Maine - Publications - Faculty & Research

22 Feb 2022
News

Breaking News

shown that those scrappy, community-based weeklies and monthlies serve a vital role in society, curbing political polarization and boosting civic participation. They also remain an unparalleled check on city and town councils, school board meetings, and View Details

Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint; illustration by Dana Smith; News, Library, Internet, and Other Services; Information

19 Oct 2021
Research & Ideas

Fed Up Workers and Supply Woes: What's Next for Dollar Stores?

convenience, the quick in-and-out. And they’ve gone into underserved areas. They’re affordable and in low-population-density areas. They’re very successfully serving those. The pressure will be on the small Main Street merchants in these... View Details

Keywords: by Christine Pazzanese, Harvard Gazette; Retail

24 Aug 2020
Research & Ideas

How Much Will Remote Work Continue After the Pandemic?

so for me, that’s the main motivation for the paper, as well as trying to explore whether people are more or less productive given this new environment.” The results confirmed high levels of COVID-related remote work, which the... View Details

Keywords: by Kristen Senz

12 Nov 2018
Blog Post

Student Portraits - Armed Forces Alumni Association

effectively allocate, and insufficient to do everything. If I am certain of anything, it is that my daughter does not agree with my allocation of this precious resource. HBS is the first time in my adult life that I have been outside of a purely military environment.... View Details

01 Dec 2022
News

Singing to the Corn

preventing diabetes in indigenous populations. “I quickly realized that business alone was not enough to reverse the dysfunction of some tribal economies,” says Keen. Earlier, he’d experienced the fallout of an LBO at Maine shipbuilder... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; photographed by Vance Jacobs; Agriculture

25 Mar 2019
Research & Ideas

The Secret Life of Supply Chains

suppliers, and seems to have implications for policies that promote innovation and good jobs,” says the study’s coauthor, Harvard Business School Senior Fellow Karen Mills. For example, the research challenges the focus on reviving the manufacturing sector as the View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Manufacturing; Service

01 Jun 2004
News

Working the Street

of law enforcement and the impact you can have. I decided I wanted to learn the heartbeat of the street and know more about that side of life.” The heartbeat of the street can quicken in an instant. At a stoplight on one of El Monte’s View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons; tattoo; removal; program; Justice, Public Order, and Safety Activities; Government

22 Feb 2024
News

GCC Crossroads Aims for a Bright Future; Seattle Alumni Talk Leadership in Tech; Italy Preps for European Alumni Summit

economic growth, enhances our global visibility, informs policy decisions, and promotes cultural exchange—all contributing to positive development across sectors” he says. “At the same time, all the main stakeholders—government, the... View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley

30 Aug 2004
Research & Ideas

Real Estate: The Most Imperfect Asset

harder. It also means the day-to-day business may be less fun. Further, as in all evolving industries, the risks are not apparently clear in this new world of securitization. The second main trend has been in the environmental arena from... View Details

Keywords: by Sarah Jane Johnston; Construction; Real Estate

06 Jan 2014
Working Paper Summaries

Mechanisms of Technology Re-Emergence and Identity Change in a Mature Field: Swiss Watchmaking, 1970-2008

Keywords: by Ryan Raffaelli; Consumer Products; Apparel & Accessories; Fashion

10 Sep 2001
Research & Ideas

Do You Have Change Fatigue?

efforts fail for two main reasons, says Garvin: Poor design. These include the failure to address the underlying processes used to get the work done (for example, the performance management system, or the way resources are allocated),... View Details

Keywords: by Nick Morgan

12 Jul 2004
Research & Ideas

Enron’s Lessons for Managers

Skilling as COO. Putting aside the matter of business models and controls, "The main story," he said, is a case of "ethical drift." If you look at a lot of the fraud cases, before fraud there was terminal incompetence.... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

Web

Scaling Work - Research Computing Services

workers as requested hPar = parpool( 'local' , str2num( getenv('LSB_MAX_NUM_PROCESSORS') ) ); % Report number of workers fprintf( hLog , 'Number of workers = %d\n' , hPar.NumWorkers ) % Main code R = 1; darts = 1e7; count = 0; % Prepare... View Details

27 Sep 2021
Blog Post

Working to Change the Food System

you to HBS. In 2018, I started reflecting on the big existential question of "what is my calling?" It was really intimidating to think about – my main criteria were to work on problems that mattered to me, that I could have fun doing,... View Details

08 Sep 2008
HBS Case

The Value of Environmental Activists

There are many methods, most financial, to measure the success of companies in meeting goals. But the question becomes a lot harder at Harvard Business School when MBAs are challenged to measure the efforts of environmental organizations like Greenpeace and the World... View Details

Keywords: by Sarah Jane Gilbert; Energy; Utilities

26 Nov 2001
Op-Ed

Why Corporate Budgeting Needs To Be Fixed

encourage customers to place orders by year-end so they could hit their annual sales goals. But the price increase was out of line with the competition and undoubtedly ended up costing the company sales and market share. Even more insidious effects are common. One of... View Details

Keywords: by Michael C. Jensen

15 Nov 2011
News

750 World Wonders and counting

Main Wilson: It's a wonderful world. A slide show of World Wonders Photos copyright Andrew Main Wilson—World of Wonders Like so many businessmen, Andrew Main Wilson (AMP 156,... View Details

Keywords: photography; Museums, Historical Sites, and Similar Institutions; Arts, Entertainment

29 Nov 2023
News

A Holiday Benefit Dinner in LA; Seattle Club Revival Underway

is the club’s main fundraiser for the scholarships, Chen has been working with a volunteer committee of alumni including Sheila Sun (MBA 2013), the club’s VP of Events; Shari Gibbons (MBA 1990), Coordinator of the HBSASC Scholarship Fund;... View Details