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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
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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

13 Jun 2017
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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
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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

29 May 2001
Research & Ideas

Genomics: Can We Start Making Money Now?

re-engineer their drug development processes. Another wild card is how the US Food and Drug Administration, which holds regulatory approval over new drugs, will change its approval procedures. Theoretically, the regulatory process could be sped up and made more View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

14 Dec 2015
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5 Facts About HBS Conferences

Harvard students. Like many who come to HBS, I had never been surrounded by such high performers. This reality didn’t necessarily surprise me, but I was blown away again and again by the creativity and efficiency of the team. The... View Details

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RoGME: Role of Government in Market Economies - Course Catalog

first module of the course confronts major real-world departures from this hypothetical starting point. These departures mean that government policy can improve the efficiency of the economy, in principle making all individuals better... View Details

01 Feb 1997
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Ban the Butterfly Rule for Corporate Directors

And mechanisms exist to handle such contingencies both efficiently and effectively. Depending on the facts and circumstances, for instance, a job change could lead to a decision not to renominate an incumbent director. In a case of... View Details

Keywords: Joseph Hinsey IV

01 Aug 2007
Op-Ed

Company Town: Fixing Corrupt Governments

and graft means that citizens are cheated out of a fair government that operates efficiently and in the public interest. It's time to consider a radical idea: Corporations and nonprofit groups, in addition to individuals, should be... View Details

Keywords: by Eric Werker

01 Apr 2002
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John Mulroney: Center Stage at the Opera

training, and dramatically lower compensation. (Mulroney provides his services pro bono.) "The nonprofit world can be difficult for executives who are accustomed to efficiency and large-company, big-budget solutions to problems," Mulroney... View Details

12 Sep 2011
Research & Ideas

The Untold Story of ‘Green’ Entrepreneurs

In the 1920s, on pitch black nights in rural eastern Montana, the farmhouse owned by the parents of brothers Marcellus and Joe Jacobs stood out for one reason: it had light, although located far from power lines and gasoline supplies. It was a beacon in the dark that... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

06 May 2022
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Career Advice: Starting a Sustainable Startup

Solutions, where I helped to launch a service aimed at making transportation easier, more affordable, and more efficient for communities in cities around the world. Through this work, I was able to immerse myself in the evolving landscape... View Details

28 Sep 2010
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First Look: September 28, 2010

pricing theories. First, in an era when efficient portfolio diversification was not possible, the intrinsic risk of an equity security was an important input into investor decision making. Second, our evidence suggests that businesspeople... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

24 Feb 2009
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First Look: February 24, 2009

efficiency benefits, rebates, and treatment in case of loss or fraud. Purchase this case: http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=909006 Distribution at American Airlines (A) Harvard Business School Case 909-035... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

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

08 Jun 2010
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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