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- 19 Sep 2016
- News
Sustainable Farming in the Arid World
stable cost environment, [to] have almost no impact on the environment, and to employ people in communities where there wasn’t agriculture before. “Right now our largest operation is in South Australia; it’s... View Details
- 01 Dec 2011
- News
At Your Service
Anne Morriss (MBA 2004) maintain that it is possible for organizations to reduce costs while dramatically enhancing customer service. That win-win approach involves “looking at your biggest buckets of cost... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg; customer service; Computer and Electronic Product Manufacturing; Computer and Electronic Product Manufacturing; Computer and Electronic Product Manufacturing; Computer and Electronic Product Manufacturing; Computer and Electronic Product Manufacturing; Computer and Electronic Product Manufacturing; Computer and Electronic Product Manufacturing; Computer and Electronic Product Manufacturing
- 01 Feb 2002
- News
Q&A: Wrestling with the Unthinkable
factor it into their decisions and their daily lives, the better. This is going to be a very long, drawn-out campaign; the Afghan part is just the beginning of the beginning. To the extent that decision-makers can say to themselves, "We... View Details
- 28 May 2019
- News
What I Do: Gordon Medenica (MBA 1979)
lottery and gaming for the State of Maryland. A media executive earlier in his career, including 16 years at the New York Times Company, Medenica was drawn by the scale of an industry with estimated annual revenues of over $80 billion, in... View Details
- 01 Mar 2009
- News
Health care article stats
12/1/08 citing: WHO; U.S. Dept. of Health and Human Services; Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services) p. 30 “2007 McKinsey study ” (“Accounting for the cost of health care... View Details
Keywords: Health, Social Assistance
- 07 Jan 2016
- News
Helping Property Owners Reduce Their Carbon Footprint
water and energy efficiency in their buildings so they can reduce the carbon footprint that they are causing. We found that many of our customers implement new clean technology to reduce energy cost View Details
- 01 Dec 2013
- News
Faculty Opinion: Making It Better
Image by Jezper by Regina E. Herzlinger Health care now represents some 18 percent of the American economy. With its costs continuing to rise, and with tens of millions uninsured, we in the United States are... View Details
- 01 Dec 2015
- News
Complements to the Case Method
case discussion to determine whether ideas are reasonable or not, but there’s no way for us to test them in the classroom. In the simulation, students have to make choices and then learn about the View Details
- 10 Mar 2021
- News
Dream Job: Higher Ed’s New Hire
The daughter of teenage parents, Kim Lew (MBA 1992) grew up in public housing in Harlem and the Bronx. Her father, a Chinese immigrant, worked in the mailroom of AT&T, where the CEO was a graduate of Penn’s Wharton School of Business. Lew... View Details
- 01 Apr 2002
- News
Stocking Up Can Build Customer Value
A classic business problem from the 1950s illustrates the tension between inventory costs and missed sales. A newspaper vendor must decide how many papers to buy each day based on typical demand. His profit... View Details
- 06 Jan 2012
- News
Where Are They Now?
designer. Manufacturing the beds in India keeps costs down, and making them both upgradable and compact gives buyers—Indian health care institutions—the opportunity to increase... View Details
Keywords: Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools
- 01 Jun 2009
- News
Insights from the Post-Macho Workplace
Many interviewees contrasted the pro forma safety training they had received in previous jobs — where everyone knew the real priorities were still cost cutting and speed — with the company’s current... View Details
- 26 Jan 2015
- News
The Ingredients for Success
cost of her much-smaller condo in Los Angeles. Markowitz, now 39, believes she’s found her true passion as NOCHI’s executive director. “I’m attracted to creative people,” she says. “I think sequentially and... View Details
- 01 Dec 2013
- News
Faculty Q&A: Playing the Hits
for one-fifth of the total production costs and more than one-quarter of worldwide grosses. The top 10 percent accounted for a third of the costs but generated more than... View Details
- 01 Dec 2017
- News
2017 in Health Care: Telemedicine Has Arrived
help achieve better access to care and a lower cost of care. And employers are embracing telemedicine as a way to provide employees convenient health care at a lower View Details
- 01 Dec 2003
- News
A Legacy of Investment
donated the entire cost of building the campus in the 1920s. In the 1930s, the “Two Hundred Fifty Associates” funded research and case-writing activities threatened by the Great Depression. Post-World War II... View Details
- 01 Dec 2018
- News
Supporting Global Understanding, Locally
economic and social consequences when the financial system fails.” Sabanci Dincer’s gift will provide financial aid for international students as well as funding for faculty research that furthers global... View Details
- 01 Dec 2008
- News
Lack of Energy: The Problem of Human Inertia
can be an effective tactic: “People are more likely to support energy policies that have initial costs and long-term benefits when the policies will be implemented in the future — even in the near future —... View Details
- 01 Sep 2003
- News
Books
industries — from automotive and semiconductors, to banking and pharmaceuticals. Citing the falling costs of computing and advances in simulation... View Details
- 09 Dec 2021
- News
Higher Returns
they react to that change? How can they address it? What are the things that leaders need to do to ensure their firms can succeed in this new era? RS: A couple more points on the consequences if they don't change. Because I do think that... View Details