Total Factor Productivity - Publications - Faculty & Research

01 Sep 2014
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All For One

The first thing Linda Hill noticed when she walked into Pixar Animation Studios was the energy. Pixar’s cavernous office in Emeryville, California, is totally open and organized around a huge central atrium, allowing a diverse group of... View Details

Keywords: Michael Blanding; faculty; research; Market Research, Photo, Translation, Veterinary and Other Services; Professional Services

02 Sep 2018
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Havana Rising

of 2019, Gordon is bringing a group of about 250 YPO members for their annual conference—and the Kempinski’s availability was a big factor in closing that deal. “In terms of volume, there’s nothing more attractive than MICE business,”... View Details

Keywords: Dan Morrell; photographed by Eve North

01 Dec 1997
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Growing Together

Gleason (MBA '97) is finding a way to make both a profit and a difference. Last fall, as a part of HBS associate professor Marco Iansiti's Managing Product Development course, Gleason created a model for a company that would employ... View Details

Keywords: Marguerite Rigoglioso and Nancy O. Perry

04 Oct 2018
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“A Shout Through Time”

travels on Twitter." And of course as an employee of the company and somebody who uses the product pretty heavily, I had been posting some photos of our meetings in Cannes that week in the south of France. So Piero was correct on that... View Details

01 Jun 2008
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Team MBA

certain connotations, both positive and negative. I thought I was jumping into a tank full of sharks. I was prepared for overly aggressive, type A people. I am happy to say that I was totally surprised by the collaborative spirit here and... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

26 Feb 2020
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Phoenix Rising

clothing and accessories inspired by Hellenic heritage, was to source silks and embroidery from traditional craftswomen throughout the region, whose skills were no longer finding demand, and sell the products internationally. It was a... View Details

Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint

01 Dec 2001
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Reaching Out

"Many people want to spend their productive years doing something that they care about, and one way to do that is to work through the social sector on issues that markets alone don't always address," Childress says. A Two-Way Street While... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons and Julia Hanna; Health, Social Assistance

31 Jul 2019
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Skydeck Live: The Rise of the FOMO Sapiens

to compete with Sprite. So why don't we come up with something called Crystal Pepsi?" And that happened. So it's these decisions to launch products that you think will achieve something but you really don't know why you're doing it. It's... View Details

10 Dec 2014
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Front-Row Seat

Twain, Henry James, and Ernest Hemingway, to name just a few, and was well known for fostering a productive national debate around the pressing issues of the time—the modest goal being nothing less than advancing the sum of human... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; digital media; Corporate, Subsidiary, and Regional Managing Offices; Management

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