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Reducing Racial Disparities in Cancer Treatment Demands Collective Action
R&D Digital ArticleThe development of Covid-19 vaccines illustrates how public-private partnerships can rapidly accelerate progress. -
Raytheon CEO Gregory Hayes: How Ukraine Has Highlighted Gaps in US Defense Technologies
Business and society Digital ArticleHow does a company that gets two million hack attempts each week think about security? -
How ByteDance Became the World’s Most Valuable Startup
Innovation Digital ArticleUnpacking the success of the company that built TikTok, Toutiao, and Douyin. -
Reducing Racial Disparities in Cancer Outcomes
R&D Digital ArticleTo begin addressing the problem, we must increase representation of Black patients in clinical trials. -
Quantum Computing for Business Leaders
Technology & Operations Magazine ArticleQuantum computers can solve problems exponentially faster than classical computers can. They will bring about two huge changes: an end to our current... -
How Cloud-Based Supercomputing Is Changing R&D
Data management Digital ArticleIt’s making complex simulations easier and more accessible than ever. -
When Activist Investors Should Slash R&D — and When They Shouldn’t
Innovation Digital ArticleHow to measure when innovation is actually paying off. -
3 Strategies for Rolling Out New Tech Within Your Company
Innovation Digital ArticleBased on an analysis of more than 7,000 engineering projects. -
Big, Theatrical Meetings Are a Waste of Time
Meeting management Digital ArticleDon’t let showmanship get in the way of productive conversations. -
Addressing Demographic Disparities in Clinical Trials
R&D Digital ArticleWomen, people of color, and the elderly are often underrepresented in the data. - SPONSOR CONTENT FROM THE GOVERNMENT OF JAPAN
How Japan’s Hydrogen Innovations May Fuel Cleaner Days Ahead
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"It Will Need to Be the Most Amazing Thing Humankind Has Ever Done"
Organizational Development Magazine ArticleClimate change is a pressing concern for Bill Gates, who has just published a new book on the subject. He spoke with HBR's editor-in-chief about the need... -
We Need to Start Investing in Antiviral Drugs for the Next Pandemic
R&D Digital ArticleScientists have a good sense of which family of viruses will cause the next pandemic. -
Want to See the Future of Digital Health Tools? Look to Germany.
Technology and analytics Digital ArticleAn ambitious new law is catalyzing innovation. -
How Nonprofit Foundations Can Sustainably Fund Disease Research
Finance and investing Digital ArticleThree strategies that work. - SPONSOR CONTENT FROM SIEMENS HEALTHINEERS
Precision Medicine Can Help Manage Pandemics More Effectively
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AI Can Help Health Care Providers Make Diagnostic and Therapeutic Decisions
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When Licensing New Tech Is Better Than Building It In-House
R&D Digital ArticleR&D isn’t always the answer. -
We Need Better Masks
Economics Digital ArticleRight now, it’s our best option to contain the virus and revive the economy. -
Why Now Is the Time for “Open Innovation”
Innovation Digital ArticleCovid-19 has shown how companies can work together to solve problems.
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Reducing Racial Disparities in Cancer Treatment Demands Collective Action
R&D Digital ArticleThe development of Covid-19 vaccines illustrates how public-private partnerships can rapidly accelerate progress. -
The 4 Types of Innovation and the Problems They Solve
Innovation Digital ArticleDisruption isn’t the only approach. -
How to Do Strategic Planning Like a Futurist
Strategic planning Digital ArticleYou don’t need a time line; you need a time cone. -
Conflict-of-Interest Rules Are Holding Back Medical Breakthroughs
Leadership & Managing People Digital ArticleResearchers and companies have to work together. -
How to Set Up an AI R&D Lab
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Digital ArticleHire true experts, embrace research, and adapt your culture. -
No Monopoly on Innovation
Managing people Magazine ArticleFifty years ago, when the American Telephone and Telegraph Company still held a monopoly on U.S. phone service, the first minute of a toll call could easily cost a dollar—the equivalent of about $5 today. But a few pennies of that 1950s dollar supported research and development efforts at Bell Telephone Laboratories and at AT&T’s […] -
Transforming Life, Transforming Business: The Life-Science Revolution
Technology & Operations Magazine ArticleIf you think the Internet has changed the shape of business, just imagine what genetic engineering is going to do. In this groundbreaking article, Juan... -
How to Spot a Technological Winner
Technology & Operations Magazine ArticleGeneral managers can assess the strategic merit of potentially radical technical innovation by evaluating the two key determinants of innovation success:... -
Organizing for High-Tech Marketing
Sales & Marketing Magazine ArticleCompanies that link research and development (R&D) and marketing can effectively anticipate, analyze, and exploit market opportunities. The makeup of... -
Innovative Companies Get Their Best Ideas from Academic Research - Here's How They Do It
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Digital ArticleGovernment-funded research is behind any significant new product. -
The Explainer: Design Thinking
Popularized by David M. Kelley and Tim Brown of IDEO and Roger Martin of the Rotman School, Design Thinking has three major stages. -
Two leading researchers discuss the value of oddball data
R&D Magazine ArticleBusinesses often face big, messy problems—challenges that defy precise definition, change constantly, and have numerous causes. To find solutions, says Roger Martin, dean of the University of Toronto’s Rotman School of Management and author of The Design of Business (Harvard Business Press), managers must move through a “knowledge funnel” comprising three stages: staring into the […] -
Get Ahead by Betting Wrong
R&D Magazine ArticleCompanies that invest heavily in R&D are often torn between emerging technologies, wondering which will win in the market and is therefore the one to develop. (The classic example is VHS versus Betamax video recorders.) Conventional wisdom suggests that they pay dearly for getting it wrong. But my research shows that betting on a losing […] -
Leapfrogging RandD
Innovation Magazine ArticleHerb Baum understands why companies choose to be fast followers. But that strategy is not for him. He didn’t like it when he was CEO of Quaker State in the 1990s, and he doesn’t like it now that he’s president and CEO of Dial, the $1.3 billion maker of soaps, detergents, and other products. (Dial, […] -
"Special Forces" Innovation: How DARPA Attacks Problems
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Magazine ArticleThe Pentagon's Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency arguably has the longest-standing track record of radical invention in history. Over the past... -
The Biases That Keep Good R&D Projects from Getting Funded
Innovation & Leadership ResearchAnd how to overcome them, according to a new study. -
Where More R&D Dollars Should Go
Technology & Operations Magazine ArticleCompanies are expecting to spend more on R&D this year, but they're putting it in the wrong place--too much on new project development and not enough... -
Turn a Good Idea into Reality
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A More Rational Approach to New-Product Development
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Magazine ArticleCompanies often treat new-product development as a monolithic process, but it can be more rationally divided into two parts: an early stage that focuses... -
Why Great Innovation Needs Great Marketing
Sales & Marketing Digital ArticleIdeas don't sell themselves.
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Mason Instrument, Inc.--1986 (C): Electronics Guidance System for the Cherokee Missile
Sales & Marketing Case Study5.00View Details Part of a series on a bidding situation involving missile guidance systems. -
GlaxoSmithKline: Reorganizing Drug Discovery (B), Japanese Version
Technology & Operations Case Study5.00View Details Supplements the (A) case. -
Vertex Pharmaceuticals: R&D Portfolio Management (A), Spanish Version
Technology & Operations Case Study8.95View Details Vertex Pharmaceuticals, Inc., a drug discovery company that recently decided to pursue a vertically integrated business model, chose to build up its clinical... -
Korea's Technology Strategy, Spanish Version
Global Business Case Study8.95View Details Describes Korea's efforts to improve its technological capability and learn to produce and export high technology goods. The roles of government policy,... -
Novartis AG: Science-Based Business, Japanese Version
Organizational Development Case Study8.95View Details Novartis is a science-based drug company, which has important implications for its business strategy. It is one of the largest pharmaceutical companies... -
Wyeth Pharmaceuticals: Spurring Scientific Creativity with Metrics, Chinese Version
Technology & Operations Case Study8.95View Details Describes the reorganization of the drug discovery organization at Wyeth Pharmaceuticals and focuses on the decisions to: (1) centralize decision-making... -
Horizon Group
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Case Study8.95View Details Contains a description of a situation confronting the co-founder of a company planning to produce software for microcomputers. The company has just completed... -
Dexus: Accounting for "Cloud Computing Arrangement"
Finance & Accounting Case Study8.95View Details This case explores the accounting treatment for the costs attributable to cloud computing arrangements. The protagonist company is Dexus Diversified... -
Corning, Inc.: Technology Strategy in 2003
Strategy & Execution Case Study8.95View Details Corning, Inc. has a 150-year history of building a strategy around innovation. Founded as a glass manufacturer in 1851, the company quickly established... -
Hyundai Motor Company: Design Takes the Driver's Seat
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Case Study8.95View Details This case explores the history of Korea's Hyundai Motor Company and the part design management played in Hyundai's rapid rise to become one of the Big... -
Le Petit Chef, Spanish Version
Technology & Operations Case Study8.95View Details Brigitte Gagne, Le Petit Chef's director of microwave R&D, is deciding on the product development agenda for next year. She has to decide which of the... -
Challenges in Developing Products for an Advanced Mobile Market: Sasken's Experience
Strategy & Execution Case Study8.95View Details Sasken, a communication software company based in India, provides research and development support to leading wireless device vendors from its offshore... -
Nokia: From In-house to Joint R&D
Strategy & Execution Case Study8.95View Details The case describes and discusses the organizational and strategic challenges of outsourcing research and development (R&D) activities from Denmark to... -
Building Innovation at Terrapin Bright Green
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Case Study8.95View Details Describes Terrapin Bright Green, an environmental consulting and strategic planning firm, and its approach for creating integrative, systematic solutions... -
Marketing Research: An Overview of Research Methods
Sales & Marketing Case Study8.95View Details Broadly describes the scope of marketing research, and describes experiments, non-survey methods, and internal data. -
Growth Strategies in the Pharmaceutical Industry (A)
Leadership & Managing People Case Study8.95View Details This case illustrates different growth strategies in the pharmaceutical industry. R&D management is a critical component of growth strategies, and the... -
Intel Capital: The Berkeley Networks Investment
Technology & Operations Case Study8.95View Details Discusses how Intel Corp. uses corporate venture capital to explore new technologies in new markets. Intel combines external investments with internal... -
Singapore: "Facing Challenges Together"
Global Business Case Study15.05View Details Since its expulsion from Malaysia in 1965, Singapore had transformed itself from a third world island nation into a vibrant city-state with one of the... -
Surface Logix
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Case Study8.95View Details Describes a start-up in the field of nano technology--very small physical structures measured in the billionths of a meter. The company, Surface Logix,... -
Institutions for Collaboration, Overview
Strategy & Execution Case Study8.95View Details Provides an overview of the wide variety of organizations other than firms, government ministries and regulatory agencies, and universities that may have...
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Reducing Racial Disparities in Cancer Treatment Demands Collective Action
R&D Digital ArticleThe development of Covid-19 vaccines illustrates how public-private partnerships can rapidly accelerate progress. -
The 4 Types of Innovation and the Problems They Solve
Innovation Digital ArticleDisruption isn’t the only approach. -
How to Do Strategic Planning Like a Futurist
Strategic planning Digital ArticleYou don’t need a time line; you need a time cone. -
Mason Instrument, Inc.--1986 (C): Electronics Guidance System for the Cherokee Missile
Sales & Marketing Case Study5.00View Details Part of a series on a bidding situation involving missile guidance systems. -
Conflict-of-Interest Rules Are Holding Back Medical Breakthroughs
Leadership & Managing People Digital ArticleResearchers and companies have to work together. -
Making Quantum Computers a Commercial Reality
Disruptive innovation AudioCan a startup take quantum computers from the lab to the world? -
How to Set Up an AI R&D Lab
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Digital ArticleHire true experts, embrace research, and adapt your culture. -
GlaxoSmithKline: Reorganizing Drug Discovery (B), Japanese Version
Technology & Operations Case Study5.00View Details Supplements the (A) case. -
No Monopoly on Innovation
Managing people Magazine ArticleFifty years ago, when the American Telephone and Telegraph Company still held a monopoly on U.S. phone service, the first minute of a toll call could easily cost a dollar—the equivalent of about $5 today. But a few pennies of that 1950s dollar supported research and development efforts at Bell Telephone Laboratories and at AT&T’s […] -
How to Avoid Innovation Competence Loss in R&D Outsourcing
Leadership & Managing People Digital ArticleCompanies developing complex products face a crucial dilemma: the benefits of research and development (R&D) outsourcing such as lower costs, access to...