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- 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
- 16 Sep 2015
- News
Built for Speed
oil by 2050. Written by energy analyst and physicist Amory Lovins, the book noted the lack of efficiency of modern auto manufacturing. Rogers saw an opportunity. And after seeing firsthand the political and human consequences of the... View Details
- 01 Mar 2013
- News
A Mission in Motion
Public Health that uses business solutions to improve public health products, services, and delivery in the developing world. "Only business can provide the massive scale, permanence, and continuous efficacy and efficiency improvements... View Details
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- 01 Mar 2012
- News
Robots to the Rescue
approach to order fulfillment is based on the disarming efficiency of small, battery-powered, orange mobile robots. When orders are received, the robots are directed by a complex software application to find and retrieve the desired... View Details
- 03 Oct 2019
- News
Skydeck Live: Galactic Returns
the entire earth with solar cells, which is not practical and won’t happen. You could say, “Well, more energy efficiency is the answer.” But every energy efficiency solution that has existed has always led... View Details
- 01 Oct 2001
- News
New Economy Notables: Peter C. Wendell
that, how to share information efficiently within a company, new ways to share information with suppliers and customers — those elements of the new economy are unstoppable. How job has changed in last five years Dramatic growth. Five... View Details
- 01 Feb 2000
- News
Financial Services 24/7
Wallet READ MORE Breaking Down Barriers: The Electronic Wallet Operational Efficiency With more and more consumers using the Internet to conduct transactions of all kinds and with the size of firms growing, the reliability of technology... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 22 Feb 2022
- News
Action Plan: Portfolio Strategy
efficient and develop yourself.” Build your own brand. You need to understand your own narrative and purpose—and share it widely, through conferences, social media, networking, and media interviews: “I was ‘the airline guy’ already at... View Details
- 15 May 2020
- News
New Menu
second, larger fund to support companies developing ecologically efficient food production technologies—innovations that can reduce carbon emissions, plastics, and packaging in the supply chain and improve land and water use. "Many large... View Details
- 01 Dec 1999
- News
The Message and the Media: Advertising's Brave New World
answer, according to Silk and his colleagues, lies in a given medium's ability to reach efficiently - and hold onto - an advertiser's target audience and to be flexible and responsive to the advertiser's requirements and demands. Because... View Details
Keywords: Peter K. Jacobs
- 27 Jul 2017
- News
Seeing a Way Forward
organization’s operations more efficient through strategic improvement projects, thus allowing salauno to better serve its patients. Leger’s passion for social impact was itself borne of growing up a citizen of the world. Born in France,... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Myers
- 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
- 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 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
- 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