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  • 25 Aug 2014
  • Blog Post

Working in Tech 4Dev

and NGO budgets are squeezed. The City of Los Angeles, for example, used our platform to crowdsource broken sidewalk locations for repair, saving the city a costly location survey estimated at millions. Ushahidid’s platform provides ease... View Details
Keywords: Technology
  • 07–08 Feb 2022
  • Virtual Programming

Leading High-Performance Companies with Purpose

How can you show up to work more inspired and help others do the same??Join HBS professor?Ranjay Gulati (PHDOB 1993)?for a program exploring?the power of purpose, an underutilized approach that can embed work and life with meaning and deliver... View Details
  • October 2002 (Revised December 2003)
  • Case

eShip-4U

By: Roy D. Shapiro and Timothy M. Laseter
eShip is a small Israeli start-up with a potentially exciting new concept for the residential package-delivery value chain--the Automatic Delivery Machine (ADM). Much like today's ubiquitous ATMs, ADMs would allow consumers to have parcels delivered to a nearby ADM... View Details
Keywords: Business Startups; Business Model; Service Operations; Logistics; Corporate Strategy; Information Technology; Competitive Strategy; Value Creation; Saving; Innovation and Invention; Transportation Industry; Service Industry; Shipping Industry; Israel; United States
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  • Profile

Juan Camargo

was pretty surreal," says Camargo. But the day after the show, the reality of the challenge ahead of him remained: How, exactly, do you sell America a high-end electric car? DITCH THE OLD PITCH The first wave of electric vehicles had a dual environmental and... View Details
Keywords: Manufacturing; Technology; Consumer Products
  • Web

Nexis Uni | Baker Library

Nexis Uni Nexis Uni features more than 15,000 news, business and legal sources from LexisNexis. Read More Includes U.S. Supreme Court decisions dating back to 1790—with an interface that offers quick discovery across all content types, personalization features such as... View Details
  • Fast Answer

Research Tools

the web. Researchers can save and store their visualizations under a personal profile, share them via social media or embed them on a site or blog.  View Details
  • 01 Dec 2013
  • News

Plugged In

pretty surreal," says Camargo. But the day after the show, the reality of the challenge ahead of him remained: How, exactly, do you sell America a high-end electric car? 1. DITCH THE OLD PITCH The first wave of electric vehicles had a dual environmental and economic... View Details
Keywords: Transportation Equipment Manufacturing; Manufacturing
  • 06 Nov 2006
  • Research & Ideas

How South Africa Challenges Our Thinking on FDI

Most of that section is to generate class discussion, because the reason that developing countries want FDI is because there is more investment occurring in a country than there is domestic savings, so foreign savings is needed to fill... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
  • 01 Dec 2009
  • News

HBS Philanthropy Report Online

This year, the School’s annual donor report will be published online. The change from a print publication reflects a cost savings consistent with a School-wide effort to contain expenses, as well as a desire for environmentally... View Details
  • 12 PM – 1 PM EDT, 16 Apr 2019
  • Webinars: Career

Why Your Pitch Isn't Working and How to Fix it

Whether you're pitching an idea, a project, or yourselfyou've got a tight window to hook your listener and pique their curiosity. Jodi Glickman, CEO of Great on the Job, shares a foolproof three-step strategy for pitching yourself in an authentic and compelling way. View Details
  • 14 Jul 2006
  • Op-Ed

The Case for Consumer-Driven Medicaid

for the private sector's consumer-driven experiences with lower-income populations, the experience of Whole Foods, a supermarket chain, is instructive. As of 2004, its employees, primarily blue collar, have saved $14 million in health... View Details
Keywords: by Regina E. Herzlinger
  • 2012
  • Article

The Excess Burden of Government Indecision

By: Francisco J. Gomes, Laurence J. Kotlikoff and Luis M. Viceira
Governments are known for procrastinating when it comes to resolving painful policy problems. Whatever the political motives for waiting to decide, procrastination distorts economic decisions relative to what would arise with early policy resolution. In so doing, it... View Details
Keywords: Saving; Risk and Uncertainty; Investment Portfolio; Decision Choices and Conditions; Retirement; Policy; Government and Politics
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  • August 2002 (Revised August 2002)
  • Case

Raiser Senior Services--The Stratford (A)

By: H. Kent Bowen and Alison Berkley Wagonfeld
Focuses on modifying operations to increase profitability at an upscale senior care facility in California. Jennifer Raiser, president of Raiser Senior Services, opened the Stratford in 1992 as a high-end, continuing-care retirement community. Ten years later, the... View Details
Keywords: Cost Management; Profit; Saving; Health Care and Treatment; Age; Management Teams; Problems and Challenges; Ethics; Legal Liability; Business Growth and Maturation; Health Industry; Service Industry; California
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Technical How-To’s & Notes - Research Computing Services

Help Help Technical How-To’s & Notes 2ms Archiving Your Research Files on the HBSGrid Change your Unix command prompt Changing permissions on the HBSGrid Monitoring CPU usage of your jobs on the HBSGrid HBSGrid Project directory space notifications View Details

    Lillian M. Vernon (Katz)

    Katz took some of her family savings to place a small ad in Seventeen magazine for small handbags and belts in 1951. Within a few weeks, she had received $16,000 worth of orders, and sales have skyrocketed ever since. She began expanding... View Details
    Keywords: Retail
    • 19 Mar 2019
    • News

    Mission Critical

    save lives, but if you don't have a team that's committed to that too, you won't be successful. I have been fortunate to lead teams that are engaged, that are active, and that are everyday looking for that next opportunity to help View Details
    Keywords: Health, Social Assistance
    • 01 Dec 2016
    • News

    Summing Up the New Students

    Minneapolis. It was beautiful, and a great time to just think.” Jonathan Gary Dallas, Texas CV: Account associate, PIMCO, Newport Beach, California “I had to do some shopping once I got to Boston—a pair of L.L. Bean boots and a down jacket. But I’ve also View Details
    Keywords: Julia Hanna
    • 11 Mar 2020
    • News

    Making It Rain

    customer request, instead of what the rest of the industry is doing, which is just looking at the outputs of the governmental models,” says Elkabetz. For airlines, access to more accurate weather forecasts—both short and long term—enables decisions that improve safety... View Details
    Keywords: Lisa Scanlon Mogolov

      George S. Lannom, Jr.

      Though he began his business as a tannery for the production of saddles and other equine equipment, Lannom was forced to diversify when the automobile gained popularity. To save his business, Lannom turned to the manufacture of baseballs... View Details
      Keywords: Fabricated Goods
      • 04 Oct 2016
      • First Look

      October 4, 2016

      Implications of the Society for Assisted Reproductive Technology Embryo Transfer Guidelines: Healthcare Dollars Saved by Reducing Iatrogenic Triplets By: Lee, Malinda S., Brady T. Evans, Ariel Dora Stern, and Mark D. Hornstein... View Details