Monitoring - Publications - Faculty & Research

30 Aug 2004
Research & Ideas

Mapping Your Board’s Effectiveness

and monitor the CEO, scrutinize the performance of the company's leadership team, oversee financial reporting and disclosure, and ensure compliance with laws and regulations. The recent failures triggered regulatory and legislative... View Details

Keywords: by Robert S. Kaplan

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

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... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna

01 Oct 2001
News

Courage and Hope in Africa

the country's economy and infrastructure in shambles and with its enormous social problems (Sierra Leone has the highest infant mortality rate in the world), Van Gerpen is seeking aid for UNICEF from Western governments and international development agencies. Van... View Details

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

01 Oct 2000
News

HBS Alumni Association Board of Directors: President's Report

offered in conjunction with this month's reunions: Transitions and Transformation and Strengthening Your Role as a Nonprofit Board Leader. These were tailored specifically to the needs of alumni. In addition, the committee has urged the School to View Details

08 Oct 2014
Research & Ideas

Who Is the Chief Sustainability Officer?

Since the start of the 2000s, a high-level corporate position has evolved that is still something of a mystery. As companies have engaged in more efforts around sustainability, environmental and otherwise, the "chief sustainability officer" has been created... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Manufacturing

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

06 Jun 2023
Blog Post

Van den Ende Rozen: Greenhouse Rose Production

malfunction. As the cameras monitor and collect data used to make recommendations about which roses to cut, they need to function properly to optimize production. While challenges persist, the brothers continue to test lighting options... View Details

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

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

Help Help Technical How-To’s & Notes 10ms 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

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

03 Jul 2018
First Look

New Research and Ideas, July 3, 2018

conduct and to monitor their suppliers for compliance, but it is not clear whether or when these organizational structures can actually raise labor standards. We extend the literature on private politics and decoupling by identifying... View Details

Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

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Crunchbase | Baker Library

Crunchbase Search, track, and monitor private and portfolio company data, people and investors. Read More Information also includes deals, contacts and funding rounds. Data provided by contributors, partners, and in-house data experts.... View Details

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

Profile

Tafadzwa Samushonga

investigate market-based approaches to eradicating poverty during her career at the Monitor Group (later acquired by Deloitte). “I did not join Monitor with social enterprise in mind, but as we used the... View Details

Keywords: Consulting

29 Mar 2023
News

Robert Kraft Launches Campaign to Combat Antisemitism

Photo courtesy New England Patriots Photo courtesy New England Patriots New England Patriots owner Robert Kraft (MBA 1965) launched a $25 million "Stand Up to Jewish Hate" campaign last week, which is "aiming to raise awareness nationwide about soaring incidents of... View Details

Larissa Bifano

computer databases, solid state devices and wireless positioning systems; medical technologies, including cancer treatment therapies, health and fitness monitoring and implantable devices; and various other technologies including... View Details

01 Sep 2003
News

Incentives and Operational Excellence

say $3 — in return for a share of the revenues, typically 50 percent. This allowed the retailers to break even with just one or two rentals. Monitoring and technology, however, are key to implementation of the plan, and the new system... View Details

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

04 Mar 2002
Research & Ideas

Don’t Lose Money With Customers

managing customer relationships in the business-to-business environment into four distinct phases: defining and building a portfolio of customers the firm wants to serve, crafting and implementing relationship-management strategies, View Details

Keywords: by Peter K. Jacobs

12 Mar 2019
First Look

New Research and Ideas, March 12, 2019

successful dual-purpose companies build a commitment to creating both economic and social value into their core activities. This approach, which they call hybrid organizing, includes: setting and monitoring social goals alongside... View Details