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- 16 Oct 2012
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First Look: October 16
PublicationsEnterprise Analytics: Optimize Performance, Process, and Decisions Through Big Data Author:Thomas H. Davenport Publication:FT Press, 2012 Abstract This book, an edited collection of research papers from the International...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 08 Nov 2011
- First Look
First Look: Nov. 8
gain equal to between 0.6% and 1.5% of aggregate annual consumption, and it captures more than 60% of the gain from reform to the dynamic optimal policy. The gains are due to substantial increases in both efficiency and equity. When age...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 19 Aug 2022
- Blog Post
Climate Stories Episode #8: The Role of Solar and Wind Farming (and Other Tools) in the United States’ Clean Energy Future
mature. The average cost of wind and solar energy is among the cheapest sources of generation across the nation. Every day I am working on something important.” Tenacity and optimism may be traits that Diana inherited from her mother,...
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- 27 Sep 2011
- First Look
First Look: September 27
procurement and internal sourcing for the same input requires a consideration of complementarities across and constraints within modes of procurement. We create analytical foundations for making empirical predictions about when plural sourcing is likely to be View Details
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Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Dec 2020
- News
Finding The Right Patient-Provider Match
to ‘Dr. Famous,’ who was booked for 17 weeks out, while brand-new doctors only had 30 percent of their schedules filled.” Inspired by the efficiency that companies like Travelocity brought to the airline industry, Gardner created Kyruus to View Details
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Susan Young
- 26 Mar 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, March 26, 2019
the optimal path to reinvention? Purchase this case:https://hbsp.harvard.edu/product/419012-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 819-075 Yatooq: Longing for Arabic Coffee As one of the few female entrepreneurs in Saudi Arabia, Lateefa...
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Dina Gerdeman
- Web
Supplemental Financial Information - Financial Report 2015
strategic use of debt financed through the University as a means of optimizing its capital structure. Relying on the University as its banker provides HBS, as well as the other Harvard schools, with access to debt on a triple-A-rated...
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Supplemental Financial Information - Annual Report 2016
School. Debt Service HBS finances major capital projects with a mix of three sources of funding. The most important sources are gifts and unrestricted reserves of internally generated cash. The School also makes strategic use of debt financed through the University as...
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- 01 Dec 2015
- News
Golden State of Mind
argue that they have introduced previously unvoiced perspectives into the public dialogue that could, in the long run, result in change. In any case, he is unfazed. “For Tim, failure is irrelevant,” says Paul Maeder. “His personality represents a triumph of California...
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Julia Hanna
- 08 Sep 2016
- News
How We Make It Work
optimizing rather than balancing my time. When I am with my child, I give him 100 percent attention, and in a few short minutes he is off to another activity. Likewise, I arrive at a board meeting well prepared and make it known that the...
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- 17 Sep 2013
- First Look
First Look: September 17
depends on the number of customers the firm decides to target for its retention campaign. We propose a predictive model that accounts for all these elements. Our optimization algorithm uses stochastic gradient boosting, a state-of-the-art...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 24 Sep 2012
- Research & Ideas
Why Do We Tax?
in a new paper, Why Do We Redistribute So Much but Tag So Little? The Principle of Equal Sacrifice and Optimal Taxation. The fundamental challenge, he writes, is that "different people find different criteria compelling, and most people...
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- 17 Apr 2007
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First Look: April 17, 2007
of inventory policies, including optimal inventory policies, that can be employed in a single-stage supply chain. The perceptions framework is based on forecasting with Auto-regressive Integrated Moving Average (ARIMA) time series models...
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Martha Lagace
- 10 Jun 2002
- Research & Ideas
How to Look at Globalization Now
levels experienced nearly a century earlier. Optimism about globalization drew strength from the fall of the Berlin Wall in the late 1980s and the rapid growth in much of Asia through much of the 1990s. But then came the Asian financial...
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by Martha Lagace
- 21 Sep 2010
- First Look
First Look: September 21, 2010
continued collaboration. Building a Better America—One Wealth Quintile at a Time Authors:Michael I. Norton and Dan Ariely Publication:Perspectives on Psychological Science (forthcoming) Abstract Disagreements about the optimal level of...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 28 Mar 2023
- Blog Post
Novo Nordisk
learned details of how Novo Nordisk manufactures within its 1,200,000 square meter facility high-quality active pharmaceutical ingredients (APIs) that tackle not only diabetes but also hemophilia, growth disorders, and obesity. At their Kalundborg site, Novo Nordisk...
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Managing Human Capital - Course Catalog
resource practitioner) who seeks to manage both other people and their own career with optimal effectiveness. As such, at its core, this course is intended to sharpen three capabilities: people development; people management; and career...
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- 15 Feb 2017
- Op-Ed
What Africa Can Teach the United States About Funding Infrastructure Projects
oversees a transparent award. Fourth, projects can be planned and sequenced to optimize cumulative benefit. While it’s tempting to spread infrastructure spending around for political reasons, that can lead to disconnected and unrelated...
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- 11 Nov 2014
- First Look
First Look: November 11
Sustainable cost reduction is best achieved by optimizing the quantity and mix of all the resources needed to produce excellent outcomes for a patient's medical condition, not by across-the-board reductions in line-item expenses....
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Sean Silverthorne
- 15 Nov 2004
- Research & Ideas
Solving the Health Care Conundrum
forming a more fully dedicated team, developing facilities that allow for better optimization of specialized care, greater leverage in purchasing based on focus and volume, greater capacity for sub-specialization, and eventually, an...
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