Performance Efficiency - Publications - Faculty & Research

22 Aug 2024
Blog Post

LM Wind Power Test and Validation Center

student essays that highlight their reflections. When we visited LM Wind Power’s Test and Validation Center in Lunderskov, Denmark, we saw how they work to optimize the efficiency and safety of their blades through a variety of testing... View Details

01 Dec 2013
News

Curing Health Care

Prescriptions: Free the Data! Build a Killer App Measure Health Care's Real Costs Make Medicine Personal Leverage Human Nature Integrate Preventive Care and Payment BUSH: A passionate advocate for improving health care efficiency and... View Details

Keywords: Ambulatory Health Care Services; Health, Social Assistance; Management; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

17 Mar 2015
Research & Ideas

Where Did My Shopping Mall Go?

You want people to touch your product and actually get the brand experience. You could get to a point where stores like Best Buy become just showrooms and fulfillment is done by Amazon because they are much more efficient at it. I could... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Retail

20 Apr 2020
Book

Why COVID-19 Raises the Stakes for Healthy Buildings

recently wrote a book about it: Healthy Buildings: How Indoor Spaces Drive Performance and Productivity, to be published April 21. Although facilities managers might think they’re saving a few dollars on electricity and air filters,... View Details

Keywords: by Kristen Senz; Real Estate; Health

30 Oct 2005
Research & Ideas

Tuning Jobs to Fit Your Company

exhibit "The Four Spans" provides a summary.) The span of control. The first span defines the range of resources—not only people but also assets and infrastructure—for which a manager is given decision rights. These are also the resources whose View Details

Keywords: by Robert Simons

01 Jun 2007
News

KPMG for Mayor!

and graft means that citizens are cheated out of a fair government that operates efficiently and in the public interest. It’s time to consider a radical idea: Corporations and nonprofit groups, in addition to individuals, should be... View Details

Keywords: Eric Werker; Executive, Legislative, and Other General Government Support; Government

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

Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Retail

13 Apr 2023
Blog Post

Grolsch Brewing Company: Drink Sustainably

production facilities. They’re also starting work with distributors and retailers such as pubs and restaurants that serve Grolsch beers and perform “sustainability scans” to increase drafting efficiency and... View Details

10 Oct 2024
Blog Post

High-Tech Greenhouse Innovations in The Netherlands

The company plans to pair this with input from consumer panels, distributor and retailer feedback, and most importantly, feedback from growers. Additionally, the company performs DNA sequencing on most of the varieties it tests to build... View Details

April 2025
Case

Joe Mazzulla and the Boston Celtics (A)

By: Linda A. Hill, James I. Cash and Lydia Begag

Joe Mazzulla's leadership journey with the Boston Celtics began in 2016 when he served as an assistant coach for their NBA G-League affiliate. In 2019, he was promoted to a "behind-the-bench" assistant coaching role with the Celtics, before being asked to become the... View Details

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Educators

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

January 2011
Supplement

Matrix Capital Management (B)

By: Malcolm P. Baker and David Lane

Ben Balbale, a partner at hedge fund Matrix Capital, must decide whether to exit their investment in Rovi Corporation, a company with a diverse portfolio of patents used primarily for digital interactive guides. Rovi's shares are up over 50% from the time Balbale... View Details

Keywords: Public Ownership; Cash Flow; Management Analysis, Tools, and Techniques; Investment Funds; Financial Strategy; Valuation; Partners and Partnerships; Markets; Performance Efficiency; Patents; Stock Shares; Decisions; Financial Services Industry

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Purchase

01 Jun 2000
News

Books

www.mindedge.com. Performance Measurement & Control Systems for Implementing Strategy by Robert L. Simons (Prentice Hall) "This book is built around a number of tensions inherent in all business," declares HBS professor Robert Simons of... View Details

22 Jan 2013
First Look

First Look: Jan. 22

attests to the idea that ritual behavior stimulates goal-directed action (to consume). Experiment 3 found that performing rituals oneself enhanced consumption more than merely watching someone else perform... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

04 Apr 2000
Research & Ideas

The Right Way to Restructure Conglomerates in Emerging Markets

way that companies in advanced economies did in the 1980s. Although well intended, this advice is flawed. Behind the recommendation that business groups should be broken up to create more focused and efficient companies lies the notion... View Details

Keywords: by Tarun Khanna & Krishna Palepu

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Daniela Villafuerte | MBA

providing effective, efficient and tailored solutions to problems. Engineering through the lens of business allows for the solutions to execute its powerful impact in the real world within an organized, cost-effective and data-driven... View Details

01 Dec 2009
News

Alumni Books

The Differentiated Workforce: Transforming Talent into Strategic Impact by Brian E. Becker, Mark A. Huselid, and Richard W. Beatty (MBA ’81) (Harvard Business Press) Many companies spend too much time and money on low performers while... View Details

11 Sep 2019
Research & Ideas

Germany May Have the Answer for Reducing Drug Prices

market—they must demonstrate to an independent panel from the Institute for Quality and Efficiency in Health Care (IQWiG) that a new product works better than existing options for an identifiable group of patients. The rule doesn’t apply... View Details

Keywords: by Danielle Kost; Health

01 Apr 1996
News

Stasis and Turmoil: HBS Research for the Real World

"That is a big mistake." Predictability allows everyone to know what the rules are, establishing an atmosphere of trust so that people can work together productively in an organization, Stevenson argues. Companies can provide more stable environments by, among other... View Details

26 Jan 2010
First Look

First Look: Jan. 26

706-714 Abstract Background: The increased focus on quality and efficiency improvement within academic surgery has met with variable success among plastic surgeons. Traditional surgical performance metrics,... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

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