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Byungyeon Kim

outcomes be more precisely forecasted? Couldn’t the business practices be more efficiently designed? Despite his increasing intellectual curiosity, he found no outlet to explore the many questions that occurred to him. “I realized what I... View Details

01 Apr 1998
News

Deals For Sale

FairMarket is an online auction house that allows companies with surplus computers and computer components to sell to the highest bidder. "We make the distribution chain more efficient by acting as a centralized market for such... View Details

Keywords: Judith A. Ross

March 2010 (Revised April 2010)
Case

Deworming Kenya: Translating Research into Action (A)

By: Nava Ashraf, Neil Buddy Shah and Rachel Gordon

Karen Levy and her colleague, Margaret Ndanyi, have spent the last six months planning and preparing for a national Kenyan program to target school children most at risk for parasitic worm infection. One week after its launch, the program seemed to be going well but... View Details

Keywords: Planning; Risk and Uncertainty; Mission and Purpose; Performance Efficiency; Programs; Problems and Challenges; Research; Policy; Health Care and Treatment; Management Practices and Processes; Kenya

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Educators

Purchase

29 Sep 2008
Research & Ideas

How Economics May Lead to Better Football Games

measurement of the inefficiency due to early transaction times in a naturally occurring market." Lessons about the value of better matching go far beyond the football field, however. As Roth describes in this e-mail Q&A with HBS Working Knowledge, View Details

Keywords: by Sarah Jane Gilbert; Sports

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Linda Leung

Lucas’ science-fiction epics. “In real life, ion propulsion would never work for fighters,” Linda explains. “It just doesn’t create enough acceleration. But it might be perfect for deep space travel in which efficiency is more important... View Details

01 Oct 2001
News

Barbara Bry: Business is Blooming

friend in the electronic greeting-card business, who thought flower marketing could derive great advantages from the efficiencies of the Internet and wanted Bry's online expertise. Proflowers was the result. Seated in her no-frills office... View Details

Keywords: Thomas Frick; Arts, Entertainment

01 Jun 2004
News

How Nonprofits Dilute Their Efforts

questions, but it’s crucial that they do: How effective are our programs? How efficiently are they executed? Which programs should we drop? Which should we seek to add? If it doesn’t ask these tough questions, a nonprofit risks spreading... View Details

Keywords: Publishing Industries (except Internet); Information

2009
Working Paper

Specific Knowledge and Divisional Performance Measurement

By: Michael C. Jensen and William H. Meckling

This paper discusses five common divisional performance measurement methods—cost centers, revenue centers, profit centers, investment centers, and expense centers—providing a theory that explains when each of these methods is likely to be the most efficient. The... View Details

Keywords: Business Units; Business Headquarters; Decisions; Cost; Investment; Investment Return; Profit; Revenue; Knowledge Use and Leverage; Managerial Roles; Performance Efficiency; Strategy

Citation

SSRN

11 Jun 2018
Blog Post

Meet the 2018-2019 Blavatnik Fellows in Life Science Entrepreneurship

making providers more efficient by increasing the quality of care while decreasing costs. In addition, David is a psychiatrist at Massachusetts General Hospital, where he conducts research with Matt Nock on how technology can help better... View Details

01 Mar 2012
News

Robots to the Rescue

approach to order fulfillment is based on the disarming efficiency of small, battery-powered, orange mobile robots. When orders are received, the robots are directed by a complex software application to find and retrieve the desired... View Details

Keywords: Deborah Blagg; e-commerce; order fulfillment; robotics; Management of Companies and Enterprises; Management; Miscellaneous Store Retailers; Retail Trade

21 Aug 2007
First Look

First Look: August 21, 2007

from each other and f peers (freeriders) who download from sharers but do not contribute files. Assuming that upload bandwidth is scarcer than download bandwidth and efficient allocation, we compute the expected bandwidth obtained by each... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

01 Mar 2025
News

Venture: Time Heals All

everything from the quality of patient care to a hospital’s bottom line. “Health care executives pay close attention to how nursing time is being utilized. They strive for efficiency in fear of finding themselves in troublesome financial... View Details

Keywords: Amy Crawford; Illustration by Klaus Kremmerz; Ambulatory Health Care Services; Health, Social Assistance

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Arjun Goyal

and business responsibilities, including the review of scientific literature and therapeutic guidelines, the analysis of compound licensing opportunities, the structuring of efficient clinical trials, and the creation of viable financial... View Details

30 Oct 2018
First Look

New Research and Ideas, October 30, 2018

trade-offs between effectiveness and efficiency associated with the use of bots versus humans to create, nurture, and manage customer relationships. Second, they had to decide to what extent to anthropomorphize the chatbots. How... View Details

Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

03 Oct 2019
News

Skydeck Live: Galactic Returns

the entire earth with solar cells, which is not practical and won’t happen. You could say, “Well, more energy efficiency is the answer.” But every energy efficiency solution that has existed has always led... View Details

Keywords: Space Research and Technology; Government

Web

Security & Privacy | Information Technology

your personal credentials or information. Social Engineering A method that bad actors will use to exploit your natural inclination to trust to trick you into giving them sensitive information or access. Questions & Issues We want to help you work View Details

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Venture Capital and Private Equity - Course Catalog

allocation underpinnings: mean-variance analysis, Modern Portfolio Theory, the Efficient Frontier, and Monte Carlo simulations The “Yale Model” Key fund terms: fees, expenses, carried interest, hurdle rates, and GP co-investment How fund... View Details

01 Mar 2018
News

Ask the Expert: Disaster Master

value concentration; there’s been such a focus on efficiency that there are way fewer redundancies in a company’s production capacity and inventories,” says Beer, who offers insight and advice to alumni seeking guidance in unprecedented... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna

01 Dec 1998
News

HBS Alumni Association Board of Directors: President's Report

and delivery of specific programs via two forums-reunions and Global Alumni Conferences. The group's longer-term mandate is to determine how and when to deliver these programs to the largest audience in the most efficient manner. HBS... View Details

01 Jun 2014
News

FIELD 2 in Accra

career in the energy sector. "We can help these countries develop more efficient and equitable ways of doing business." Even as an HBS student, Leach notes that the trip to Ghana began to make him feel part of the HBS mission of making a... View Details

Keywords: FIELD program; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services; Information

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