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- 21 Mar 2023
- Blog Post
Grundfos: Innovation & Inspiration for Sustainable Product Design
largest pump manufacturer in the world, headquartered in Bjerringbro, Denmark. Grundfos shared the same ecosystem of energy, material, and waste flows with other companies we visited. For example, Grundfos pumps installed in Denmark are... View Details
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Day in IFC: Layla Ramirez (MBA 2017), Africa - MBA
come up with opportunities for Public-Private Partnerships in these areas. Since my team was assigned the Municipal Solid Waste sector, we leveraged our visit to Reppie to hold our first meeting with local experts. Our contacts at this... View Details
- 10 Mar 2021
- News
Dream Job: Higher Ed’s New Hire
Penn at age 20. Today, as president and CEO of Columbia Investment Management Company, Lew has come full circle, overseeing a university endowment of approximately $11 billion that helps fund students for whom college is far from a given.... View Details
- 01 Mar 2004
- Lessons from the Classroom
Mission to Mars: It Really Is Rocket Science
program management is critical is related to decisions that maximize the performance of the system as a whole, but involve trade-offs at the individual project level. For example, it is far more effective for an orbiter to relay signals... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 28 Nov 2012
- What Do You Think?
Should Pay-for-Performance Compensation be Replaced?
Hildebrandt, calling pay for performance "a huge waste of time," said "I think a different logic applies if it (is) used to emphasize team spirit." Others were supportive of the concept if the proper performance... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 15 Dec 2015
- First Look
December 15, 2015
moving upmarket to challenge the industry leaders. They point out that Uber, commonly hailed as a disrupter, doesn’t actually fit the mold, and they explain that if managers don’t understand the nuances of disruption theory or apply its... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
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Event Guidelines | About
needed because of the event, etc. Occupancy : The number of attendees in each space may not exceed the Maximum Occupancy of the assigned event spaces. Occupancy includes all event attendees, speakers/presenters, and support staff. The “Event owner/host” is responsible... View Details
- 01 Sep 2010
- News
Five Honored for Missions Accomplished
helped create Citigroup; and rescued Bank One. As a manager, you are known for cost cutting. Would you say that’s a fair assessment? I never call it cost cutting because that implies it is indiscriminate. I cut wasteful expenses, but I... View Details
- 05 Jun 2013
- Op-Ed
Corporate Leaders Need to Step Up on Climate Change
Green initiatives are ubiquitous these days, implemented with zeal at companies like Dupont, IBM, Walmart, and Walt Disney. The programs being rolled out—lighting retrofits, zero-waste factories, and carpool incentives—save money and provide a green glow. Most large... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Toffel & Auden Schendler
- 01 Jun 2024
- News
The Exchange: Chance Encounters
different kinds of organizations. “There continues to be a wasted opportunity to think about workplace design more strategically.” That hallway encounter evolved into a Harvard Business Review article, “What’s the Optimal Workplace for... View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint
- 28 Oct 2024
- Blog Post
It Takes a Village: Global Field Courses at Harvard Business School
travel component) offered in the fall and spring terms in the EC year. While some aspects of higher education have a slower pace in the summer, planning for the upcoming academic year does not. At GEO, the communications team is managing... View Details
- 01 Mar 2010
- News
Money Matters
to sitting on the sidelines afraid to invest, period. To make matters worse, staffing their start-up turned out to be painfully difficult. It didn’t help that the free office the partners secured from a friend for a year was located in a gritty New Delhi suburban... View Details
- 17 Sep 2001
- Research & Ideas
Why E-commerce Didn’t Die With the Fall of Webvan
Packaged good manufacturers were eager to create a direct-to-consumer link like the one Dell found to sell computers. Such a link would minimize wasteful and inefficient marketing practices, which to date have mostly focused on broadcast... View Details
- Profile
Anthony Tan
for a mobile app that connects taxi seekers directly with taxi drivers closest to their location in the chaotic Malaysian urban environment. The drivers would be supplied with smartphones so they could communicate directly with prospective customers, thus saving... View Details
- 09 Apr 2024
- Blog Post
IFC India: JSW Steel
to be so close to the steel production process, and it provided valuable insight about what makes the process so challenging and yet high priority to decarbonize. Perhaps most interesting was the role that policy played in the outlook of steel decarbonization for the... View Details
- 01 Sep 2017
- News
Is Private Equity Blockchain’s Killer App?
and lots of wasted energy. With blockchain, every party could validate their portions of the transaction securely, remotely, and quickly. “Right there, you say, ‘OK, there’s clearly an opportunity.’ ” Before it could start, Northern Trust... View Details
Keywords: Dan Morrell
- 19 Dec 2012
- Research & Ideas
How to be Extremely Productive
they are managing their careers in the evolving context of their own professional and personal lives. Q: The book addresses aspects of business life that are vexing to many of us. For example, what are some ways to make meetings more... View Details
Keywords: by Deborah Blagg
- 22 Feb 2022
- News
Ink: Bringing Purpose to Life
organization’s DNA and treat it as a radical new operating system. Deep Purpose is the result of a three-year journey for Gulati, in which he visited organizations around the world to see, firsthand, how leaders have managed to create... View Details
- 26 Feb 2013
- First Look
First Look: Feb. 26
Advertising Authors:Kireyev, Pavel, Koen Pauwels, and Sunil Gupta Abstract As firms increasingly rely on online media to acquire consumers, marketing managers feel comfortable justifying higher online marketing spending by referring to... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 23 Nov 2010
- First Look
First Look: November 23
School Case 811-014 The Ze-gen case covers the first five years in the life of a clean-tech start-up. Ze-gen had developed an innovative technology that converted solid waste into synthesis gas (called syngas). This technology was in... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne