Monitoring - Publications - Faculty & Research

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Book

Canada at the Crossroads: The Reality of a New Competitive Environment

By: M. E. Porter and The Monitor Company

Keywords: Global Strategy; Globalized Markets and Industries; Canada

01 Sep 2003
News

Mark Fuller

Fuller Photo courtesy Monitor Group While many HBS grads hanker for a plum job with a major consulting firm, Mark B. Fuller started his own. He made the leap from HBS assistant professor to cofounder and CEO of the View Details

Keywords: Roger Thompson; Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services; Professional Services

02 May 2011
Research & Ideas

Casino Payoff: Hands-Off Management Works Best

employee monitoring makes the case that if business owners are interested in their customer-facing workers learning and making progressively better decisions over time, they're far better off taking a hands-off approach and granting more... View Details

Keywords: by Dennis Fisher; Entertainment & Recreation

Profile

Matt Segneri

In high school, Matt Segneri excelled in math and science. "In college," Matt says, "I wanted to move from discrete problem-solving to more complex issues." Matt majored in psychology at Harvard, where he had the opportunity to intern with View Details

01 Sep 2018
News

Your Keyboard Is Listening

certain key, collecting more than 2,000 data points. Research has shown that this behavioral biometric is highly consistent over time, seemingly unique to each individual typist, and nearly impossible for another person to replicate. Samzelius believed that View Details

Keywords: April White

01 Jun 1999
News

Sheila Lirio Marcelo

Cambridge, for example, she served as a market research consultant, covering the telecommunications industry in Asia. Her strong interest in the region prompted her to seek a summer internship in the Philippines with Monitor Company, the... View Details

Keywords: Marguerite Rigoglioso

09 Apr 2024
News

To Serve and Protect the Markets

Every day, in her role as the director of the Atlanta Regional Office of the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), Nekia Hackworth Jones (MBA 2004) stands in the breach between the $100 trillion in securities traded on U.S. equity markets and the bad actors who... View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley

Fast Answer

Patent search: application status

How can I monitor a patent application status? If the patent application is filed in USPTO, go to PAIR Webpage, select Private PAIR or Public PAIR, and begin a search by various numbers such as application number,... View Details

01 Mar 2025
News

Assets: These Little Piggies

Not long after Joseph Fuller (MBA 1981) cofounded the consultancy Monitor Group in 1983, a competitor made it known that pigs would fly before the firm succeeded. “That became our rallying cry,” Fuller says. He hung a terra-cotta flying pig from the ceiling of one of... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna

09 Aug 2011
News

A Toast to Macchu Pisco

countries are riding the pisco boom but the Peruvian version has a quality edge, the Times asserted. Explains Asher, “We get our grapes from a cooperative of women growers. We monitor the wild yeasts, use cold fermentation, and generally... View Details

Keywords: Beverage and Tobacco Product Manufacturing; Manufacturing

01 Dec 2007
News

Wells to Lead IMD

firms, including the Monitor Company and Datapaq, both of which he cofounded. He also served as CFO for PepsiCo and Frito-Lay International. After a teaching stint at HBS in the mid-1980s, Wells rejoined the faculty in 2002. View Details

Keywords: Business Schools & Computer & Management Training; Educational Services

Joyce C. Hall

Hall created the world’s largest greeting card company. Hallmark Cards are sold throughout the world (currently in 100 countries). He pioneered the use of radio and TV advertising for greeting cards and revolutionized the industry with a display case that allowed the... View Details

Keywords: Retail

Fast Answer

International land development resources

Where can I find information on land development? Land Matrix: Information about large-scale land acquisitions (LSLAs) in low- and middle-income countries. Explore the geographic information systems (GIS) map and search datasets compiled by... View Details

13 Mar 2012
First Look

First Look: March 13

software and IT service firms will likely have an inward focus over the next five years and will, therefore, only slowly emerge onto the global market. Working PapersThe Role of Organizational Scope and Governance in Strengthening Private View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

04 Sep 2019
News

A Measured Approach

sophisticated monitoring and evaluation tools that could make a huge difference in how organizations implement and modify their projects, but they simply weren’t being used by decision-makers on the ground. A big reason they decided to... View Details

Keywords: Lisa Scanlon Mogolov

Fast Answer

Airline industry: overviews & statistics

Australian, and global markets Statista - quick statistics and articles on the topic Additional resource: United States Bureau of Transportation Statistics Federal Aviation Administration Global and European Air Transport Monthly View Details

Theodore W. Waitt

Waitt built one of the most successful computer manufacturers and sellers in the US. Along with Dell, Gateway became a pioneering force in using direct mail and the Internet to sell personal computers. Though Gateway has often lagged the performance of Dell, it was the... View Details

Keywords: Computers & Electronics

Career Coach

Katherine Manweiler

also a Rocker Summer Fellow and is pursuing entrepreneurship during school so can provide perspective for students interested in joining or founding a startup. To book time with Katherine, send her an email. Employment Experience: Monitor... View Details

Web

Technical How-To’s & Notes - Research Computing Services

Help Help Technical How-To’s & Notes 15ms Archiving Your Research Files on the HBSGrid Change your Unix command prompt Changing permissions on the HBSGrid Monitoring CPU usage of your jobs on the HBSGrid HBSGrid Project directory space... View Details

01 Jun 2022
News

Eyes in the Skies

Beijing—simply by dropping a pin onto a map. Because the company’s satellites fly over the same sites multiple times a day, customers can monitor evolving situations over time, such as tracking tug boats as they haul barges laden with... View Details

Keywords: Alexander Gelfand

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