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- 01 Dec 2008
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Back to the Future
because there are huge business opportunities — worth trillions of dollars — on the clean-tech side.” For his part, thirty years later, Stobaugh still looks to conservation, including energy efficiency, as a top choice for action. Indeed, he says, energy View Details
- 01 Dec 1997
- News
1997 Placement Data Reflect January Cohort's Success
campus this year and enhances access to MBA students for firms that have not traditionally recruited at HBS; A new Web site for recruiters, with online tools, event listings, and other features to provide more efficient access to MBA...
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- 01 Oct 1998
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Putting on the Wheels
the development of new economies and profoundly improve the prospects for those countries. "By starting fresh in Eisenach," Hughes explains, "we were able to introduce lean manufacturing processes to workers who were ready for a new approach. Eisenach is today the most...
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Mary Ellen Gardner
- 01 Dec 2013
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Curing Health Care
Prescriptions: Free the Data! Build a Killer App Measure Health Care's Real Costs Make Medicine Personal Leverage Human Nature Integrate Preventive Care and Payment BUSH: A passionate advocate for improving health care efficiency and...
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- 02 Jan 2018
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Reconsidering Retirement
friends were in the minority among their HBS classmates, many of whom aspired to join Wall Street. As it turned out, “entrepreneurial resourcefulness,” as Puritz calls it, has served them well throughout their careers and in the launch of Rebalance. In addition to...
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- 01 Oct 1998
- News
Beyond the Numbers
helping to create a mentoring program in New York City that will partner seasoned business executives with public school administrators to develop more efficient ways to put funds to use for students. "For me, life is about helping people...
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Eileen K. McCluskey
- 01 Jun 2007
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KPMG for Mayor!
and graft means that citizens are cheated out of a fair government that operates efficiently and in the public interest. It’s time to consider a radical idea: Corporations and nonprofit groups, in addition to individuals, should be...
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- 01 Jun 2020
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Homeschooled
question will be, “Will this kind of change in our approach stick around for a while?” I certainly hope that online learning is not viewed as a temporary solution, but that it really gets integrated into a blended approach so we can leverage the personalization...
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- 01 Mar 2013
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Sizing Up Social Impact
technology to promote land registration and security, improving access to capital, and creating a more efficient judicial system. Tanzania, 2008–2013. Investments of $698 million (the largest MCC commitment to date) will improve roads,...
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- 01 Sep 2018
- News
Research Brief: Where Top-Down Tops Out
State’s desk,” according to the study. Additionally, in a hospital setting, where each department is led by a clinical expert, it is “unreasonable to think the efficiency of the organization can be put all on the person at the top,” she...
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Jennifer Myers
- 01 Feb 2002
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If You're #1, Watch Out
such parts presents only marginal profit opportunity. Staying in the innovative segment of an industry may mean, in fact, manufacturing a key subsystem and even becoming a provider to competitors. The willingness to make such shifts and the resources to execute them...
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- 01 Feb 1997
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Ban the Butterfly Rule for Corporate Directors
And mechanisms exist to handle such contingencies both efficiently and effectively. Depending on the facts and circumstances, for instance, a job change could lead to a decision not to renominate an incumbent director. In a case of...
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Joseph Hinsey IV
- 01 Sep 2005
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WATER Ltd.
tax-averse citizens. Turning over water operations to private companies that can offer economies of scale, financial resources, expertise, and efficiency is an attractive option. Privatization, however, troubles some consumer advocates...
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- 01 Sep 2016
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The Taxi Wars of Jakarta
huge inefficiency.” It was while attending HBS that Makarim formed Go-Jek, a more efficient ojek service that organized 20 or so drivers through a call center; he relied on word of mouth to market the idea to friends and relatives in a...
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- 25 Aug 2022
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In My Humble Opinion: Road Tested
center: “Now we all talk about the supply chain, which wasn’t the case a little over two years ago. It’s not lost on anyone that we don’t get anything without a well-functioning, efficient transportation system.” New world order: “With a...
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- 01 Sep 2018
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An SUV Built for African Roads—by African Workers
production facility that are different from typical original equipment manufacturers (OEMs). And the vehicle’s design allows for an efficient production process at low volumes and with manual labor. Because of these innovations, Yong says...
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Amy Yee
- 01 Dec 2000
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Core Values Keep Airline Flying High
ticketing, the airline maintains a relatively young fleet of Boeing 737s — and no other models — to save money, increase reliability, and boost efficiencies since pilots and crews need only focus on the requirements of a single type of...
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- 01 Jun 2017
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Life in Lockdown
a kitten dangling from a tree limb. One visit to Google kills that idea; there are already dozens of companies catering to premenstrual women. What about a service that can make a visit to an urgent care clinic more efficient and draw...
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- 01 Sep 2009
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Read All About It!
efficiency engineers — how would we spend our leisure? The problem has bothered social scientists/statesmen, ministers, newspaper editors, and reformers, even though we are not yet even in sight of Utopia. It is supposed, at least by...
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- 06 Dec 2021
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Leadership in the Digital Age
efficiencies and—even more importantly—customer experiences.” EMBRACING DIGITAL TRANSFORMATION Monaco's Digital Transformation Digitalization: The Key to the Future of HBS HBS Curricula Explore the Complexities of Innovation
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April White