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Michael Farias

situations." Becoming involved in issues of access and efficiencies Michael turned his interests into action, becoming one of the organizers behind the student-run website improvehealthcare.org, an outlet dedicated to exploring... View Details
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Hidden Workers: Caregivers - Managing the Future of Work

Raman, Eva Sage-Gavin, & Kristen Hines 01 SEP 2021 Increased reliance on technology and changing demographics have shaped the way that companies hire. Hiring processes are designed to find “perfect” candidates in an efficient manner, but... View Details
  • 24 Apr 2014
  • News

Optimizing search technology

for example, search better—help them get access to content faster, aggregate information in a more efficient way—then we can help them get closer to a cure.” Dumon became interested in search technology while at eBay, where he served as... View Details
  • 24 Apr 2014
  • News

The 'multiplier effect' of supporting education

solve a problem in a country like Brazil. It’s education.” “We believe,” Andre adds, “that you help educate people, which will hire people, which will educate people so the efficiency of the investment for us is very important.”... View Details
  • 01 Dec 2012
  • News

Alvin Roth Wins Nobel Prize in Economics

were much more efficient if they were designed well rather than allowed to evolve naturally," explained Roth's colleague, Albert H. Gordon Professor of Business Administration Brian Hall, head of the NOM Unit. "Among his many... View Details
  • 20 Mar 2018
  • News

Seeing a Way Forward

and 7 percent of diabetics in Mexico are unnecessarily blind. Since 2011 salauno has treated more than 150,000 patients and performed more than 18,000 surgeries, 40 percent of which were free of charge. In her role, Leger works to make the for-profit organization’s... View Details
  • December 1999 (Revised April 2002)
  • Case

International Business Machines Corporation (A)

By: David F. Hawkins
Perform financial ratio analysis to identify changes in IBM's business mix and profitability. Teaching purpose: Ratio analysis. View Details
Keywords: Information Infrastructure; Capital Structure; Performance Efficiency; Business Earnings; Business Model; Private Sector; Commercialization; Computer Industry; Accounting Industry
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  • 05 Mar 2001
  • What Do You Think?

Fine Coupling: Can Human Resource Management Learn from Supply Chain Management?

important." Scott Lichtman agrees, pointing out that "to be efficient in this fast-moving era rather requires longer-term investment in skills and strategy adoption by longstanding employees ..." On the other hand, Ryan... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
  • 08 Jul 2013
  • Research & Ideas

Everything Must Go: A Strategy for Store Liquidation

issue," says Raman. (Gordon Brothers Group, an asset disposition firm that frequently handles liquidations, served as an invaluable real world test site and collaborator for the paper's researchers.) Two important facts came to light, says Raman. First, View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Retail
  • 13 Apr 2023
  • Blog Post

Grolsch Brewing Company: Drink Sustainably

efficiency to heat and energy sourcing. Many of these initiatives were reminiscent of practices at other sites we had visited over the past two weeks, even in different industries, which helped us tie together many of the threads and... View Details
  • 2011
  • Working Paper

The Impact of Horizontal Mergers and Acquisitions in Price Competition Models

The question of what impact mergers and acquisitions have on key equilibrium performance measures is fundamental to our understanding of competitive dynamics in an oligopolistic industry. We address these questions in the context of price competition models with... View Details
Keywords: Mergers and Acquisitions; Cost; Price; Profit; Duopoly and Oligopoly; Performance Efficiency; Mathematical Methods; Competition
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  • October 2007 (Revised May 2009)
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Offering the Right Service in the Right Place: Growing Orthopedics at the Brigham and Women's/Faulkner (BW/F) Hospitals

By: V.G. Narayanan, Michael G. Wilson and Rachel Gordon
After the merger of two local hospitals, hospital leaders much decide how to reorganize services to take advantage of newly created efficiencies. Focuses on the Orthopedics department at one of the hospitals. View Details
Keywords: Cost Accounting; Mergers and Acquisitions; Cost vs Benefits; Service Operations; Organizational Structure; Performance Efficiency; Competitive Advantage; Health Industry
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  • 18 May 2015
  • News

Changing the conversation on US infrastructure challenges

areas such as public transit, cell phone and Internet service, and efficient rail, air, and highway transportation. Inspired by ideas that emerged during the summit, Kanter traveled throughout the country to gather facts, figures, and... View Details
  • 17 Nov 2022
  • News

Alumni Leaders on Decarbonization Strategies for Combating Climate Change

We are in a unique moment in time, where the United States’ chance to make a difference on climate is greater – and more necessary – than ever. With the passage of the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) in August, business leaders have a nearly $370 billion opportunity to... View Details
  • Portrait Project

Sylvie Tran

companies to help enable enduring positive impact on developing countries. I want to help the world transition to clean and efficient energy by convincing everyone in my community to buy hybrid cars. That afternoon in the leper village, a... View Details
  • 01 Sep 2011
  • News

Making a Difference in the World

http://www.japanfocus.org/-David-McNeill/3247 Sidebar “Residential sector ” McKinsey & Co.: “Curbing global energy demand growth: the energy productivity opportunity” May 2007 “Most efficient available ” US EPA/Dept. of Energy... View Details
Keywords: Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services; Professional Services
  • 01 Dec 2005
  • News

Faculty Books

bare compliance with regulations, do firms have additional social responsibilities to commit resources to environmental protection? Should firms sacrifice profits in the social interest, given their fiduciary responsibilities to shareholders? Is this an View Details
Keywords: Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services; Publishing Industries (except Internet); Information
  • 01 Sep 2009
  • First Look

First Look: September 1

  Working PapersWhat Should GAAP Look Like? A Survey and Economic Analysis Authors:S.P. Kothari, Karthik Ramanna, and Douglas J. Skinner Abstract Based on extant literature, we articulate a positive theory of GAAP under the assumption that GAAP's objective is to... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 01 Mar 2019
  • News

Alumni and Faculty Books for March 2019

Earth. This book is an invitation to live in another story, the story of sustainable abundance. Cleantech Sell: The Essential Guide to Selling Resource Efficient Products in the B2B Market by Tony McDonald (MBA 1989) Cleantech Sell... View Details
  • September 2012 (Revised May 2015)
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Philips-Visicu

By: Regina E. Herzlinger, Natalie Kindred and Sara M. McKinley
Would the advent of global payment models and ACOs create sufficient demand for a telemedicine offering covering the care continuum, from hospitals to the home? This was the decision facing Royal Philips Electronics (Philips), the Netherlands-based producer of... View Details
Keywords: Health Care; Philips; Visicu; Telemedicine; eICU; Accountable Care Organization; ACO; Bundled Payment; Hospital To Home; Patient Monitoring Devices; Home Health Care; Health Care and Treatment; Communication Technology; Quality; Safety; Performance Productivity; Performance Capacity; Performance Efficiency; Consumer Behavior; Emerging Markets; Health Industry; Telecommunications Industry; Netherlands
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