Informational Efficiency - Publications - Faculty & Research

08 Dec 2015
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Living the Legacy

and more marketable to employers,” says Paul. While his favorite module was economics, he is already utilizing the business analytics tools he mastered in CORe. “Being able to create histograms to quickly visualize data makes me more View Details

01 Feb 2001
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The Doctor Is In

ramifications that need to be dealt with as public policy. As for the notion that private-sector efficiency automatically reduces costs, consider that most private health insurance companies spend 10 to 30 percent on administrative... View Details

Keywords: healthcare; Health, Social Assistance

03 Oct 2019
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Skydeck Live: Galactic Returns

the entire earth with solar cells, which is not practical and won’t happen. You could say, “Well, more energy efficiency is the answer.” But every energy efficiency solution that has existed has always led... View Details

Keywords: Space Research and Technology; Government

01 Sep 2024
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Reduce, Reuse, Recycle

shared experiences as we once did, brand loyalty remains strong. The third is having an efficient system to collect the used products, which works for Apple because they have their own stores and partners like AT&T and Verizon. While the... View Details

Keywords: Jennifer Meyers

01 Jun 2001
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HBS Alumni Association Board of Directors: President's Report

stewardship to a number of important initiatives, including global conferences, career services, and the nominating process. He has helped us streamline our work and encouraged us to operate more efficiently and effectively. Monty’s... View Details

Keywords: Business Schools & Computer & Management Training; Educational Services

01 Feb 2001
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The Third Force: Indispensable to Society, Nonprofits Should Redirect Oversight Efforts

unpopular social issues, enabling spirituality, redistributing wealth to the needy, supporting cultural activities, and effectively and efficiently providing long-term solutions for social needs. Government and business, she said, cannot... View Details

Keywords: Health, Social Assistance

04 Nov 2014
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Fundación México en Harvard Celebrates 25 Years

Fundación, which is rated number one among all Mexican NGOs for efficiency by philanthropic watchdog Filantrofilia, has distributed $11.7 million in grants and loans. The selection criteria are simple: Mexican students accepted to a... View Details

Keywords: April White

01 Sep 2009
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Read All About It!

efficiency engineers — how would we spend our leisure? The problem has bothered social scientists/statesmen, ministers, newspaper editors, and reformers, even though we are not yet even in sight of Utopia. It is supposed, at least by... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons; Information; Information; Information; Information

01 Jun 2013
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Five Bright Ideas

learn (or review) and then points to what the student should next master to proceed most efficiently to his or her knowledge goal. FAST FACT: Knewton was named a 2011 Technology Pioneer by the World Economic Forum. DATA POINT: In a... View Details

Keywords: Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services; Elementary and Secondary Schools; Educational Services

01 Jun 1996
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1996 Global Alumni Conference Probes "Information Revolution"

Considering the title of the 1996 HBS Global Alumni Conference - The Information Revolution: "Bridging the Gap" - San Francisco was a particularly fitting locale for this forward-looking event. The city's Golden Gate has long been a... View Details

Keywords: Daniel Penrice

01 Mar 2006
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The Producers

to make sure the product gets made efficiently and that it’s marketed effectively. I also have to solve problems every day within a corporate culture that changes with every movie.” “The negotiation courses I took at HBS have been... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; Information; Information

01 Jun 2002
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Profile: The Invisible Hand - Robert Massie and God's Green Earth

structure will help them manage their businesses more efficiently and responsibly.” The GRI is emerging even as institutional investors, NGOs, and governments intensify their scrutiny of firms in areas such as environmental impact, human... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons; management; ethics

01 Sep 2011
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The City Solution

sidebar, next page) also underscores the opportunities for business and investors in a newly climate-conscious world. Efficiency has become a bottom-line imperative and sustainability an organizing principle that companies can use to... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons; Administration of Environmental Quality Programs; Government; Electric Power Generation, Transmission, Distribution; Utilities

01 Apr 2002
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Urban Evolution - HBS Research on the Inner City

as its discount prices and large selection of merchandise. As Sprint and Walgreens have shown, Porter notes, companies that invest in the inner city and entrepreneurs who start businesses there are well positioned to take advantage of a growing, local labor pool; the... View Details

Keywords: Paul Grogan; Peter Tufano; David Crockett; Diana Barrett; Real Estate

01 Dec 2009
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Alumni Books

CIOs Create and Communicate Value by Richard Hunter and George Westerman (DBA ’03) (Harvard Business Press) The authors recommend that to combat the IT-as-cost mindset, CIOs use IT to create three kinds of value — value for the money (the IT department operating View Details

01 Feb 1998
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Short Takes

Who Does Good and Why While it's common knowledge that business leaders often serve on nonprofit boards, there has been little formal information about the characteristics and motivations of such individuals. In a 1997 working paper... View Details

Keywords: Judith A. Ross

01 Apr 2000
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Q & A: A Conversation with IRS Chief Charles Rossotti

individual taxpayers with wage and investment income; small business and self-employed taxpayers; large business taxpayers; and exempt organizations, such as nonprofits and state and local governments. Each unit will focus on understanding, solving, and preventing... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons

01 Mar 2018
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Case Study: On the Record

producers. Operational efficiencies will allow Gold Rush Vinyl—which started with $750,000 raised from family, friends, and an SBA loan, to cover the expensive pressing equipment—to reduce wait time from an industry standard of twelve to... View Details