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- 20 Mar 2014
- Working Paper Summaries
Waste, Recycling and Entrepreneurship in Central and Northern Europe, 1870-1940
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by Geoffrey Jones & Andrew Spadafora
- 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...
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Geographic Location;
Industry Clusters;
Knowledge Acquisition;
Pharmaceutical Industry;
San Francisco;
San Diego;
Massachusetts
Lazzeri, Francesca, and Gary P. Pisano. "The Organizational and Geographic Drivers of Absorptive Capacity: An Empirical Analysis of Pharmaceutical R&D Laboratories." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 14-098, April 2014.
- 09 Apr 2008
- Research & Ideas
The Matchmaker of the Modern Economy
Boston has always been fueled by an Enlightenment belief in scientific progress and human perfectibility. It is home to America's first public school, Boston Latin School (1635), and college, Harvard College...
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by Spencer E. Ante
Robert C. Merton
Robert C. Merton is the School of Management Distinguished Professor of Finance at the MIT Sloan School of Management.
Merton is University Professor Emeritus at Harvard University and was the George Fisher Baker Professor of...
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Assessing the Food and Drug Administration's Risk-Based Framework for Software Precertification with Top Health Apps in the United States: Quality Improvement Study
By: Noy Alon, Ariel Dora Stern and John Torous
BACKGROUND: As the development of mobile health apps continues to accelerate, the need to implement a framework that can standardize categorizing these apps to allow for efficient, yet robust regulation grows. However, regulators and researchers are faced with numerous...
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Mobile Health;
Smartphone;
Food And Drug Administration;
Risk-based Framework;
Health Care and Treatment;
Mobile and Wireless Technology;
Applications and Software;
Framework
Alon, Noy, Ariel Dora Stern, and John Torous. "Assessing the Food and Drug Administration's Risk-Based Framework for Software Precertification with Top Health Apps in the United States: Quality Improvement Study." JMIR mHealth and uHealth 8, no. 10 (October 2020).
- 01 Dec 2023
- News
The Imposter Among Us
phenomenon in a 1978 scientific journal article, in which they described the specific and unfounded fear of being discovered as a fraud. Their research focused on professional women who were successful by every external standard in their...
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- 20 Sep 2011
- First Look
First Look: September 20
on Cancer: Integrative Research Centers at the Dana Farber Cancer Institute Heidi K. Gardner, Edo Bedzra, and Shereef M. ElnahalHarvard Business School Case 412-029 Dr. Barrett Rollins, chief scientific officer of the Dana Farber Cancer...
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Sean Silverthorne
- Teaching
Overview
Laura taught undergraduate Military Leadership and Intro to Sociology for 6 and 4 semesters, respectively, at the United States Military Academy (West Point) from 2013-2016 (see course descriptions and links below). She was promoted from instructor to Assistant...
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- 17 Mar 2009
- First Look
First Look: March 17, 2009
engagements in the context of their overall strategy and the contributions of these engagements in helping the firm achieve its long-term goals. Purchase this case: http://harvardbusinessonline.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=409001 Fannie Mae:...
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Martha Lagace
- 15 Oct 2008
- First Look
First Look: October 15, 2008
Werker Abstract Using rainfall, public relief, and election data from India, we examine how governments respond to adverse shocks and how voters react to these responses. The data show that voters punish the incumbent party for weather...
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Martha Lagace
- Web
Negotiation, Organizations & Markets - Faculty & Research
approaches: Although many of us have training in economics, we also have members with backgrounds in social psychology, sociology, and law. NOM seeks to apply rigorous scientific methods to real-world problems -- producing research and...
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- 01 Sep 2023
- News
Money Does Grow on (Family) Trees
license or death certificate. “It’s a sense of euphoria,” he says. The internet era of the genealogy industry began in 1996, when Ancestry.com was launched by two graduates of Brigham Young University who had previously produced Church of Latter-day Saints View Details
- 30 Nov 2021
- In Practice
What's the Role of Business in Confronting Climate Change?
The 26th annual United Nations Climate Change Conference of the Parties, also known as COP26, ended with a hard-fought pact that called on businesses and governments to meet their climate change goals faster. The event followed an August report by the Intergovernmental...
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by Lynn Schenk and Dina Gerdeman
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Technology & Innovation - Faculty & Research
heterogeneous telecommunication costs arising from different regulatory regimes) strengthens our results. 2014 Working Paper Bridging Science and Technology Through Academic-Industry Partnerships By: Sen Chai and Willy C. Shih Scientific...
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- 19 Sep 2023
- Research & Ideas
What Chandrayaan-3 Says About India's Entrepreneurial Approach to Space
It was a ground-breaking achievement on several levels. Last month India became only the fourth nation to land successfully on the moon and the first to land and deploy a rover in the southern polar region, an area of keen scientific...
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Organize Care Around Medical Conditions - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness
HBS ISC Health Care Health Care Value-Based Health Care Health Care Courses Fast Facts Value-Based Health Care Value-Based Health Care Cases & Teaching Notes Key Concepts Key Stakeholders Publications Team Work With Us Presentations Key...
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- 12 Oct 2011
- First Look
First Look: October 12
(September-October 2011) Abstract For many decades the cornerstone of corporate reporting has been financial information that is presented in a company's annual, semi-annual, and quarterly reports. These comprehensive financial reports-required by law for View Details
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Sean Silverthorne
- Web
Winners & Success Stories - New Venture Competition
an elegantly simple solution that puts the power of a diagnostic lab at a patient’s fingertip. DFA has developed a low-cost, paper-based “lab-on-a-chip” that is simple, flexible, and can be used in resource-poor areas of the globe to support View Details
- 02 Jun 2022
- Research & Ideas
Blissful Thinking: When It Comes to Finding Happiness, 'Your Dreams Are Liars'
graduated. “Here’s the good news: They got everything they wanted,” Brooks said. “Here’s the bad news: They wanted the wrong thing. The result is that they’re not as happy as they could be. We need to teach a class on happiness,” Brooks concluded. A social scientist...
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by Dan Morrell
- Web
Academics - Health Care
life sciences, students need not have a scientific background, merely a passion for making an impact through participation in these ventures. Students will explore opportunities along various aspects of the R&D and commercialization...
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