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- 03 Oct 2011
- Research & Ideas
Transforming Manufacturing Waste into Profit
It's been said that "one man's trash is another man's treasure." HBS Assistant Professor Deishin Lee, however, has taken that old adage a step further in her recent working paper Turning Waste into By-Product by showing how it's possible for companies to turn...
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Building Collections | Baker Library | Bloomberg Center | Harvard Business School
additional records . The price book was used in the factory to record product lines, styles, and patterns. Manufacturing companies like Reed & Barton maintained extensive production records to monitor their output and track supplies,...
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- 01 Feb 1999
- News
Too Much of a Good Thing?
technology adds an increasingly dynamic dimension by dint of its exponential power to boost output while reducing costs through speed and efficiency. Another feature of technology, its ability to produce innovation, can also quickly...
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Garry Emmons
- 10 Oct 2023
- Blog Post
Policy Drivers for Environmental Justice: What Businesses Need to Know
Green Power to be building a $1 billion solar panel and solar cell factory in Oklahoma, which will have an annual output of 3 gigawatts of solar products and employ 1,000 people by 2025, and could add an additional 900 jobs and 3...
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Documenting the Wartime Effort | Baker Library | Bloomberg Center | Harvard Business School
government helped subsidize U.S. Steel efforts including the development of new blast and open-hearth furnaces. U.S. Steel doubled the output of raw materials, constructed new steel plants, rehired retired workers, and reused obsolete...
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Finance Awards & Honors - Faculty & Research
and Output Measurement and Corporate Finance Programs at the National Bureau of Economic Research in 1999. Luis M. Viceira : Winner of the 1999 FAME Research Prize from the International Center for Asset Management and Financial...
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- 14 Jun 2010
- Research & Ideas
The Hard Work of Measuring Social Impact
and the length of their involvement in the same communities." A Matter Of Resources So, if an organization has a focused, or linear, theory of change and a tightly focused operational strategy, measuring results is much easier. But these are likely to be short-term...
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by Julia Hanna
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Selected Digital Historical Resources – The Human Relations Movement – Baker Library | Bloomberg Center, Historical Collections
the Depression The studies monitoring the output of relay assembly workers, which began in 1927, continued until 1932, becoming the longest running Hawthorne experiments. The six operators studied in a separate test room were single women...
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- 30 Jul 2012
- Research & Ideas
How Technology Adoption Affects Global Economies
the date when cell phone technology first entered a country. But the intensive margin would measure the number of cell phones in a country relative to that country's population. When applicable, the intensive margin also takes into account the amount of View Details
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by Carmen Nobel
- 07 Jul 2003
- What Do You Think?
Can We Have Too Much Productivity Improvement?
had risen to the highest rate in nine years. Economists assure us that productivity (the ratio of product and service outputs to labor and capital inputs) improvements are good for all of us, whether we are employed (and thus factored...
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by James Heskett
- 07 Jan 2002
- Research & Ideas
How Marketing Can Reduce Worldwide Poverty
farmer. They already decided that what's good for the farmer is these kinds of implements, these kinds of equipment, this kind of loan. In fact, the farmer may say, "Given everything else, that's not exactly the kind of output that...
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by Martha Lagace
- 25 Mar 2019
- Research & Ideas
The Secret Life of Supply Chains
versus to consumer households. They grouped industries into supply chain versus business-to-consumer (B2C), to find the percentage of outputs in each of these areas. “We find that the supply chain economy is a distinct and large segment...
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Frequently Asked Questions - Research Computing Services
documentaation on File Ownership and Permissions . If you need assistance from RCS, please include the output from ls -l MyFile.txt in your email. Why do file permissions change when files are copied to research storage home folders...
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- 28 Apr 2022
- Research & Ideas
Can You Buy Creativity in the Gig Economy?
e-book market. New regulations have shaken up the e-book landscape in China, intensifying competition and prompting writers to work harder, according to research by Harvard Business School Professor Feng Zhu. Book contracts that give authors a share of sales rather...
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by Pamela Reynolds
- 21 Feb 2005
- Op-Ed
Is Business Management a Profession?
such as Michael Jensen and Oliver Williamson began, in the 1970s, to develop a new theory of the firm that treated it not as a "black box" that converted inputs into outputs but rather as an institution requiring and rewarding...
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- 17 Dec 2007
- Research & Ideas
The Rise of Medical Tourism
the output or the input," explains Khanna. "Applying this idea to human health care sounds a bit crude, but the output is the patient, the input is the doctor. We used to move the input around, and...
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- 02 Aug 2007
- What Do You Think?
How Will Millennials Manage?
options. As the authors of a recent book, Managing the Generation Mix, put it, they demand "the immediate gratification of making an immediate impact by doing meaningful work immediately." In short, they are high maintenance, high risk, and often high View Details
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by Jim Heskett
- 05 Sep 2018
- Research & Ideas
The Hidden Benefit of Giving Back to Open Source Software
productivity when companies paid employees to contribute to Linux at work. “It’s not necessarily that the firms that contribute are more productive on the whole,” Nagle explains, “it’s that they get more in terms of productivity output...
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Entrepreneurial Management Awards & Honors - Faculty & Research
Institute for Economic Research, 2000. 1999 Josh Lerner : Named a Faculty Research Fellow in the Corporate Finance Program at the National Bureau of Economic Research, 1998-1999. Josh Lerner : Named a Research Associate in the Productivity and View Details
- 12 Oct 1999
- Research & Ideas
Porter’s Perspective: Competing in the Global Economy
problems that hold back the rest of their economy. The problem is, isolated zones for processing foreign inputs and exporting all these outputs are the antithesis of cluster development. Emerging nations must create programs and...
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Re: Michael E. Porter