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- 01 Oct 2000
- News
Raymond A. Baxter: Sweet Smell of Success
the strong belief that I could succeed in any business environment." Baxter's latest challenge has been managing the successful acquisition and integration of Norse Dairy Systems, a leading manufacturer of ice-cream cones and other View Details
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Julia Hanna
- 21 Apr 2014
- Research & Ideas
Bio-Piracy: When Western Firms Usurp Eastern Medicine
In May 1995, two scientists at the University of Mississippi were granted an American patent for the use of turmeric to treat flesh wounds. Soon thereafter, an Indian research organization won a lawsuit challenging the novelty of the...
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- 16 Aug 2016
- Blog Post
Health Care Club: Summer Spotlight
project for the summer is the detailing of a fairly new therapeutic focus area. I am investigating the landscape of companies that are leading and emerging in the arena, and I am researching the science that is the foundation of their technologies. Given the View Details
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Health Care
- 09 Jun 2011
- News
The Tycoons, HBS's First A Cappella Group
days. It included spirituals like "Innocent Lamb" and "Steal Away," barbershop quartet standards like "Aura Lee" (which Elvis Presley sang as "Love Me Tender") and "Up a Lazy River", Broadway show tunes like "Lida Rose" from The Music Man, and View Details
- 06 Feb 2014
- Research & Ideas
The Art of American Advertising
posters, broadsides, circulars, brochures, souvenir publications, and novelty items along with trade journals and other publications. It will be on display in the north lobby of Baker Library | Bloomberg Center at Harvard Business School...
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- 27 Nov 2013
- News
No Bologna, Please
risks where the payoff wasn't obvious. After HBS, he opened a cookie shop in downtown Boston—and watched commuters stream by in the morning until he added fresh croissants and baguettes, both novelties at the time. That store would become...
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- 18 Dec 2012
- First Look
First Look: December 18
consistent with the slowdown associated with "social loafing"; (3) a patient's stay is up to 10.2% shorter when there is a high incoming load of predictable patients, consistent with workload smoothing. Download the paper:...
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Carmen Nobel
- 03 Feb 2020
- What Do You Think?
Can an Organization Have Too Much 'Rebel Talent'?
She backs it up with extensive research, much of it her own. Gino, the Tandon Family Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School, builds her book around the “five core elements of rebel talent.” They are: Novelty...
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by James Heskett
- Web
Bringing a Taste of Japan to the World - Global Activities 2020
his plan to offer Boston diners a unique blend of authentic Japanese culture and cooking, organic farm-to-table ingredients, and—a novelty for ramen venues—cocktail service. With classic entrepreneurial resilience, by June, Sasago had...
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- 01 Jun 2003
- News
Up Against The Firewall
virtually any metropolitan center these days, unsecured “hot spots” can be found and exploited. It is, he says, an example of “the twin–headed dilemma of new technology — introducing better productivity and novelty into the workplace...
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- 16 Jan 2018
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, January 16, 2018
https://pubwww.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=53705 Developing Novel Drugs By: Krieger, Joshua, Danielle Li, and Dimitris Papanikolaou Abstract—We analyze firms' decisions to invest in incremental and radical innovation, focusing specifically on pharmaceutical...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Mar 2017
- News
Lego Stays on Script
of approximately $4.52 billion (five times greater than that of its nearest competitor, Fisher Price), and the company has been hailed as a growth champion. Hear more from company cochairman Jørgen Vig Knudstorp on how Lego balances View Details
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Julia Hanna
- 31 Jan 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research: January 31, 2017
Abstract—The Food and Drug Administration approves new medical devices after in-depth reviews of safety and effectiveness data. Some have advocated for shorter review times to encourage innovation. We evaluated whether regulatory review time and product View Details
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Carmen Nobel
- 15 Aug 2019
- Blog Post
The Social Enterprise Initiative at HBS
work with leaders who are committed to driving change and creating impact that spans all three. In its 25th anniversary year, the HBS Social Enterprise Initiative celebrated its pioneering role as the first business school to have a center for social impact. This was...
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- 19 Nov 2014
- HBS Case
Marketing Marijuana
users are the opposite; they are looking for variety and willing to pay extra for it. "Many recreational users come in from out-of-state and enjoy the novelty of the shopping experience—and the cost structure goes up if you offer a...
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- 25 Sep 2000
- Research & Ideas
Cyber-Marketing: Scouting the Digital Communications Frontier
despite rates comparable to or better than those offered in this country. Deighton and Barwise also warn that interacting digitally with marketers may not remain a favorite use of consumers' scarce leisure time, especially after the View Details
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by Peter K. Jacobs
- 01 Sep 2009
- News
Read All About It!
day.” The speed, reliability, and sheer novelty of the rails called Americans from all walks of life to climb aboard. And they did. In 1890, nearly 500 million people embarked on train journeys, each for an average trip of 24 miles. Small...
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- 25 Nov 2014
- First Look
First Look: November 25
quality of innovation scaled strongly with firm size, innovation novelty was considerably more invariant to firm size across both breakthrough eras. While there is some evidence of firm-level heterogeneity as a determinant of the scale...
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Carmen Nobel
- 21 Jul 2015
- First Look
First Look: July 21, 2015
novelty but are meaningfully reduced by the publication of objective regulatory guidelines. Finally, I consider how the regulatory process affects small firms' market entry strategies and find that small firms are less likely to be...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 06 Feb 2006
- Research & Ideas
Sorting Out the Patent Craze
chips. But the 1990 priority date, retained from the original application, meant that the novelty of these claims was evaluated relative to the "prior art" of a decade earlier. In a rapidly evolving field such as semiconductors,...
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