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- January 2009 (Revised July 2009)
- Case
Targanta Therapeutics: Hitting a Moving Target
By: Arthur A. Daemmrich
This case explores regulatory, product testing, and business strategy at Targanta Therapeutics, a biotech company preparing its first new drug application to the FDA. In October 2007, Mark Leuchtenberger, president and CEO of Targanta—which has just held a successful...
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Decision Choices and Conditions;
Entrepreneurship;
Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms;
Health Testing and Trials;
Product Development;
Business and Government Relations;
Business Strategy;
Biotechnology Industry;
Pharmaceutical Industry
Daemmrich, Arthur A. "Targanta Therapeutics: Hitting a Moving Target." Harvard Business School Case 709-002, January 2009. (Revised July 2009.)
- 10 Mar 2008
- Research & Ideas
Encouraging Entrepreneurs: Lessons for Government Policy
own business—even if that business may have failed." Nanda and Sørensen control for the possibility that former and aspiring entrepreneurs are more likely to cluster together at a company with an entrepreneurial culture,...
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by Julia Hanna
- 01 Oct 1997
- News
Doing Something Real
world that seems to have found a better way than price controls to tame inflation (free trade, competition, innovation, dour central bankers)... and a world with a Starbucks on almost every corner. (Now that's coffee.) In these 25 years...
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Andrew Tobias (MBA '72)
- 01 Mar 2013
- News
Making Change
aim to make rigorous impact-measurement approaches, like randomized controlled trials, practical and accessible to practitioners. In India, we are helping the State of Bihar improve a $200 million nutrition...
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- 13 Oct 2015
- First Look
October 13, 2015
investigate the impact of this practice on consumer welfare. To investigate, we implement a randomized controlled trial in which we vary the search results that subjects are...
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- 27 Jun 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, June 27
challenging in the past, and remains so today, the book argues that one reason was how they have both been defined. Publisher's link: https://pubwww.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=52778 forthcoming Journal of International Economics The Real Effects of Capital View Details
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Sean Silverthorne
- 17 Feb 2021
- Research & Ideas
Pandemic Self-Care for CEOs: Rituals, Running, and Cognitive Restructuring
control over the whole thing.” Another interviewee reported that coming up with a daily plan “took some time,” and all agreed that being “diligent” about daily routines was crucial. Some executives noted that the schedule helped...
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- 01 Jun 2013
- News
Five Bright Ideas
technologies to come) is needed to develop that knowledge. "Education is a $3 trillion industry globally, and no player in the world controls even 1 percent of it," he says. "I think there will be a Facebook or Google in learning. I'd...
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- 20 Feb 2008
- First Look
First Look: February 20, 2008
despite export options which appear to be more profitable. Thus many conjecture that one or several markets are missing. We report here on a randomized controlled trial...
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Martha Lagace
- 07 Oct 2014
- First Look
First Look: October 7
the evaluations given (and consequent resource allocation). We empirically evaluate effects in data collected from a grant proposal process at a leading research university in which we randomized the assignment of evaluators and proposals...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 20 Dec 2016
- First Look
December 20, 2016
artificial worlds for hypothesis testing and theory building. Agent-based models (ABMs) offer unprecedented control and statistical power by allowing researchers to precisely specify the behavior of any number of agents and observe their...
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Carmen Nobel
- 21 Apr 2009
- First Look
First Look: April 21, 2009
season. We first document relatively low levels of adoption of this new risk management technology: only 5%-10% of households purchase insurance, even though rainfall variability is overwhelmingly cited by households as the most important risk they face. We then...
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Martha Lagace
- 10 Oct 2007
- First Look
First Look: First Look: October 10
spending on groceries. Controlling for customer-fixed effects and other relevant variables, we find that grocery spending increases by $1.59 with the use of a $10-off coupon. In addition, even though the receipt of a $10-off coupon does...
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Martha Lagace
- 25 Mar 2021
- Research & Ideas
Steer Clear of the Blind Spots That Derail Experiments
look at how companies could more effectively leverage structured, randomized experiments to inform decision-making. His goal: Enable C-suite leaders to avoid the blind spots and blunders that can occur when making decisions based on data...
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by Danielle Kost
- 30 Nov 2009
- Research & Ideas
Tracks of My Tears: Reconstructing Digital Music
albums—and because it is among the sectors most strongly affected by digital technology. So I reached out to Nielsen SoundScan, the company that tracks recorded-music sales in North America, to obtain data for a random sample of over 200...
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- 21 Aug 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, August 21, 2018
horizons. We also demonstrate that nonlinear boosting models with feature selection, such as random forests, perform significantly better than traditional linear models. The best-performing method (random forest) yields an out-of-sample...
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Dina Gerdeman
- 16 Jul 2019
- News
The Making of a Movement
greater incentive to participate and contribute. David and Jen’s other crucial decision was to cede control to MSK without condition and with only a rough blueprint for the next few years in place. The no-strings-attached arrangement...
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- 30 Apr 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, April 30, 2019
more important than when information is monopolized by the government. If not constrained, government’s monopoly control of information, combined with its incentives to shape support for its policies, may at some times and in some ways...
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Dina Gerdeman
- 01 Dec 2020
- News
Tried and Tested
have control over that. When employees don’t have control over something that matters to them, this usually points toward potential policy interventions and also naturally occurring interventions that we can...
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- 01 Dec 2021
- What Do You Think?
How Will the Metaverse Affect Productivity?
takes away productivity." Fans of the television show, Alter Ego, in which avatars controlled by contestants competing to become the next pop star, would argue that Alter Ego is little more than an introduction to the Metaverse. They’re...
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by James Heskett