Repair - Publications - Faculty & Research

20 Oct 2016
News

Smart Moves

outside the US. “When we started selling data to government agencies, most of them didn’t know what to do with it, so now we sell analytics that help them make decisions,” says Mistele. “Most governments are struggling with not having enough funds to View Details

Keywords: Robert S. Benchley; Support Activities for Transportation; Transportation

01 Jun 2005
News

Profiles from the Class of 2005

of Severodvinsk, Russia, Natalia Mlotok has witnessed the stark effects of perestroika, Mikhail Gorbachev’s program of economic, political, and social restructuring. Located on the White Sea in northern Russia, Mlotok’s hometown was built on the manufacture and View Details

Keywords: Roger Thompson; Julia Hanna; James E. Aisner; Graduate profiles; Government; Transportation Equipment Manufacturing; Manufacturing

03 Apr 2019
Book

Fintech's Game-Changing Opportunities for Small Business

These are important livelihoods for Americans and the number is growing with the gig economy and the opportunity to work remotely. Then there are about 4 million Main Street businesses: coffee shops, dry cleaners, and car repair... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Banking; Financial Services

01 Apr 2021
Blog Post

An Aerospace Engineer Provides a Lift for Underrepresented Innovators and Entrepreneurs

different challenges. “Whenever there was damage to the wing, tailfin, or landing gear, I would get a call from an airline, any time of day or night (it always seemed like everything went wrong at 3 a.m.), and I would work with them through the repair,” she said. “I... View Details

13 Oct 2016
News

Adding Muscle to the Fight Against Disease

of directors in terms of what should be most important in my life and career. The positive impact they are having across a variety of industries and in their own communities helps guide my personal and professional ambitions.” Repairing... View Details

Keywords: Deborah Blagg

25 May 2020
Research & Ideas

Has Occupational Licensing Outlived Its Usefulness?

Informing consumers and restricting bad apples: that’s the dual role that occupational licensing is supposed to play. If a plumber, painting contractor, or HVAC repairer has a license it should matter to consumers wanting their services,... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Service

27 Jan 2015
First Look

First Look: January 27

parts to exact specifications, which could fit into almost any gun of the same type. This made replacement and repair significantly easier and production more uniform. Other industries and countries would later implement these principles... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

02 Apr 2014
What Do You Think?

Has the Post-Capitalist Economy Finally Arrived?

forward. Ganesh Ramakrishnan commented that though there are many signals showing the need to repair old school capitalism, we have a long way to go. "We need the discourse to be expanded beyond simplistic dichotomies such as free... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett; Service

14 Aug 2007
First Look

First Look: August 14, 2007

improper trading practices. He is charged with the task of managing the crisis, repairing the company culture, and putting the firm back into a pattern of growth. Haldeman realizes that nothing less than a radical change in the culture of... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

Web

The Spiritual Lives of Leaders - Course Catalog

ensuring that I am being inclusive?” Bringing Meaning to Work “How can we bring meaning and purpose to the day-to-day lives of our employees?” “How can an atheist create a bond that seems to automatically exist between spiritual people?” View Details

01 Mar 2015
News

A Boomtown's Echo

Floor hand Ray Gerrish works to make repairs on a drilling rig outside Watford City. Employees work around the clock at Raven Rig No. 1, one of more than 150 oil rigs in the Bakken. (photos by Jim Gehrz/Minneapolis Star Tribune/ZUMA Press... View Details

Keywords: Oil and Gas Extraction; Mining

01 Dec 2005
News

Trillion-Dollar Fixer-Upper

Japanese ultimately sold virtually all their U.S. properties at a loss. Repairing the damage done by the crash created opportunities to rebuild the business and make it stronger. Morgan Stanley’s Slaughter cites three fundamental, lasting... View Details

Keywords: Roger Thompson; Real Estate

18 Oct 2004
Research & Ideas

The Bias of Wall Street Analysts

brokerages are working on repairing the tarnished image of the sell-side analyst profession while at the same time reconfiguring the economics of that function. Up until brokerage commissions were deregulated on May 1, 1975 (known in the... View Details

Keywords: by Ann Cullen; Financial Services

01 Sep 2014
News

Afghanistan’s Hope and Light

call offices and repairing broken headsets. Ladak also notes that 20 percent of the company’s employees are women—a percentage that sounds small until you consider that a woman working outside the home in Afghanistan is still widely... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna

27 Sep 2010
Research & Ideas

Customer Experts Lose Influence When Teams are Pressured

invested in analyzing and repairing the way the team draws on and uses everyone's contributions is well worth it. The team will produce more relevant, high-quality outcomes for the client, and all team members will feel more satisfied by... View Details

Keywords: by Sarah Jane Gilbert

05 May 2020
News

“Walking a Tightrope”

the Federal Reserve did surveys in the past few years, they discovered that 40 percent of Americans would have to borrow money if they had a $400 car repair bill. We have a lot of people who are on the edge. And if you look at the people... View Details

01 Apr 2015
Research & Ideas

The Slow, Steady Battle to Fix Cancer Care

the biggest medical insurer in the United States; one of the top-ranked hospitals in the world; and a multiyear research project at HBS that aims to repair the American health-care system. In billing for services, value-based health care... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Health

01 Mar 2007
News

Letters to the Editor

new car after World War II, and no cars were produced during the war, so all of these vehicles had to be kept in repair until about 1948, when the new ones were more available. I do not know when these buildings were torn down. I would... View Details

11 Aug 2009
First Look

First Look: August 11, 2009

and investors and borrowers will keep on believing that they've been hoodwinked and fleeced. Moreover, he points out that only a thorough repair of the agencies that handle securities and banking regulation can prevent new crises down the... View Details