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01 Jun 1999
News

Ian Walsh

through the Adriatic Sea ninety miles from Bosnia. Their mission was to rescue U.S. Air Force Captain Scott O'Grady, who had been shot down by Serbs. The helicopters reached the coast around dawn, flying low to avoid radar detection and... View Details

Keywords: James E. Aisner

13 Jan 2009
First Look

First Look: January 13, 2009

Should this gene detection firm enter the business of providing tests for the detection of genetic diseases? If so, how should it prioritize the tests it could develop? Purchase this case:... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

22 Jul 2014
First Look

First Look: July 22

restatements can represent an absence of errors, it can also indicate a lack of detection and disclosure of errors and irregularities. We infer the magnitude of detection and disclosure by associating the... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

22 Aug 2024
Blog Post

LM Wind Power Test and Validation Center

between 1.5 and 2 million bending cycles, which may take months, or even years, of test time. Throughout the course of the test, the blades are inspected with infrared light to detect damage or defects in the blade structure. Upon... View Details

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generate a generic notice of your visit. Pixel tags usually work in conjunction with cookies, registering when a particular computer or device visits a particular page. This can help us personalize the presentation of the Services for you. If you turn off cookies, the... View Details

25 Feb 2020
News

In My Humble Opinion: Mr. Coffee

great battles and wars that were won by finding an adversary’s weaknesses, rather than making a frontal attack on their strengths. It contains a lot of wisdom that can be applied to business situations.” Now streaming: Luther, a BBC View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna

23 Jul 2008
Sharpening Your Skills

Sharpening Your Skills: Balanced Scorecard in Action

problems with the firm's strategy was captured in the multiple performance measures of its Balanced Scorecard. Key concepts include: Store24's Balanced Scorecard contained useful and timely information for detecting problems in its... View Details

01 Sep 2014
News

Book Review: Getting Beyond Yes

and indeed very beautiful, it’s the story of ‘an almost perfect crime.’ Set in a monastery in the Quebec wilderness, Chief Inspector Gamache—one of my favorite detectives in crime fiction—is one of the few outsiders allowed in this... View Details

Keywords: Maureen Harmon; faculty research; faculty books

Student-Profile

Ta-Wei "David" Huang

in a particular setting. Historically, Firms provide personalized information by considering preferences elicited by the historical customer data. However, given the nature of food consumption, customers usually switch between the variety-seeking and inertia modes.... View Details

29 May 2013
Blog Post

A self-discovery journey

and challenging, but fun. End of the first exercise. Second exercise. Fill in a thorough analytical survey to detect your interests: manage people, influence others, apply technology, creativity, quantitative analysis. Third exercise.... View Details

15 May 2023
News

From Scientist to Business Leader

emigrated from Korea. After graduating from the University of Virginia with a bachelor’s degree in biomedical engineering, Kim went to work for a biotech startup, Ceres Nanosciences. The company makes nanoparticles that improve early and accurate View Details

01 Oct 1999
News

Eight Among Many: Robert F. Diromualdo

trucks and working in a machine shop at a U.S. early-warning ballistic missile detection site. There he discovered that nothing whiled away the cold, dark, and tedium like a good book. By the time he was ready to attend Drexel Institute... View Details

Keywords: James E. Aisner

25 Feb 2020
News

Turning Point: Network Effects

allowances for vitamins and exercise, we should have requirements for healthy levels of engagement and community involvement. Social media makes it harder to detect how people are really feeling, and there’s no widely accepted metric for... View Details

Keywords: Bruce Shuttleworth (MBA 1997)

31 May 2023
Research & Ideas

With Predictive Analytics, Companies Can Tap the Ultimate Opportunity: Customers’ Routines

than customers who don’t use the service as part of a routine, the authors find. “Services from streaming video to online retailing might profit from using the model because detailed data can be closely tracked and parsed to detect... View Details

Keywords: by Rachel Layne; Transportation

01 Oct 2021
News

HBS-Harvard Collaboration Fosters New Ventures

optimize performance and overall health. The device has become a fixture on the PGA Tour, and golfer Nick Watney credits his strap with first alerting him that he might have coronavirus by detecting an increase in his respiratory rate—and... View Details

09 May 2018
Research & Ideas

A Simple Way for Restaurant Inspectors to Improve Food Safety

detection to the levels seen after they observe poor hygiene, which would reduce errors even more and result in more violations being detected, cited and corrected,” Ibáñez says. The authors estimate that, if the daily schedule effects... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Food & Beverage; Service

26 Mar 2014
Research & Ideas

How Electronic Patient Records Can Slow Doctor Productivity

times. We could still get it wrong with an electronic health record, but the chances are lower." And mistakes can be detected much more quickly. If a prescribing physician puts an extra zero on the end of a dosing order that puts it out... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Health

17 Nov 2008
Research & Ideas

Decoding the Artful Sidestep

question. One of the positive results that come from our inability to detect the shifting of a conversation is that we can move seamlessly from one topic to another semantically similar topic. In my experience, some of the most... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

07 Oct 2014
News

Network Effect

its grant, Tanzi has discovered dozens of new genes related to Alzheimer’s and found new causes of the disease’s mind-robbing effects. Inflammation within the brain appears to play a key role, opening new treatment possibilities if the disease can be View Details

Keywords: Linda Kush

01 Dec 2015
News

Ink

protecting the Fatherland and doing his part to undermine the war effort. “The equivalent is likely happening in your organization today, with the same corrosive effect.” —From Simple Sabotage: A Modern Field Manual for Detecting &... View Details

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