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- 06 Aug 2018
- Research & Ideas
Supersmart Manufacturing Tools are Lowering Prices on TVs, Bulbs, and Solar Panels
the boom in LED manufacturing, Chinese local governments would pay for 100 percent of the cost of the metal organic chemical vapor deposition (MOCVD) tool used to make LEDs, so naturally what followed was a dramatic over-expansion of View Details
- 01 Jun 2004
- News
Social Enterprise Celebrates Tenth Year, Looks Ahead
panelist Mark H. Moore said, “Business has the capacity to provide solutions” to the world’s problems, and “individuals have the desire to create a good society,” but government needs to play a key role. He urged the SEI to incorporate... View Details
- 01 Sep 2009
- News
Make the Most of HBS Alumni Resources
www.alumni.hbs.edu/volunteers/boards/. In June, I had the pleasure of attending my 10th Reunion. I heard several faculty presentations on topics that are particularly relevant to these challenging economic times and my professional area of focus, reminding me yet again... View Details
- September 2011 (Revised October 2011)
- Case
Scotty Smiley
By: Scott A. Snook and Doug Crandall
U.S. Army Lieutenant Scotty Smiley faces the biggest challenge of his young life. What will he do after learning that the wounds he received from a car bomb in Iraq have left him permanently blinded? On April 6, 2005, Lieutenant Scotty Smiley was grievously wounded by... View Details
Keywords: Government Administration; Leadership Development; Leadership Style; Personal Characteristics; Customization and Personalization; Personal Development and Career; Work-Life Balance; Performance Capacity; Planning; Employment Industry; United States; Iraq
Snook, Scott A., and Doug Crandall. "Scotty Smiley." Harvard Business School Case 412-058, September 2011. (Revised October 2011.)
- Profile
Carol Lauson
directions Carol also believes that "there's much room for improvement in our capacity as U.S. citizens to achieve a more global understanding. In the United States, as a businessperson, a global perspective isn't necessarily... View Details
- 01 Mar 2015
- News
Ink
testing of content, technology, and facilities. Education’s work is never done, so creating a culture of continual improvement is vital. “Making progress and never standing still is a hallmark of a healthy society and healthy schools, and it models the View Details
- 19 Dec 2005
- Research & Ideas
Public Education Goes to School
task, but one necessary for achieving high performance. The design and implementation tasks are complicated by the fact that schools across large districts have wide variation not only in performance, but also in their capacity to... View Details
- 03 Apr 2017
- What Do You Think?
How About Investing in Human Infrastructure?
revenue-producing capacity of the worker from $60,000 (a rough figure for the hospitality industry) to $110,000 (a similarly rough figure for “health care and social assistance”). A $30,000 investment in human infrastructure, based on... View Details
- 25 Aug 2015
- First Look
First Look Tuesday
involve the mutual processing of another's experience, built around discourse and analysis, and I argue that they lead to not only linear growth in individuals' knowledge, but also growth in their individual and relational capacity for... View Details
- 20 Mar 2007
- First Look
First Look: March 20, 2007
emergencies? What must they do in advance to create the capacities they will need in the face of disasters? Answering these questions requires differentiating three different types of disaster situations. Each presents a different set of... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 19 Mar 2007
- Research & Ideas
Handicapping the Best Countries for Business
the future, both in terms of growth and competitiveness against other countries? A: The USA is by far the strongest economy in the world, not just in size, but in its capacity to do research, to be productive, and for entrepreneurship.... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 11 Jan 2000
- Research & Ideas
Calling All Managers: How to Build a Better Call Center
and training. Lower turnover means that the company's capacity for retaining customers is that much greater. And customer retention is vital for financial institutions. "Furthermore," note the authors, "given the... View Details
- 15 Dec 2024
- News
After Ozempic
commitments to global health because most of the product is sold in the US to people who can afford it or have the insurance to cover it? Or should Novo do what it can to enhance its profits now, before the competition arrives, to maximize funds for the next generation... View Details
- 01 Apr 2002
- News
Q&A - Mark Fields
proceeded to close an assembly plant last year to take down capacity by 25 percent. We also reduced our indirect workforce by 20 percent, becoming one of the first major Japanese companies to take such a decisive step. Lifetime employment... View Details
- Profile
Juan Eyzaguirre
and relevant conversation at the sinks. But the capacity to see beyond ordinary restrictions became much more important during an extraordinary crisis: Chile's 2010 earthquake. "It was really shocking," Juan says of his first... View Details
- 01 Mar 2009
- News
Faculty Responds to Financial Crisis
Economic Crisis: Diagnosis, Analysis, and Action quickly reached capacity of eighty alumni, says Bobbi Carrey, director of focused programs. Half of the participants for the March program reside abroad, she adds. “The economic crisis that... View Details
- 30 May 2007
- Research & Ideas
Health Care Under a Research Microscope
taking care of ill patients and how we manage that act, how you design the processes that execute on that goal, and how you design the organizations that support those processes." I think Harvard and HBS have the capacity to make... View Details
- 09 May 2017
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, May 9
and 2000, the global generating capacity of wind power grew from 13 megawatts to 17,400 megawatts, but two-thirds of that capacity was in Denmark, Germany, Spain, and the United States. Wind turbine... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- Profile
Maliha Khan
had built up its manufacturing business in anticipation of the new law, doubling our capacity in just one- and a-half years." Through growth and acquisitions, the business jumped in scale to revenues of $90 million a year with 3,500... View Details
- 17 Aug 2011
- News
Breath of Life
only been done in rats, at Massachusetts General Hospital.” After HBS, Green worked at Monitor for a time, in which capacity he advised South Africa’s African National Congress, among other assignments. In 1996, he and a new management... View Details