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- 01 Dec 2000
- News
Stevenson Named Director of External Relations
in traditional and new-media formats." The author of numerous books and articles, Stevenson has recently completed the third edition of The Entrepreneurial Venture, with HBS faculty members William A....
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- July 2002 (Revised August 2002)
- Case
Washington Hospital Center (B): The Power of Insight
By: Rosabeth M. Kanter and Michelle Heskett
Dr. Craig Feied considers how to take a major technical innovation beyond his own department into a large hospital system. Reviews how proprietary information systems became indispensable in the department of emergency medicine and what it took to introduce the change...
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- November 2022 (Revised April 2024)
- Case
Martine Rothblatt and United Therapeutics: A Series of Implausible Dreams
By: Debora L. Spar and Julia M. Comeau
In 1990, satellite expert and Sirius XM founder Martine Rothblatt was determined to save the life of her seven-year-old daughter, Jenesis, who was diagnosed with a terminal illness called Pulmonary Arterial Hypertension (PAH). At the time, there was little medication...
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Keywords:
Pharmaceutical Companies;
Technological And Scientific Innovation;
Organ Donation;
Health Care and Treatment;
Health Disorders;
Innovation and Invention;
Pharmaceutical Industry;
Medical Devices and Supplies Industry;
United States;
District of Columbia
Spar, Debora L., and Julia M. Comeau. "Martine Rothblatt and United Therapeutics: A Series of Implausible Dreams." Harvard Business School Case 323-039, November 2022. (Revised April 2024.)
- April 2017
- Case
The Future of Patent Examination at the USPTO
By: Prithwiraj Choudhury, Tarun Khanna and Sarah Mehta
The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) is the federal government agency responsible for evaluating and granting patents and trademarks. In 2015, the USPTO employed approximately 8,000 patent examiners who granted nearly 300,000 patents to inventors. As of April...
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Machine Learning;
Telework;
Collaborating With Unions;
Human Resources;
Recruitment;
Retention;
Intellectual Property;
Copyright;
Patents;
Trademarks;
Knowledge Sharing;
Technology Adoption;
Organizational Change and Adaptation;
Performance Productivity;
Performance Improvement;
District of Columbia
Choudhury, Prithwiraj, Tarun Khanna, and Sarah Mehta. "The Future of Patent Examination at the USPTO." Harvard Business School Case 617-027, April 2017.
- 16 Jun 2014
- Research & Ideas
The Unfulfilled Promise of Educational Technology
over the last three decades, educational performance in the United States has shown only marginal improvement, and lags that of other developed countries in Europe and Asia. While some school districts have...
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- 06 Sep 2019
- Blog Post
The Business of Medicine: MD/MBA Students Having an Impact
of the 75 percent of his classmates who did not go on to college after high school. Ameen has spent much of his time in college working to change the social status quo. While...
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- January 2018 (Revised February 2023)
- Teaching Note
The Future of Patent Examination at the USPTO
This teaching note pairs with the case entitled: “The Future of Patent Examination at the USPTO” (case no. 617-027).
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- June 2003 (Revised July 2003)
- Case
Union City Schools: Sustaining The Turnaround
By: Rosabeth M. Kanter and Ryan Raffaelli
Under the leadership of Superintendent Thomas Highton, Union City Schools, New Jersey, underwent a 14-year turnaround. In 1989, the Union City School District was the second-worst-performing district in New Jersey. As Mr. Highton prepared to retire, 2002 student test...
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- 05 Jul 2006
- Working Paper Summaries
Promoting a Management Revolution in Public Education
- 01 Dec 2017
- News
Alumni Connections: Photos of Recent Alumni Events
Recent HBS Alumni Events on Campus and Beyond 1 Members of the Classes of 2003 to 2017 gathered for a Young Alumni Reception at Joy District Chicago in September. 2 The MBA...
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- 01 Oct 2002
- News
Directors of Research Centers Share Global Perspectives
also play a key role for the centers by helping to identify and facilitate research opportunities worldwide. In related news, Masako Egawa has announced that as of September, the Japan Research Office has a new home, having relocated to...
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- 25 Jul 2017
- News
Money can buy happiness, study says, but there's a catch
Jeff Gortmaker
Jeff Gortmaker is a doctoral student in the Business Economics program. Previously, he studied at Columbia University and worked as a research analyst at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York. His research interests include industrial organization, finance, and...
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- 19 Dec 2005
- Research & Ideas
Public Education Goes to School
and the deans of both schools and the president of the university have enthusiastically supported us all along," says PELP co-founder and HBS lecturer Stacey Childress. The nine participating school...
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- 24 Apr 2014
- News
Breaking the cycle of poverty in urban areas
Massachusetts. Currently, the foundation is partnering with school districts to provide universal free breakfast, after the bell rings, in schools that serve a large proportion of low-income children....
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- 02 Apr 2015
- Research & Ideas
Digital Initiative Summit: The Business of Crowdsourcing
Boston predict which places might be violating public health regulations. And it is working with an education nonprofit in Watertown, Mass., Education Resource Strategies, to study how school districts spend money. "The outcome is that...
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by Dina Gerdeman
Hanne Collins
Hanne is a PhD student in Organizational Behavior at Harvard Business School. She is interested in understanding how people navigate the complexities of conversation. She is especially interested in how people express and perceive listening in conversation, and...
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- 21 Nov 2014
- News