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- 06 Dec 2021
- News
Case Study: Let’s Dance
markets and coordinate the expansions there. Based on my own experience, nothing beats spending in-person time in the new markets. —Matias Recchia (MBA 2007) is the founder and CEO of Unlock, a real estate technology platform with View Details
- 15 Dec 2024
- News
Assets: Memory Full
pounds and featured a nifty carrying handle. It had no internal operating system but there was a floppy drive for that. Another drive was available for case exhibits, which students could work on using the... View Details
- 01 Mar 2013
- News
Sizing Up Social Impact
Acumen's potential new projects in Kenya and associated decision-making factors, including political risk. The (B) case considers critical measurement problems for the organization at large. What should its performance tracking system... View Details
- 13 Sep 2019
- Blog Post
An Uncommon Summer: Project Management at an Education Non-Profit
flying high in the sky and low to the ground, over water and below the treeline. I led organizations ranging in size from 17 soldiers to 120, in missions both operational and maintenance support. Yet one consistent theme throughout all of... View Details
- 01 Sep 2012
- News
Hierarchy's Last Stand
buzz. Of course, high positions still provide opportunities; a President of the United States has a bully pulpit and can use it to command attention. But attention will be ephemeral if his actions don’t earn respect. Hierarchy’s last stand is compensation View Details
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Delivered by fast service cars - The Human Factor – Baker Library | Bloomberg Center, Historical Collections
The Message The Product The Production The Worker The Audience Bibliography previous 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 next Delivered by fast service cars ca. 1933 Kraft-Phenix Cheese Corporation Photographer unknown “Auto-truck” distributors of Kraft... View Details
- 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
- 08 Jul 2002
- Research & Ideas
How to Fashion Your New E-Business Model
and infrastructure to launch new product lines or businesses, or enter new markets. Industrial Age business innovation's favored producers. The innovations included: Physical or analog production and distribution technologies (machines, railroads, steam engines,... View Details
Keywords: by Lynda M. Applegate
- May 1997
- Teaching Note
Tale of Two Electronic Components Distributors TN
By: Ananth Raman and Bharat P. Rao
Teaching Note for (9-697-064). View Details
- January 1990 (Revised February 1990)
- Teaching Note
Sedalia Revisited, Teaching Note
By: Roy D. Shapiro
Teaching Note for (9-687-004). View Details
Keywords: Factories, Labs, and Plants; Design; Quality; System; Employees; Framework; Competition; Production; Strategy
- winter 1989
- Article
Split-Awards Procurement and Innovation
By: James J. Anton and Dennis A. Yao
In many procurement settings, it is possible for a buyer to split a production award between suppliers. In this article, we develop a model of split-award procurement auctions in which the split choice is endogenous. We characterize the set of equilibrium bids and... View Details
Keywords: Innovation and Invention; Auctions; Bids and Bidding; Cost; Supply Chain; Investment; Balance and Stability
Anton, James J., and Dennis A. Yao. "Split-Awards Procurement and Innovation." RAND Journal of Economics 20, no. 4 (winter 1989): 538–552. (Harvard users click here for full text.)
- 17 Apr 2020
- News
Decreasing the Wealth Gap
need—took a moment to share his thoughts with NPR’s Morning Edition on how the ever-increasing wealth gap could be addressed as the world’s economies grapple with the social and economic effects of the Coronavirus pandemic. “There’s a wonderful opportunity here, if we... View Details
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Teaching Cases - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness
County Council Senior Medical Adviser, Dr. Holger Stalberg, set out to create a bundled payment system for hip and knee replacements in the County. The new model, called OrthoChoice, was set to go into View Details
- 20 Feb 2013
- News
Thanking Veterans Online
and for their souls," said Hall. "Troop ID provides companies with a means of giving vets that recognition in a systemic way. For the veteran, it's not about the discount; it's about the gesture American businesses make to show they... View Details
- 01 Jun 2013
- News
Can Business Smarts Save the Charter School Revolution?
chief Arne Duncan his secretary of education in 2008, there was great optimism in the charter school movement. Duncan, after all, had long welcomed charters—public schools operating outside the education bureaucracy—in Obama's hometown.... View Details
- 02 Sep 2018
- News
Havana Rising
froze the issuance of new non-state licenses. The government noted it was likely a temporary measure—an effort to perfect the system and root out any corruption. For Gordon and the other entrepreneurs View Details
Keywords: Dan Morrell; photographed by Eve North
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Launch Lab/Capstone 1 - Course Catalog
system engineering methods to plan, design, develop, build, and test a complex technology-based product/service, integrating knowledge across multiple engineering disciplines. Business Knowledge: The use of business model analysis and... View Details
- 01 Apr 2001
- News
HBS Press Books in Brief
Performance, by Brian Becker, Mark Huselid, and Dave Ulrich, is an ongoing study of nearly three thousand firms that describes a seven-step process for embedding HR systems within the firm’s overall strategy — what the authors call an HR... View Details
- 01 Oct 2000
- News
Raymond A. Baxter: Sweet Smell of Success
operational systems has resulted in a 99.9 percent compliance rate in order fulfillment; it is also the only baking company in North America to be registered ISO 9001, the highest standard for quality View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
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Using Personal Devices for HBS Business | Information Technology
requirements beyond what is listed here , including tools which are approved or required. Please consult with your manager. Suggested Resources for Encryption Leveraging tools built into your operating View Details