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- 25 Oct 2011
- First Look
First Look: October 25
Authors:Steenburgh, Thomas J., and Das Narayandas Publication:Chap. 9 in Legends in Marketing: Philip Kotler, 114-122. Sage, forthcoming An abstract is unavailable at this time. Publisher's Link: http://www.uk.sagepub.com/books/Book235569 Working PapersFairness,... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Sep 2005
- News
WATER Ltd.
tax-averse citizens. Turning over water operations to private companies that can offer economies of scale, financial resources, expertise, and efficiency is an attractive option. Privatization, however, troubles some consumer advocates... 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.)
- 08 Jan 2001
- Research & Ideas
Can Japan Compete? [Part Two]
market. Efficient companies should be the ones that maintain their capacity, and the inefficient ones should shrink or be sold. The same principle is involved in new industries. Instead of subsidizing new companies, government should... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace & Hilah Geer
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
- 01 Sep 2009
- First Look
First Look: September 1
Working PapersWhat Should GAAP Look Like? A Survey and Economic Analysis Authors:S.P. Kothari, Karthik Ramanna, and Douglas J. Skinner Abstract Based on extant literature, we articulate a positive theory of GAAP under the assumption that GAAP's objective is to... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Mar 2019
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for March 2019
Earth. This book is an invitation to live in another story, the story of sustainable abundance. Cleantech Sell: The Essential Guide to Selling Resource Efficient Products in the B2B Market by Tony McDonald (MBA 1989) Cleantech Sell... View Details
- Portrait Project
Sylvie Tran
companies to help enable enduring positive impact on developing countries. I want to help the world transition to clean and efficient energy by convincing everyone in my community to buy hybrid cars. That afternoon in the leper village, a... View Details
- 01 Sep 2011
- News
Making a Difference in the World
http://www.japanfocus.org/-David-McNeill/3247 Sidebar “Residential sector ” McKinsey & Co.: “Curbing global energy demand growth: the energy productivity opportunity” May 2007 “Most efficient available ” US EPA/Dept. of Energy... View Details
- 01 Dec 2005
- News
Faculty Books
bare compliance with regulations, do firms have additional social responsibilities to commit resources to environmental protection? Should firms sacrifice profits in the social interest, given their fiduciary responsibilities to shareholders? Is this an View Details
- 31 Aug 2011
- Research & Ideas
Improving Fairness in Flight Delays
congestion at airports and in the air. In Equitable and Efficient Coordination in Traffic Flow Management, a paper recently accepted for publication in Transportation Science and coauthored with Cynthia Barnhart of MIT and Dimitris... View Details
- 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
- 22 May 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, May 22, 2018
improved girls’ outcomes by moving households’ human capital investments closer to the efficient frontier. This is consistent with an incomplete contracting model, where negotiation allows daughters to strategically cooperate with... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 19 May 2023
- News
Quiet Acceleration
Tesla introduced manufacturing efficiencies that helped deliver 15 consecutive profitable quarters and generated $22 billion in available capital. Last year, the company’s operating margin was 16.8 percent, substantially higher than its... View Details
- 01 Mar 2011
- News
Noted & Quoted
solutions to social problems, identifying efficiencies in an economic environment, and finding creative solutions to them is the next growth story for emerging markets.” — HBS professor Tarun Khanna on private-sector engagement in social... View Details
- 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
- 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
- 01 Dec 2014
- News
Taking Tailoring High Tech
the cost and time commitment of a traditional bespoke tailor. The efficiency of the technology allows Acustom to sell jeans—one of the most difficult tailoring challenges—starting at $225, about a quarter of the going price for custom... 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