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- 01 Jun 2002
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In VMI Partnerships, the Devil is in the Data
decade, however, influential manufacturers such as Procter & Gamble and Campbell Soup initiated such partnerships to help smooth production cycles and improve profits. Retailers were wooed by the potential efficiencies of better inventory... View Details
Keywords: Laura Singleton (MBA 1988)
- 08 May 2015
- News
Adopting a common language can strengthen global companies
Multinational firms are increasingly mandating a common language—typically English—to gain efficiencies and enhance collaboration overall. Associate Professor Tsedal Neeley has discovered, however, that merely mandating a common language... View Details
- 01 Jun 1996
- News
1996 Global Alumni Conference Probes "Information Revolution"
knowledge of a market tends to make it more efficient and to intensify competition," Sprinkle noted. "This means that each of us had better start experimenting in this realm right now." At lunch the next day, Vincent H. Tobkin (MBA '75)... View Details
Keywords: Daniel Penrice
- 18 Apr 2022
- News
Home Grown
imagined out of India hadn’t happened before. It was assumed that, you know, we are, as a set of engineers, very good at replicating things in a fairly efficient manner—producing code in a very efficient... View Details
- 01 Feb 2000
- News
HBS Alumni Association Board of Directors: President's Report
for the coming year: encourage clubs to designate an information technology officer to run Internet sessions and develop Web resources; create a system for connecting current students to clubs and communicating more efficiently when... View Details
Keywords: Edmund A. Hajim (MBA '64)
- 15 Sep 2015
- News
Easing the Costs of Saving a Child
thought highly efficient and capable of helping many children,” says Taylor. “Then, a middleman ran away with the money, and I thought, ‘Oh goodness, this reminds me that due diligence is equally critical for nonprofits as for... View Details
Keywords: Jill Radsken
- 01 Mar 2014
- News
Everything Old Is a New Opportunity
independence—allowing elderly people to stay at home, independent and connected, not isolated Empowered care—providing new tools to improve quality and efficiency for paid and unpaid caregivers Ageless style—making stylish brands that are... View Details
- 01 Jun 2011
- News
HBS Chapel Earns Gold Certification
two-year process toward certification resulted in the chapel cutting energy consumption 49 percent by installing new climate controls, upgrading to more efficient lighting, and insulating basement pipes. New fixtures reduced water... View Details
- 01 Jun 2010
- News
Faculty Books
Business Press) Professors Khanna and Palepu argue that the main exploitable characteristic of emerging markets is the lack of institutions (credit-card systems, intellectualproperty adjudication, data research firms) that facilitate View Details
- 01 Mar 2019
- News
The Blue-Green Revolution
Lassiter, whose research focuses on developing carbon-neutral energy supplies, efforts to produce algal crude cheaply and efficiently have met with nothing but failure. The reason: basic biology. One can easily persuade algae to produce... View Details
- 30 Oct 2018
- News
Paths of Victory
their vehicles, plan more efficient routes, reduce fuel expenses, receive maintenance notifications, and track the behaviors of drivers. When Cobli won in 2016, it had 12 employees and no revenue. Today it employees 60 people and boasts... View Details
- 20 Mar 2018
- News
Seeing a Way Forward
and 7 percent of diabetics in Mexico are unnecessarily blind. Since 2011 salauno has treated more than 150,000 patients and performed more than 18,000 surgeries, 40 percent of which were free of charge. In her role, Leger works to make the for-profit organization’s... View Details
- 18 May 2015
- News
Changing the conversation on US infrastructure challenges
areas such as public transit, cell phone and Internet service, and efficient rail, air, and highway transportation. Inspired by ideas that emerged during the summit, Kanter traveled throughout the country to gather facts, figures, and... View Details
- 01 Jun 1997
- News
Blockbuster Deals
systems and nonfunctional governance systems." "In the 1980s," says Jensen, "there were many more takeovers, mergers, leveraged buyouts, and restructurings intended to create efficiency and value. While some of this is happening now,... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons and Nancy O. Perry
- 01 Mar 2018
- News
Money (Actually) Can Buy Happiness
mindset to make you more strategic or more efficient with your time—but there’s not much research on that yet. Recently, we studied how people could spend their discretionary income to promote happiness: What would happen if you spent... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 01 Apr 1996
- News
Stasis and Turmoil: HBS Research for the Real World
increasing economic efficiency and improving government finances. Yet, privatization does not imply the disappearance of government from the affected sector. In many cases," says Emmons, "the reduction in state ownership is accompanied by... View Details
- 15 Dec 2024
- News
Forward Thinking
You can ask the internet anything, but getting an answer via generative artificial intelligence consumes about 10 times more electricity than a traditional Google search. Consequently, the data centers where AI tools are trained and run are guzzling more and more... View Details
- 01 Sep 2012
- News
Markets’ Moral Limits
affects social attitudes about altruism. And since markets may not be the best allocators of goods “on grounds of either efficiency or fairness,” Sandel called for broad debate on “where markets belong, and where they don’t.” View Details
- 02 Oct 2009
- News
Making Time Off Required and Predictable
- 01 Dec 2020
- News
Finding The Right Patient-Provider Match
to ‘Dr. Famous,’ who was booked for 17 weeks out, while brand-new doctors only had 30 percent of their schedules filled.” Inspired by the efficiency that companies like Travelocity brought to the airline industry, Gardner created Kyruus... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young