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01 Dec 2001
News

BOOK: Creating Value through Corporate Restructuring

must be carefully utilized in light of its far-reaching implications for a company's many stakeholders. "Once considered a rare event, restructuring has become an important part of everyday business practice," Gilson asserts in Creating... View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley

01 Aug 2002
News

Seventy Years Out: Class of 1932 Celebrates Reunions

observed. One of the “lucky ones,” Brink worked for the telephone company before he set up his own one-man shop — Utilities Audit Bureau — as a consultant on telephone services and systems. “In 49 years,” Brink proudly declared, “I never... View Details

01 Dec 2008
News

Lesson from the Fall

"...But the good news is your old Enron stock has become a high-priced collectible." © 2008 www.cartoonstock.com Nearly seven years after its collapse, Enron continues to fascinate those interested in corporate leadership and governance. The latest chapter of the Enron... View Details

Keywords: Malcolm S. Salter; Utilities; Utilities; Utilities; Utilities

07 Oct 2013
News

Combating Climate Change with Nuclear Power and Fracking

Keywords: Utilities; Utilities; Utilities; Utilities

19 Jul 2016
First Look

July 19, 2016

for monetary gambles, reference points for experiences that are set at more extreme outcomes, leading to concave utility for negative experiences but convex utility for positive experiences. As a result,... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

06 Sep 2022
Research & Ideas

Curbing an Unlikely Culprit of Rising Drug Prices: Pharmaceutical Donations

Northwestern University and Teresa Rokos of the University of Southern California, appears in the September issue of Health Affairs. “I’m really worried about what’s happened to our drug prices and the incentives we have embedded in our system to encourage high prices... View Details

Keywords: by Ben Rand; Insurance; Health; Pharmaceutical

01 Feb 2017
What Do You Think?

Is the Next Jobs Crisis Just Ahead?

self-driving vehicle combined with information technology designed to make driving more productive, drivers less essential, and the utilization of vehicles more and more efficient. Let’s agree that it is important that a minimum base of... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett; Service

17 Feb 2016
Research & Ideas

Man vs. Machine: Which Makes Better Hires?

forever? Not necessarily. “What it really shows is that whatever firms are doing right now, they could do better by eliminating discretion,” she says. But that doesn’t mean there might not be superior ways companies could better utilize... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Employment

03 Mar 2014
Research & Ideas

Facebook’s Future

however, before the two trends converge, and we will start broadcasting personal information automatically as we go through our day. As soon as Facebook develops appropriate algorithms to deliver the right social information to the right people and demonstrates their... View Details

Keywords: by Mikolaj Piskorski

04 Aug 2006
What Do You Think?

What Happens When the Economics of Scarcity Meets the Economics of Abundance?

terms "a culture unfiltered by economic scarcity." In the Long Tail, money is made by such things as avoiding inventory, producing to order, letting customers do the work, pricing creatively and flexibly to various customers, View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

21 Sep 2011
Research & Ideas

Gender and Competition: What Companies Need to Know

competitive situation, whereas women exerted similar amounts of effort whether or not they were competing. “There's a strongly held assumption that men are competitive and women aren't, and our results show otherwise.” In addition, past studies mostly View Details

Keywords: by Kim Girard

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Patients - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness

information from physicians and the health plan Utilize independent trustworthy medical information sources when needed. Beware of un-validated information posted on the internet. Choose excellent providers based on reported results, not... View Details

07 Sep 2011
First Look

First Look: Sept. 7

drilling industry slumps in 2009. Lower oil prices lead oil companies to reduce drilling budgets, and rig utilization falls from essentially 100% to 70% in some markets. Day rates—the prices paid for a rig's services—fall by as much as... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

20 Aug 2024
Blog Post

Alumni and Students in Climate Networking Series: Boston

leverages the 40+ small municipal utilities across Massachusetts to look closely at what works and what doesn’t. Pasi is optimistic: “This is a very exciting journey that we are on and it comes with challenges. We are seeing the positive... View Details

29 Jan 2015
Op-Ed

The Fall of Greece

the contrary the poor utilization of assets, especially in poorly governed countries like Greece, is dramatic. The emerging status is pretty clear: a deeply socialist state where central planning by politicians will command the use of... View Details

Keywords: by George Serafeim

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1.13 Satisfactory Academic Progress | MBA

demonstrated mastery of these skills, full commitment to HBS coursework, as well as adherence to the social contract within the HBS community, as defined by the HBS Community Values and the MBA Honor Code . Academic Difficulty In the academic performance review... View Details

13 Nov 2020
News

Faculty Focus Their Research on COVID-19 Issues

expertise on how technology is helping leading companies gain an edge during the pandemic. For example, Lauren Cohen observed: “Technology will be most powerfully utilized . . . by those firms who apply it organization-wide to create more... View Details

19 Jan 2016
News

Electric Avenues

invests up front to develop and build the desalination facility, signing up local utilities to long-term contracts at firm prices. “It’s one of the first examples of a private company in the US water industry taking on development and... View Details

Keywords: Dan Morrell

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About Baker Library | Baker Library

Library you can engage with cultural artifacts and vital historical records; utilize our world-class digital collections, research tools, and curriculum support; explore the inspiring physical and digital spaces that enrich our community;... View Details

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Teaching Guidelines - Creating Emerging Markets

of the Andes (Colombia), University of Glasgow (Scotland), University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign (USA), and the Lauder Institute at the University of Pennsylvania (USA). For ideas on ways that you may utilize CEM transcripts and video... View Details

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