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- 07 Aug 2017
- Blog Post
A Summer Internship with the City of Boston
Fellowship, has led the charge, championing the end user in a system burdened with legacy IT, a complex government bureaucracy, and the financial constraints that (rightfully) come with using taxpayers’... View Details
- 01 Apr 2014
- First Look
First Look: April 1
centers. It uses a transfer-pricing system designed to account for interdependencies between profit centers and to induce coordination. Further, profit center managers are incentivized with own-level residual income measures. The use of... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 11 Jul 2012
- Research & Ideas
The Future of Boards
eight experts and practitioners, all with ties to HBS, to examine the state of boards today, what lies ahead, and what needs to change in the context of an increasingly global world that has seen the complexity of corporations increase to... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna
- 22 Nov 2016
- First Look
November 22, 2016
the complex regulatory environment that governs Indian gaming. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=51932 Fall 2016 Manufacturing & Service Operations Management The Impact of Supplier Inventory Service... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 17 Mar 2011
- Research & Ideas
Harvard Business School Faculty Comment on Crisis in Japan
devastating and saddening human costs, the earthquake in Japan is another reminder of the complexity of the world's supply chains and the great interdependencies in global production systems. The world's supply chains are View Details
Keywords: Re: Multiple Faculty
- 12 Mar 2019
- Blog Post
What I Learned in the Africa Rising Short Intensive Program
some of the questions that we explored in the “Africa Rising: Understanding Business, Entrepreneurship, and the Complexities of a Continent,” one of the Short Intensive Programs (SIPs) offered this January. Guided by Professor Caroline... View Details
- 22 Apr 2021
- News
Leading for a Better World in Boston; Virtual Event Showcases Japan Fellowship
moderator David Harris (MBA 1984), talked about addressing the complexities of hunger during COVID-19 with panelists Ajay Relan, founder of #HashtagLunchbag, an effort to feed the homeless and hungry through social media and self-directed... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 22 Mar 2011
- First Look
First Look: March 22
in the credit market that have deep roots in the system's structure, conduct, and regulation. The time has come for a clear-eyed assessment of what happened and how the system should be strengthened and restructured. Such reform will have... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 14 Oct 2002
- Research & Ideas
The Widening Rift Between Corporations and Society
now? Zuboff and Maxmin: A century ago mass consumption was on the rise. People wanted more things. The answer was to produce more goods at an ever-lower cost—mass production. Corporations were organized around a managerial hierarchy invented to provide a tight inward... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 02 Mar 2017
- What Do You Think?
Is China About to Overtake the US for World Trade Leadership?
reluctance to open up the banking system and promote the yuan as a global reserve currency. These were the conclusions of nearly all respondents to this month’s column. Nevertheless, there was an undertone to the comments suggesting that... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 14 Apr 2008
- Research & Ideas
The Surprising Right Fit for Software Testing
system testing, and system integration testing. Personal Motivation Specialisterne's founder, Thorkil Sonne, launched the company in 2004 following a high-level career in telecommunications IT.... View Details
- 01 Sep 2016
- News
How I Got to Google
end of the day, product managers are judged on execution and the quality of their launch. SS: Any advice for people who want to be a PM but don’t have a technical background? PR: I’m a computer and biomedical engineer by training, and spent two years working as a View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 30 Oct 2005
- Research & Ideas
Tuning Jobs to Fit Your Company
lower level. Finally, executives can use accounting and control systems to adjust the span of influence. For example, the span will be wider for managers who are forced to bear the burden of indirect cost allocations generated by other... View Details
Keywords: by Robert Simons
- 01 Dec 2013
- News
Curing Health Care
offices—have promised to make patient data easier to analyze and move around to different care settings. But the biggest EHR players sell systems that are relatively closed, that are best at communicating within the walls of the hospital... View Details
- 29 May 2001
- Research & Ideas
How Technological Disruption Changes Everything
serve. Why are more and more beds in hospitals vacant? With improving technology, complex work done only at hospitals can now be accomplished at stand-alone sub-system centers, out-patient and in-office care, and through in-home care. The... View Details
- 01 Jun 2008
- News
A Binary Formula
530,000-square-foot Allston Science Complex — four multistory buildings, due for completion in 2011 — the centerpiece of the initial phase of Harvard’s 300-acre development on the Boston side of the Charles River. Both in the scale and... View Details
- 19 Apr 2004
- Research & Ideas
Ground-Floor Opportunities for Retail in India
spending. Real estate costs are high. The taxation and legislation system is complex and difficult to navigate. Vijay Jain said he left a "cushy" job in investment banking to take advantage of the... View Details
- 01 Dec 2008
- News
Business at the Summit
Sunday evening in a Baker Lawn “pavilion” erected for the summit’s general sessions. Nearly everyone failed to understand how much the global financial system had changed in recent years, and how fragile it had become because of... View Details
- 17 Jun 2014
- First Look
First Look: June 17
lasting changes in the lives of people and their societies. Rather, some organizations would be better off measuring shorter-term outputs or individual outcomes. Funders such as foundations and impact investors are better positioned to measure View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 24 May 2021
- Blog Post
Rebekah Emanuel: Host of Season 3 of the Climate Rising Podcast
forming a new program or initiative and you need to set up a system that can run on its own. Or, number two, you end up starting up a new organization. Both are skills that require entrepreneurship. There are a lot of issues in our world... View Details