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- 01 Mar 2011
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Making Their Way
crumbling infrastructure, and high unemployment these days — is the $842 million National Gateway rail-transport improvement project. CSX is putting up half of the price tag, while six states and the... View Details
- 01 Feb 1999
- News
Social Enterprise Forum Discusses Strategy
ChildrenU.S. has responded to changing societal norms. A second case considered how NGOs can improve their organizational performance by using strategic frameworks from the private and public sectors.... View Details
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Product Management - Course Catalog
HBS Course Catalog Product Management Course Number 1765 Senior Lecturer Sara McKinley Torti Spring; Q3; 1.5 credits Exam Career Focus: This half course provides an introduction to product management, focused primarily on improving and... View Details
- 13 Sep 2004
- Research & Ideas
Cash and the Woman-Owned Business
financial resources available. In spite of improving conditions, a wage gap has persisted for more than thirty years. Professional women currently earn approximately 73 percent... View Details
- 01 Apr 1996
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Stasis and Turmoil: HBS Research for the Real World
it seems that if you work hard and keep your nose clean, they'll get rid of your division." Stevenson believes that many of the remedies prescribed today for enhancing competitiveness - organizational... View Details
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Strategic Financial Analysis Online Course | HBS Online
of financial analysis and valuation methods are most appropriate in different situations Use financial metrics, ratio analysis, and other tools to assess performance and drive strategic changes Assess... View Details
- 28 Oct 2020
- Blog Post
Keep Your Weary Workers Engaged
While improving the fulfillment of any one drive enhances employee motivation somewhat, the key to a major employee-motivation advantage relative to other companies comes from View Details
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- 08 Dec 2020
- Blog Post
Keep Your Weary Workers Engaged
While improving the fulfillment of any one drive enhances employee motivation somewhat, the key to a major employee-motivation advantage relative to other companies comes from View Details
- 12 Apr 2004
- Research & Ideas
Waking Up a Sleeping Company
the performance standards, and replacing those managers who weren't prepared to measure up. This took several years and a number of managerial changes. Eventually, most people realized how important these... View Details
Keywords: by Bill George
- 05 Oct 2009
- Research & Ideas
The Vanguard Corporation
beyond a single building. Education is bigger than schools; health is bigger than hospitals. Communities need to provide the context and the interconnections across parts of the system so that all institutions View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 05 May 2003
- What Do You Think?
Is This a Golden Era for Marketing Productivity?
percent of new products fail within five years ... To the extent that a few, well-chosen customers might provide valuable insights into what would improve the quality of life,... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 14 May 2001
- Research & Ideas
Are You Managing To a ‘T’? Time To Break With Tradition
intellectual resources—using existing knowledge to improve performance or combining strands of knowledge to create something altogether new—can help companies respond to a... View Details
Keywords: by Morten T. Hansen & Bolko Von Oetinger
- 04 Dec 2000
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Have We Overdone Deregulation and Privatization?
effects. The highly publicized shortcomings of questionable efforts to deregulate are not encouraging—witness the case of the California electric power industry. It's not clear whether attempting to educate... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 01 Mar 2016
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for March 2016
Skooter, his wife of sixty years, as she accompanied him on work-related trips to foreign countries. A Profile of the Performing Arts Industry by David H. Gaylin (MBA 1979)... View Details
- 01 Oct 2001
- What Do You Think?
Will Information Technology Really Turn Organizations Upside Down This Time?
command? Or for business? For years, W. Edwards Deming, the father of modern continuous quality improvement, had trouble convincing U.S. (as opposed to Japanese) auto manufacturers to implement the keys to View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
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VBHCD Initiative - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness
and manage patient-level costs over complete cycles of care for a variety of medical conditions. This innovative approach links costs to clinical outcomes in order to identify opportunities for value View Details
- 01 Jun 2013
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Education Innovation
system: "By practically any measure, the quality of public K–12 education in the United States is dismal." And the stakes are high. As Childress, deputy director of education at the Gates Foundation,... View Details
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TALK: How to Talk Gooder in Business and Life - Course Catalog
approaches that may (or may not) work for you. Record and listen back to yourself to reflect on your conversational performance and progress. Become hypervigilant about conversation dynamics (this feeling will dissipate over time). Feel... View Details
- 01 Mar 2014
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Faculty and Alumni Books for March 2014
most profitable products and customers and demonstrating how, when, and where to apply over twenty distinct improvement tools and techniques. Finally, it discusses how to embed the process and the tools into the ongoing operations View Details
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How We Are Keeping HBS—and Our Program Participants—Healthy
University Health Service has implemented comprehensive procedures for case investigation and contact tracing. We have also stepped up cleaning protocols and upgraded ventilation systems to improve airflow. In addition, we've tapped into... View Details