Capacity - Publications - Faculty & Research

01 Mar 2018
News

Ask the Expert: Disaster Master

value concentration; there’s been such a focus on efficiency that there are way fewer redundancies in a company’s production capacity and inventories,” says Beer, who offers insight and advice to alumni seeking guidance in unprecedented... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna

21 Jul 2023
Blog Post

Malcolm McClain (MBA/MPP 2023) Named First RISE Career Fellow

utilizes their MBA skills to bring significant value and capacity to both the business and its community. Leading into his first year at HBS, McClain was a Summer Fellow with the Harlem Children’s Zone, an education non-profit that aims... View Details

04 Jun 2008
News

Whistle While You Work

As part of its 100th anniversary (www.hbs.edu/centennial) party for faculty, staff, and students in April, HBS brought in Benjamin Zander (www.benjaminzander.com), a world-renowned conductor and teacher who heads the Boston Philharmonic and New England Conservatory... View Details

Keywords: Performing Arts, Spectator Sports, and Related Industries; Arts, Entertainment

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Demo Day | New Venture Competition

benefit to defined contribution health insurance, leveraging individual exchanges to lower cost and improve benefit offering. Latent Energy Rourke Pattullo (MBA 2025), Bahaa Hafez Latent Energy enables EV owners to monetize the excess View Details

17 Jun 2020
News

Toronto Copes with COVID-19 Via Webinars; Alumni Respond to Pandemic in Philippines

ICCP Group has offered its property, the World Trade Center Manila, one of the largest event facilities in the Philippines, to be converted into the first temporary health care COVID-19 facility with a 500-bed capacity called WTC: Heal as... View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley

19 Apr 2011
First Look

First Look: April 19

paper, we unpack the concept of absorptive capacity and separately explore the effect of different types of prior experience on the capacity to adopt external knowledge and make internal inventions. We also... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

Portrait Project

Alison Shin

transform and heal. The love I was shown that day from my section mates made me see that regardless of our backgrounds, we all had the capacity and desire to understand each other at a deeper level. I consider this opportunity to connect... View Details

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Usage and Policies - Research Computing Services

and Acceptable Use The HBS research computing environment, composed of a number of servers and services, is a large, shared resource that is often at significant capacity and stores confidential and sensitive research data. The compute... View Details

23 Apr 2018
News

Tim Keller, Heavy Metal Mayor

state auditor before running for mayor, and cites Keller’s belief in heavy metal music for its capacity to bring people from varied backgrounds together—particularly in the Southwest. “Despite a reputation for metal skewing Anglo, it... View Details

28 Sep 2009
Research & Ideas

Improving Accountability at the World Bank

Inspection Panel for purposes of evaluation and redress. Taken as a whole, however, these successes have been decidedly limited. In particular, persistent problems in the timing, scope, content, and quality of consultation processes have often limited their View Details

Keywords: by Alnoor Ebrahim

01 Dec 2002
News

GE's Jeff Immelt

Immelt Photo courtesy General Electric Just a year after taking the helm of General Electric, Chairman and CEO Jeffrey R. Immelt (MBA '82) addressed a capacity crowd in Burden Auditorium on topics that ranged from the state of the... View Details

01 Oct 2001
Research & Ideas

Five Questions for James Austin

shareholders? A: CEOs perceive integrative relationships as strategic alliances and investments that generate significant benefits to the companies. Those benefits vary from case to case but encompass superior capacity to attract,... View Details

Keywords: by Carla Tishler

19 Dec 2014
News

Atlanta Alumni Connect Around a 'Vision' for the New HBS

Airlines and a senior advisor at Goldman Sachs, “the education is absolutely fantastic—the capacities to analyze, to understand finance and marketing and human resources, and that spirit of leadership. It’s all there. And when you come... View Details

9 AM – 9 AM EDT, 05 Sep 2018
HBS Online

HBX Disruptive Strategy

Make innovation a reality with strategies from two-time Worlds Most Innovative Business Thinker, Clayton Christensen. Program Dates: September 5, 2018 - October 17, 2018 View Details

08 Aug 2018
Blog Post

Hands-on Experience in Hospitality

bottleneck” and “how can we improve the capacity of our production in the kitchen” came to mind. Likewise, my experience with the housekeeping and room cleaning staff reminded me of discussions from the first year about company culture... View Details

Keywords: Hospitality

16 Oct 2018
First Look

New Research and Ideas, October 16, 2018

or group perceives value in carrying out a technical recipe that is beyond the capacity of a single person. Technology specifies what must be done, what resources must be assembled, what actions taken, and what transfers made in order to... View Details

Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

09 Feb 2004
Research & Ideas

Got a New Strategy? Now Make it Happen

years ago we launched a research program to develop a process that leaders could use to engage their people in an honest conversation. The "strategic fitness process" was designed in partnership with senior executives to enhance their View Details

Keywords: by Michael Beer & Russell A. Eisenstat

9 AM – 10 AM EST, 23 Jan 2019
HBS Online

HBS Online Disruptive Strategy

Make innovation a reality with strategies from two-time World's Most Innovative Business Thinker, Clayton Christensen. Program Dates: January 23, 2019 - March 6, 2019 View Details

January 1980 (Revised April 1994)
Case

New Balance Athletic Shoes

By: Kim B. Clark

Faced with growth exceeding 100% per year, James Davis, president of New Balance, must decide how to meet the need for additional capacity. Several factors contribute to a climate of extreme uncertainty. Several options are considered, ranging from a second shift to... View Details

Keywords: Factories, Labs, and Plants; Forecasting and Prediction; Financial Strategy; Information; Growth Management; Organizational Design; Performance Capacity; Risk and Uncertainty; Apparel and Accessories Industry; Republic of Ireland

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Educators

Purchase

23 Jan 2015
Research & Ideas

Oil Price Fallout: What Happens Next?

The last six years have proved just how fluid the international oil market is. And if recent support of the Keystone Pipeline by the U.S. House of Representatives and the Nebraska Supreme Court (which approved the pipeline's path through that state) are any indication,... View Details

Keywords: Re: Richard H.K. Vietor; Energy; Utilities

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