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- 01 Dec 1997
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Short Takes
management (oversight of a patient's care on a case-by-case basis, from start to finish); care paths (preplanned procedural menus for certain illnesses and conditions); information systems (allowing accessibility of a patient's records... View Details
Keywords: Judith Ross
- 01 Feb 1999
- News
Short Takes
Bulletin. In her working paper, "Psychological Safety and Learning Behavior in Work Teams," Edmondson presents field research she conducted at Office Design Incorporated (ODI), a midwestern manufacturer of office systems and furniture... View Details
Keywords: Judith A. Ross
- 01 Oct 1999
- News
Culture Clash: Exploring Cross Cultural Conflicts in Business
has begun searching for answers in a broader, overseas setting. With a research agenda organized around eight major world cultures and belief systems - African, Confucian, Hindu/Buddhist, Islamic, Japanese, Latin American,... View Details
Keywords: Judith A. Ross
- 01 Jun 2000
- News
Professors Fox, Mace Remembered
MBA in 1938, Mace remained at the School as a research associate before being posted to England for military service in 1942. There he worked with Robert S. McNamara (MBA '39), a friend and fellow HBS faculty member, to help set up tracking View Details
- 13 Dec 2022
- News
The First Five Years: Christine Keung and Reggie Smith
favorite HBS class? Christine: "My favorite class was TOM, which helps you understand operating systems and processes behind how people and organizations work. One of my favorite memories was when Professor Christina Wing took us on a... View Details
- 22 Feb 2022
- News
Addressing The Financial Security Gap
well as leading thinkers and decision makers, to discuss ways to make the US savings system more secure and inclusive. Ackerley’s group, in partnership with insurers, also announced an innovative investment solution, called LifePath... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie
- 01 Dec 2008
- News
Summit Sound Bites
rolling. We are seeing that change can happen at the school level. Now the challenge is at the system level.” —Wendy Kopp, CEO & Founder, Teach For America “The mix of government and private industry responsibility really depends on the... View Details
- 01 Apr 1998
- News
Microfinance's Big Payoff: Michael Chu and ACCION International
was so successful we had to establish it as a regular commercial bank to accommodate its growth. Today, BancoSol leads the Bolivian banking system in profitability and makes 40 percent of the system's loans; it has 76,000... View Details
- 01 Dec 2000
- News
Core Values Keep Airline Flying High
getting internal systems to work together with other airlines and, culturally, has not adopted e-mail and voice mail as a means of dealing with customers and each other. "We resist nonhuman interfaces," commented John Denison, the... View Details
- 01 Oct 2001
- News
HBS Press Books in Brief
Chris Lederer, argues that marketers and CEOs urgently need tools to manage vast groups of brands — not as individual elements or collections under one corporate roof but as complex systems that transcend corporate boundaries. The... View Details
- 02 Mar 2016
- News
On Credit
church, or were married to a neighbor’s daughter. But with the opening of the Erie Canal in 1825 and the spread of railroads, newly developed transportation systems expanded the range of business dealings beyond hometown connections. More... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 01 Dec 2010
- News
This Is What I Do
required to bring the deep ocean water up to the surface. The cold seawater passes through a titanium heat exchanger and cools a secondary freshwater system that feeds cold water to all air conditioners. Then the seawater is sent back to... View Details
- 01 Jun 2009
- News
Alumni Books
better. To this end, they offer a set of management tools drawn from best practices in successful companies, the military, and government agencies. After showing why the federal personnel system needs reform, the book presents specific... View Details
- 02 Mar 2015
- News
To Market, To Market
me develop my ‘systems thinking’: understanding, from beginning to end, how a system works and how it can be adapted to perform better. That was the focus,” recalls Ferrari. “It leads to a greater impact, which is of great importance in... View Details
- 01 Jan 2003
- News
Greylock
as Fansteel Metallurgical Corp., Deseret Pharmaceutical Co., New England Nuclear Corp., and Velcro Industries. And by the summer of 1969, it was ready to hire its first associate, Henry McCance, fresh out of three years in defense systems... View Details
- 06 Dec 2021
- News
Monaco's Digital Transformation
launch 5G, and it recently introduced Monaco Cloud, the software, services, and security systems that power the country’s computers and facilitate data storage. While it was created in partnership with Amazon and Dell, Monaco Cloud is... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie
- 13 Jan 2021
- News
Stress Test
you can learn a lot from those examples. What lessons can we take from the myriad supply-chain challenges of 2020? The resilience-versus-cost trade-off is going to be heavily scrutinized. A resilient supply chain has redundant systems but... View Details
- 01 Dec 1996
- News
Faculty Symposium Honors McArthur
Management Professor Robert H. Hayes and Associate Professor Marco Iansiti Global Financial Systems Professor Robert C. Merton and Associate Professor Peter Tufano Organizations and Markets Professors George P. Baker III, Carliss Y.... View Details
Keywords: Daniel Penrice
- 01 Jun 1999
- News
Short Takes
Reinhardt writes that for a company to be sustainable, it must have a strategy or development path that maintains an undiminished level of net assets. He argues that if the prices in the firm's accounting systems are the correct ones, the... View Details
Keywords: Judith A. Ross
- 01 Sep 2009
- News
Ready for Launch
to do ours as a favor and at a price we could afford.” What comes next: “We have our system up and running and are working on making it more robust so it can scale. We were invited to work as entrepreneurs in residence at Highland Capital... View Details