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- 01 Feb 2002
- News
If You're #1, Watch Out
such parts presents only marginal profit opportunity. Staying in the innovative segment of an industry may mean, in fact, manufacturing a key subsystem and even becoming a provider to competitors. The willingness to make such shifts and the resources to execute them... View Details
- 04 Sep 2019
- News
Accelerating Allston
technologies, and make it possible to efficiently take transformative ideas to the marketplace. By providing financial aid, the gift will enable Harvard to attract and support outstanding students to become technically skilled,... View Details
- 01 Sep 2005
- News
WATER Ltd.
tax-averse citizens. Turning over water operations to private companies that can offer economies of scale, financial resources, expertise, and efficiency is an attractive option. Privatization, however, troubles some consumer advocates... View Details
- 06 Dec 2021
- News
Tipping Point
debut in Target and Fresh Market stores. Kahawa 1893 is experimenting with using blockchain for transparency in the tipping process. It also is exploring whether cryptocurrency might allow for more efficient tipping in a cafe setting. The... View Details
- 09 Apr 2020
- News
“Raise the Line”
important, but he also knew that there were better, more efficient ways to teach the information. “Even at a great school, the state of education was behind the times,” says Gaglani, who had been exposed to innovations in the sector as an... View Details
- 01 Apr 2001
- News
Big Deals: Project Finance Helps Mitigate Risk in Large-Scale Investments
likely to continue due to privatization, deregulation, and globalization. “In an increasingly global business environment, achieving minimum efficient scale in production requires massive capital investment,” Esty explains. In one case... View Details
- 24 Oct 2013
- News
Searching for a Better Society
help searchers get to the best content as quickly as possible. We publish 20 percent of the world's scientific content. If we can help medical researchers, for example, search better—help them get access to content faster, aggregate information in a more View Details
- 01 Oct 1996
- News
Uhlmann Award Winners Focus on French Retailer
"to encourage creative research for the efficient and equitable growth of domestic and world agribusiness." It includes a cash award to be divided among the recipients. View Details
- 01 Sep 2010
- News
RX for Change
to really transform the organization.” That drive for increased efficiency and quality at lower cost resonates with many of the institutions represented at MHCD, which include the Cleveland Clinic, Children’s Hospital Boston, and The... View Details
- 01 Sep 2024
- News
The Road Less Traveled
overestimating the environmental benefits of shared dockless e-scooters—because many riders choose them over walking or pedaling a bike—pointed out that “choosing an e-scooter over driving a personal automobile with a fuel efficiency of... View Details
- 01 Jun 2020
- News
Vital Signs
schedules to reduce the spread of disease. So for non-high-risk mothers who would’ve had 12 in-person appointments before, that’s getting cut in half. Perhaps we’ll find that outcomes are the same, and we just made the prenatal health care experience more View Details
- 01 Jun 2017
- News
Case Study: Something New
expertise in various parts of a complex supply chain and high efficiency (to keep lead times down and costs manageable). But that is valuable precisely because it is difficult and thus very hard to replicate. —Ankur Daga (MBA 2005) What... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 01 Jun 2012
- News
Straight to the Heart
with someone until we meet in person. What is your strategy when it comes to making the Internet work for your clients? People think online dating is an efficient way to get to know someone, and it’s not. It’s just an View Details
- 01 Jun 2020
- News
Homeschooled
question will be, “Will this kind of change in our approach stick around for a while?” I certainly hope that online learning is not viewed as a temporary solution, but that it really gets integrated into a blended approach so we can leverage the personalization... View Details
- 01 Mar 2013
- News
Sizing Up Social Impact
technology to promote land registration and security, improving access to capital, and creating a more efficient judicial system. Tanzania, 2008–2013. Investments of $698 million (the largest MCC commitment to date) will improve roads,... View Details
- 01 Apr 2000
- News
Q & A: A Conversation with IRS Chief Charles Rossotti
individual taxpayers with wage and investment income; small business and self-employed taxpayers; large business taxpayers; and exempt organizations, such as nonprofits and state and local governments. Each unit will focus on understanding, solving, and preventing... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 01 Mar 2007
- News
Private Equity under Investigation
efficiency of capital markets, the opaqueness of the groups’ operations, and the abuse of inside information. It is hard not to feel that history is repeating itself. For not only is this investigation sure to fatten the profit pools of... View Details
- 01 Sep 2003
- News
Globalization Revisited
should become “global” by standardizing the production, distribution, and marketing of their products across all countries. Sameness meant efficiency and would be more profitable than difference. From economies of scale would flow... View Details
- 01 Jun 2017
- News
Life in Lockdown
a kitten dangling from a tree limb. One visit to Google kills that idea; there are already dozens of companies catering to premenstrual women. What about a service that can make a visit to an urgent care clinic more efficient and draw... View Details
- 01 Sep 2009
- News
Read All About It!
efficiency engineers — how would we spend our leisure? The problem has bothered social scientists/statesmen, ministers, newspaper editors, and reformers, even though we are not yet even in sight of Utopia. It is supposed, at least by... View Details