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October 1993 (Revised March 2001)
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Connecticut Spring and Stamping Corp. (A)

Connecticut Spring and Stamping Corp. (CSSC) is a small, privately owned metal working company with a reputation for providing quality products to its customers. CSSC's business is primarily the production of springs and stamped parts used in a variety of mechanical... View Details

Keywords: Customer Satisfaction; Engineering; Private Ownership; Quality; Manufacturing Industry

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Managing the Advantages and Tradeoffs of Collaborative Structures

By: Ethan S. Bernstein

To solve complex problems, organizations must both collect facts and use them to solve problems. In one study, my coauthors and I show that increased connectivity—measured as network... View Details

Keywords: Networks; Human Behavior; Performance; Virtual Work; Hybrid Work; Office Space; Workplace Design; Communication; Social and Collaborative Networks; Behavior; Organizational Design; Organizational Structure; Leadership; Management

14 Feb 2005
Research & Ideas

Desktop Search and Revenue Streams

Yahoo is able to collect data, such as click patterns, from its users and use the information to individually "tune" searches to users' personal tendencies. Such product improvements, Horowitz said, will change the nature of... View Details

Keywords: by Julie Jette

19 Dec 2012
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Affordable Housing: Israel and the United States

approach. And there is the public-transit link: the government can construct high-speed rails to move people from cheaper housing to big cities, a project underway in Modiin. (The United States, while... View Details

Keywords: by Nicolas P. Retsinas, John H. Vogel & Charles S. Laven; Construction; Construction

07 Dec 2022

MS/MBA Information Session and Q&A

Join HBS MS/MBA students to learn more about the MS/MBA Engineering Sciences and MS/MBA Biotechnology programs at Harvard. You've got questions - we've got the answers! View Details

February 2008
Article

Where Do Transactions Come From? Modularity, Transactions, and the Boundaries of Firms

By: Carliss Y. Baldwin

This article constructs a theory of the location of transactions and the boundaries of firms in a productive system. It proposes that systems of production can be viewed as networks, in which tasks-cum-agents are the nodes and transfers—of material, energy and... View Details

Keywords: Boundaries; Production; Market Transactions; Supply Chain; Management; Cost; Theory; Performance Productivity; Information Management; Complexity

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Cluster (2012) Turkey Automotive (2011) Turkey & The Construction Services Cluster (2007) Uganda Uganda Fishing Cluster (2010) United Arab Emirates Dubai Logistics Cluster (2015) Abu Dhabi (UAE) Petrochemical Cluster (2012) Dubai (UAE)... View Details

January 2002
Case

Noranda Inc.: Mining, Smelting, and Sustainability?

By: Richard H.K. Vietor

Noranda is a $7 billion international mining and smelting company headquartered in Canada. It has been cited for its fine environmental record. This case explores the issue of sustainability--in this case, for a mining company. Over time, and under nongovernmental... View Details

Keywords: Cost vs Benefits; Mining; Cost Management; Multinational Firms and Management; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Policy; Environmental Sustainability; Mining Industry

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06 Aug 2021
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Steve Jobs and the Rise of the Celebrity CEO

a desperate attempt to remain relevant in the world of Windows 95. In a remarkable turn of events, Apple’s then CEO, Amelio, engineered the purchase of NeXT in December of 1996 for the startlingly high price of $429 million in cash View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman

07 Apr 2014
Research & Ideas

Negotiation and All That Jazz

Wheeler. "Even after making a good deal, people wonder if they could have done better." Such self-doubt is a costly distraction. "It gets in the way of constructive engagement and relationship-building."... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

24 Nov 2003
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Boards and Corporate Governance: A Balanced Scorecard Approach

the author of more than 100 papers and nine books. Dr. Kaplan received a BS and MS in electrical engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology View Details

Keywords: Re: Robert S. Kaplan & Krishna G. Palepu

13 Jan 2020
Blog Post

Blending my Tech and Managerial Mindsets

tech companies on digital and technology transformation with McKinsey and Company, and previously worked as an engineer deploying rapid... View Details

01 Dec 1996
News

Starting Up and Starting Over

been recorded in numerous cases, research, books, and articles that have educated and influenced generations of students and practitioners around the globe. From the classroom... View Details

22 Apr 2015
Op-Ed

Reforming Greece: Myths and Truths

especially the efficient functioning of the courts. Greece has excellent human capital, as evidenced by the supply of qualified engineers and the availability of skilled labor. It lacks the institutions... View Details

Keywords: by George Serafeim

01 Dec 2020
News

The Camel and the Unicorn

cumulatively millions of largely men—but by no means completely men—with engineering talent and interest and ambition that say, where do I want to be? Morrell: So Silicon... View Details

25 Aug 2022
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Understanding the Digital, Data, and Design Institute at Harvard

design and software engineering capabilities to enable faculty research, and administrative services to launch and run labs efficiently View Details

19 Sep 2023
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How Will the Tech Titans Behind ChatGPT, Bard, and LLaMA Make Money?

engines has put their intellectual property in this situation of being copyrighted but also public. What do those creators do about their data? You can say it's copyrighted, and say other people can't use... View Details

Keywords: by Ben Rand; Technology; Information Technology

2022
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Improving Efficiency and Reducing Costs of MRI-Guided Prostate Brachytherapy Using Time-Driven Activity-Based Costing

By: Nikhil G. Thaker, Rajat J. Kudchadker, James R. Incalcaterra, Tharakeswara K. Bathala, Robert S. Kaplan, Ankit Agarwal, Deborah A. Kuban, Benjamin D. Frank, Prajnan Das, Thomas W. Feeley and Steven J. Frank

Integrated quality improvement (QI) and cost reduction strategies can help increase value in cancer care. We applied standard QI and TDABC methods to improve workflow efficiency and reduce costs for MRI-guided prostate brachytherapy. We constructed process maps,... View Details

Keywords: Brachytherapy; Quality Improvement; Prostate; Time-Driven Activity-Based Costing; Cost Accounting; Health Care and Treatment; Performance Efficiency; Health Industry

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