Efficiency - Publications - Faculty & Research

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

20 Dec 2018
Research & Ideas

Most Popular Stories and Research Papers of 2018

moms are high achievers at work. Now it turns out they are happy, too. Amazon vs. Whole Foods: When Cultures Collide Amazon's acquisition of Whole Foods seemed a Wall Street dream come true. But then Amazon's data-driven efficiency met... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

02 Sep 2016
Op-Ed

The Twitter Election

7,772, and he widens his lead on retweets. Trump has been tweeting more energetically, but Clinton is way more efficient in number of tweeters per tweet.As she did in 2008, Clinton is relying more heavily on traditional media with over... View Details

Keywords: by John Quelch and Thales Teixeira

01 Jun 2009
Lessons from the Classroom

The Challenges of Investing in Science-Based Innovation

efficiency and boosting profit. Managers need to consider how to create an environment that attracts people capable of doing the sort of work that leads to scientific breakthroughs and that fosters their work in a productive way. They may... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Banking; Auto; Pharmaceutical

05 Dec 2007
Sharpening Your Skills

Sharpening Your Skills: Managing Marketing

line. Key concepts include: In multisided markets, some customers contribute to a company's bottom line directly while others contribute indirect benefits, which are more difficult to calculate. Businesses must be able to assess the value of these "free"... View Details

17 Dec 2001
Research & Ideas

Enterprising Women

people," said Cynthia Fisher (HBS MBA '90). In 1993, using her own capital, Fisher founded ViaCord, a business that allows customers to bank cord blood stem cells for possible future use in the treatment of cancer and autoimmune diseases. Keeping that support team... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna

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

01 Dec 2012
News

Alvin Roth Wins Nobel Prize in Economics

were much more efficient if they were designed well rather than allowed to evolve naturally," explained Roth's colleague, Albert H. Gordon Professor of Business Administration Brian Hall, head of the NOM Unit. "Among his many... View Details

14 May 2012
Research & Ideas

Breaking the Smartphone Addiction

collaborative 65 percent (versus 42 percent) rated their team as doing everything it could to be efficient 74 percent (versus 51 percent) rated their team as doing everything it could to be effective The happy result for BCG was that... View Details

Keywords: by Leslie A. Perlow

15 Oct 2008
First Look

First Look: October 15, 2008

Author:Bettina-Elisabeth Klaus Abstract For the classical marriage model (introduced in Gale and Shapley, 1962) efficiency and envy-freeness are not always compatible; i.e., fair matchings do not always exist. However, for many,... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

03 Apr 2018
First Look

New Research and Ideas, April 3, 2018

of spending on traditional aid programs in areas such as health care and food access in developing countries, GiveDirectly transfers cash directly to the poor. As experiments have shown this approach to be an effective and efficient way... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

10 Aug 2015
Research & Ideas

Why a Federal Rule on CEO Pay Disclosure May Get You In Trouble With Customers

price. More recently, Mohan, Norton, and Deshpandé have been exploring the idea of actively marketing low- pay-ratio information to consumers. In one experiment, consumers shopped for flat-screen televisions. Along with the common "Energy Star" label indicating that... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Retail

15 Feb 2000
Lessons from the Classroom

Delivering Information Services: A 30-Year Perspective

information to suppliers to maximize efficiency of the supply chain. This idea, which my colleague Steve Bradley and I have termed "sense and respond," correlates to the Industrial Age notion of "make and sell." Today... View Details

Keywords: by Staff

07 Jul 2022
Blog Post

Pathlight: Reimagining the Developer Onboarding Experience

workflow, I see an incredible opportunity to build a world that uses skills and capabilities to efficiently grow organizations. These inefficiencies disproportionately impact diverse talent who don’t always have the same level of support... View Details

10 Apr 2025
Blog Post

IFC India 2025: SELCO - Decentralized Renewable Energy to Develop While Decarbonizing

Professor Vikram Gandhi’s Immersive Field Course (IFC) “Development while Decarbonizing: India’s Path to Net-Zero" delved into the critical aspect of decarbonization and sustainability goals amid India's rapid development. The course presented an opportunity for... View Details

01 Jun 2025
News

For the Records

Kelleher in Gold Rush Vinyl’s listening room In the first days of 2025, when Caren Kelleher (MBA 2010) went from owning one small business to two, she entered an alternating reality. Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays, she’s still the founder and CEO of Gold Rush Vinyl;... View Details

Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint; photos by Jeff Wilson; Arts, Entertainment

01 Sep 2006
News

One-on-One with Carter Roberts

really working hard to make sure that the next global protocol — the successor to Kyoto due in 2012 — is one that the United States can commit to and that there are real mechanisms to ensure more efficient use and sourcing of energy. Is... View Details

Keywords: Roger Thompson

29 Jan 2015
Op-Ed

The Fall of Greece

their jobs. Common sense suggests why this will lead to an inefficient public sector. Nationalization or reversal of planned privatizations of economic assets. I have not seen not even one credible academic study that suggests that state-owned enterprises are run more... View Details

Keywords: by George Serafeim

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