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Jules S. Bache
Bache took over his uncle’s brokerage business and built it into one of the premier financial services firms in the early decades of the twentieth century. His operation helped to facilitate the reorganization of the American Spirits... View Details
Keywords: Finance
- 01 Jun 2014
- News
Roads to Recovery
radar technology, which forces planes to fly 50 nautical miles apart and only on predetermined routes. Step Forward: Satellite Tracking Delta Air Lines CEO Richard Anderson, citing air traffic control systems as "one of our biggest... View Details
- 11 Apr 2000
- Research & Ideas
Financial Services 24/7
online financial services operation that will make today's local commercial bank a historical relic. The importance of operational efficiency is particularly apparent in the area of trading, where seconds... View Details
Keywords: by Susan Young
- 01 Feb 2000
- News
Financial Services 24/7
offers huge economies of scale," notes Warren McFarlan, coauthor of the fifth edition of Corporate Information Systems Management: The Issues Facing Senior Executives. These economies have greatly encouraged the consolidations that are... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 01 Jun 2020
- News
Inside Out
day and you are likely to see a story about the hazards of outdoor pollution, but how often do you see a story about building health? Our regulatory system is also geared toward the outdoor environment, too. In the United States we have... View Details
- Student-Profile
Hummy Song
and the productivity of the health care workforce. I am currently working on several projects that examine various operational and organizational factors that may affect worker productivity and quality of care. One of my projects explores... View Details
- 01 Jun 2000
- News
Seeing the Light
spot in 1996. Today, sales at Kirlin are 300 percent higher than in 1986; the company, which designs and manufactures lighting systems for commercial, institutional, and custom residential construction, has created lighting for a full... View Details
- 25 Apr 2014
- News
Tapping into more effective water technologies
demand for fresh and pure water is forecast to exceed supply by 40 percent. "Few businesses are prepared for water scarcity and its impact upon operations and their supply chains," says Shenkar, adding that a small group of leaders is... View Details
- 02 Dec 2019
- What Do You Think?
How Does a Company like Boeing Respond to Intense Competitive Pressure?
the rocket, which was built and operated by another company, the United Launch Alliance.” While we were addressing one possible example of a lack of coordinated, long-term thinking under pressure (among other things) associated with the... View Details
- 03 Sep 2020
- Op-Ed
Why American Health Care Needs Its Own SEC
see which clinicians, hospitals, insurers, and others provide the best value." Even if the Trump rules hold up, they cannot provide the full accounting of prices and outcomes the health care system needs. For that, the United States... View Details
- 03 Nov 2003
- What Do You Think?
Can Investors Have Too Much Accounting Transparency?
Legislation is therefore a problematic way to achieve the golden mean in normative behavior." Edward Hare agrees, pointing out that "Corporate governance is a system that continues to fail us ... and joins the ranks of... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 27 Feb 2006
- Research & Ideas
Take Responsibility for Rising Stars
directors was very good at these activities. The CEOs of savvy companies realize that their boards are well placed to help them plan for new leadership to take the reins. Detached from day-to-day operations and biases, board directors can... View Details
- 15 Apr 2008
- First Look
First Look: April 15, 2008
Political System Harvard Business School Note 308-063 Offers a detailed overview of the structure and operation of the Chinese political system today. Key issues that are... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- Web
Globalization and Emerging Markets - Course Catalog
for a government in an emerging or frontier market, as well as for those who wish to acquire a richer conceptual understanding of the nature of capitalism, globalization, and economic development worldwide. The unit of analysis of the course ranges from the... View Details
- 06 Jan 2012
- Op-Ed
Where Green Corporate Ratings Fail
News Corporation—a multinational media conglomerate that includes BSKYB, Dow Jones, Fox News, 20th Century Fox and Star, among other units—announced earlier this year that it has become climate neutral, meaning that its operations have no... View Details
- 02 Nov 2020
- News
The First Five Years: Julianne White (MBA 2017)
and really evaluating every area of the operation to find efficiencies and ways to get more food to the communities we serve. “Knowing that our work could determine whether someone got a meal or not the next day certainly kept me up at... View Details
- 31 Jul 2007
- First Look
First Look: July 31, 2007
designs. At higher frequency, managers use designs to search for high-performing operational choices. The two searches are coupled: organizational design molds the choice among operational alternatives, and... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 24 Apr 2014
- News
A bold experiment in education
A former corporate financier with Boeing, Ben Kleban (MBA 2005) planned to open a charter school in New York after HBS, but in the wake of Hurricane Katrina, he was inspired to found New Orleans College Prep (NOCP). NOCP now operates... View Details
- 01 Jun 2016
- News
Research Brief: The High Cost of Election Expectations
polling stations. For example, the biometric identification systems designed to prevent voter fraud were not working at all polling stations, and systems designed to publicly report real-time results crashed... View Details
Keywords: Erin Peterson
- 01 Sep 2009
- News
Noted & Quoted
consulting company, writing about Google’s new Chrome operating system (Huffington Post, July 13, 2009). “Echo boomers are larger than the baby boomer population. Couple that with immigration and you have... View Details