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    Cold Call
    A podcast featuring faculty discussing cases they've written and the lessons they impart.
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    • 03 Dec 2019
    • Cold Call Podcast

    Why CalSTRS Chooses to Engage with the Gun Industry

    Should large institutional investors divest or engage if they have an issue with a company? In a recent case study, Vikram Gandhi discusses how CalSTRS, the $200 billion pension plan for California public school teachers, chose to engage with gun makers and retailers.  Open for comment; 0 Comment(s) posted.

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    Science-Based BusinessRemove Science-Based Business →

    New research on science-based businesses from Harvard Business School faculty on issues including the implications of industry participation in space exploration, the effects of public science on private sector innovation in the life sciences, and what neuroscience tells us about consumer desire.
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    • 18 Apr 2019
    • Research & Ideas

    Open Innovation Contestants Build AI-Based Cancer Tool

    by Martha Lagace

    Radiation oncologists are few in number, especially if you are nowhere near a cancer facility. Could artificial intelligence be used to deliver an oncologist's skills for radiation therapy? Karim R. Lakhani discusses a unique open innovation experiment. Open for comment; Comment(s) posted.

    • 28 Feb 2019
    • Cold Call Podcast

    Pursuing Precision Medicine at Intermountain Healthcare

    Re: Richard G. Hamermesh, Kathy E. Giusti

    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; Comment(s) posted.

    • 30 Nov 2018
    • What Do You Think?

    What’s the Best Administrative Approach to Climate Change?

    by James Heskett

    SUMMING UP: James Heskett's readers point to examples of complex environmental problems conquered through multinational cooperation. Can those serve as roadmaps for overcoming global warming? Open for comment; Comment(s) posted.

    • 31 May 2016
    • HBS Case

    Who Owns Space?

    Re: Matthew C. Weinzierl

    Industry is looking to the stars for a new commercial frontier. NASA is looking to industry to help broaden the scope of space exploration. And Professor Matt Weinzierl is looking at what this interplay means for the future of the New Space sector. Open for comment; Comment(s) posted.

    • 11 Nov 2015
    • Working Paper Summaries

    Public R&D Investments and Private-sector Patenting: Evidence from NIH Funding Rules

    by Danielle Li

    By tracing the often-circuitous path from National Institutes of Health (NIH) funding to patented innovations, this research examines the effects of public science on private sector innovation in the life sciences.

    • 26 Mar 2012
    • Research & Ideas

    What Neuroscience Tells Us About Consumer Desire

    by Carmen Nobel

    It's easy for businesses to keep track of what we buy, but harder to figure out why. Enter a nascent field called neuromarketing, which uses the tools of neuroscience to determine why we prefer some products over others. Uma R. Karmarkar explains how raw brain data is helping researchers unlock the mysteries of consumer choice. Closed for comment; 22 Comment(s) posted.

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