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- 12 Nov 2021
- News
Alumni Business Leaders on Confronting the Climate Change Challenge
being disrupted as we retool and refuel machinery, as the dietary preferences of younger generations become more vegetable-based and as we learn to produce our needs with less labor, less equipment, and fewer emissions. Within sectors that remain dependent on fossil... View Details
- 20 Dec 2016
- First Look
December 20, 2016
acquiring new resources. However, as the assets become larger and more strategic, management judgment becomes the determining factor. For assets that enhance operating efficiencies or increase revenue, we... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
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Frequently Asked Questions | HBS Online
following: AI Essentials for Business is a 4-week, 25-hour online certificate program from Harvard Business School. The course equips business professionals with a comprehensive approach to building, leading, and operating ethical... View Details
- 30 Aug 2004
- Research & Ideas
Real Estate: The Most Imperfect Asset
brought greater transparency and more discipline and efficiency to an undisciplined, inefficient market. Unfortunately, there's no doubt that more and better information means it will be harder to be the alpha, as Professor Andre Perold... View Details
- 17 Dec 2008
- Lessons from the Classroom
‘Ted Levitt Changed My Life’
magnitude." In a world made much smaller and more homogeneous by communications technology, Levitt drew a line between the multinational company, which adjusts its products and practices from country to country (at great cost), and the global corporation, which... View Details
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2024 Reunion Presentations - Alumni
expanding trade, ever more efficient logistics, and a relatively benign trading environment. Revolutions in transportation and communications empowered the reconfiguration of global supply chains and a dramatic shift in production to... View Details
- 08 Nov 2011
- First Look
First Look: Nov. 8
PublicationsHow Much Is a Reduction of Your Customers' Wait Worth? An Empirical Study of the Fast-Food Drive-Thru Industry Based on Structural Estimation Methods Authors:Gad Allon, Awi Federgruen, and Margaret P. Pierson Publication:Manufacturing and Service View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Mar 2017
- News
A Healthy Profit
Quelch. New energy efficiency initiatives also saw their greenhouse gas footprint drop by 19 percent between 2005 and 2012. COMMUNITY HEALTH “Royal Caribbean donates a lot of used furniture and household goods in the ports where they... View Details
Keywords: Dan Morrell
- 10 Mar 2016
- News
"Smarter, Faster, Better": An Interview with Author Charles Duhigg
- 08 Jul 2013
- Research & Ideas
Everything Must Go: A Strategy for Store Liquidation
issue," says Raman. (Gordon Brothers Group, an asset disposition firm that frequently handles liquidations, served as an invaluable real world test site and collaborator for the paper's researchers.) Two important facts came to light, says Raman. First, View Details
- 01 Feb 2002
- News
If You're #1, Watch Out
earn. Typically when this happens, the components and subsystems are the things that become not good enough - and that's where attractive profits get made. An example is the computer industry, where profit shifted from manufacturers down to View Details
- 10 Apr 2013
- Research & Ideas
Learning Curve: Making the Most of Outsourcing
the vendor of outsourced services can improve the efficiency and perhaps the quality of services delivered—particularly in health care, where outsourcing is on the rise. In research recently published in the journal Organization Science,... View Details
- 01 Mar 2011
- News
Fast Casual
electrical engineering, who designs the procedures and logistics that ensure smooth, efficient operations. Of PRG and its husband-wife leadership team, Peggy said, “We had to standardize everything from recipes to kitchens.... I think... View Details
- 24 Apr 2014
- News
A taste of home leads to jobs creation and community improvements
In a small, undercapitalized cheese manufacturing operation in rural Wisconsin, Paul Scharfman (AB 1976, MBA 1979) saw the opportunity to develop a variety of specialty cheeses that would appeal to the palates of the growing population of... View Details
- 01 Jun 2004
- News
How Nonprofits Dilute Their Efforts
“Most of the nonprofits operating today make program decisions based on a mission rather than on a strategy,” writes HBS professor V. Kasturi Rangan in Harvard Business Review. “In fact,” he notes, “many nonprofits don’t have a strategy... View Details
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Michelle Shell & Ryan Buell
Research focus Michelle: Ryan and I are both interested in deeply understanding what happens when customers interact with an organization’s operating system. Insights about customer behavior can influence a company to View Details
- 18 Jun 2001
- Research & Ideas
Caught in the Cogs: When Manufacturing and IT Meet
collaboration to be successful. Based on new kinds of technologies such as structured data exchange, "these collaborative commerce solutions," he said, "will allow firms to plan, integrate, and execute all aspects of their View Details
Keywords: by Jim Aisner
- 19 May 2023
- News
Quiet Acceleration
Tesla introduced manufacturing efficiencies that helped deliver 15 consecutive profitable quarters and generated $22 billion in available capital. Last year, the company’s operating margin was 16.8 percent,... View Details
Ralph S. Larsen
Larsen reorganized J&J and managed its costs in order to improve its efficiency and reduce operating expenses. Between 1994-1999, the annual operating costs were reduced by... View Details
Keywords: Healthcare