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- 19 Feb 2020
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Capitol Ideas to Combat Climate Change
requiring companies to disclose information around their carbon emissions—and also around other efficiency factors such as water,” she said. “As consumers and as shareholders of companies, we deserve more information.” Those in attendance...
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April White; photos by Jack Conroy
- 01 Feb 1998
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Short Takes
"The experience of technology is inherently paradoxical," says Fournier. "People want it and feel they need it but they also recognize that it can create more work while making things more efficient or make them feel stupid while putting...
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Judith A. Ross
- 06 Dec 2021
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Tipping Point
debut in Target and Fresh Market stores. Kahawa 1893 is experimenting with using blockchain for transparency in the tipping process. It also is exploring whether cryptocurrency might allow for more efficient tipping in a cafe setting. The...
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- 07 Sep 2021
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Green House
and air sealed, there is near silence inside the house. Heating and cooling is provided with nine heating and cooling zones from an ultra-high efficiency air source heat pump system–completing the all-electric house which uses no fossil...
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- 01 Jan 2012
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Cynthia Carroll, MBA 1989
internal reorganization and strategic partnerships have led to greater efficiencies and ongoing growth. In her five-year tenure, Carroll has diversified the mix of commodities the company holds through partnerships and acquisitions....
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- 09 Apr 2020
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“Raise the Line”
important, but he also knew that there were better, more efficient ways to teach the information. “Even at a great school, the state of education was behind the times,” says Gaglani, who had been exposed to innovations in the sector as an...
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- 01 Apr 2001
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Big Deals: Project Finance Helps Mitigate Risk in Large-Scale Investments
likely to continue due to privatization, deregulation, and globalization. “In an increasingly global business environment, achieving minimum efficient scale in production requires massive capital investment,” Esty explains. In one case...
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- 24 Oct 2013
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Searching for a Better Society
help searchers get to the best content as quickly as possible. We publish 20 percent of the world's scientific content. If we can help medical researchers, for example, search better—help them get access to content faster, aggregate information in a more View Details
- 01 Sep 2010
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RX for Change
to really transform the organization.” That drive for increased efficiency and quality at lower cost resonates with many of the institutions represented at MHCD, which include the Cleveland Clinic, Children’s Hospital Boston, and The...
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- 08 May 2015
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Adopting a common language can strengthen global companies
Multinational firms are increasingly mandating a common language—typically English—to gain efficiencies and enhance collaboration overall. Associate Professor Tsedal Neeley has discovered, however, that merely mandating a common language...
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- 01 Mar 2003
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firms weren’t competitive and didn’t take advantage of business opportunities, a void that foreign firms and foreign capital were poised to fill. Political power in China, Huang says, is still skewed toward stateowned enterprises, which endows them with greater...
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- 01 Jan 2002
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Marjorie M.T. Yang (MBA '76)
demand and thus make Esquel's production planning as efficient as possible. Advances in engineering-from conserving natural resources such as energy and water to computerized color matching in the dyeing process-ensure considerable cost...
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- 01 Sep 2024
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The Road Less Traveled
overestimating the environmental benefits of shared dockless e-scooters—because many riders choose them over walking or pedaling a bike—pointed out that “choosing an e-scooter over driving a personal automobile with a fuel efficiency of...
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- 01 Jun 2020
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Vital Signs
schedules to reduce the spread of disease. So for non-high-risk mothers who would’ve had 12 in-person appointments before, that’s getting cut in half. Perhaps we’ll find that outcomes are the same, and we just made the prenatal health care experience more View Details
- 01 Jun 2017
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Case Study: Something New
expertise in various parts of a complex supply chain and high efficiency (to keep lead times down and costs manageable). But that is valuable precisely because it is difficult and thus very hard to replicate. —Ankur Daga (MBA 2005) What...
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April White
- 01 Jun 2012
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Straight to the Heart
with someone until we meet in person. What is your strategy when it comes to making the Internet work for your clients? People think online dating is an efficient way to get to know someone, and it’s not. It’s just an View Details
- 01 Jun 2010
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Faculty Books
Business Press) Professors Khanna and Palepu argue that the main exploitable characteristic of emerging markets is the lack of institutions (credit-card systems, intellectualproperty adjudication, data research firms) that facilitate View Details
- 01 Dec 1997
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Making Real Progress in the Middle East: The Bottom-Up, Economic Solution
regional and global markets, and, most important, enhance their productivity. All this can be done far more efficiently in the region than with far-off partners. Whole new industries can grow up in these countries, and existing industries...
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- 01 Dec 1997
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Merton's Economics Research Wins Nobel Prize
trading has been beneficial. Derivatives serve as a form of sophisticated "adapters," he said, linking economic systems together and helping to bring about a unified world economy. They have also brought about vast reductions in costs by connecting these systems with...
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- 01 Oct 1999
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New Chairman Updates Development in MBA Program
provide more efficient and customized services. What are some of the changes in the Admissions area? This year we are putting more resources into marketing - both to the world in general and, in particular, to underrepresented groups that...
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