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Online AI Course | HBS Online
with a combination of vital and forward-looking business skills, self-reflection, and an immersive cohort-based learning experience with a diverse global network. 1 year, 5-9 hrs/week Apply by September 10th, Enroll by September 13 $15,000 (four View Details
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Credential of Digital Innovation and Strategy | HBS Online
Management in Business (CLIMB) CLIMB enables new and experienced leaders to ignite their careers with a combination of vital and forward-looking business skills, self-reflection, and an immersive cohort-based learning experience with a diverse global network. 1 year,... View Details
- 01 Mar 2015
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for March 2015
Alumni Books Live the Art by Jeffrey Deitch (MBA 1978) (Rizzoli) A chronicle of Deitch’s career as an art dealer and producer of memorable installations and art happenings that transcended the idea of a mere “exhibition,” this book... View Details
- 01 Dec 2003
- News
Business Answers the Call
be rectified.” Major changes included individualizing resource allocation and basing it on a child’s educational needs (“In Seattle, the schools with the smallest classes, the most teachers, and the most resources are the ones with the kids who are most difficult to... View Details
- 08 Mar 2012
- Research & Ideas
Unplugged: What Happened to the Smart Grid?
who would keep control of those assets in the future, according to the case. So the same transmission lines, power transformers, and circuit breakers that were installed in the 1960s and '70s are still in operation, in many cases barely... View Details
- 01 Sep 2024
- News
Alumni Books
Edited by Margie Kelley Alumni Books 20+ Years of Urban Rebuilding: Lessons from the Revival of Lower Manhattan after 9/11 By Patrice Derrington (MBA 1991) and Rosemary Scanlon (PMD 42, 1981) Routledge Following the destruction of the World Trade Center and the... View Details
- 22 Jul 2022
- Blog Post
Climate Stories Episode #7: Turning Waste Heat to Power
mitigation industry. Their goal is to use an existing technology to turn waste energy in heavy manufacturing processes into cleaner, more cost-effective sources of electricity. She noted that although WHP technology is not new, its use in North America is relatively... View Details
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Leadership, Ethics, and Corporate Accountability Course | HBS Online
installments of $3,750) Credential Leadership Principles Professors Joshua Margolis & Anthony Mayo Learn to bring out the best in others by applying and adapting your leadership style and managing the conditions that drive team... View Details
- 19 Jul 2006
- Research & Ideas
Political Turmoil and Mexico’s Economy
leverage over a country's government. In the case of the Panama Canal, for example, the United States was concerned enough about maintaining political stability in the country during the construction of the canal to install a fiscal agent... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna
- 10 Apr 2006
- Research & Ideas
American Auto’s Troubled Road
installing the latest fancy technology. "Their plants are in a state of continual improvement and repurposing, with input from everybody," Snow notes. "But what's really gotten the Japanese to where they are is the use of... View Details
- 01 Nov 2012
- Research & Ideas
Book Excerpt: Judgment Calls
starting a computer dating service (almost before there were computers), selling and installing waterbeds, launching discotheques in drive-in movies, trying to invent a new kind of lasagna pan, producing a just-miss Hollywood movie, or... View Details
- 19 Nov 2012
- Research & Ideas
LEED-ing by Example
won't invest until there is sufficient demand, or a large installed base, but demand won't arise until there is an ample supply of key inputs," he explains. "In our setting, government green-building procurement policies can stimulate... View Details
- 01 Sep 2011
- News
Coming Full Circle
popular notion of management by walking around, management by standing still may offer untapped value: installing privacy curtains around several production lines improved defect-free output by 10 percent, a result he terms the... View Details
- 19 Dec 2005
- Research & Ideas
The Regional Slice of Your Global Strategy
structure became expensive to maintain. Philips responded by installing a matrix organization—with countries and product divisions as its two legs—and spent roughly two decades trying, without much success, to rebalance the matrix away... View Details
Keywords: by Pankaj Ghemawat
- 10 Oct 2005
- Research & Ideas
Homers: Secrets on the Factory Floor
management around homer making suggests many nuances surrounding the practice. At the end of my period of study, a new turn-gate was installed at the main exit of the plant. The idea was perhaps to regulate the outgoing flow of workers,... View Details
- 26 Jun 2000
- Research & Ideas
Presentation Round-Up
Competitive Local Exchange Carriers (CLECs) used the electric companies' "legacy infrastructure"— rights-of-way, poles and conduits, and a highly-trained workforce—to install an all fiber network in key regions around the country. The... View Details
- 15 Sep 2003
- Research & Ideas
The Lessons of New-Market Disruption
investments in customized test software developed for UNIX systems. Teradyne's top customers were not interested in sacrificing accuracy and scrapping already installed software for the cost benefits of CMOS chips and NT. Instead, they... View Details
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Online Transforming Customer Experiences Course | HBS Online
Management in Business (CLIMB) CLIMB enables new and experienced leaders to ignite their careers with a combination of vital and forward-looking business skills, self-reflection, and an immersive cohort-based learning experience with a diverse global network. 1 year,... View Details
- 26 Apr 2011
- Op-Ed
HBS Faculty Comment on Environmental Issues for Earth Day
Earth Day focuses the world's attention on the both the dangers and opportunities facing the planet. But sustainability and the intersection between business and the environment are issues that need to be addressed all the time, as cities grow, resources diminish, and... View Details
- 12 Oct 1999
- Research & Ideas
Confronting the Challenges that Face Bricks-and-Mortar Stores
tried installing video terminals in one of its restaurants to allow patrons to place their own orders. Younger customers loved them, but older people preferred to talk with human attendants. I recently tested an on-line banking system and... View Details