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The Hawthorne Plant – The Human Relations Movement – Baker Library | Bloomberg Center, Historical Collections

History Center From the time of its founding in 1876, AT&T’s rapid and pervasive expansion gave it a virtual monopoly over the telephone industry... View Details

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Are Cost Advantages from a Modern Indian Hospital Transferable to the United States?

By: R. S. Kaplan, F. Erhun, V.G. Narayanan, B. Mistry and K. Brayton, et al

We use time-driven activity-based costing to estimate the cost of personnel and space for an elective coronary artery bypass graft (CABG) surgery at two U.S. hospitals, Intermountain and Baylor Heart, and Narayana Health (NH), in India. All three hospitals use modern... View Details

Keywords: Time-Driven Activity-Based Costing; Health Care and Treatment; Cost; Organizational Structure; Performance Efficiency; India; United States

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01 Sep 2011
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Breaking Free from Fear of Change

understand the executives I talk about in this book very well because I share their predicament,” notes Tom DeLong, the Philip J. Stomberg Professor of Management Practice at... View Details

Keywords: Deborah Blagg; Publishing Industries (except Internet); Information

01 Sep 2011
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The City Solution

governments (Abu Dhabi’s Masdar City); dual-government ventures (Sino-Singapore Tianjin Eco-City, near Beijing); and company-led projects (PlanIT Valley, developed in Portugal by a high-tech company as an R&D center View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons; Administration of Environmental Quality Programs; Administration of Environmental Quality Programs; Administration of Environmental Quality Programs; Administration of Environmental Quality Programs

10 Oct 2018
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6 Lessons Learned from a Summer of Entrepreneurship

giving structured feedback more often instead of just on the fly. It’s easy to get so busy with the day-to-day that you forget that making the... View Details

Keywords: Entrepreneurship

01 Dec 2015
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Sharing Knowledge of Innovation in India

environments.” Tewari’s support will further the work of the India Research Center (IRC), one of nine Global... View Details

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Inside the Learning: Program Formats Unpacked

At the top of each program page on the HBS Executive Education website, you'll find the dates of View Details

25 Aug 2022
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Up on the Corner

Home Preservation launched a new, $9 million redevelopment project in West Baltimore, transforming a neglected factory into a live-work arts center for emerging artists. Her company has also received... View Details

Keywords: Alexander Gelfand; photographed by Melissa Golden; Real Estate

16 May 2018
Research & Ideas

How Companies Managed Risk (and Even Benefitted) in World War Internment Camps

problems. Yet, they also enjoyed unexpected benefits, including plenty of networking and after-war opportunities for the tight community of... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Manufacturing

01 Mar 2007
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Courting the Poor

while reading the New York Times. An article on the front page of the Business section about an innovative Brazilian retailer prompted an... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; department stores; Management of Companies and Enterprises; Management of Companies and Enterprises; Management of Companies and Enterprises; Management of Companies and Enterprises; Management of Companies and Enterprises; Management of Companies and Enterprises

20 Aug 2012
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The Acquirers

private equity and public companies "changes the ownership structure of assets and alters the incentives and governance mechanisms that surround View Details

Keywords: by Kim Girard; Financial Services

22 Feb 2019
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Empowering a New Generation of Business Leaders

World Congress Center in Atlanta for a program called JA BizTown, where students learn business concepts and skills through a simulated economy in which they create and run a company. “We had a very... View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley; Arts, Entertainment

01 Jun 2014
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The Digital Deck

printed paper, rather than reimagining an entirely new online experience for readers. As faculty chair of HBX, the School's new online learning platform, Anand says View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna

10 Mar 2020
Research & Ideas

The Little Understood Problem Confronting Diverse Workplaces

working closely with students in small groups, assisting teachers, and running extracurricular programs.) The ethos of the school centers on a... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna

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Target List: screen for companies by industry, location, and size | Baker Library

Help Center Target List: screen for companies by industry, location, and size How do I create a list of companies by industry, location, and/or size? Capital IQ Strengths:... View Details

24 Apr 2014
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Leading a community of health care providers

As CEO and chairman of the board of DaVita HealthCare Partners Inc., Kent Thiry (MBA 1983) has built the second-largest kidney dialysis company... View Details

01 Jun 2023
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Bridging the ESG Data Gap

climate change. That focus is front and center among participants in the Climate Circle, where she connected with advisors and prospective Metric customers. The nine-month... View Details

Keywords: Deborah Blagg

01 Sep 2011
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The Spangler Effect

campus center surfaced soon after Kim Clark was appointed Dean in 1995 and a task force was assembled to update the campus master plan. “We identified that there was no central place on campus View Details

Keywords: Roger Thompson; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

05 Dec 2016
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The Dragon’s Tale

their families for 48 weeks a year. At the same time, they were building the massive transportation infrastructure that eventually allowed factories to relocate to View Details