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Documenting the Wartime Effort | Baker Library | Bloomberg Center | Harvard Business School

approximately 254,000 in 1940 to a wartime high of 340,000 in 1943. 26 Businesses around the country began to spend more on PR. For U.S. Steel, photography, in particular, continued to factor heavily in U.S. Steel’s public relations efforts. 27 By the early 1940s, the... View Details

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Strategy & IT - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness

resource planning. See below for “How Information Gives You Competitive Advantage.” The rise of the internet unleashed the second wave of IT-driven transformation in the 1980s and 1990s. The internet enabled coordination and integration... View Details

01 Jun 2023
News

From Big Pharma to Startup

people with disabling hearing loss Buoy Health—provides AI-powered feedback on symptoms and makes recommendations for care options Careport Health—offers care coordination software solutions to manage patient transitions across the... View Details

Keywords: April White

26 Mar 2024
Blog Post

IFC India: Financing the Climate Transition in India

gassesb. Extend sustainable, reliable, productive-use energy to 1 billion underserved peoplec. Enable 150 million green jobs that generate inclusive economic growth Takeaways: Coordination Challenges: GEAPP recognizes that the primary... View Details

02 Oct 2006
Research & Ideas

Negotiating in Three Dimensions

least three sets of reasons. First, formal authority, hierarchy, and command are less and less able by themselves to ensure productive cooperation and genuine commitment. This is the case internally where cross-functional and inter-unit View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

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Demonstration Policy | About

Course Activities policy. Some forms of capture are not permitted without prior permission, particularly if the content will be broadcast, disseminated publicly, or used for commercial purposes of any kind. All media on campus must be View Details

08 Nov 2021
Blog Post

4 Ways the MS/MBA is Preparing Me for a Career in Health Care and the Life Sciences

put theory into practice and to further develop my understanding in areas I am passionate about. For example, last year I had the chance to coordinate a panel featuring senior leaders of the pandemic response from the UK, Nigeria, and... View Details

26 Nov 2001
Research & Ideas

How Toyota Turns Workers Into Problem Solvers

systems of factories, hotels, hospitals, or agencies as reflected in (a) the structure of who gets what good, service, or information from whom, (b) the coordinative connections among people so that they can express reliably what they... View Details

Keywords: by Sarah Jane Johnston; Manufacturing; Transportation; Auto

01 Apr 2000
News

Student "Treks" Lead to Jobs and Opportunities

one-third of the HBS student body -- traveled to San Francisco and Silicon Valley as participants in the fifth annual WesTrek, an event organized by members of the High Tech and New Media Club in coordination with the School's Career... View Details

04 Apr 2018
Research & Ideas

Smart Cities are Complicated and Costly: Here's How to Build Them

Chombosan Much promotion of smart cities assumes that municipalities will take a proactive, top-down, technology-first approach to urban progress. Thus far, these initiatives look for some forward-thinking city official (or immensely deep-pocketed private investor) to... View Details

Keywords: by John Macomber; Construction; Green Technology

10 Aug 2009
Research & Ideas

High Commitment, High Performance Management

confronting strategic, organizational, and people issues and priorities. Poor coordination and collaboration between key value-creating activities, preventing effective execution. Inadequate leadership development. Closed vertical... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

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Software Tools - Research Computing Services

part of your submission script or by including the PATH assignment in your .bashrc login script. Additionally, one could write a personal or team software module, which can be used in coordination with the system-wide software modules.... View Details

30 May 2023
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Finding PRIDE

published my letter. There was an uproar, and one classmate started spreading the word that David wrote the letter and was part of the radical gay liberation movement. He had nothing to do with it, except to coordinate with me to publish... View Details

Keywords: Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

03 Nov 2023
News

Global Networking Night; Sweden Club Holds Climate Forum

Clubs News Clubs News Global Networking Night 2023 Another successful Global Networking Night (GNN) is in the books, after alumni around the world held nearly 60 separate events on October 25. The annual GNN features alumni gatherings—some in person, some... View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley

04 Nov 2015
What Do You Think?

Why Does Gender Diversity Improve Financial Performance?

included those that “women have greater analytical skills and coordinate activities with much (greater) ease than men while upholding company values and strategy” (Mathews Daniel Kapito); “Having senior female leaders should lead to... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

10 May 2019
Blog Post

Advice for Mothers Pursuing an MBA

section (for example: without loud music and in accessible places/times). I partnered with our amazing president Greg and with the social life representatives Annie and Karan to coordinate those events. When my baby was born, my dear... View Details

11 Feb 2020
Sharpening Your Skills

10 Rules Entrepreneurs Need to Know Before Adopting AI

is superior, but because the end-to-end product is better. Focusing on serving your customers’ end users should be baked into the team’s DNA. In most cases, you are building more than the ML product, so collaboration and coordination is... View Details

Keywords: by Rocio Wu

22 Feb 2021
Book

Reaching Today's Omnichannel Customer Takes a New Sales Strategy

only have to use more data in their selling activities, but there's more cross-functional coordination required. "Improving sales productivity ... affects growth, civic discourse, and the lives of millions of people." If a buyer has a... View Details

Keywords: by Kristen Senz

16 Mar 2020
Research & Ideas

How the Coronavirus Is Already Rewriting the Future of Business

gone. This is an opportunity to learn Slack and Zoom and have a mentor teach you how to use these tools. The second thing is, working remotely is very effective if you can also restructure the organizational processes for how communication happens, how socialization... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman

27 Jun 2019
Research & Ideas

Rituals Strengthen Couples. Here’s Why They’re Good for Business, Too

Working Knowledge. Ailyn Pestana, junior designer and photo coordinator at Harvard Business School, created the charts above. Image: svetikd Related Reading Ignore This Advice at Your Own Peril Why Business Should Support Employees Who... View Details