Monitoring - Publications - Faculty & Research

04 Nov 2016
News

The Competitiveness of Lost Causes

development of certain industries coincided with my interest in exploring how local governments can create environments that are favorable to the development of particular businesses.” After HBS, Duch worked in Spain’s Basque country for Porter’s View Details

Keywords: Deborah Blagg

01 Apr 2002
News

Pamela Thomas Graham

anything, this has highlighted the need for information - the lingering notion that you could buy a stock, hold it, then retire without any monitoring or involvement on your part has completely vanished." It's difficult to imagine a more... View Details

Keywords: Amusement, Gambling, and Recreation Industries; Arts, Entertainment

29 Mar 2023
News

Robert Kraft Launches Campaign to Combat Antisemitism

Americans to stand up against Jewish hate." CBS also notes the ongoing work of the foundation, which monitors online antisemitism from a command center in Gillette Stadium. "It's going on constantly, and there's no let up, and it makes me... View Details

08 Dec 2015
News

Living the Legacy

world examples and progress monitoring tools especially motivating. “I’m less intimidated about business after taking this course,” she confirms. “I already know the terminology.” Paul and Kevin, the Kusisto’s twin boys, have very... View Details

01 Feb 1999
News

Entrepreneurs Speak at HBS

maintains minimal inventory, delivering finished units in a matter of days. Dell's direct-access model makes extensive use of computer linkups and information shared among customers, suppliers, and the company itself in order to facilitate and View Details

01 Dec 2006
News

Forestalling Terror

forestall the deadliest attack ever on U.S. soil. The case is dedicated to Waleed Iskandar (MBA ’93), a colleague of Rivkin’s at Monitor Company, who died in the 9/11 attacks. The focus of your work is on how to manage integration within... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons; Waleed Iskandar; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

01 Jun 2009
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Too Big To Fail

panel last October when it enacted the $700 billion Troubled Asset Relief Program (TARP) to rescue faltering financial institutions. Law-makers instructed the panel to monitor TARP expenditures and recommend regulatory reforms. Led by... View Details

Keywords: Roger Thompson; federal bailouts; Credit Intermediation and Related Activities; Finance

01 Feb 1997
News

Herzlinger on Health Care: Revolution in Evolution

from their income taxes. Third, the government should make sure that everyone buys health insurance, regulate health insurers to ensure honesty and financial stability, and monitor the quality of information, just as the SEC does for the... View Details

16 Oct 2014
News

Innovating for International Aid

monitored refugee camps and volunteered in AIDS orphanages. He spent eight years as president of Aim High, an educational organization focused on inner-city, disadvantaged children. He was also cofounder of a Gates Foundation–funded... View Details

Keywords: Constantine von Hoffman

25 Aug 2014
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Sheila Lirio Marcelo, MBA 1998/JD 1999

of law school. “Grad school was not an easy time for me,” she reflects. “I was juggling being a mother and wife, working [for Monitor Group], and studying,” she says, noting that the fact that Ron was also earning his MBA at HBS was an... View Details

Keywords: Susan Young

30 Jan 2017
News

HBS Deans' Message on White House Travel Ban

long demonstrated their dedication to educational advancement and the pursuit of knowledge, we share your concerns about the recently signed executive action regarding immigration. Offices across the University are closely monitoring the... View Details

03 Apr 2016
News

The Tampon of the Future

2009), an entrepreneur with an engineering background. “I was trying to develop a way for women to monitor their own fertility at home,” she told the New York Times recently. “Those kinds of diagnostic tests require a lot of blood. So I... View Details

Keywords: Blavatnick; Scientific Research and Development Services

22 Feb 2022
News

Case Study: Welcome Aboard

monitor hydration levels in real time. The disposable patch allowed endurance athletes to avoid the performance or cognitive impairments that dehydration can cause. The initial product was built as an analog system but Cass, who is... View Details

Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint

16 May 2018
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ALUMNI NVC Finals and Regional Roundup

2015) told an audience of 500 that DynamiCare Health uses a digital platform to monitor and reward addicts for active recovery efforts, eliminating degrading methods of drug testing. DynamiCare took the top prize of $75,000. George... View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley

02 Aug 2018
News

Can Marketing Help Halt the Heroin Epidemic?

recommended. One was making naloxone available over the counter. That's the overdose reversal drug. Wanted to give wide availability to that drug. And then the second thing that we recommended was a substantial improvement in what's called the PDMP, that's a... View Details

01 Apr 1999
News

Short Takes

tolerate human rights abuses, Spar advocates that multinationals and human rights are not such strange bedfellows as once thought. Reebok, for instance, created a new production facility in Pakistan and established a system of independent View Details

Keywords: Eileen K. McCluskey

01 Jun 2011
News

Noted & Quoted

day, a year of global immersion before college will become the norm rather than the exception.” — ABIGAIL FALIK (MBA ’08), founder and CEO, Global Citizen Year. (Christian Science Monitor online, April 11, 2011) View Details

01 Dec 2020
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Digital Health Care: Empowering Consumers

sensors, like smart watches, and telemedicine, which is a companion to these sensors. Both have become more powerful and more acceptable to consumers and to the health care industry, which has resisted these innovations for a long time. I am also sanguine about... View Details

Keywords: April White

26 Feb 2021
News

Latinx on Boards; High-Tech Reforestation

ecosystem, soils, and climate to build customized seed pods with multiple species of trees and plants and nutrients to support germination. After the drones plant the pods—at a rate of two pods per second—the trees will be monitored over... View Details