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IT Strategy: Creating a Frictionless Experience with Federated Identity and Access Management | Information Technology
systems, simplifying the user experience and enhancing security. Our efforts to streamline user provisioning involve standardizing account lifecycle management across HBS and establishing a reliable source for identity data, governance,... View Details
- 10 Apr 2025
- Blog Post
IFC India 2025: SELCO - Decentralized Renewable Energy to Develop While Decarbonizing
leading to the farmer associations fully repaying the initial investment in just 1 to 2 years. By fostering entrepreneurship, SELCO’s livelihood innovations create a ripple effect of inclusive, environmental, economic growth. Energy for Health View Details
- 05 May 2003
- Research & Ideas
How Bank of America Turned Branches into Service-Development Laboratories
particular focus on enhancing the reliability of the tests' results and the accuracy of their measurement. As Milton Jones, one of the bank's group presidents, constantly reminded the team: "At the end of the day, the most critical... View Details
- 28 May 2019
- News
Broken Link
EducationSuperHighway helped the district install fiber-optic cable. Because of the faster and more reliable service, the district can now provide “one-to-one” computing—meaning each student has a device in the classroom. “Everything is... View Details
- 01 Mar 2012
- News
Health Care’s New Frontier
athenahealth was operating 13 practices and achieving 50 percent revenue growth. The only snag was cash flow. “It was almost impossible to get claims paid reliably or to keep track of the basic information flow among practitioners, labs,... View Details
- 01 Jun 1998
- News
Lisa Frankenberg
the bright sociology major just out of the University of California, Santa Barbara. Frankenberg found an apartment and soon launched a business venture that would make her one of the most prominent expatriates in the country. "I saw the need for a View Details
- 01 Mar 2009
- News
Where Are They Now?
financial measures of performance,” he says. “How do you design a performance measurement system that is both useful for monitoring purposes and motivates people to do the right thing? We know that financial measures of performance are lagging indicators. Can we find... View Details
- 21 May 2024
- Blog Post
IFC India: From Trash to Treasure: Inside a Waste Management Site in Mumbai
and credibility to the project, alongside a reliable buyer of recycled plastic outputs that instill a sustainable edge to the project. Dalmia, an earlier stage company in the ecosystem, brings the infrastructure and expertise to process... View Details
- 01 Mar 2012
- News
Social Investing Pioneers
Palandjian Photo courtesy Tracy Palandjian Cohen Main article: Where Innovation Rules Governments and philanthropies have long sought to improve the lives of society’s least fortunate and most vulnerable, often with discouraging results. Money spent doesn’t View Details
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IT Strategy: Building a Smarter, Scalable Future in the Cloud | Information Technology
give us better visibility into system performance, help us quickly identify and resolve issues, and ensure a stable and reliable technology environment for everyone. The Impact The Cloud Program is tackling analysis, planning, and design... View Details
- 01 Aug 2012
- What Do You Think?
Should CEOs Worry About ‘Too Big to Succeed?’
(five-year) performance is roughly as impressive as the prior (five-year) overperformance." Extending their study to Australia, Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, New Zealand, and the U.K., the researchers conclude that "The Top Dog performance shortfall... View Details
- 01 Dec 2020
- News
Two Truths and a Lie About 5G
will see vast increases in reliability and the number of devices connected to one antenna as well as reductions in the cost of data per gigabyte, Menard says. Beyond that, fixed wireless access could enable fiber-like speeds to homes or... View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint
- 18 Nov 2010
- Research & Ideas
GM’s IPO: Back to the Future
alter significantly how people think about the company, its products, and the brand. US consumers have not had a high-quality perception of GM brands over the past few decades. Although driven in part by the company's missteps, the primary reason was significant... View Details
- 23 Nov 2010
- First Look
First Look: November 23
policing themselves. We investigate whether self-reporting can reliably indicate effective self-policing efforts that might provide opportunities for enforcement efficiencies. We find that regulators used self-reports of legal violations... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 03 Feb 2021
- Blog Post
Faculty Spotlight: Professor Jurgen Weiss
we have to maintain a reliable energy supply throughout. So, there is potentially a role for these current technologies just to make sure we have enough energy if the policy processes are too slow to decarbonize it over the next 30 years.... View Details
- 01 Dec 2012
- News
Shareholders' Value?
company share prices. However, scholarly studies suggest these are not reliable indicators of companies' true economic value. In a similar vein, the late Paul Samuelson said financial markets are "micro-efficient and macro-inefficient."... View Details
- 21 Aug 2014
- Blog Post
HBS Social Enterprise Initiative Visits NYC
adverse weather and climate change impacts. Urvesh was motivated to pursue this internship by his belief, as he explained, “that efficient and reliable transportation is a critical public service, and that it stands to become only more... View Details
Keywords: Nonprofit / Government
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Transportation - Business & Environment
contributions are even greater; in the U.S., transportation is the top GHG contributor. [37] Transportation infrastructure--roads, bridges, airports, and ports-- is particularly at risk of disruption from climate change. Flooding, storms, and heat threaten the View Details
- 06 Oct 2020
- News
Clearing the Path to Citizenship
law firm—more than 7,000 a year—and boasts a success rate of 99.7 percent. The volume of applicants also has other benefits. Synthesizing what it has learned from its clients’ experiences, Boundless has become a clearinghouse for reliable... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 13 Dec 2004
- Research & Ideas
Sharing News That Might Be Bad
effectively, about being able to make good decisions based on reliable information, about being treated fairly." To find the right balance in presenting tricky information, Ertel suggests executives consider the following questions,... View Details
Keywords: by Paul Michelman