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  • 01 Dec 2018
  • News

Competencies and Credentials

educators, policymakers, and labor leaders to spark a revival of middle-skills jobs.” Jay Rogers (MBA 2007) set out to build a car manufacturer from scratch, no holds barred. The result is Arizona-based Local Motors, a decentralized tech... View Details
  • 01 Mar 2011
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Tax and Grow

spending that cash, the economy could benefit from a significant stimulus that, unlike stimulus measures relating to government spending, would stem from decentralized actors responding to private information and incentives. Consider the... View Details
Keywords: Mihir A. Desai; Administration of Economic Programs; Government; Corporate, Subsidiary, and Regional Managing Offices; Management
  • 01 Oct 2000
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Books

design rules. Thus, the computer industry was transformed from a quasi monopoly (dominated by IBM) into a large modular "cluster" of related subindustries, a development made possible by the decentralization and multiplication of design... View Details
  • 01 Dec 2003
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Business Answers the Call

for every grade K–10, and recognizing that some students need a longer day or extended school year to meet those requirements; decentralizing decision-making and removing seniority from the union contract in the hiring of teachers;... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons; Educational Support Services; Educational Services
  • 14 Jul 2021
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The First Five Years: Nicolas Manes (MBA 2020)

from small- and medium-sized farms and ship it to our warehouses, where we prepare the orders. After the order is prepared, we ship the orders using a decentralized network of drivers to the group buyers, who handle the last-mile-delivery... View Details
  • 25 Aug 2022
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The Exchange: The Road Ahead for Crypto

to actually spend it, so no one’s playing the game, which then destroys value. And if it’s too liquid, then there’s suddenly too much of it in play, it loses all the value, and the game’s economic system collapses. It’s a very careful balance to strike. And the more... View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint; Securities, Commodities, and Other Financial Investments; Finance
  • 01 Dec 2000
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Q&A: Andrew Kendall

other half will be split equally between general administrative work and being out in the field. We are a decentralized operation, with over eighty reservations and one hundred staff members scattered throughout the state, so... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg; Management of Companies and Enterprises; Management; Forestry and Logging; Agriculture; Special Design Services; Professional Services; Religious, Grantmaking, Civic, Professional, and Similar Organizations; Personal Services
  • 01 Dec 2006
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Forestalling Terror

is for a third outcome: The DNI becomes the centralized provider of the leadership and infrastructure that allow the community to take decentralized yet coordinated action. That’s what we see in really effective private-sector firms, like... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons; Waleed Iskandar; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services
  • 01 Sep 2010
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Fair Trade

markets differed, but the belief in local autonomy and decentralized decision-making became a core value within the company .Meanwhile, the largest American consumer products company remained cautious about international markets. During... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons; Chemical Manufacturing; Manufacturing; Health and Personal Care Stores; Retail Trade
  • 01 Jun 2013
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Minding The Gap

first looked at the sector, we realized almost every district had some great schools and every school had some great classrooms, but no urban district had a portfolio—a system—of great schools. From the outset, our goal has been to change that reality." Remarkably, in... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg; Blagg, Deborah; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services; Educational Support Services; Educational Services; Elementary and Secondary Schools; Educational Services
  • 06 Dec 2018
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Source Code

famously standing up to Steve Jobs’s plan to eliminate Apple’s US warehouses and decentralize distribution. (The details were captured in the 1986 HBS case, “Donna Dubinsky and Apple Computer, Inc.”) She and Hawkins then teamed up to... View Details
Keywords: Dan Morrell; illustrations by Daniel Hertzberg
  • 16 Sep 2015
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Built for Speed

for something completely new. They returned to campus that fall ready to devote serious time to their nascent idea: a decentralized car company that produced region-specific, small-batch vehicles in microfactories. They enrolled in an... View Details
Keywords: Dan Morrell; Machinery Manufacturing; Manufacturing
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