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- 01 Jun 2004
- News
How Nonprofits Dilute Their Efforts
questions, but it’s crucial that they do: How effective are our programs? How efficiently are they executed? Which programs should we drop? Which should we seek to add? If it doesn’t ask these tough questions, a nonprofit risks spreading... View Details
- 01 Jan 2005
- News
Louis V. Gerstner, Jr., MBA 1965
unchallenged position in the marketplace until Japanese firms such as Hitachi and Fujitsu flooded the market with less expensive alternatives. In a bold opening move, Gerstner slashed the price of mainframe systems and pushed the development of a more View Details
- 01 Mar 2013
- News
Bringing It Back Home
conjunction with the Social Enterprise Initiative, gives nonprofit leaders the tools to look at their operations from a strategic level. The giving goes both ways, however. The faculty—including Alnoor Ebraham, Allen Grossman, Janice... View Details
- 31 Jan 2023
- News
Female Founders' Dilemmas; UK Tech Startups
Washington Area Community Investment Fund and founder of socially conscious sustainable underwear brand Manakii. More than 50 HBS alumni tuned in to the 90-minute virtual discussion, during which the panelists touched upon a number of... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 01 Mar 2009
- News
Letters to the Editor
Stobaugh suggests the problem is U.S. dependence on foreign oil; the most promising approaches to achieving a more balanced energy menu, he thought, would be largely through increased energy efficiency and focusing on solar energy as the... View Details
- 01 Jun 2013
- News
Alumni Books
reader to imagine a workplace where everyone speaks openly about their weaknesses and are committed to overcoming them, where colleagues help each other become more efficient and less disruptive by speaking the truth about what detracts... View Details
- 07 Sep 2021
- News
Skydeck Voices: For My Next Act
your view, and that is important to you personally. For heaven's sakes, take advantage of that freedom and use it well. So you don't retire from something. You go to something of deep personal and social significance and do your best, do... View Details
- 01 Sep 2008
- News
The Levitt Brand
emeritus Walter Salmon. “I miss him.” When she came to HBS, Jeanette Sarkisian Wagner (AMP 90, 1983) had read all of Ted Levitt’s books. “There were 132 people in my class; 2 were women. Naturally, the guys in my living group decided that I would be the View Details
- 01 Mar 2013
- News
Opening the Door
at certain set levels. That changed everyone's mindset. At about that time, I started a new course on innovating health care because I believed MBAs who were interested in pricing, productivity, and efficiency could be essential as that... View Details
- 15 Jun 2021
- News
June 2021 Books and Podcasts
author emphasizes the contribution of his own mentor, Malcom McLean, the inventor of container shipping, and the links between American thought leadership and the extraordinarily efficient industry that subsequently unfolded. In addition... View Details
- 01 Dec 2013
- News
Your Own Medicine
more efficient process. The big companies, notes Williams, are too big; innovation, he says—particularly these kinds of radically reengineered and modified models—is the province of smaller companies. And groups like the Secklers have the... View Details
- 01 Dec 2015
- News
Faculty Q&A: The Price Is Right
is different in that consumers never have to walk away, as any price they generate will be accepted. Conceptually it’s a very efficient pricing model, but I was curious as to how it works from a practical standpoint. How do consumers... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 01 Jun 2008
- News
The Prophet of Start-Ups
counterculture was spawned in the late 1950s. “He was definitely part of a social revolution that loosened things up,” says Parker G. Montgomery, founder and chief executive of Cooper Laboratories Limited now CooperVision, a successful... View Details
- 01 Apr 2001
- News
Beyond the Rim: New Paths to Success in Asia
Businesses in the Asia-Pacific region today are caught up in a dizzying swirl of economic, cultural, political, technological, and social change. Enormous opportunities await managers who can harness these powerful currents to drive their... View Details
- 01 Sep 2005
- News
WATER Ltd.
All these competing forces lead some experts to believe that water will replace petroleum as the 21st century’s core commodity, with nations rich in water enjoying enormous social and economic advantages over those that are not. In an age... View Details
- 01 Sep 2016
- News
Code name: Miesiąc
to avoid notice, and makeshift printing machines. As students of the sciences, the ink-smudged underground printers of Mikrus were not content with the samizdat method of reproducing leaflets, so they built their own more efficient... View Details
- 29 Mar 2023
- News
Supporting Earthquake Victims in Turkey and Syria
recovery workforce across a large geographical region prone to high risks,” he notes. “This product is not available in our sales system, and it is marked with ‘not for sale.’ It is only provided by our logistics system, which is highly View Details
- 01 Dec 2015
- News
Leading Boston and Beyond
innovative IT department focused on using technology to increase citizen engagement and the efficiency of city services. Their flagship project, the Citizens Connect app (recently rebranded as BOS:311), sends residents’ issues into the... View Details
- 01 Feb 1998
- News
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 series on View Details
Keywords: Judith A. Ross
- 01 Jan 2002
- News
Marjorie M.T. Yang (MBA '76)
demand and thus make Esquel's production planning as efficient as possible. Advances in engineering-from conserving natural resources such as energy and water to computerized color matching in the dyeing process-ensure considerable cost... View Details