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- 01 Mar 2004
- News
Gibson Hits a High Note
quality, acquisitions, and new markets, Gibson is back. Sales have doubled to more than $250 million since 2000. And the company is hiring another one hundred people to increase its handmade guitar output to four hundred a day, reported... View Details
- 01 Aug 2019
- News
Investing for Good
buying outputs to buying outcomes, that nonprofits can begin to think about delivering outcomes for their constituents in a much more intentional way. This is very much what we're hoping to achieve over time.” (Published August 2019) View Details
Keywords: Finance
- 11 Mar 2020
- News
Making It Rain
customer request, instead of what the rest of the industry is doing, which is just looking at the outputs of the governmental models,” says Elkabetz. For airlines, access to more accurate weather forecasts—both short and long term—enables... View Details
Keywords: Lisa Scanlon Mogolov
- 01 Jun 1999
- News
Short Takes
They also must create value when their inputs and outputs are valued at prevailing market prices: otherwise they cannot stay in business. "Realistic assessments of a country's or firm's sustainability need to consider its economic... View Details
Keywords: Judith A. Ross
- 01 Dec 2020
- News
Hit Pause
daily output to pause and reflect, says Professor Joe Badaracco. In interviews with more than 100 time-strapped managers, Badaracco found that those who made the space for reflection did so in a manner that was realistic, given existing... View Details
- 11 Jul 2013
- News
The Good Writer
Studios’ film distribution division in Burbank. “A friend told me that people in Hollywood would think I was Einstein because I could work with spreadsheets,” he half jokes. “I’m one of the few writers who gets excited about reading the page 6 item in Variety about... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 01 Sep 2011
- News
‘Green’ Trailblazers
Oakville, Ontario Energy management applications Paul Grana (MBA 2009) Tigo Energy Los Gatos, California; Munich, Germany; and Osaka, Japan Hardware and software that brings new levels of power output efficiency, management, and control... View Details
- 01 Dec 2008
- News
Leadership: Getting Down to Fundamentals
power of leadership through example, persuasion, and culture. Leadership is a complicated phenomenon that is not easily broken down through just one lens; it’s an accumulation of these perspectives, which is what we’re trying to get at. What were some of the tangible... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 01 Mar 2012
- News
Alumni Book Briefs
Explosion of Capitalism Abroad Will Change Business Everywhere by Christopher Meyer (MBA 1974) with Julia Kirby (Harvard Business Review Press) The advanced economies that in 2000 consumed 75 percent of the world’s output will consume... View Details
- 03 Aug 2020
- News
A Clean Start
Scientists, world leaders, and corporations have spent billions trying to harness carbon-dioxide output in order to combat climate change. So far, they’ve figured out how to capture it, but not what to do with it. Todd Brix (MBA 1997)... View Details
Keywords: Maureen Harmon
- 06 Dec 2021
- News
In My Humble Opinion: Come Clean
because of—the challenge: “It was basically a small manufacturing company but with an output of one product each time, because every unit we process is unique,” he says. “With each garment, there are 20 opportunities for us to screw... View Details
- 01 Apr 1996
- News
Wake-Up Call: Farewell to the American Dream?
University's Wagner School of Public Policy. In The End of Affluence, you write that since 1870, America's productivity - the output of goods and services per hour of work - grew at an average annual rate of 2.25 percent until 1973. Since... View Details
- 01 Mar 2004
- News
David Horgan: Iraqi Briefing, 21st November, 2003
artificial bottlenecks that should quickly have added several hundred thousand barrels production - for example, from destroying wreaks that hampered tanker access. Urgent reform is necessary. Without boosted oil output there is... View Details
- 22 Feb 2018
- News
My First Job
an MBA. It had to do with output to the client of a new computer system in New York City. The day after Columbus Day, no one was in the office, and I looked at the reports that had come out that were going to the client. And it looked odd... View Details
- 01 Jun 2003
- News
South Florida and Minnesota Launch Community Programs
can adapt it to their situation,” she observes. “It’s a question of managing the projects and assembling strong groups of volunteers to achieve quality output for each project.” Twenty–seven volunteers staffed five projects for the... View Details
- 01 Mar 2018
- News
Democratizing Data to Favor Farmers
as much for the same seeds. That knowledge would help farmers haggle with dealers, but the real insight would come from analytics that go beyond consolidating seed prices to measuring a seed variety’s potential success. The most important View Details
Keywords: Sasha Issenberg
- 01 Jun 2015
- News
Ink
hold. Wrong measure. That’s all about inputs. What really matters is the output, and one output in particular: how well managers throughout the organization understand what the strategy is and what it means for them.” —MIT Sloan senior... View Details
- 01 Mar 2012
- News
Putting Ghosts to Rest
management, and too many stakeholders. Individual entrepreneurs, on the other hand, were more what I was used to seeing in African agriculture transformations—individuals who would have private-sector incentives to work with farmers to help them access inputs, and... View Details
- 01 Dec 2018
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for December 2018
while helping data analysis providers understand how to create output that end users will value. Culture.com: How the Best Startups Make It Happen by Robert Stringer (MBA 1966) Crimson Seed Capital Publishing When entrepreneurs seek... View Details
- 28 May 2019
- News
Cure All
US economy has made on so many other fronts, that is really shocking. LD: And that variation in management practice is also supported by enormous variation in output prices. Given the lack of positioning, prices should be a lot more... View Details