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How Mount Sinai Health System Fosters Collaboration to Fight Cancer
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Big, Theatrical Meetings Are a Waste of Time
Leadership & Managing People Digital ArticleDon't let showmanship get in the way of productive conversations. -
Does Crowdsourcing Need a Cash Prize to Work?
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Creating Project Plans to Focus Product Development
Technology & Operations Magazine ArticleThe long-term competitiveness of most manufacturers depends on their product development capabilities. Yet most companies' development process is unruly... -
Shrinking Fast and Smart in the Defense Industry
Government Magazine ArticleAuthor’s note: Alistair Hanna, Michael Reopel, and Stuart Flack, all of McKinsey & Company, contributed to this article. The U.S. defense industry is struggling to reorganize itself for growth, if not for survival. The disappearance of the communist threat and the desperate need to revive the U.S. economy have taken the defense industry for a […] -
One Obstacle to Curing Cancer: Patient Data Isn’t Shared
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Creating Project Plans to Focus Product Development (HBR OnPoint Enhanced Edition)
Technology & Operations Magazine ArticleThe long-term competitiveness of most manufacturers depends on their product development capabilities. Yet most companies' development process is unruly... -
Can You Entrust That Decision to a Robot?
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Why Now Is the Time for "Open Innovation"
Innovation & Leadership Digital ArticleCovid-19 has shown how companies can work together to solve problems. -
Reevaluating Incremental Innovation
Strategy & Execution Magazine ArticleResearchers from INSEAD and Kellogg conducted a statistical analysis of R&D spending and growth, using data on the world's top 2,500 companies. This revealed... -
Rebuilding the R&D Engine in Big Pharma
Strategy & Execution Magazine ArticleFrom December 2000 to February 2008, the top 15 companies in the pharmaceutical industry lost roughly $850 billion in shareholder value. Although a number... -
Conflict-of-Interest Rules Are Holding Back Medical Breakthroughs
Leadership & Managing People Digital ArticleResearchers and companies have to work together. -
The Upside of Losing Innovative Employees to Competitors
R&D ResearchA study of pharmaceutical firms finds that it leads to valuable collaborations. -
The Sputtering R&D Machine
Market research Magazine ArticleFor years, HomeStar was the most inventive company in the appliance business. Now, upstarts are stealing its thunder, and its top engineer doesn’t seem to care. -
R&D Spending Has Dramatically Surpassed Advertising Spending
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Innovating Through Design
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Magazine ArticleIn 1985 the architect Michael Graves designed his first consumer product--a now famous teakettle--for Alessi, the northern Italian home-furnishings manufacturer.... -
How to Engage Physicians in Innovative Health Care Efforts
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Digital ArticleThe American Medical Association has identified some best practices. -
Novartis's Great Leap of Trust: Daniel Vasella on China as an Emerging Scientific Power
Global Business Magazine ArticleCEO Daniel Vasella explains why his company is placing a big bet on China's future as a world scientific power. -
Rescuing Scientific Innovation from Corporate Bureaucracy
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Digital ArticleThree ways to improve your R&D efforts. -
A Pointed Lesson About Product Features
Product development Magazine ArticleConsumers trust companies to tell them what to look for in a product or service: the thread count in sheets, the BTU rating for air conditioners, the cocoa butter content of premium chocolate. Companies, for their part, rarely question industry wisdom about where to direct R&D dollars to improve quality. What most influences a product’s […]
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Acer Group's China Manufacturing Decision
Technology & Operations Case Study8.95View Details The Acer Group was one of the world's largest PC and computer component manufacturers. The vice president of global operations is pondering whether the... -
Concept Note: The Development of Tuberculosis Treatments and Policy
Global Business Case StudyThis concept note reviews the history of tuberculosis control with a focus on the development of chemotherapy for the disease, the creation of public... -
The Langer Lab: Commercializing Science
Technology & Operations Case Study8.95View Details Professor Robert Langer's laboratory at MIT is the source of an unusually large number of published papers, patents, and technology licenses to start-up... -
The Innovator's Dilemma: When New Technologies Cause Great Firms to Fail
35.00View Details The bestselling classic on disruptive innovation, by renowned author Clayton M. Christensen. His work is cited by the world's best-known thought leaders,... -
HMS Thetis and Apollo XIII
Technology & Operations Case Study8.95View Details Explores the management of technical disasters in which time plays a central role. Uses the experience of HMS Thetis and Apollo 13 to look at both successful... -
Solagen: Process Improvement in the Manufacture of Gelatin at Kodak
Technology & Operations Case Study6.95View Details Kodak must decide whether to make a major investment in a production facility designed around a new technique for producing the gelatin critical to so... -
Pharmacyclics: Financing Research & Development
Finance & Accounting Case Study6.95View Details Pharmacyclics (NASDAQ: PCYC), a pharmaceutical company that manufactures products that will improve existing therapeutic treatments for cancer, arteriosclerosis,... -
The Genesis Labs at Novartis
Leadership & Managing People Case Study8.95View Details Novartis' Genesis Labs program, launched in 2016 as part of Novartis Institutes for Biomedical Research (NIBR), hosted pitch competitions where teams... -
Bayer Crop Science
Strategy & Execution Case Study8.95View Details In mid-2019, a year after German conglomerate Bayer Group closed its acquisition of U.S.-based seeds giant Monsanto, the leadership of Bayer's Crop Science... -
GlaxoSmithKline: Reorganizing Drug Discovery (B)
Technology & Operations Case Study5.00View Details Supplements the (A) case. -
CISM - Centro de Investigacao em Saude de Manhica: Managing R&D
Technology & Operations Case Study8.95View Details An error has been discovered in a clinical trial undertaken at CISM, a Mozambican health research center focused on endemic diseases and their treatment.... -
Takeda: The Governance of Strategic Transformation (B)
Strategy & Execution Case Study5.00View Details The case series describes strategic transformation at Takeda, the largest Japanese pharmaceutical company, with a special focus on the R&D function. Since... -
Syngenta International AG: Tropical Sugar Beet
Global Business Case Study8.95View Details Syngenta has developed a new sugar beet crop especially useful to tropical climates that enable double cropping to take place and provide both food and... -
Concept Note - HIV Prevention
Global Business Case StudyThis concept note reviews the epidemiological landscape of HIV/AIDS; the history and challenge of HIV prevention; means for preventing sexual transmission... -
YFY Inc.: Turning a New Page
Leadership & Managing People Case Study8.95View Details YFY Inc., a Taiwan-based global multinational firm with its origins in agriculture and paper products, had recently become an innovator in environmentally-friendly... -
Intel Research: Exploring the Future
Technology & Operations Case Study11.95View Details It is 2004 and David Tennenhouse, the director of Intel Research, is reviewing the organization he has built since 2000. Intel Research was charged with... -
ARCH Venture Partners: November 1993
Finance & Accounting Case Study8.95View Details ARCH Venture Partners has successfully managed a venture fund and technology transfer organization for the University of Chicago for the past five years.... -
Hewlett-Packard: Singapore (A)
Technology & Operations Case Study8.95View Details In the over 20 years since Hewlett-Packard (HP) set up a manufacturing site in Singapore to produce calculators, HP has invested managerial talent and... -
Siemens AG: Global Development Strategy (A)
Technology & Operations Case Study6.95View Details Describes how Siemens, the German electrical engineering giant, has developed and manages global R&D in its large Information and Communications Networks...
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Tengion: Bringing Regenerative Medicine to Life, Teaching Note
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How Mount Sinai Health System Fosters Collaboration to Fight Cancer
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Digital ArticleIt's using RNA analysis to combat multiple myeloma. -
Big, Theatrical Meetings Are a Waste of Time
Leadership & Managing People Digital ArticleDon't let showmanship get in the way of productive conversations. -
Does Crowdsourcing Need a Cash Prize to Work?
R&D ResearchOffering nothing is better than a small prize. -
Acer Group's China Manufacturing Decision
Technology & Operations Case Study8.95View Details The Acer Group was one of the world's largest PC and computer component manufacturers. The vice president of global operations is pondering whether the... -
Wyeth Pharmaceuticals: Spurring Scientific Creativity with Metrics, Teaching Note
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Creating Project Plans to Focus Product Development
Technology & Operations Magazine ArticleThe long-term competitiveness of most manufacturers depends on their product development capabilities. Yet most companies' development process is unruly... -
Bladelogic, Teaching Note
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Shrinking Fast and Smart in the Defense Industry
Government Magazine ArticleAuthor’s note: Alistair Hanna, Michael Reopel, and Stuart Flack, all of McKinsey & Company, contributed to this article. The U.S. defense industry is struggling to reorganize itself for growth, if not for survival. The disappearance of the communist threat and the desperate need to revive the U.S. economy have taken the defense industry for a […] -
One Obstacle to Curing Cancer: Patient Data Isn’t Shared
R&D Digital ArticleLarge data sets could lead to a breakthrough.
