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- 01 Feb 1999
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All in the Family
establishing such programs abroad. "Recent research at the School, particularly by Professor Krishna G. Palepu and Associate Professor Tarun Khanna, has shed light on the reasons for this, as the family enterprise im-proves the efficiency... View Details
Keywords: Marguerite Rigoglioso
- 15 Jun 2021
- News
June 2021 Books and Podcasts
author emphasizes the contribution of his own mentor, Malcom McLean, the inventor of container shipping, and the links between American thought leadership and the extraordinarily efficient industry that subsequently unfolded. In addition... 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
- 28 May 2019
- News
Alumni Achievement Awards 2019
fastest crew is the most efficient at moving through the water—but not necessarily the strongest.” Dream denied: “Due to a mixture of bad luck and politics, our crew didn’t get to go to the Olympics. That was a very tough moment. What... View Details
- 01 Jun 2013
- News
Five Bright Ideas
learn (or review) and then points to what the student should next master to proceed most efficiently to his or her knowledge goal. FAST FACT: Knewton was named a 2011 Technology Pioneer by the World Economic Forum. DATA POINT: In a... View Details
- 22 Nov 2017
- News
How to Build a Winning Culture on a Losing Team
to coach your kids, take on a service project, to be involved in your church, to volunteer with entrepreneurs I think the more creative you are and the more opportunity you'll have to bring that talent and creativity back to your office and make you more View Details
- 01 Dec 2013
- News
Your Own Medicine
more efficient process. The big companies, notes Williams, are too big; innovation, he says—particularly these kinds of radically reengineered and modified models—is the province of smaller companies. And groups like the Secklers have the... View Details
- 01 Dec 2005
- News
Trillion-Dollar Fixer-Upper
long-term rates rise, he doesn’t expect a return to 9 percent cap rates. He argues that structural changes in the commercial real estate business have permanently lowered investor risks, justifying a lower return. “The efficiency of... View Details
- 01 Dec 2009
- News
Alumni Books
CIOs Create and Communicate Value by Richard Hunter and George Westerman (DBA ’03) (Harvard Business Press) The authors recommend that to combat the IT-as-cost mindset, CIOs use IT to create three kinds of value — value for the money (the IT department operating View Details
- 01 Jan 2005
- News
Louis V. Gerstner, Jr., MBA 1965
unchallenged position in the marketplace until Japanese firms such as Hitachi and Fujitsu flooded the market with less expensive alternatives. In a bold opening move, Gerstner slashed the price of mainframe systems and pushed the development of a more View Details
- 25 Aug 2022
- News
Labs Enable Large-scale Research
opportunities to use new technologies for enhancing financial inclusion. By working with communities of crypto business practitioners, the researchers aim to help shape the way this industry evolves, inform regulators, and improve the View Details
- 01 Jun 2012
- News
Made in the USA
Centralizing operations in an expanded version of its Reeseville plant (located in the town’s old high-school building) will allow efficiencies that will fuel further growth and local job creation. In conjunction with the project, local... View Details
- 16 Nov 2017
- News
The Business of Social Justice
communication, networking, and policy advocacy. As COO, Brooks is the steadying force who keeps the ship on course, by overseeing strategic planning, operations, and finances, as well as evaluating programs to determine what is working well and ways in which operations... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Myers
- 01 Jun 2007
- News
Letters
efficiency and economy in the military. Primary objectives included, would you believe, the initiation of double-entry accounting! This project obviously led to his later assignment in 1965 as assistant secretary of defense (comptroller).... View Details
- 01 Mar 2013
- News
A Healthy Profit
continuous efficacy and efficiency improvements that poverty-reduction initiatives must have to succeed," says Antares cofounder and HBS senior lecturer Michael Chu. Chu speaks from personal experience. After leaving a lucrative Wall... View Details
- 01 Jun 2017
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for June 2017
one-stop guide to managing acute orthopedic injuries. Unlike other handbooks, it provides a comprehensive yet concise set of diagnostic and management tools to help doctors deliver optimal, evidence-based, and efficient patient care.... View Details
- 01 Jun 2014
- News
Ready for Takeoff
profitable and sustainable airline if we don't have a very slim and efficient cost structure," she says. "And it's a challenge for the region because there are a lot of regulations that make our cost bar much higher than our competitors... View Details
- 01 Jun 2005
- News
Do You Speak Business?
time that certain activities, such as marketing, must remain local in concept and execution to be successful. At the same time, the defining feature of globalization has been the push by multinationals toward organization-wide rationalization. View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 01 Sep 2012
- News
Alumni Books
New Ventures by Jon Burgstone (MBA 1999) and Bill Murphy Jr. (Farallon Publishing) The authors explain the key common strategies and tactics used by some of today’s most extraordinary entrepreneurs and offer a seven-step framework for the View Details