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- 29 Oct 2015
- Blog Post
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
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
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Introduction - The Request - The Human Factor – Baker Library | Bloomberg Center, Historical Collections
instruction at Harvard Business School. Ayres and Davenport corresponded with the gamut of American companies, ranging from General Electric to International Harvester. Eager to demonstrate the effectiveness and efficiency of their... View Details
- 08 May 2019
- News
Fellowships Fuel a Passion to Help Underserved Communities
train and empower people to think more critically and innovatively to reach their full potential,” she says, “and to find efficiencies that help companies grow.” Photo credit: Susan Young View Details
- April 2001 (Revised August 2001)
- Case
UNext: Business Education and e-Learning
By: Michael G. Rukstad, David J. Collis and Tyrell Levine
UNEXT has signed agreements with Columbia, Stanford, Chicago, Carnegie Mellon, and the London School of Economics to create online business courses. The company is backed by Michael Milken and Larry Ellison and has four Nobel laureates on its advisory board. Describes... View Details
Keywords: Business Education; Curriculum and Courses; Technological Innovation; Internet and the Web; Competition; Disruptive Innovation; Performance Efficiency; Higher Education; Learning; Education Industry
Rukstad, Michael G., David J. Collis, and Tyrell Levine. "UNext: Business Education and e-Learning." Harvard Business School Case 701-014, April 2001. (Revised August 2001.)
- 14 May 2013
- Blog Post
Alumni: Where are they now? Featuring Matt…
upon to make their organizations more effective, efficient and accountable. I’ve greatly enjoyed working closely with big city chief executives. I’ve learned a ton from their pragmatic and principled leadership and it’s been a privilege... View Details
Keywords: Nonprofit / Government
- 26 Apr 2016
- First Look
April 26
workers without an agency affiliation. This advantage declines after high-quality non-affiliated workers receive good public feedback scores. The results indicate that intermediaries have arisen endogenously to permit a more efficient... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 10 Jun 2015
- Research & Ideas
The Transparency Revolution in Corporate Reporting
companies encouraging and funding ESG innovation. Dow Chemical has enormous energy consumption in their operations, but they've managed to save more than $10 billion through efficiency programs and are moving the world toward the adoption... View Details
Keywords: Re: George Serafeim
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Yong-yi Zhu
city? To me, technology is the answer. I want to improve our communications infrastructure. I want to find more efficient ways to travel. I want to make today's innovations tomorrow's reality. By doing that, I will build more meaningful... View Details
- Portrait Project
Suzanne Floy Gauron
tree was weathered and peeling, but still strong enough to stand years of coastal nor'easters. Refusing to grow efficiently skywards, its green swooping branches stretched outward, dipping low enough for a child to climb. That balance of... View Details
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Hakeem Belo-Osagie | Baker Library
he realized a smaller group like his was vulnerable to being forced out of the market by a large, efficient commercial bank. Therefore, when the Nigerian government decided to sell its shares in the United Bank for Africa, Hakeem... View Details
- 06 Jun 2018
- News
The Business of Social Justice
become legal in one day. These kinds of changes have decades of investment behind them.” As COO, Brooks oversees strategic planning, operations, and finances, as well as the evaluation of programs to determine ways operations can be more View Details
- 23 Oct 2007
- First Look
First Look: October 23, 2007
Abstract We study the interplay of inequality and trust in a dynamic game, where trust increases efficiency and thus allows higher growth of the experimental economy in the future. We find that trust is initially high in a treatment... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 23 Oct 2012
- First Look
First Look: October 23
strategy. Fairness, Efficiency and Flexibility in Organ Allocation for Kidney Transplantation Authors:Dimitris Bertsimas, Vivek F. Farias, and Nikolaos Trichakis Publication:Operations Research (forthcoming) Abstract We propose a... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
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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
- News
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
- News
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
- News
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
- February 1995
- Teaching Note
Vanity Fair Mills: Market Response System TN
By: David E. Bell
Teaching Note for (9-593-111). View Details
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Constanza Oliveira e Sousa
practical! It forces you to be 100% prepared, to be organized. And you learn from other people’s experiences. You learn that you can disagree—and everyone can feel great about it. Another thing that HBS has taught me is how to be View Details