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- 01 Jun 2017
- News
Streamlining the Supermarket
whom he’d known since high school. They were equally intrigued. “We thought, why don’t we use that technology to disrupt the grocery industry by bringing the same type of efficiencies to the supermarket?” Aguerrevere says. Last November,... View Details
Keywords: Francis Storrs
- 01 Oct 1996
- News
"Service-Profit Chain" Links Members of Service Management Unit
of large corporate databases. A management information systems specialist, Professor James I. Cash, Jr., focuses on how companies use information technology to improve organizational effectiveness and how businesses are changing due to... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 01 Apr 2002
- News
Charting the Luminary Leadership in Professional Service Firms
of the factors that drive success in an industry that attracts 65 percent of MBA graduates from leading business schools — many of whom eventually leave to run organizations of their own. With revenues approaching a trillion dollars,... View Details
- 01 Jun 1999
- News
Where Main Street Meets Wall Street
developments, such as the congressional proposal to augment the Social Security system with a program of private savings, a plan that presumably would include the mutual fund industry. Ultimately, it is the fundamentals upon which the... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 16 Dec 2016
- News
An Environmental Epiphany
resilient, more competitive energy system in the future is something we should pursue. And you look at the speeds at which the new technologies of our energy system are now becoming a reality, it is nothing... View Details
- 01 Apr 1997
- News
Critical Information: MIS Monitors the Ever-Changing World of IT
no longer being used as just a tactical resource, it's now fundamentally influencing business strategy and competition," says Richard L. Nolan, MBA Class of 1942 Professor of Business Administration, who teaches in the School's Management Information View Details
Keywords: Elaine Gottlieb
- 01 Sep 2004
- News
Promise & Perils
talked about for fear of upsetting more conservative elements.” The envisioned reforms, not the least of which include further privatizations and increased layoffs, will cause considerable strain on the Chinese system if carried out too... View Details
- 01 Jun 2009
- News
Decisions through the Ages
criticism about its education system that emphasizes rote memorization,” USA Today reported (February 25, 2009). Titled Problem Solving 101, it became a best-selling business book and is now available in America. The book has two case... View Details
- 01 Sep 2018
- News
Ask the Expert: Delivering the Goods
expectations with promises of same-day delivery, the logistics industry is looking to completely new models, like crowdsourcing, autonomous technology, and on-demand delivery. Robert Reisner (MBA 1971), who led the Postal Service’s... View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint
- 01 Jun 2013
- News
Five Bright Ideas
Article 26 of the UN's Universal Declaration of Human Rights, which is a driving force behind the founding of ALISON.com, the online education company Mike Feerick launched in 2007. Based in Ireland, ALISON (Advance Learning Interactive View Details
- 01 Mar 2007
- News
Daniel Vasella
sales of $37 billion. The company’s aggressive investment in research has made it an industry leader in new drug approvals. And when opportunity knocks, Vasella doesn’t hesitate to broaden Novartis’s business mix through acquisitions. He... View Details
- 01 Jun 2006
- News
India Arrives
its open society and “messy,” yet functioning, market-based democracy as a more conducive environment for long-term development. Its Western-style legal system and transparent financial systems encourage a... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 01 Mar 2007
- News
The Life of Bailey
little on edge about physical conditioning.” Bailey spoke proudly of another sort of conditioning: “Our seawater air- conditioning system at our Bora-Bora property saves two-thirds of the electricity used by a conventional system.” View Details
- 01 Sep 2020
- News
Road Work
Camino business is underbanked and informally run, lacking the data footprint that regular cash deposits and a digital bookkeeping system provide. Finally, some of Camino’s borrowers are undocumented immigrants to the United States.... View Details
- 01 Dec 2019
- News
The Race Against Resistance
ensuring], for example, fewer days in the hospital.” Triola echoes this argument. “Without any economic data to justify the use of premium-priced treatments over cheaper generics, how are you going to make the case that a hospital system... View Details
Keywords: Lisa Scanlon Mogolov
- 01 Oct 1996
- News
Leading In a New Era
management's focus extends beyond strategy, structure, and systems to purpose, processes, and people. All of the restructuring, reengineering, downsizing, and delayering that has occurred during the last decade, Bartlett attests, is the... View Details
Keywords: Nancy O. Perry
- 01 Apr 2001
- News
HBS Press Books in Brief
Performance, by Brian Becker, Mark Huselid, and Dave Ulrich, is an ongoing study of nearly three thousand firms that describes a seven-step process for embedding HR systems within the firm’s overall strategy — what the authors call an HR... View Details
- 25 Feb 2020
- News
Beyond the Plastisphere
bacteria, previous attempts to manufacture it at industrial scale were stymied by the need for expensive feedstocks such as sugar and seed oils. Full Cycle, however, coaxes microbes to make PHA from organic waste—banana peels, newspapers,... View Details
- 01 Sep 2009
- News
Read All About It!
collisions with other trains, loose rails, and fires in wooden cars occurred with some frequency in the first decades of the railroads. But the industry soon grew more organized and invested in extensive track and bridge construction.... View Details
- 01 Mar 2008
- News
India is more Transparent
First, as a result of a legal system derived from the common-law tradition, annual reports provide the basic rudiments of information that Western observers expect, and familiar rules govern corporate disclosure. Real-time stock market... View Details