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- 06 Dec 2021
- News
New Wave
monitors the turbines from a nondescript cargo container packed with high-tech equipment. But when the RITE Project was first launched, the potential consequences of installing underwater power-generating turbines in the East River were... View Details
- 13 Mar 2018
- News
Leadership Lessons from the “Lone Survivor” Mission
to snap the ball, but how about you just take a knee? Go on over to the sideline. I'll take the play, and you can just watch. About five minutes later, they took off, and they sped towards this crisis scenario. And I made my way to the Ops Center, and View Details
- 01 Sep 2020
- News
Turning Point: Change, Stat
COVID patients. They were often at 40 percent and quickly going down to 30; one patient, in front of my eyes, went down to zero. I didn’t even know the oxygen monitor could read that low. We had to cut out the usual steps and prioritize... View Details
- 23 Oct 2019
- News
Hands-on Simulations Complement the Case Method
Cooper. “It helped me see the value of getting direct input from those on the line in order to put successful process improvements into effect.” First-year MBA students currently participate in eight simulations, and there are more than a dozen in the second-year... View Details
Keywords: Educational Innovation
- 01 Sep 2011
- News
The City Solution
and entrepreneurial skills, Mayor Bloomberg, like his counterparts in other cities, has drawn up a plan to make his city greener. With his PlaNYC, supported by extensive tracking software designed to ensure and monitor efficiencies,... View Details
- 01 Apr 1999
- News
New Releases
evolution of the TOM unit, acknowledging that the strong reputation it holds - both inside and outside the School- must be constantly monitored due to the rapidly changing nature of the discipline. In what they call a "paradox of... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 19 Sep 2019
- News
Predicting Human Behaviors
front of a faux dashboard. A large monitor simulated the view through a windshield as a car drove on a quiet suburban street. On one side of the road, a woman walked casually down the bike lane. On the other, a young boy with a backpack... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 01 Oct 1996
- News
New Releases
performance, customer knowledge, internal processes, and learning and growth. The balanced scorecard is a practical management tool that marshals the value-added potential of people throughout the organization toward the achievement of long-term goals while providing a... View Details
- 01 Sep 2011
- News
Coming Full Circle
but about a more general situation. That’s very powerful.” Sameer Srivastava (MBA 1999) was already a partner at Monitor Group when he felt the call to shift gears. “The itch that didn’t get scratched as a management consultant was the... View Details
- 01 Mar 2009
- News
Damon Silvers
Silvers Illustration by Jeff Smith Damon Silvers (MBA ’95) tried to put his whirlwind day on hold just long enough to answer my queries about labor’s wish list for the new Congress and his role as a member of the Congressional Oversight Panel appointed to View Details
- 01 Sep 2003
- News
Incentives and Operational Excellence
say $3 — in return for a share of the revenues, typically 50 percent. This allowed the retailers to break even with just one or two rentals. Monitoring and technology, however, are key to implementation of the plan, and the new system... View Details
- 01 Dec 2008
- News
Lesson from the Fall
question the wisdom of using its own stock to hedge merchant investments rather than contracts with bona fide counterparties. It failed to monitor the conflicts of interest that the board itself had approved involving Andrew Fastow’s dual... View Details
- 01 Oct 2002
- News
What's Cookin'
5.3 percent, totaling $2.6 million in 2001. Community Bakery's Joe Fox, enjoying a brief break: "This is a labor-intensive business in which the quality of the product is determined by the individual effort of the person doing the preparation." To View Details
Keywords: Hanna, Julia
- 01 Dec 2014
- News
Making Big Data Fashionable
styles are resonating with consumers. By monitoring data such as social media chatter, shared images, and Google searches, Trendalytics can identify specific trends that a brand can then use to guide everything from the product mix to... View Details
- 01 Feb 1999
- News
Entrepreneurs Speak at HBS
maintains minimal inventory, delivering finished units in a matter of days. Dell's direct-access model makes extensive use of computer linkups and information shared among customers, suppliers, and the company itself in order to facilitate and View Details
- 01 Oct 2000
- News
Faculty Retirements
Michael Jensen, the Jesse Isidor Straus Professor of Business Administration, Emeritus, is an authority on organizational theory, organizational strategy, and finance. He is codirector of The Monitor Company Organizational Strategy... View Details
- 01 Jun 2012
- News
Social Enterprise Start-Ups Recognized for Bold Ideas
Diabetes is one of the leading causes of death and disability in the developing world, affecting nearly 250 million people worldwide. Yet most can’t afford the blood glucose monitoring needed to manage their condition. For a target group... View Details
- 01 Jun 2013
- News
Minding The Gap
performance. In Montgomery County, district leaders designed a process for analyzing data, monitoring progress, identifying best practices, and making and implementing decisions with system-wide outcomes that is based on a case about a... View Details
- 01 Feb 1997
- News
Herzlinger on Health Care: Revolution in Evolution
from their income taxes. Third, the government should make sure that everyone buys health insurance, regulate health insurers to ensure honesty and financial stability, and monitor the quality of information, just as the SEC does for the... View Details
- 16 Oct 2014
- News
Innovating for International Aid
monitored refugee camps and volunteered in AIDS orphanages. He spent eight years as president of Aim High, an educational organization focused on inner-city, disadvantaged children. He was also cofounder of a Gates Foundation–funded... View Details
Keywords: Constantine von Hoffman