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and the productivity of the health care workforce. I am currently working on several projects that examine various operational and organizational factors that may affect worker productivity and quality of...
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- 23 May 2000
- Research & Ideas
Minding the Muse: The Impact of Downsizing on Corporate Creativity
challenging assignments, adequate resources, supportive work groups, management that places a premium on creativity, and project leaders who understand the creative process and have strong communications...
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by Peter K. Jacobs
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Tony Deifell
activities with partners such as The Home Depot. I believe this sort of social enterprise work can have a tremendous impact on the non-profit sector, making organizations more sustainable and scalable. As I read my Portrait View Details
- 01 Sep 2012
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Curb Your Smartphone Habit
PERLOW: “With projects that require creativity, teamwork, and innovation, you come to a point where working more has diminishing returns.” A self-described former “quant jock,” Leslie Perlow majored in...
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- 01 Dec 2017
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Global Perspectives
financing of public infrastructure projects in Africa. An important element of the course, he says, was to have students spend significant time working side by side with the local population. “Get out and...
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- 01 Jun 2013
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The Long View
in the academic literature, social scientists should focus their research on larger public problems. "That resonated with me," says Moss, who in 2005 founded the Tobin Project in collaboration with Poorvu Family Professor of Management...
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- 01 Dec 1999
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New HBS Portal Offers Alumni Just-In-Time Business Information
Two years ago, Thomas J. Michalak, executive director of Baker Library, got a phone call from a Boston-area HBS alumnus. The graduate was researching a management project and wanted online access to the School's extensive range of...
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George A. Schaefer
A trained accountant, Schaefer’s first task as CEO was to dramatically cut costs. Caterpillar’s large, earth-moving products were no longer in high demand as in earlier years, so Schaefer decided to invest in making smaller machines for urban construction View Details
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Responsibilities and Acceptable Use - Research Computing Services
much as possible by the LSF scheduler, OS sandboxing (CGROUPS), and identity management permissions. However, there are a number of things to keep in mind while using this shared resource so that the system can work as well as possible...
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- 30 Apr 2012
- Research & Ideas
India’s Ambitious National Identification Program
you can't prove who you are.” The scope and scale of the project, and its progress so far in already enrolling 200 million people, make this the largest-scale project of its kind in the world, says Harvard Business School Professor Tarun...
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by Dina Gerdeman
- 24 Sep 2014
- Op-Ed
The ABCs of Addressing Climate Change (From a Business Perspective)
when well done, mitigate carbon. In emerging markets, people who work in infrastructure development often bemoan a "funding gap." But as Bertrand Badre, CFO of the World Bank, points out, there is plenty of capital in the world. There is...
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Abby Falik
Abby Falik, MBA 2008, founder and CEO of Global Citizen Year, is rethinking the traditional gap-year experience for high school graduates. In ten years, Global Citizen Year has supported nearly 1,000 fellows in experiential, community-level View Details
- 01 Jun 2000
- News
Flexibility Is Key to Product Development in Internet Time
requirements are in a constant state of flux, according to HBS professor Marco Iansiti and assistant professor Alan MacCormack. With Italian colleague Roberto Verganti, the pair coauthored a 1999 working paper, "Developing Products on...
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Judith A. Ross
- 01 Jun 2006
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Silver Lining
Despite the grim headlines, Sanjay Bhatnagar (MBA ’93) knows there’s a silver lining in Enron’s dark corporate cloud. In 1997, while supervising the company’s energy operations in South Asia, Bhatnagar worked with Andrea Miller, a member...
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- 03 Dec 2001
- Research & Ideas
Healthcare Conference Looks At Ailing Industry
Jeffrey Wiesen, an attorney specializing in biotechnology, the standard routine was "more a work-for-hire model than a collaboration model, although we always called it collaboration." In a nutshell, it worked like this, Wiesen...
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- 01 Sep 2008
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In Africa, Porter Sees Lessons for Health Care
the highlands of east Africa, it is HIV and TB patients to whom Porter listens intently as they describe their care and treatment. It’s July 2007, and Porter is on a fact-finding trip to Rwanda, part of his work for the Global Health...
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- 01 Sep 2020
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Ink: The Habit of Innovation
can kill innovation energy: the plague of the zombie project. Do you shuffle and linger on, sucking the innovation energy out of your organization? If so, then a zombie amnesty, where you kill projects but pardon people, may be for you!...
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- 13 May 2013
- Blog Post
3 Projects, 1 Priceless Picture
Foot View: My second project was with the Nike women’s business, called Women’s Training. My work with this team brought me one step closer to the product and the Nike consumer, allowing me to see Nike’s...
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Consumer Products / Retail
- 01 Dec 2007
- News
Learning to Lead
Many cases discussed by MBAs require students to project themselves into CEO-level situations that could be a number of years away. The opposite is true of “Tim Keller at Katzenbach Partners LLC,” which chronicles the dilemmas faced by a...
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- 19 Aug 2022
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Climate Stories Episode #8: The Role of Solar and Wind Farming (and Other Tools) in the United States’ Clean Energy Future
increase of more than 3000 percent since 1984. And Diana is part of this growth. She started developing Concho Valley Solar near San Angelo, Texas, when she worked for Merit SI in 2018. The project began...
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