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- 31 Mar 2009
- First Look
First Look: March 31, 2009
high-quality ECD program of their choice. MELF had also invested in Five Hundred Under 5 (FHU5), a Minneapolis program formed to improve the capacity and quality of providers. Comparing SPECSP to FHU5 would offer insights on the potential... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Mar 2014
- News
The Solution to the Global Food Crisis Just Might Come from Nigeria
agricultural powerhouses, they built that global capacity off of a large internal market," says Masha. "That's how Brazil did it, that's how Thailand did it, that's how the US did it. They were all able to leverage their large internal... View Details
- 24 Oct 2017
- Research & Ideas
Tax Reform is on the Front Burner Again. Here’s Why You Should Care
as the state grew in the middle of the 20th century through the Great Depression and World War Two, and the advance of entitlements, we needed to fund those things and the fiscal capacity of the state grew. I think there's a lingering... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 22 Nov 2022
- Blog Post
Alumni Leaders on Decarbonization Strategies for Combatting Climate Change
capital-intensive and time-consuming (yet still very needed) route of putting more generation capacity online does not address existing pain points such as double-digit inflation in the US and a looming winter energy crisis in Europe... View Details
- 01 Oct 1996
- News
Leading In a New Era
office products, building products, and paper, had expanded production capacity to meet the strong demand for paper in the late 1980s but bore the brunt when demand began to taper off in 1990. The company — which started up in 1957,... View Details
Keywords: Nancy O. Perry
- 04 Dec 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, December 4, 2018
details four key Southern responses: cooperation, competition, low uptake levels, and program revision via supplementation. The Southern-led Alliance for Responsible Mining first cooperated with Fairtrade International, then built enough View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 15 Mar 2011
- First Look
First Look: March 15
the natural environment while creating urban living capacity by combining low carbon and resource-efficient development with the use of information and communication technologies (ICT) to better manage complex urban systems. Download the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Jun 1997
- News
Blockbuster Deals
those who were usually called 'raiders' in the eighties - entrepreneurs who were putting their own money and reputations on the line." Jensen believes that most current mergers undertaken to reduce excess capacity and combine related... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons and Nancy O. Perry
- 01 Mar 2013
- News
Sizing Up Social Impact
average time required to collect water from 44 minutes to 32 minutes. Electrification of rural areas and the computerization of rural banks improved the flow of goods and services and decreased check-clearing times at banks. A government-training program designed to... View Details
- 03 Mar 2009
- First Look
First Look: March 3, 2009
maintaining a supply network for a global pandemic response initiative. Managing supply is particularly challenging for three reasons. First, demand for stockpile quantities is spiky and uncertain, and governments placing orders expect lead times to be short. Second,... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 12 Jul 2021
- News
Alumni Confront the COVID-19 Crisis
in regions that have been hard hit by the pandemic. Fifty hospitals have added tele-ICU clinical and operational capacity to address the patient surge. “We have had COVID-19–catalyzed discussions with dozens of hospitals, hospital... View Details
- 09 Feb 2009
- Research & Ideas
Uncompromising Leadership in Tough Times
demonstrated their capacity to build a HCHP firm and to study them more formally. My own interest in HCHP companies began at Corning, Inc. I started my career there, after earning my Ph.D. in organizational Psychology, as an internal... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- Blog
Two-Year Action Plan Update: Q+A with Terrill Drake, Chief Diversity and Inclusion Officer at Harvard Business School
severely understaffed in this department—there might be one associate or assistant dean of DEI and maybe a committee, but they share those responsibilities with teaching or other administrative roles. We feel well poised to do this in a comprehensive way and build the... View Details
- 16 Dec 2016
- News
An Environmental Epiphany
relentlessly. The learning curves point to improvements of 20% every time the globally installed capacity doubles. And already, in many parts of the United States and beyond, wind energy and even, solar energy, is now more cost effective... View Details
- 01 Feb 1998
- News
Running Up the Score
well as the Continental Airlines Arena that houses the NHL New Jersey Devils and the NBA New Jersey Nets. "Many teams argue that their survival depends on whether or not they get a new venue," says Robinson, "not so much to have greater seating View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 01 Mar 2011
- News
Making Their Way
capacity and reducing transit times. Notes Ward, “The Gateway will enhance America’s competitiveness in global markets. We’re proud of our role in the Gateway for that reason, in addition to the fact that so much of our own business at... View Details
- 01 Dec 2012
- News
From Where We Stand
responsibility of a leader is to set the tone at the top for acting with integrity and living the values of the organization. Other important responsibilities are developing talent and the human capacity in the organization, focusing on... View Details
- 01 Dec 2016
- News
Alumni Books of 2016
hierarchy, the firm has fostered an engaged workforce and a strong capacity for change. Turco was embedded within TechCo for ten months, and this book is her ethnographic analysis of what worked at the company and what didn’t. Something... View Details
- 28 Oct 2014
- First Look
First Look: October 28
capacities as corporate fiduciaries and citizens. The note offers a unifying framework by organizing major contemporary societal challenges into four "tragedies of the commons" and by developing the notion of a... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 28 Oct 2020
- Blog Post
Keep Your Weary Workers Engaged
all jobs must be knowledge work, or that employees must work at the peak of their intellectual or creative capacity to be fulfilled in this drive. There are two main ways that the drive to comprehend is satisfied on the job. The first is... View Details
Keywords: All Industries