efficiency - Publications - Faculty & Research

26 Sep 2023
Blog Post

Climate Week NYC 2023

highlighted the power of writing from diverse perspectives with the Imagine 2200 climate fiction project. Other discussions ranged from emissions from corporate finance, renewables and energy efficiency in supply chains, reinventing value... View Details

22 Aug 2024
Blog Post

LM Wind Power Test and Validation Center

student essays that highlight their reflections. When we visited LM Wind Power’s Test and Validation Center in Lunderskov, Denmark, we saw how they work to optimize the efficiency and safety of their blades through a variety of testing... View Details

04 Sep 2019
News

Accelerating Allston

technologies, and make it possible to efficiently take transformative ideas to the marketplace. By providing financial aid, the gift will enable Harvard to attract and support outstanding students to become technically skilled,... View Details

Web

Introduction - The Message - The Human Factor – Baker Library | Bloomberg Center, Historical Collections

so brilliantly translated through photography of the time did not fail to catch the attention of corporate managers, who found a new use for the so-called objective medium. A key element of efficient management, graduates of Harvard... View Details

21 Dec 2017
News

A Decent Place to Live

housing in the public realm, as well as just running as efficiently as we can. “I spent the last 10 years before Habitat working on rural poverty and rural hunger, which largely centers on agricultural development. Most of the poorest... View Details

15 Nov 2016
News

Cultivating the Next Generation of Thought Leaders

two reasons for management failures to heed shareholder proposals for greater action on ESG issues: processes within the organization may not be sufficiently developed, and performance incentives may be misaligned. “I went back to the data and found both hypotheses to... View Details

01 Apr 2002
News

Emerging Research on Emerging Markets

asserted at the third annual HBS Workshop on Emerging Markets, held on campus last December. The two-day workshop, which attracted an impressive group of scholars from as far away as Sweden and as nearby as MIT, provided a forum to discuss how to support the View Details

Keywords: Yasheng Huang; Publishing Industries (except Internet); Information

20 Feb 2025
Blog Post

IFC India 2025: Building Resilience - Mumbai’s Journey to Sustainable Water Management

distribution through an extensive network of 7,500 kilometers of pipelines across primary, secondary, and tertiary networks. One notable insight was the use of conveyance tunnels, which handle 40% of the city’s water supply, ensuring View Details

26 Apr 2011
Op-Ed

HBS Faculty Comment on Environmental Issues for Earth Day

Earth Day focuses the world's attention on the both the dangers and opportunities facing the planet. But sustainability and the intersection between business and the environment are issues that need to be addressed all the time, as cities grow, resources diminish, and... View Details

Keywords: by Staff; Energy; Utilities

29 Jun 2016
Blog Post

Emerging Into Singapore

of running a business, especially a fast growing one that requires lean and efficient processes. Building a lively team environment is a great motivational tool to build comradery. Chili crab is actually sweet and egg yolks can taste good... View Details

Keywords: Technology; Consumer Products / Retail

29 Sep 2020
Blog Post

New Life for Old Tech: Startup Provides Network Security Solutions for Obsolete Devices

Perigee enables customers to more efficiently plan device downtime. “One-size-fits-all is great, and it is scalable, but it doesn’t always reach the needs of the people you are working with and the things you are trying to protect,” Breen... View Details

01 Apr 2025
Blog Post

Alumni in Climate Networking Series: Miami

Professor Kanter termed "the air conditioning paradox" – the cycle where cooling systems that combat rising temperatures simultaneously contribute to climate change through their energy consumption. Blue Frontier's innovative technology for commercial buildings not... View Details

01 Jun 2013
News

Alumni Books

reader to imagine a workplace where everyone speaks openly about their weaknesses and are committed to overcoming them, where colleagues help each other become more efficient and less disruptive by speaking the truth about what detracts... View Details

01 Jun 2008
News

“Where can we find such a person?”

Also on the agenda would be managing internal and external communications, including dealing with the press and public about the controversies surrounding our work. And the person would have to run the administrative side to make sure we are running View Details

Keywords: stem cell; Management

15 Nov 2012
Research & Ideas

Funding the Design of Livable Cities

planned and managed in a much more efficient and sustainable fashion than in a dispersed population. Mayors of the world's largest cities agree, with New York City mayor Michael Bloomberg leading a global coalition to craft urban centers... View Details

Keywords: by Lisa Chase; Construction; Real Estate; Energy; Utilities

06 Sep 2006
Lessons from the Classroom

Mixing Students and Scientists in the Classroom

tremendous. Beyond that, at the outset, there was some mutual antagonism and posturing; the scientists assuming MBAs only care about the bottom line, and the MBAs thinking projects would move along much more efficiently if the scientists... View Details

Keywords: by Deborah Blagg; Education

19 Nov 2001
Research & Ideas

Wrapping Your Alliances In a World Wide Web

costs, and enabled businesses to form mutually beneficial alliances.Once two or more companies agree to do business with each other on activities beyond simple procurement, they again face a challenge in executing many joint processes as View Details

Keywords: by Andrew McAfee

27 Jul 2020
Blog Post

HBS Summer Fellows Respond to COVID-19

requests for essential deliveries of food and medicine in their local community. We are on a mission is to efficiently allocate resources to at-risk and underserved communities with the power of technology. Laurens De Poorter (MBA 2020),... View Details

01 Mar 2006
News

Academic Cross-Pollination

an awkward moment, but the learning was tremendous. Beyond that, at the outset, there was some mutual antagonism and posturing; the scientists assuming MBAs only care about the bottom line, and the MBAs thinking projects would move along much more View Details

Keywords: Deborah Blagg; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services