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- 01 Mar 2006
- News
Using IT to Heal U.S. Health Care
2004. Brailer’s mission is to give every American an electronic health-care record by 2014 and to link those records to a national medical data network. “It’s time to put health information technology center stage,” Brailer told some 300 participants at the sixth... View Details
- 01 Dec 2010
- News
Faculty Research Online
can boost the power of products in industries as diverse as food and beverages, technology, airlines, and automobiles. See http://hbswk.hbs.edu/item/6351.html. Turning Employees into Problem Solvers To improve patient safety, hospital... View Details
- 01 Apr 2001
- News
Big Deals: Project Finance Helps Mitigate Risk in Large-Scale Investments
projects and good returns. Project finance — Esty’s specialty and the focus of his course — involves highly leveraged deals and risk-taking, something that has interested Esty since he wrote his doctoral thesis on risk-taking in the savings-and-loan View Details
- 16 Jan 2020
- News
Helping California Wildfire Victims Rebuild
wildfires, the article notes, and also saw how other homeowners struggled to rebuild. “As we watched people try to navigate the process and the complexity of everything they had to do to build a home, we knew there were really simple technology tools that were used in... View Details
- 25 Aug 2022
- News
Ready for Departure
accelerate construction projects. And now, finally, travel plans are back on. Here, alumni from the field share insights into how the industry has readied itself for your arrival at the airport—and what to... View Details
- 05 Jun 2017
- News
Women on Boards: A Course Becomes a Movement
panel discussions, and industry networking, to help participants navigate the board selection process. “Women on Boards was the only course I found that addressed and connected all the components in a holistic way.” Martinez was one of 67... View Details
Keywords: Margaret Kelley
- 01 Sep 2020
- News
Road Work
That leap was necessary because Camino’s members—whose businesses include restaurants, construction companies, beauty salons, and small manufacturers, among many others—don’t fit the traditional categories for risk assessment. Twenty-five... View Details
- 01 Dec 2020
- News
The Complete Package
Courtesy Susan Chong The typical wooden shipping pallet, constructed of mixed hardwood, ccan weigh 50 pounds, Susan Chong (OPM 48, 2016) explains. But a pallet made of pine weighs half that, and for businesses air shipping their products,... View Details
Keywords: April White; entrepreneurship; sustainability; packaging; leadership; women; Manufacturing
- 01 Feb 2001
- News
Drilling Down
The news last October of Chevron's proposed acquisition of Texaco for $36 billion in stock was hardly surprising to industry analysts. The planned merger — which would streamline projects and save some $1.2 billion annually — was... View Details
- 01 Feb 2000
- News
Spangler Center in Top Form
in the construction of the new campus center. "The Spangler Center will literally transform this campus," Dean Kim B. Clark told over one hundred hardy souls who turned out for the event. C.D. ("Dick") Spangler, Jr. (MBA '56), himself a... View Details
- 01 Apr 1997
- News
Critical Information: MIS Monitors the Ever-Changing World of IT
framework for IT baselining and planning, is examining how the new information economy is transforming the traditional management principles of the industrial economy. Nolan is studying, for example, how IT is changing the traditional... View Details
Keywords: Elaine Gottlieb
- 01 Oct 2001
- News
¡Vamos al Cine!
will control 51 percent of the cinemas in Mexico City, one of the world's most-populated urban areas. To reach the working poor, Heyman decided to cut ticket prices by about half in low-income neighborhoods while building the same luxurious theaters that Cinemex was... View Details
- 01 Mar 2018
- News
March 2018 Alumni and Faculty Books
industrial wage workers; and the production of knowledge, including the idea of the economy, among other topics. Together, they suggest emerging themes in the field: a fascination with capitalism as it is made by political authority, how... View Details
- 01 Dec 2016
- News
Vive la Madeleine!
been imagining for the next phase of his career, but the story moved him. He had fond memories of snacking on madeleines as a young child—most likely Jeannette madeleines, although he couldn’t be certain. The son of a construction worker,... View Details
- 01 Sep 2009
- News
Read All About It!
collisions with other trains, loose rails, and fires in wooden cars occurred with some frequency in the first decades of the railroads. But the industry soon grew more organized and invested in extensive track and bridge construction.... View Details
- 26 Jan 2015
- News
The Ingredients for Success
in charge of a large-scale construction project, developing our team, developing ongoing partnerships with university administrators, managing my board, and even making sure the plumber unclogs drains in the building. In a weird, strange... View Details
- 01 Sep 2011
- News
Faculty Books
between ideas from unrelated fields; challenging common wisdom; scrutinizing the behavior of customers, suppliers, and competitors to find new ways of doing things; constructing interactive experiences and provoking unorthodox responses... View Details
- 07 Mar 2017
- News
From Harvard to INSEAD: Change Management in a Disruptive World
Chamber of Commerce of the value and the opportunity of such a project. Quickly, the question of the leadership emerged: who to coordinate the construction work and eventually lead this new institution? It was clear from the beginning... View Details
Keywords: Educational Services
- 01 Jun 2006
- News
India Arrives
developing economic powerhouse. In the evening light, silhouettes of high-rises under construction punctuate the modern skyline, and a gleaming urban mall stands ready to serve Mumbai’s growing, consumer-oriented middle class. This is the... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 01 Mar 2007
- News
Faculty Books
what it might look like in the future. Challenges in Managing Large Projects by J. Ronald Fox and Donn B. Miller (Defense Acquisition University Press) How do the challenges of managing multibillion-dollar engineering, development, and View Details