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Introduction - The Message - The Human Factor – Baker Library | Bloomberg Center, Historical Collections

so brilliantly translated through photography of the time did not fail to catch the attention of corporate managers, who found a new use for the so-called objective medium. A key element of efficient management, graduates of Harvard... View Details

21 Dec 2017
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A Decent Place to Live

housing in the public realm, as well as just running as efficiently as we can. “I spent the last 10 years before Habitat working on rural poverty and rural hunger, which largely centers on agricultural development. Most of the poorest... View Details

15 Nov 2016
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Cultivating the Next Generation of Thought Leaders

two reasons for management failures to heed shareholder proposals for greater action on ESG issues: processes within the organization may not be sufficiently developed, and performance incentives may be misaligned. “I went back to the data and found both hypotheses to... View Details

01 Apr 2002
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Emerging Research on Emerging Markets

asserted at the third annual HBS Workshop on Emerging Markets, held on campus last December. The two-day workshop, which attracted an impressive group of scholars from as far away as Sweden and as nearby as MIT, provided a forum to discuss how to support the View Details

Keywords: Yasheng Huang; Publishing Industries (except Internet); Information

08 Jun 2011
Lessons from the Classroom

Twenty-first Century Skill: Trading Carbon Credits

Cap and trade has become an increasingly popular mechanism used by governments to induce green behavior among corporate polluters, with news emerging almost daily. Just recently New Jersey Governor Chris Christie withdrew his state from the Regional Greenhouse Gas... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Energy; Utilities

29 Oct 2015
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Why We Recruit: Bloom Energy

Helen Textor, Director of Talent Acquisition, Bloom Energy Describe your organization in three to five sentences. Founded in 2001, Bloom Energy is a provider of breakthrough fuel cell technology generating clean, highly efficient onsite... View Details

Keywords: Manufacturing

March 2006
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Customer-Introduced Variability in Service Operations

By: Frances X. Frei

Presents a typology of customer-introduced variability and offers guidance on how to manage each type. Central to the ideas developed is how to mitigate the effects of the apparent trade-off between reducing variability and diminishing the service experience or... View Details

Keywords: Customers; Six Sigma; Consumer Behavior; Service Operations; Performance Efficiency

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18 May 2015
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Changing the conversation on US infrastructure challenges

areas such as public transit, cell phone and Internet service, and efficient rail, air, and highway transportation. Inspired by ideas that emerged during the summit, Kanter traveled throughout the country to gather facts, figures, and... View Details

01 Jun 2011
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HBS Chapel Earns Gold Certification

two-year process toward certification resulted in the chapel cutting energy consumption 49 percent by installing new climate controls, upgrading to more efficient lighting, and insulating basement pipes. New fixtures reduced water... View Details

Keywords: Construction of Buildings; Construction

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Ningfeng Hu

gives China an inflection point. I was born with duty. With a better education and more exposure, I can and must do something for my country: introduce mature business practices, create more jobs, and help build efficient economic and... View Details

September 2012 (Revised May 2015)
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Philips-Visicu

By: Regina E. Herzlinger, Natalie Kindred and Sara M. McKinley

Would the advent of global payment models and ACOs create sufficient demand for a telemedicine offering covering the care continuum, from hospitals to the home? This was the decision facing Royal Philips Electronics (Philips), the Netherlands-based producer of... View Details

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01 Dec 2012
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Alvin Roth Wins Nobel Prize in Economics

were much more efficient if they were designed well rather than allowed to evolve naturally," explained Roth's colleague, Albert H. Gordon Professor of Business Administration Brian Hall, head of the NOM Unit. "Among his many... View Details

John R. Simplot

Investing in businesses that ranged from cattle to potatoes to fertilizer, Simplot used his talent at achieving efficiency and at spotting a growing market to garner enormous profits. Simplot capitalized on the Army’s World War II demands... View Details

Keywords: Food & Tobacco

19 Oct 2009
Research & Ideas

Why Are Web Sites So Confusing?

started in the brick-and-mortar world but the digital economy provides many more subtle ways to divert search.) Well, it may appear that users lose whereas some vendors (and the intermediaries) benefit, but in a world without perfectly View Details

Keywords: by Andrei Hagiu & Bruno Jullien

15 Dec 2024
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Forward Thinking

You can ask the internet anything, but getting an answer via generative artificial intelligence consumes about 10 times more electricity than a traditional Google search. Consequently, the data centers where AI tools are trained and run are guzzling more and more... View Details

Keywords: Janine White; Illustrations by Richard Borge; Electric Power Generation, Transmission, Distribution; Utilities

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Once in a Lifetime Opportunities | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School

effectively and efficiently measure the impact of Acumen’s portfolio companies. “We developed Lean Data as a smart way to listen to our customers and understand the impact of our products and services on their lives,” Kasia says. In the... View Details

John S. Reed

Reed is credited with building Citicorp into one of the most powerful and significant financial institutions in the United States. His command of the operational aspects of the business enabled him to create a lean and efficient... View Details

Keywords: Finance

14 May 2012
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Breaking the Smartphone Addiction

collaborative 65 percent (versus 42 percent) rated their team as doing everything it could to be efficient 74 percent (versus 51 percent) rated their team as doing everything it could to be effective The happy result for BCG was that... View Details

Keywords: by Leslie A. Perlow

Vincent A. Calarco

struggling companies. His track record of efficient cost containment, customer focus, and sales investment has enabled Crompton to not only survive, but also thrive as a leading player in a very competitive industry sector. View Details

Keywords: Chemicals & Industrial

05 Jun 2009
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Business Summit: Niall Ferguson and the Certainty of Uncertainty

Quelch, professor Niall Ferguson offered a historian's view on globalization and the current financial crisis. Neither globalization nor financial crises are new. What may be new is that today's highly efficient global financial system is... View Details

Keywords: Re: John A. Quelch

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