approach to Health-Care Reform
far-reaching. Your prescription calls for widespread, coordinated change. Who is responsible for leading the way? We hope policymakers in Washington will give our approach consideration, but to transform a complicated industry like this,... View Details
- 01 Jan 2004
- News
Donald P. Nielsen, MBA 1963
entrepreneurs decided to raise money to purchase Hazleton Laboratories Corporation, a struggling research concern in Virginia. Within six weeks, the company was making money thanks to a prescription of cost-cutting, tough performance... View Details
- 08 Apr 2009
- Research & Ideas
Clayton Christensen on Disrupting Health Care
screening participants in drug trials and make it possible to track and troubleshoot unexpected problems that show up after a drug is introduced into the general population, like what happened with Vioxx. The potential of this technology is far-reaching. Q: Your View Details