Efficiency - Publications - Faculty & Research

17 Apr 2024
Blog Post

New Venture Competition 2024: Business and Environment Ventures

efficiency on both sides and accelerating the energy transition. PARTICIPANTS - SOCIAL ENTERPRISE TRACK Lokale - Farand Anugerah (MBA 2025) - Address stunting, empower community with organic fruit farming, and meet urban demand... View Details

19 Feb 2020
News

Capitol Ideas to Combat Climate Change

requiring companies to disclose information around their carbon emissions—and also around other efficiency factors such as water,” she said. “As consumers and as shareholders of companies, we deserve more information.” Those in attendance... View Details

Keywords: April White; photos by Jack Conroy

01 Feb 1998
News

Short Takes

"The experience of technology is inherently paradoxical," says Fournier. "People want it and feel they need it but they also recognize that it can create more work while making things more efficient or make them feel stupid while putting... View Details

Keywords: Judith A. Ross

15 Nov 2004
Research & Ideas

Solving the Health Care Conundrum

coordinated and aligned to focus on one or more specific diseases or conditions, such as cancer or heart disease. The organizational structure and staffing, work processes, and facilities will evolve to provide the highest value, highest quality, and most View Details

Keywords: by Michael E. Porter; Health

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

10 Sep 2020
Blog Post

Founding a Company at the Intersection of Medicine and Technology

nodules from CT scans. As I looked at the business opportunity for commercializing such a platform, the capital efficiency of pure software products became clear and I began looking for new opportunities within this area. Over the... View Details

22 Feb 2022
News

Action Plan: Portfolio Strategy

efficient and develop yourself.” Build your own brand. You need to understand your own narrative and purpose—and share it widely, through conferences, social media, networking, and media interviews: “I was ‘the airline guy’ already at... View Details

Keywords: April White; entrepreneurship; career planning; creativity; Air Transportation; Transportation

15 May 2020
News

New Menu

second, larger fund to support companies developing ecologically efficient food production technologies—innovations that can reduce carbon emissions, plastics, and packaging in the supply chain and improve land and water use. "Many large... View Details

01 Dec 1999
News

The Message and the Media: Advertising's Brave New World

answer, according to Silk and his colleagues, lies in a given medium's ability to reach efficiently - and hold onto - an advertiser's target audience and to be flexible and responsive to the advertiser's requirements and demands. Because... View Details

Keywords: Peter K. Jacobs

30 Apr 2018
Blog Post

HBS Grad Drives Lori Systems to Success

eye toward uncovering the obstacles – and possibly arriving at a means for relieving them. The big problem? Trucking. Too many (and all too common) missed connections and miscommunications led to long delays and increased overhead. If there were a more View Details

12 Nov 2018
Research & Ideas

'Always On' Isn't Always Best for Team Decision-Making

gradyreese Always on, always connected isn’t always better when it comes to solving problems at work. In fact, teams get better results when they collaborate only intermittently, according to recent research. Insights on work collaboration highlight the study, How... View Details

Keywords: by Roberta Holland

Profile

Yubo Cui

and its Chinese stakeholders. In a joint venture with BYD Auto, Daimler was determined to develop and manufacture an affordable electric car. “Our goal was to make it a family car, not a luxury toy,” says Yubo. “We worked ridiculously hard to reduce the cost and to... View Details

Keywords: Manufacturing/Energy

01 Apr 2000
News

The World at a Click

we offer a unique way of using the Internet to maximize efficiency for both the buyers and the sellers," says Priceline cofounder Timothy G. Brier (MBA '75). Brier calls Priceline a pioneer in a technique called "demand collection," in... View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelly

10 Mar 2015
First Look

First Look: March 10

introduces methods for increasing the efficiency of retail store liquidation, which we define as the time-constrained divestment of retail outlets through an in-store sale of inventory. The retail industry depends extensively on... View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

20 Apr 2021
Blog Post

Leadership In Challenging Times: Thierry Ibri (MBA 1997)

in 5 kids, were food insecure. At Second Harvest Heartland, one of the country’s largest and most efficient food banks, we distributed more than 105 million meals to our network community partners and programs last year. We refer to that... View Details

29 Aug 2024
Blog Post

Exploring Sustainable Energy: A Visit to Vestas Wind Turbine Manufacturing in Odense, Denmark

the company’s commitment to process improvement and excellence. The meticulous process standardization and data tracking of both components and process efficiency was impressively coordinated at such a massive scale. Finally, we learned... View Details

07 Sep 2021
News

Green House

and air sealed, there is near silence inside the house. Heating and cooling is provided with nine heating and cooling zones from an ultra-high efficiency air source heat pump system–completing the all-electric house which uses no fossil... View Details

01 Jan 2012
News

Cynthia Carroll, MBA 1989

internal reorganization and strategic partnerships have led to greater efficiencies and ongoing growth. In her five-year tenure, Carroll has diversified the mix of commodities the company holds through partnerships and acquisitions.... View Details

15 Sep 2008
Research & Ideas

The Coming Transformation of Social Enterprise

many people came into the program, and what benefits did they get? And then the even bigger question beyond cost efficiency and effectiveness is, what impact did the organization have? Granted it is very complex to get all the way to that... View Details

Keywords: by Roger Thompson

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