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- 01 Sep 2016
- News
Offshore Learning
outstanding contribution to the community and potential to drive change for years to come. When fully implemented, Connections will allow 2,600 students from eight to 10 schools to participate in a sequential, four-year curriculum of island-based learning modules that... View Details
- 01 Sep 2020
- News
Building a Strong and Prosperous Society
race because they are so efficient and, as a result, generate enormous prosperity. Moreover, real competition is a powerful driver of innovation. It’s not surprising that nearly every developing country is trying hard to get the free... View Details
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From the CFO - Financial Report 2015
efficiency measures to meet the University’s ambitious greenhouse gas emissions goals. Demonstrating the impact of these measures to date, the School’s fiscal 2015 energy consumption and greenhouse gas... View Details
- 10 Apr 2014
- Research & Ideas
Book Excerpt--‘Accelerate: Building Strategic Agility for a Faster-Moving World’
manager-has no real appreciation of what a marvel it is. But management is not leadership. Leadership is about setting a direction. It's about creating a vision, empowering and inspiring people to want to achieve the vision, and enabling them to do so with View Details
Keywords: Re: John P. Kotter
- 25 Aug 2009
- First Look
First Look: August 25
channel); and (iii) individuals who were out of the market when they were excessively angry in the unregulated market, decide to purchase once the firm is regulated, reducing the standard distortions described in the first channel (mixed... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 02 Mar 2016
- News
The New Space Race
space startups, one giant leap for space exploration. Video Embed Blue Origin’s historic November launch. Arianne Cornell is visible at ~1:08, midscreen with binoculars in hand. This promise of cost savings and efficiency has long been... View Details
Keywords: Robert S. Benchley
- 12 Jul 2004
- Research & Ideas
Michael Porter’s Prescription For the High Cost of Health Care
stifle competition, which in turn slows quality and efficiency improvements that would otherwise benefit all patients. Without service-by-service competition, costs spiral ever higher while quality lags. The cost of dysfunctional... View Details
- 16 Jun 2014
- Research & Ideas
The Unfulfilled Promise of Educational Technology
and software programs have been helping teachers better manage their time so that they can spend less energy on administrative work and more on teaching. "This is probably the least sexy of the innovations we looked at," says... View Details
- 07 Oct 2002
- Research & Ideas
What Leaders Need to Do To Restore Investor Confidence
"Let's focus on becoming much more efficient in competitive terms." And it worked in accomplishing that objective. But it fails to connect to all the constituencies—other than the shareholders—whose View Details
Keywords: by Harvard Management Update
- 11 Jan 2000
- Research & Ideas
Calling All Managers: How to Build a Better Call Center
attracting, screening, and training personnel are far from trivial." Institutions that devote energy to outbound calls (i.e. telemarketing) stand to become distracted from delivering effective service to their existing clients. The... View Details
- 06 Jun 2005
- Research & Ideas
Don’t Listen to “Yes”
had become standard practice. If you object to a proposal, you get quiet during the meeting. Then later, when you leave the room, you undercut the consensus that appeared to have emerged." Many organizations have similar patterns of... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 01 Oct 1998
- News
A Community Investment
energies to worthwhile causes beyond our jobs and our families. That is what's driving a lot of us to branch out into social and community activities beyond our business life. Jerry Ostrov: My impression is that there is a widely shared... View Details
- 01 Dec 2015
- News
Leading Boston and Beyond
innovative IT department focused on using technology to increase citizen engagement and the efficiency of city services. Their flagship project, the Citizens Connect app (recently rebranded as BOS:311), sends residents’ issues into the... View Details
- 01 Jan 2005
- News
Louis V. Gerstner, Jr., MBA 1965
unchallenged position in the marketplace until Japanese firms such as Hitachi and Fujitsu flooded the market with less expensive alternatives. In a bold opening move, Gerstner slashed the price of mainframe systems and pushed the development of a more View Details
- 28 Aug 2012
- First Look
First Look: August 28
of International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS) leads to capital market benefits through enhanced financial statement comparability. UK domestic standards are considered very similar to IFRS (Bae et... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 20 Sep 2016
- First Look
September 20, 2016
growing body of research yields ample evidence that individuals’ behavior often reflects an apparent concern for moral considerations. Using a broad definition of morality—to include varied non-egoistic motivations such as fairness, honesty, and View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Oct 2013
- First Look
First Look: October 1
Management Strategy Ex-Ante Agreements in Standard Setting and Patent Pool Formation By: Llanes, Gastón, and Joaquín Poblete Abstract—We present a model of standard setting and patent-pool formation. We... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 30 Jan 2018
- First Look
January 30, 2018
in stylized, hypothetical scenarios meant to isolate key features of the tax problem, a large share of respondents resist the full equalization of unequal outcomes due to innate brute luck that standard analyses recommend. A similar share... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 21 Feb 2023
- Blog Post
Accelerating Climate Solutions - Short Intensive Program 2023
Potts argued—it is when we are confronted with such loss that we can respond with the necessary energy and compassion. “Knowing that something can be lost is how you love it,” said Potts. “When we think about the human cost of climate... View Details
- 06 Dec 2021
- News
December 2021 Alumni and Faculty Books
rescue a leading energy corporation from ever-increasing debt and a lack of executive accountability, he faced an uphill battle. Not only had he never before stepped into the role of CEO, he also had no experience in the rapidly evolving... View Details