Operations Improvement - Publications - Faculty & Research

01 Feb 1997
News

Shaping the Future of Business: Entrepreneurial Evolution at HBS

of the field, six of the unit's faculty are also affiliated with other units, including finance, organizational behavior, technology and operations management, and ethics. MBA courses having entrepreneurial content include Entrepreneurial... View Details

Keywords: Nancy O. Perry and Susan Young; profiles by Garry Emmons

01 Jun 2020
News

Prognosis

patients than any other hospital in the state—to bend without breaking under the pressure of the pandemic. Professor Robert Huckman is an economist and health care researcher who serves as unit head for Technology and Operations... View Details

Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint; COVID-19; Hospitals; Health, Social Assistance

04 Jun 2007
Research & Ideas

Is Health Care Making You Better—or Dead?

parties operating either through the government or an insurance company that's paying. We would need a code. A code comes from the AMA [American Medical Association]. Will the AMA give us a code? Well, not easily, because the doctors are... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Health

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Dean Srikant Datar’s 2025 Commencement Remarks | About

Similarly, you might think about applying knowledge from one area to another. For example, what could you learn from the service at Disney World to improve a retail bank’s operations? Second, ask questions and learn to be comfortable with... View Details

01 Sep 2016
News

Code name: Miesiąc

operations for the anti-Communist newspaper, part of an underground publishing movement that would grow to be the largest in history—tens of thousands of people working to write, print, and distribute information the government wanted to... View Details

Keywords: April White; photographed by Piotr Malecki

20 Jul 2010
First Look

First Look: July 20

sales began to slide. While Steinhafel believed that Target's long-term strategy and positioning were right, he pondered a set of strategic and operational challenges. Did Target have the right mix of offensive and defensive tactics to... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

01 Dec 1998
News

Managing the Business of Life

1996, and she moved back to the States, taking a job as vice president of operations with Warner Brothers Television in Los Angeles. "What I missed most about America was the attitude that you can be anybody and still get ahead in the... View Details

21 May 2019
Blog Post

Asian Pacific American Heritage Month at HBS

the age of 5 with my family. Since then, I’ve split my childhood between the US and Taiwan -completing elementary school in Seattle, middle and high school in Taipei, and college in Illinois. Prior to HBS, I spent five years at Microsoft working on wireless networking... View Details

08 Jul 2014
First Look

First Look: July 8

financial crisis. The trouble is that investment value and asset volatility are simply the wrong measures if your goal is to secure a particular future income. In this article, Merton explains a liability-driven investment strategy whose aim is to View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

11 Jan 2011
First Look

First Look: Jan. 11

the exceptions—scale to national size. Schumpeter's cycle apparently does not operate in the social sector. This paper proposes that the disparity arises from the nonprofit sector's historically immature infrastructure and poor mechanisms... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

17 Aug 2010
First Look

First Look: August 17

advantage in the form of improved profitability by aggressively hiring the excluded group, namely women, in the local managerial labor market. Our results are economically meaningful and realistic in size, in addition to being robust to... View Details