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- 01 Mar 2009
- News
An Excerpt from The Innovator’s Prescription: A Disruptive Solution for Health Care
“The current health-care system generally is modular. Specialized companies operate hospitals, process paperwork, negotiate blanket service contracts, and manage outpatient and retail clinics. Most doctors’ offices are set up as... View Details
Keywords: Health, Social Assistance
- 01 Dec 2002
- News
Clusters and Competition
Michael E. Porter: learning more about the processes that produce competitive success. Michael E. Porter, acclaimed expert on competitive strategy and leader of the HBS-based Institute for Strategy and Competitiveness, began his luncheon... View Details
- 01 Apr 1998
- News
Professor Ramchandran Jaikumar Remembered
pioneer in the study of flexible manufacturing systems. A major component of his work was a comprehensive study of more than half of these systems in use worldwide. The project had a significant impact on improving the management of... View Details
- 22 Sep 2015
- News
Turning Troubled Schools into High-Achievers
process of transforming troubled schools—and the net results. “I founded and now run an organization, a nonprofit called UP Education Network. We are an organization that focuses on turning around the most chronically underperforming... View Details
- 01 Jun 2012
- News
Think Locally, Act Globally
In 1992, after reforms by India’s government improved the country’s business climate, he formed a consortium that included SFR-France, Emtel-Mauritius, and MSI-UK and bid successfully for one of four mobile-phone network licenses... View Details
- 23 Dec 2009
- News
In the Zone
Geoffrey Canada on a number of large and small special assignments, including a two-year project that analyzed and streamlined the organization’s database so that the information can be used by staff to improve the programs and services... View Details
- 01 Dec 2009
- News
Alumni Books
key to economic progress lies in unleashing women’s potential. For example, China has prospered because it emancipated women and brought them into the formal economy. Unleashing that process globally is the the best strategy for fighting... View Details
- 01 Oct 1996
- News
An Atypical Case — Robin G. Berglund (MBA 1971)
encourage them to forget about the technical nomenclature and focus on the essence of processes and systems, using common terms and visual analogies," he says. Berglund had wanted to become a doctor since he was ten years old but deferred... View Details
Keywords: Thomas Frick
- 24 Apr 2014
- News
Clean water that provides a trickle-down effect
improving the city's wastewater service. In 1997, the Philippine government enlisted Ayala Corporation to assume control of the water and sewer systems of Manila's east zone, where more than 60 percent of the water was either lost or... View Details
- 01 Jun 2009
- News
Cynthia Carroll
several fatalities there. There were 28,000 employees at that mine; we brought people up from below ground and worked to retrain and refocus them. We lost millions of dollars while production was curtailed, but it was the right thing to do. We’ve View Details
- 01 Apr 1999
- News
Q & A: Confronting New Technologies: When Doing Right Is Wrong
transform resources into products or services of greater value. Sustaining technologies are those processes that foster improved product performance, while disruptive technologies are those that initially... View Details
- 01 Dec 1999
- News
Negotiating in 3-D: An Overarching Way to Get to Yes?
familiar - consists mainly of the process taking place at the bargaining table, elements such as setting a positive atmosphere, establishing trust, and being persuasive, creative, and sensitive. It also includes deciding who makes an... View Details
Keywords: Anita M. Harris
- 01 Jun 2022
- News
'Rooted' In Innovation
friend and CassVita cofounder, Nembu Emmanuel, saw that scenario as “a space for innovation” that could improve the lives of farmers by maximizing the amount of produce they can bring to market. Ajanoh and Emmanuel leveraged their... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg
- 04 Sep 2019
- News
A Measured Approach
Illustration by Vahram Muradyan The mission of Educate Girls, a nongovernmental organization in Mumbai, is to get 3 million out-of-school girls in India into the classroom and to provide remedial education. To do that they first have to find the girls, which is a... View Details
Keywords: Lisa Scanlon Mogolov
- 09 Mar 2021
- News
Empowering School Leaders to Meet Today's Challenges
so that everybody feels like they have a role in making that vision come true. They also set up the systems and infrastructure for people to be effective within that organization, to collaborate and solve problems together and continually View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie
- 01 Dec 2012
- News
Alumni Book Briefs
process large amounts of data. But how can the strengths of each be combined for maximum benefit? Citing the latest neuroscience and his research with experts in mind-machine combination, Prensky shows how smart people are learning to... View Details
- 01 Apr 1998
- News
HBS Alumni Association Board of Directors: President's Report
organizations large and small; Professor Michael E. Porter will offer his latest thinking on strategy and the need to move beyond simple "best practice" improvement to actually establishing a unique competitive position; Professor William... View Details
- 11 Oct 2022
- News
Righting the Ship
When Ross Stuckey (PLDA 21, 2016) joined the NAVSEA Warfare Centers—a part of the naval research labs responsible for developing science and tech for national defense—as their capital improvement program (CIP) manager in 2016, he was... View Details
Keywords: Maureen Harmon
- 08 Jan 2025
- News
Mapping Pain Points at the IRS
Having spent a decade helping retailers optimize customer service, Fumi Tamaki (MBA 2014) could not pass up the opportunity in June 2024 to take on the challenge of improving the customer experience at the government organization that serves more Americans annually... View Details
- 23 Apr 2018
- News
Sowing the Seeds of Leadership
“Schools need to keep evolving to stay relevant,” Condo observes. “You need to innovate, evaluate, and then apply lessons from that process to whatever you decide to add or change the next year. INCAE has really embraced that concept. If... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg