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    • 27 Feb 2020
    • Sharpening Your Skills

    How Following Best Business Practices Can Improve Health Care

    by Sean Silverthorne

    Why do Harvard Business School scholars spend so much time and money analyzing health care delivery? Open for comment; 0 Comments.

    • 28 Aug 2019
    • Working Paper Summaries

    Who Drives Digital Innovation? Evidence from the US Medical Device Industry

    by Cirrus Foroughi and Ariel Dora Stern

    Major industries are undergoing a digital transformation, in which key aspects of new product development are migrating to a software-driven context. In the medical device industry, experience matters, as does the geographic clustering of new product development, which gives advantages to both new entrants and incumbent firms.

    • 21 Mar 2019
    • Working Paper Summaries

    Advancing Computational Biology and Bioinformatics Research Through Open Innovation Competitions

    by Blasco, Andrea, Michael G. Endres, Rinat A. Sergeev, Anup Jonchhe, Max Macaluso, Rajiv Narayan, Ted Natoli, Jin H. Paik, Bryan Briney, Chunlei Wu, Andrew I. Su, Aravind Subramanian, and Karim R. Lakhani

    Crowdsourcing is a way for many individuals to address a common problem. This paper describes the design and outcomes of three crowdsourcing contests focused on algorithms for 1) clustering antibody sequences, 2) imputing gene expression measurements, and 3) performing fast queries on a particular dataset. Innovation through contests greatly improved the solutions available.

    • 28 Feb 2019
    • Cold Call Podcast

    Pursuing Precision Medicine at Intermountain Healthcare

    Re: Richard G. Hamermesh

    What happens when Intermountain Healthcare invests resources in an innovative precision medicine unit to provide life-extending, genetically targeted therapies to late-stage cancer patients? Professors Richard Hamermesh and Kathy Giusti discuss the case and its connections to their work with the Kraft Precision Medicine Accelerator. Open for comment; 0 Comments.

    • 15 Jan 2018
    • Research & Ideas

    A Better Business Model for Fighting Cancer

    by Julia Hanna

    The Kraft Precision Medicine Accelerator aims to speed up the development and delivery of cancer therapies by improving the business processes that surround them. Open for comment; 0 Comments.

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