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- 01 Mar 2013
- News
Sizing Up Social Impact
increased expectations for hard, measurable results. Which seems only fair, right? The problem: Nonprofits can lose sight of their mission if a major funder's performance measurement priorities don't align with the necessary actions to... View Details
- 01 Jun 2024
- News
Decoding the Promise and Perils of Generative AI
result was performance declines relative to our control group.” Read more about From Chalkboards to Chatbots Ayelet Israeli Ayelet Israeli Will Large Language Models Replace Traditional Market Research? LLMs could serve as a more... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 01 Jan 2005
- News
Louis V. Gerstner, Jr., MBA 1965
unchallenged position in the marketplace until Japanese firms such as Hitachi and Fujitsu flooded the market with less expensive alternatives. In a bold opening move, Gerstner slashed the price of mainframe systems and pushed the development of a more View Details
- 01 Sep 2010
- News
RX for Change
the norm for health care than the exception. They may not have ever taken a management course, despite the challenge of overseeing dozens of employees across a variety of functions. They’re responsible for their unit’s financial View Details
- 01 Jun 2009
- News
Cynthia Carroll
several fatalities there. There were 28,000 employees at that mine; we brought people up from below ground and worked to retrain and refocus them. We lost millions of dollars while production was curtailed, but it was the right thing to do. We’ve improved our safety... View Details
- 01 Oct 2002
- News
Sam Hayes
market is still the most efficient in the world,” he says. “Over the longer term, one can buy and hold investments and be confident that price disparities will smooth out with time and be reflective of real value.” The author and coauthor... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 01 Dec 2005
- News
Trillion-Dollar Fixer-Upper
has become lower.” It’s not just institutional investors who have turned to real estate. “Whether you are an individual investor or a hedge fund, having another asset class whose performance is not tied to stocks and bonds is very... View Details
- 01 Feb 2018
- News
HBS Professor Emeritus Hugo Uyterhoeven Dies at 86
has paid lower prices for a huge range of high-quality foreign-made goods. The resulting increase in the purchasing power of consumers’ income—combined with our highly efficient retail distribution system—has created a shopper’s paradise... View Details
- 19 Aug 2024
- News
Quantum Leap
logistics to web services—will be disrupted, with experts predicting that quantum machines will rapidly perform tasks that would take today’s fastest digital supercomputers years to complete. Quantum computers will be able to carry out... View Details
- 01 Jun 1997
- News
Blockbuster Deals
systems and nonfunctional governance systems." "In the 1980s," says Jensen, "there were many more takeovers, mergers, leveraged buyouts, and restructurings intended to create efficiency and value. While some of this is happening now,... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons and Nancy O. Perry
- 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
- 01 Jun 2010
- News
MBAs on a Mission
carry out our mission.” Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts has sponsored a Leadership Fellow almost every year of the program’s existence. “Any established institution runs a major risk of becoming staid, stodgy, complacent, and... View Details
- 01 Sep 2022
- News
Your Family, Your Work, Your Way
ultimately interviewing hundreds of parents in the corporate sector, as well as in medicine, the military, nonprofits, education, performing arts, academia, and in frontline service jobs. In 2016, Dowling used her findings to launch... View Details
- 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
- 01 Apr 1996
- News
Stewards of the Seventh Generation
"green" and competitive. In the September-October 1995 Harvard Business Review, Porter (with coauthor Claas van der Linde) argues that by creatively and proactively attending to environmental exigencies, companies are likely not only to eliminate waste and use... View Details
- 01 Apr 2002
- News
Urban Evolution - HBS Research on the Inner City
as its discount prices and large selection of merchandise. As Sprint and Walgreens have shown, Porter notes, companies that invest in the inner city and entrepreneurs who start businesses there are well positioned to take advantage of a growing, local labor pool; the... View Details
- 01 Feb 1997
- News
OPM Celebrates 21st Anniversary at Gala Florida Reunion
rapid-fire, three-hour discussion of the threats and opportunities inherent in the marketspace, how digital information is changing the infrastructure of companies and why, and the impact of digital information on organizational View Details
- 01 Mar 2004
- News
David “Bull” Gurfein: Bronze Star citation
Summary Action: Major David Gurfein, while serving as Officer-in-Charge, Task Force “Bold Eagle Bravo”, I Marine Expeditionary Force, 20 March 2003, performed his duties in a professional and heroic manner. Task Force “Bold Eagle Bravo”... View Details
- 01 Mar 2011
- News
Making Their Way
accomplishes its illumination requirements first and foremost. But it should also be pleasing to the eye and soothing to the spirit. It should render colors accurately, burn efficiently and for a long time, harmonize with interior design,... View Details
- 01 Mar 2005
- News
Answering the Call
things,” Benihana ads promised). Illustration by PJ Loughran After reading in a trade publication about Benihana’s innovative and efficient use of labor and layout to lower costs and facilitate customer turnaround times, Professor Earl... View Details