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- 26 Nov 2001
- Research & Ideas
How Toyota Turns Workers Into Problem Solvers
sophisticated improvements in robotic welding equipment that reduced cost, increased quality, and won recognition with an award from the Ministry of Environment. At NHK (Nippon Spring) another team conducted a series of experiments that increased quality, productivity,... View Details
- Portrait Project
Karen Sein
emeralds into a world that suffers from gray injustice. Using the full spectrum of light, I will design a health care system that is efficient and sensitive to those who are most vulnerable. I will mentor others who do not yet aspire to... View Details
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Technology & Operations Management Awards & Honors - Faculty & Research
into Platform Markets” with Feng Zhu, Xinxin Li, and Ehsan Valavi. Christian Kaps : Winner of the 2019 Dutch Material Handling Thesis Award for “Towards Better Warehouse Efficiency Distinction through Cross-Efficiency Measurement.“... View Details
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Value Measurement for Health Care - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness
organization's strategic agenda. Key Benefits Focused on improving the quality and delivery of health care, Value Measurement for Health Care provides more efficient and more cost-effective approaches to measuring patient outcomes, and... View Details
- April 4, 2009
- Article
The Return of State-Owned Enterprises: Should We Be Afraid?
By: Aldo Musacchio and Francisco Flores-Macias
The global financial crisis of 2008-2009 has prompted many industrialized states worldwide to increase their stakes in private corporations. This wave of partial nationalizations has come amidst full-scale expropriations in developing countries such as Venezuela,... View Details
Keywords: History; Private Ownership; State Ownership; Financial Crisis; Business and Government Relations
Musacchio, Aldo, and Francisco Flores-Macias. "The Return of State-Owned Enterprises: Should We Be Afraid?" Harvard International Review (website) (April 4, 2009).
- 20 Mar 2014
- Working Paper Summaries
Waste, Recycling and Entrepreneurship in Central and Northern Europe, 1870-1940
Keywords: by Geoffrey Jones & Andrew Spadafora
- 07 Jun 2004
- Research & Ideas
What Drives Supply Chain Behavior?
problem of demand planning as a coordination problem across functions, the behavioral approach to the motivation and incentives component of coordination seems a common foil. Natural or more directly instituted functional incentives play havoc with motivating higher... View Details
Keywords: by Sarah Jane Johnston
- 01 Dec 2017
- News
A ‘One Harvard’ Perspective
David Tunnell (MBA 1997) David Tunnell (MBA 1997) is a longtime advocate of crossing traditional academic boundaries at Harvard. For his Harvard College senior thesis on efficient markets, the economics major conducted most of his... View Details
- 25 Jun 2013
- First Look
First Look: June 25
establishing some stylized facts about the fine-grained structure of large, real-world technical systems. Download working paper: http://ssrn.com/abstract=2277795 Pricing and Efficiency in the Market for IP Addresses By: Edelman,... View Details
Keywords: Anna Secino
- 01 Apr 2020
- Blog Post
The Product Design Sprint - 5 Things I Learned in Launch Lab 1
whiteboards and sticky notes, to interview customers, and design prototypes. Utilizing the process that Jake was teaching us, we were able to do all these things in a guided and efficient way that led each of our teams to make a lot of... View Details
- 22 Feb 2022
- News
New Urban Order
expected to grow. Those combined forces present an existential challenge—and a megalopolis-sized opportunity—for entrepreneurs. “As population growth and weather-related pressures increase, the necessity of using our existing resources more View Details
Keywords: Kathleen Fu, Deborah Blagg, Julia Hanna, and Maureen Harmon; illustrations by; energy; environment; sustainability; entrepreneurship; Transit and Ground Passenger Transportation; Transportation; Water, Sewage and Supply Systems; Utilities; Construction of Buildings; Construction; Waste Management and Remediation Services; Corporate Services
- 04 Apr 2023
- Blog Post
Maersk’s Journey to Decarbonize Shipping
becomes technologically feasible for ocean shipping, Maersk believes that legal, safety, and public perception challenges make it highly impractical as a primary energy source. Similarly, with biomethane, Maersk sees emissions slippage risks as outweighing fuel View Details
- 23 Mar 2023
- Blog Post
Arla Foods: How Sustainable Can A Dairy Company Be?
owned and contracted operations (Scope 1 and 2) and emissions from up- and downstream activities (Scope 3). Although we frequently hear Scope 1 and 2 emissions considered separately from Scope 3, it became clear that Arla corporate’s efforts on energy sourcing, View Details
- 01 Jan 2017
- News
Improving Health Care Delivery
Health Care Initiative Advisory Board. “Our goal is to make the health care delivery system more efficient and effective,” he adds. “We want to help HBS extend its impact in the field.” View Details
- 01 Sep 2003
- News
Stan O’Neal
believer in the U.S. financial markets, O’Neal says that “despite some breaks in the system, the financial markets efficiently allocate capital to the best opportunities. This is the foundation of our society.” With offices at the World... View Details
- 19 Aug 2009
- Working Paper Summaries
The Optimal Taxation of Height: A Case Study of Utilitarian Income Redistribution
Keywords: by N. Gregory Mankiw & Matthew Weinzierl
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Assessing the Food and Drug Administration's Risk-Based Framework for Software Precertification with Top Health Apps in the United States: Quality Improvement Study
By: Noy Alon, Ariel Dora Stern and John Torous
BACKGROUND: As the development of mobile health apps continues to accelerate, the need to implement a framework that can standardize categorizing these apps to allow for efficient, yet robust regulation grows. However, regulators and researchers are faced with numerous... View Details
Keywords: Mobile Health; Smartphone; Food And Drug Administration; Risk-based Framework; Health Care and Treatment; Mobile and Wireless Technology; Applications and Software; Framework
Alon, Noy, Ariel Dora Stern, and John Torous. "Assessing the Food and Drug Administration's Risk-Based Framework for Software Precertification with Top Health Apps in the United States: Quality Improvement Study." JMIR mHealth and uHealth 8, no. 10 (October 2020).
- 09 Sep 2015
- Research & Ideas
Leadership Lessons of the Great Recession: Options for Economic Downturns
future hiring and M&A activity. When the Great Recession hit in late 2008, Honeywell, like all diversified manufacturers, experienced a drop off in new orders. Yet after six years of improving operating efficiency, there was little room left to cut costs through... View Details
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Stop the Meeting Madness: How to Free Up Time for Meaningful Work
By: Leslie Perlow, Constance Noonan Hadley and Eunice Eun
Many executives feel overwhelmed by meetings, and no wonder: On average, they spend nearly 23 hours a week in them, up from less than 10 hours in the 1960s. What’s more, the meetings are often poorly timed, badly run, or both. We can all joke about how painful they... View Details
Keywords: Time Management; Performance Efficiency; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Performance Improvement
Perlow, Leslie, Constance Noonan Hadley, and Eunice Eun. "Stop the Meeting Madness: How to Free Up Time for Meaningful Work." Harvard Business Review 95, no. 4 (July–August 2017): 62–69.
- 10 Sep 2020
- Research & Ideas
The COVID Two-Step for Leaders: Protect and Pivot
effective and efficient in the company’s core business. The focus is improvement, not exponential growth. Improvement is always possible. Yes, it may be small, but even extremely small improvements can be worthwhile. Look at the example... View Details