Efficiency - Publications - Faculty & Research

08 Mar 2004
Research & Ideas

Creating Value in Your Business Ecosystem

technologies that offers solutions to others in the ecosystem. The platform can be a physical asset, like the efficient manufacturing capabilities that Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing offers to those computer-chip design companies that... View Details

Keywords: by Marco Iansiti & Roy Levien

10 Sep 2020
Research & Ideas

The COVID Two-Step for Leaders: Protect and Pivot

effective and efficient in the company’s core business. The focus is improvement, not exponential growth. Improvement is always possible. Yes, it may be small, but even extremely small improvements can be worthwhile. Look at the example... View Details

Keywords: by Boris Groysberg and Katherine Connolly Baden

28 Apr 2003
Research & Ideas

Supply Chain Risk: Deal With It

efficiency has been cast in high relief, supply chain managers realize that they can no longer focus solely on cost reduction—any calculation of a supply chain's return on investment must also take customer satisfaction into account.... View Details

Keywords: by David Stauffer

18 Jul 2022
Research & Ideas

After the 'Crypto Crash,' What's Next for Digital Currencies?

consumer can gain access and do so in a way that is valuable and much lower risk than today. Frameworks, when they’re developed well and respond directly to the types of problems the market is seeing, can make a market more efficient and... View Details

Keywords: by Christina Pazzanese, Harvard Gazette; Financial Services; Technology

17 Aug 2021
Op-Ed

Dispensing Justice: The Case for Legalizing Cannabis Nationally

and consumed within its boundaries, regardless of supply, demand, or efficiency considerations. Cannabis cultivated in California, which has five to six outdoor growing seasons, can’t be sold in Massachusetts, which has only two outdoor... View Details

Keywords: by Ashish Nanda and Tabatha Robinson

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CSV in Practice - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness

eucalyptus in conjunction with other crops, assisting them with technical training and inputs. Fibria achieves far greater land and water efficiency versus traditional plantation methods while improving the productivity and income of more... View Details

31 Mar 2023
Research & Ideas

Can a ‘Basic Bundle’ of Health Insurance Cure Coverage Gaps and Spur Innovation?

countries with universal health care have struggled to regulate. If done right, establishing a mechanism for deciding whether a treatment’s benefit-to-cost ratio is high enough to merit inclusion in the basic bundle could provide a carrot for more View Details

Keywords: by Kasandra Brabaw; Insurance; Health

07 Jun 2004
Research & Ideas

What Drives Supply Chain Behavior?

problem of demand planning as a coordination problem across functions, the behavioral approach to the motivation and incentives component of coordination seems a common foil. Natural or more directly instituted functional incentives play havoc with motivating higher... View Details

Keywords: by Sarah Jane Johnston

17 Jun 2017
Research & Ideas

Amazon, Whole Foods Deal a Big Win for Consumers

Source: 400tmax Editor's Note. Online retailing behemoth Amazon announced June 16 that it would acquire upscale grocery chain Whole Foods Market in a deal valued at more than $13 billion. Though the company has dabbled with the idea of a brick-and-mortar footprint in... View Details

Keywords: by Jose Alvarez and Len Schlesinger; Retail

28 Jun 2022
Book

The Moral Enterprise: How Two Companies Profit with Purpose

How can government and business work together in this fractious political moment, when finding solutions to pressing problems like inequality and climate change are more urgent than ever? Rebecca Henderson, Harvard University’s John and Natty McArthur University... View Details

Keywords: by Avery Forman

04 Apr 2023
Blog Post

Maersk’s Journey to Decarbonize Shipping

becomes technologically feasible for ocean shipping, Maersk believes that legal, safety, and public perception challenges make it highly impractical as a primary energy source. Similarly, with biomethane, Maersk sees emissions slippage risks as outweighing fuel View Details

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Electricity - Business & Environment

Ecometano/MDCPAR “Our goal is to provide our corporate clients in Brazil with cost efficient low carbon energy solutions. Ecometano has pioneered the upgrading of high BTU biogas from landfills and other biomass to energy solutions in the... View Details

01 Sep 2003
News

Stan O’Neal

believer in the U.S. financial markets, O’Neal says that “despite some breaks in the system, the financial markets efficiently allocate capital to the best opportunities. This is the foundation of our society.” With offices at the World... View Details

Keywords: Susan Young; Finance

09 Sep 2015
Research & Ideas

Leadership Lessons of the Great Recession: Options for Economic Downturns

future hiring and M&A activity. When the Great Recession hit in late 2008, Honeywell, like all diversified manufacturers, experienced a drop off in new orders. Yet after six years of improving operating efficiency, there was little room left to cut costs through... View Details

Keywords: by Sandra Sucher & Susan Winterberg; Aerospace; Electronics

05 May 2011
What Do You Think?

How Ethical Can We Be?

practices that place a great deal of weight on "attitude" and "listening skills." Trust is a cornerstone of an efficient and effective system. Bad things happen when it is undermined by unmet expectations or ethical... View Details

Keywords: by Jim Heskett

14 Mar 2024
Blog Post

IFC India: SELCO - Last Mile Solar Powered Energy for Rural India

efficient medical and electrical equipment to 25,000 healthcare facilities in resource-constrained climate-vulnerable regions across 12 states by 2026. The potential impact is huge - at the health facility we visited, the installation of... View Details

20 Oct 2010
Op-Ed

Export Competitiveness: Reversing the Logic

They are critical but without an efficient transmission system of local industries, their value generation does not translate into a high standard of living for the broader population. While both parts of the economy are important, they... View Details

Keywords: by Christian Ketels

08 Feb 2000
Research & Ideas

Building Effective R&D Capabilities Abroad

Setting up a home-base-augmenting site—one designed to gather new knowledge for a company—involves certain skills. And launching a home-base-exploiting site—one established to help a company efficiently commercialize its R&D in... View Details

Keywords: by Walter Kuemmerle

01 Jan 2011
News

Karen Gordon Mills, MBA 1977

ran a textile business before taking over Chicago-based Tootsie Roll Industries, which he continues to run jointly with her mother, Ellen Gordon. After graduating from Harvard with a degree in economics, business school was the natural next step. "When I started... View Details

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Scaling Work - Research Computing Services

Compute Cluster Scaling Work 4ms There are numerous ways to scale up your work on the HBSGrid, including parallel processing and GPUs . Parallel Processing Also commonly called parallel computing or multicore processing, using multiple cores (CPUs) to analyze data is... View Details

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