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- 01 Sep 2011
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Green Day
good ROI.” Diniz began to brainstorm with Paulo Puterman, a friend studying to get his PhD in biotechnology at the University of São Paulo who also happened to be focused on the highly efficient elephant grass/electricity equation. “After... View Details
- 01 Mar 2019
- News
The Blue-Green Revolution
Lassiter, whose research focuses on developing carbon-neutral energy supplies, efforts to produce algal crude cheaply and efficiently have met with nothing but failure. The reason: basic biology. One can easily persuade algae to produce... View Details
- 30 Oct 2018
- News
Paths of Victory
their vehicles, plan more efficient routes, reduce fuel expenses, receive maintenance notifications, and track the behaviors of drivers. When Cobli won in 2016, it had 12 employees and no revenue. Today it employees 60 people and boasts... View Details
- 01 Sep 2006
- News
Notebook
type of service — video, voice, data, entertainment — as efficiently as possible. The industry is changing fast, and while it means opportunity for us, it also means investment and change. — Margie Kelley View Details
- 01 Mar 2018
- News
Money (Actually) Can Buy Happiness
mindset to make you more strategic or more efficient with your time—but there’s not much research on that yet. Recently, we studied how people could spend their discretionary income to promote happiness: What would happen if you spent... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 01 Apr 1996
- News
Stasis and Turmoil: HBS Research for the Real World
increasing economic efficiency and improving government finances. Yet, privatization does not imply the disappearance of government from the affected sector. In many cases," says Emmons, "the reduction in state ownership is accompanied by... View Details
- 01 Dec 2012
- News
Reimagining Capitalism In a World of Limited Resources
knows quite a bit about the topic. "Capitalism has traditionally been about driving wealth and productivity through efficiencies in capital and labor," says Henderson, who teaches the MBA elective Reimagining Capitalism. "But in the 21st... View Details
Keywords: Dalai Lama
- 01 Dec 2012
- News
Faculty Books
Productivity: Boost Your Results, Reduce Your Hours by Robert C. Pozen (Harvard Business Review Press) Senior Lecturer Pozen offers practical tips on how to prioritize efficiently and maximize time at work while leading a full and... View Details
- 01 Sep 2008
- News
The Levitt Brand
program’ systematically to improve the efficiency of marketing beyond the borders of the home country. Instead, he shouts: ‘Wake up!’ ” Throughout his career, in different ways, Levitt kept shouting. When HBS Dean John McArthur appointed... View Details
- 01 Mar 2005
- News
Answering the Call
things,” Benihana ads promised). Illustration by PJ Loughran After reading in a trade publication about Benihana’s innovative and efficient use of labor and layout to lower costs and facilitate customer turnaround times, Professor Earl... View Details
- 01 Jun 1997
- News
Blockbuster Deals
systems and nonfunctional governance systems." "In the 1980s," says Jensen, "there were many more takeovers, mergers, leveraged buyouts, and restructurings intended to create efficiency and value. While some of this is happening now,... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons and Nancy O. Perry
- 01 Oct 2002
- News
Sam Hayes
market is still the most efficient in the world,” he says. “Over the longer term, one can buy and hold investments and be confident that price disparities will smooth out with time and be reflective of real value.” The author and coauthor... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 01 Dec 2020
- News
Finding The Right Patient-Provider Match
to ‘Dr. Famous,’ who was booked for 17 weeks out, while brand-new doctors only had 30 percent of their schedules filled.” Inspired by the efficiency that companies like Travelocity brought to the airline industry, Gardner created Kyruus... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 01 Mar 2017
- News
Case Study: Moment in the Sun
a large hotel chain reached out to express interest, Hoskins began to see the promise of B2B sales in the hospitality market. “They got the value right away,” says Hoskins. “It’s automatic: Your customers are healthier and getting better sleep, and there’s cost savings... View Details
Keywords: Dan Morrell
- 01 Mar 2013
- News
A Mission in Motion
Public Health that uses business solutions to improve public health products, services, and delivery in the developing world. "Only business can provide the massive scale, permanence, and continuous efficacy and efficiency improvements... View Details
Keywords: summary
- 17 Apr 2019
- News
Give It to Me Straight
adopted radical candor between principals and teachers but also between teachers and students. A lot of very large, industrial companies all over the world are starting to use the principles of radical candor and roll them out to help their organizations be more... View Details
- 01 Jun 2009
- News
Too Big To Fail
allow an efficient handling of failed companies. “We really need to insist that no institution is too big to fail,” says Moss. “With what I’m proposing, all systemic institutions would get limited support during a period of economic... View Details
- 01 Feb 2001
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Drilling Down
through either internal or external growth," he predicts. The hope, of course, is that consolidation will heighten efficiency and increase a company's ability to locate new sources of oil, resulting in more control over oil supply and... View Details
- 01 Feb 2000
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Executives Convene to Discuss Consumer-Driven Health Care
contribution health care by employers will result in a more cost-effective and efficient system. Participants submitted papers that were read in advance of the conference. These papers will be edited by Herzlinger and published later this... View Details
- 01 Oct 2000
- News
Books
stage in the early 1990s, the computer industry's balance of power -- economic and strategic -- was changed forever. As Baldwin and Clark explain, "The architecture of modularity partitions designers' efforts and efficiently coordinates... View Details