efficiency - Publications - Faculty & Research

21 Nov 2016
Research & Ideas

It Matters That Your CEO Doesn't Know Much About Sales

productivity improvements. Over the past 15 years, production efficiencies have enabled an average S&P 500 company to reduce its cost of goods sold by about 250 basis points, Cespedes says, but selling expenses as a percentage of... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

22 Apr 2015
Op-Ed

Reforming Greece: Myths and Truths

10 on whether "Public finances are being efficiently managed." Indicatively, although the Greek government increased taxes across the board both collected indirect tax revenues and collected social security contributions as a... View Details

Keywords: by George Serafeim

17 Mar 2011
Research & Ideas

Harvard Business School Faculty Comment on Crisis in Japan

to cover most of the cost of the recovery plan. Japan often shows itself at its best in times of crisis, setting aside internal differences and responding with inspiring levels of efficiency and self-sacrifice. This crisis will be no... View Details

Keywords: Re: Multiple Faculty

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

08 Jun 2010
First Look

First Look: June 8

firms, we find that when institutional efficiency is low, family ownership and management increase value; however, family control in excess of ownership reduces value. When institutional efficiency is high,... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

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

Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Entertainment & Recreation; Air Transportation

13 Jun 2017
First Look

First Look at New Research and Ideas, June 13

also became the first district to use a mechanism based on Top Trading Cycles (TTC) in a real-life allocation problem. Since TTC was originally devised for settings in which agents have endowments, there is no formal rationale for TTC in school choice. In particular,... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

27 Jul 2017
News

Seeing a Way Forward

organization’s operations more efficient through strategic improvement projects, thus allowing salauno to better serve its patients. Leger’s passion for social impact was itself borne of growing up a citizen of the world. Born in France,... View Details

Keywords: Jennifer Myers

January 1997
Background Note

Buy Low, Sell High: Creating and Extracting Customer Value by Enhancing Organizational Performance

By: Benson P. Shapiro

Provides an integrated framework for creating customer value and managing the firm profitably. Focuses on the use of product/service line management and effective customer service to achieve customer satisfaction and high profitability. View Details

Keywords: Customer Value and Value Chain; Framework; Performance Efficiency; Sales; Business Strategy; Customer Satisfaction; Profit; Product Marketing; Business or Company Management

Citation

Educators

Purchase

15 Apr 2008
First Look

First Look: April 15, 2008

and Efficiency of Hospital Work Systems Authors:Anita L. Tucker, Sara J. Singer, Jennifer E. Hayes, and Alyson Falwell Publication:Health Services Research (forthcoming) Abstract To link safety-related concerns raised by frontline staff... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

01 Mar 2025
News

Heartland

that reduces costs and overgrazing by using a truck bed attachment to efficiently blend feed Rooted Robotics A suite of robots optimized for automating small and mid-scale indoor agriculture grow facilities InstaFarm An artificial... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; photos by Vance Jacobs. OPEN CONCEPT: Lambert at Quail Ridge Dairy in Fort Morgan, Colorado.

22 Nov 2022
Blog Post

Alumni Leaders on Decarbonization Strategies for Combatting Climate Change

commercial-building energy intensity. This is why improving HVAC efficiency is one of the largest opportunities for reducing commercial-building carbon emissions. Sorbent Ventilation Technology improves HVAC View Details

03 Mar 2003
Research & Ideas

The Basics of Consumer Marketing in Asia

months, while the lifespan for other product models is a maximum of six months. "This makes it very important for the company to have highly efficient internal management and sales mechanisms to survive," he said. BBK's DVDs are... View Details

Keywords: by Julie Jette

06 Dec 2021
News

Leadership in the Digital Age

efficiencies and—even more importantly—customer experiences.” EMBRACING DIGITAL TRANSFORMATION Monaco's Digital Transformation Digitalization: The Key to the Future of HBS HBS Curricula Explore the Complexities of Innovation View Details

Keywords: April White

13 Jul 2020
News

Locally Grown

trucks. The systems captured the energy created when braking and applied it to acceleration, reducing the demand on the internal combustion engine. The model was similar to that used in hybrid cars, but the heavier vehicles created more energy when breaking and,... View Details