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- 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...
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Janelle Nanos
- 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...
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- 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...
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- 30 Jan 2007
- First Look
First Look: January 30, 2007
found to be associated with the ability to attract specialized solvers with range of diverse scientific interests. Furthermore, successful solvers solved problems at the boundary or outside of their fields of expertise, indicating a...
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Martha Lagace
- 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,...
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- 01 Sep 2004
- News
American Dream
local Indian tribes, General Custer’s expedition to the Black Hills, and the last legal hanging in Meade County. (You can still get a prescription filled, too.) Today, Hustead, 53, one of seven children, oversees Wall Drug with his...
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- 01 Dec 2020
- News
New Releases: Alumni and Faculty Books
As Bernshteyn explains, the prescriptive insights gleaned from the massive amount of community data available worldwide will transform entire industries and break down long-standing barriers to value. The Ends Game: How Smart Companies...
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Margie Kelley
- 30 Oct 2006
- First Look
First Look: October 31, 2006
Contributors draw from a range of disciplines, including political science, public administration, civil society studies, anthropology, organizational sociology, business, and social and critical theory. In so doing, they demonstrate the inadequacy of modern...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 13 Jan 2015
- First Look
First Look: January 13
"multi-front negotiation campaign" (Sebenius 2010, Lax and Sebenius 2012) offers an analytic approach that may enjoy descriptive and prescriptive advantages over more traditional approaches that focus on a specific negotiation...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 10 Apr 2007
- First Look
First Look: April 10, 2007
the Market Harvard Business School Note 707-469 Strategists are not alone in finding failing markets irresistible. Governments and social groups ranging from unions to the World Wildlife Fund also respond to market failures. Governments typically seek to fix failing...
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Martha Lagace
- 17 May 2011
- First Look
First Look: May 17
by how well it raises the welfare of the representative household. While the model has Keynesian features, its policy prescriptions differ significantly from textbook Keynesian analysis. Moreover, the model suggests that the commonly used...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 07 Feb 2007
- Research & Ideas
Dividends from Schumpeter’s Noble Failure
a special situation. Worse, under the guise of a "purely theoretical discussion," Keynes's logic moves from the policy he favors to a theory that will support it, a sequence abhorrent to Schumpeter. Throughout The General...
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by Thomas K. McCraw
- Web
Podcast - Managing the Future of Work
specialization that some employees may want to have. How do you counsel people as to with their next assignment? Is it better to take that more diverse experience or to continue refining their trade? Is that left to each individual? Or is...
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- 16 Dec 2011
- Research & Ideas
Reintroducing Intellectual Ambition to the Study of Business History
argument and methodological innovation have moved academic subjects forward, not bland rejections of previous frameworks. The editorial team has identified six broad areas that hold promise. The list is neither exclusive nor prescriptive...
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by Geoffrey Jones & Walter Friedman
- 04 Nov 2008
- First Look
First Look: November 4, 2008
http://harvardbusinessonline.hbsp.harvard.edu/ b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=709011 Marc Abrahams: Annals of an Improbable Entrepreneur Harvard Business School Case 409-013 Marc Abrahams was a media entrepreneur who specialized in...
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Martha Lagace
- 30 Jun 2020
- Book
Capitalism Is More at Risk Than Ever
based on those forecasts, the highlights of their observations, and prescriptive thoughts based on our analysis of their ideas. The executives identified 10 powerful forces that had the potential to disrupt the progress flowing from the...
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by Martha Lagace
- 13 Jan 2009
- First Look
First Look: January 13, 2009
world-class business. Following modern management practices, keeping sharp attention to cost control and capital operations, making aggressive entries into international markets, and maintaining a special corporate culture, Chairman Chen...
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Martha Lagace
- 12 Oct 2006
- First Look
First Look: October 12, 2006
prescriptions for companies, investors, and policymakers seeking ways to improve the industry's performance. According to Pisano, the biotech industry's problems stem from its special character as a...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 10 Mar 2021
- News
New Releases: Alumni and Faculty Books, Podcasts
has ever seen. In the past, biographers of Lord Liverpool have not sufficiently acknowledged the importance of his foremost skill: economic policy (including fiscal, monetary, and banking system questions). Here, Hutchinson's decades of experience in the finance sector...
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- 04 Dec 2012
- First Look
First Look: December 4
deductive proposition, supported by experimental and observational evidence, other forms of knowledge can be both valid and useful. In particular, Fisher and his colleagues constructed frameworks of prescriptions that, on average, respond...
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Carmen Nobel