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- 01 Jun 2001
- News
HBS Alumni Association Board of Directors: President's Report
stewardship to a number of important initiatives, including global conferences, career services, and the nominating process. He has helped us streamline our work and encouraged us to operate more efficiently and effectively. Monty’s... View Details
- 01 Sep 2009
- News
Read All About It!
efficiency engineers — how would we spend our leisure? The problem has bothered social scientists/statesmen, ministers, newspaper editors, and reformers, even though we are not yet even in sight of Utopia. It is supposed, at least by... View Details
- 25 Oct 2011
- First Look
First Look: October 25
Authors:Steenburgh, Thomas J., and Das Narayandas Publication:Chap. 9 in Legends in Marketing: Philip Kotler, 114-122. Sage, forthcoming An abstract is unavailable at this time. Publisher's Link: http://www.uk.sagepub.com/books/Book235569 Working PapersFairness,... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Jun 2008
- News
“Where can we find such a person?”
Also on the agenda would be managing internal and external communications, including dealing with the press and public about the controversies surrounding our work. And the person would have to run the administrative side to make sure we are running View Details
- 13 Nov 2020
- News
Faculty Focus Their Research on COVID-19 Issues
expertise on how technology is helping leading companies gain an edge during the pandemic. For example, Lauren Cohen observed: “Technology will be most powerfully utilized . . . by those firms who apply it organization-wide to create more nimble, View Details
- 01 Oct 2001
- News
New Economy Notables: Peter C. Wendell
that, how to share information efficiently within a company, new ways to share information with suppliers and customers — those elements of the new economy are unstoppable. How... View Details
- 01 Jun 1996
- News
1996 Global Alumni Conference Probes "Information Revolution"
Considering the title of the 1996 HBS Global Alumni Conference - The Information Revolution: "Bridging the Gap" - San Francisco was a particularly fitting locale for this forward-looking event. The city's Golden Gate has long been a... View Details
Keywords: Daniel Penrice
- 10 Jun 2015
- Research & Ideas
The Transparency Revolution in Corporate Reporting
companies encouraging and funding ESG innovation. Dow Chemical has enormous energy consumption in their operations, but they've managed to save more than $10 billion through efficiency programs and are moving the world toward the adoption... View Details
Keywords: Re: George Serafeim
- 01 Jun 2013
- News
Five Bright Ideas
learn (or review) and then points to what the student should next master to proceed most efficiently to his or her knowledge goal. FAST FACT: Knewton was named a 2011 Technology Pioneer by the World Economic Forum. DATA POINT: In a... View Details
- 25 Aug 2003
- Research & Ideas
Should You Sell Your Digital Privacy?
information technologies of the last several decades such as databases, call centers, and the Internet have had the effect of facilitating interaction between firms and individually identified customers. Such interactivity makes... View Details
- 01 Jun 2000
- News
Capturing Human Capital
corporations rely on information planning and control systems and processes that are designed to help management make sound strategic choices and ensure efficient implementation of those decisions. "They do... View Details
- Profile
Nelson Yuan
investment banking at Morgan Stanley and two at the Carlyle Group, where he worked in private equity and debt investment. Efficient way to learn business As Nelson’s career matured, he “didn’t find finance fulfilling.” But making the... View Details
- 30 Oct 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, October 30, 2018
Amit Seru Abstract—We examine whether firms have an informational advantage in selecting arbitrators in consumer arbitration as well as the impact of the arbitrator selection process on outcomes. We collect data containing roughly 9,000... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 11 Nov 2014
- First Look
First Look: November 11
demonstrates that when employees can see their customers, the beneficiaries of their efforts, the quality and efficiency of the service they deliver can actually improve. Studies in food service show how revealing customers to employees... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 24 Oct 2023
- Blog Post
Alumni in Climate Networking Series: San Francisco
technical opportunities that make them hopeful for our global climate and how recent legislation such as the IRA, CHIPs, and Science Acts have advanced those opportunities and informed their investment strategies. They ended the panel... View Details
- Web
Kraft Accelerator
SUSTAINABILITY (pdf) LISTEN TO THE PODCAST Clinical Trials Too many clinical trials are unsuccessful due to poor design or lack of enrollment. We’re developing methods to make trials run as efficiently as possible so patients can get the... View Details
- 01 Sep 2003
- News
Globalization Revisited
should become “global” by standardizing the production, distribution, and marketing of their products across all countries. Sameness meant efficiency and would be more profitable than difference. From economies of scale would flow... View Details
- 13 May 2002
- Op-Ed
A Cure for Enron-Style Audit Failures
efficient and cheaper methods that undermine quality audits. The audit committee must have the leadership, independence and information to oversee the auditors and their relationship with the management.—... View Details
- 01 Sep 2024
- News
Reduce, Reuse, Recycle
Thirteen years ago, Marcelo Claure, founder of wireless services company Brightstar, discussed with a reluctant Steve Jobs the idea of launching a trade-in and recycling program for iPhones. It was a business move that expanded the market and created a new profit... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Meyers
- 01 Jun 2010
- News
Faculty Books
Business Press) Professors Khanna and Palepu argue that the main exploitable characteristic of emerging markets is the lack of institutions (credit-card systems, intellectualproperty adjudication, data research firms) that facilitate View Details