efficiency - Publications - Faculty & Research

01 Sep 2020
News

Good Odds

you’d find in an upscale market, for example, “we’ll sell you a triangle cut from the same fish,” Behn says. “There’s no compromise on freshness, origin, or taste.” This willingness to rethink conventions has helped the company identify View Details

Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint; food industry; Food Manufacturing; Manufacturing

19 Jun 2014
News

Turning "Black Gold" to Green

calling for using city investments in energy efficiency to generate savings that would be reinvested in solar power. Inspired by their success, Dawe took an 80 percent pay cut and moved to Colorado to work on green-power initiatives... View Details

Keywords: Ralph Ranalli; Oil and Gas Extraction; Mining

01 Feb 2001
News

The Doctor Is In

ramifications that need to be dealt with as public policy. As for the notion that private-sector efficiency automatically reduces costs, consider that most private health insurance companies spend 10 to 30 percent on administrative... View Details

Keywords: healthcare; Health, Social Assistance

01 Jun 2003
News

Ruling from the Bench

sharpened my analytical skills, which was invaluable for law school and beyond,” she says. “I also greatly enjoyed the courses on organizational behavior and production — some of those lessons were useful later on, when I had to preside over a complicated case and... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; Justice, Public Order, and Safety Activities; Government

27 May 2020
Research & Ideas

What South Korea Teaches the World About Fighting COVID

the economy. On the demand side, it requires people to change their behavior. On the supply side, a country needs to mass-produce masks and efficiently distribute them. South Koreans were familiar with wearing masks from their experience... View Details

Keywords: by Doug J. Chung; Health

04 Oct 2011
First Look

First Look: October 4

Increasing Energy Efficiency through Normative Influence (B) Maarten W. Bos, Amy J.C. Cuddy, and Kyle T. DohertyHarvard Business School Supplement 911-061 The case profiles OPOWER, an energy efficiency... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

29 Apr 2019
Research & Ideas

Is the Digital Age Making Us Petty?

With the rise of mobile payment apps like Venmo, many people can easily record the exact charges incurred by a lunch partner and pay back debts to the cent. They see themselves as efficient and fair. Others often have a different word for... View Details

Keywords: by Kristen Senz

30 Sep 2013
Research & Ideas

Do Mergers Hurt Product Quality?

generally more similar in quality than two randomly selected brands," Sheen says. More generally, the findings show that merged companies often follow through on the operational efficiencies that they promise to their shareholders.... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Consumer Products

19 May 2011
Research & Ideas

Empathy: The Brand Equity of Retail

Harvard Business School, professor Ananth Raman discussed the importance of empathy in customer-facing business. "As we're talking about things like retail efficiency and profitability, this is a topic that I think needs more attention,"... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Health

29 May 2001
Research & Ideas

Good News, Not Blues, For the Inner City

advantage of the inner city, though, comes not through the income of residents but rather what he called "income density"—a high population living in close quarters within any individual area. Inner cities can also boast View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

25 Apr 2000
Research & Ideas

Adjusting the Fit for Government

Corruption Boat Ezekwesili agreed that it is important to make government more efficient to do "what it ought to be doing." Citizens should reduce the level of discretionary power that government officials hold, she said,... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

24 May 2023
Blog Post

Innovating, Funding, and Scaling Climate Solutions at Harvard Business School: Day Three of Harvard Climate Action Week

conference featuring four graduating students working on climate in a different ways. In the final session with Matheson, three panelists presented mini-TED talks on their ventures: Danielle Colson (MBA 2022), founder and COO of Mantel, described their breakthrough,... View Details

01 Mar 2018
News

Can a Digital Platform Open Up the Opaque Metals Industry?

in-person pitches to miners and smelters around the world—estimating that they personally reached about 80 percent of the market—explaining how Open Mineral would make them more efficient and profitable, as well as collecting their... View Details

Keywords: Nicole Torres

08 Dec 2015
News

Living the Legacy

and more marketable to employers,” says Paul. While his favorite module was economics, he is already utilizing the business analytics tools he mastered in CORe. “Being able to create histograms to quickly visualize data makes me more View Details

10 Apr 2014
Research & Ideas

Book Excerpt--‘Accelerate: Building Strategic Agility for a Faster-Moving World’

important? Management or leadership? To begin to answer that question, we need to look again at what role each plays. Management ensures the stability and efficiency necessary to run today's enterprise reliably. Leadership creates needed... View Details

Keywords: Re: John P. Kotter

25 Aug 2009
First Look

First Look: August 25

(September 2009): 90-95 Abstract As a business broadens over time, it can lose the operational edge that led to its original success. Core strengths atrophy, efficiency or quality suffers, and sharper rivals close in to take advantage of... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

04 Aug 2006
What Do You Think?

What Happens When the Economics of Scarcity Meets the Economics of Abundance?

efficiently reach any type of 'Long Tail' content." But even with increased ease of access, others pointed to added sources of scarcity. Soura Bhattacharyya commented, " there is no such thing [as a free lunch]. Scarcity of time... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

26 Jun 2000
Research & Ideas

What’s an Internet Business Model? Ask a Health Care Professional

value proposition is to consumers.'" Robert Adelman, MD, said his company, Veritas Medicine, also provides an exchange because it matches patients to suitable clinical trials. Prior to the founding of Veritas in the fall of 1999, according to Adelman, there was no... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Health

06 Sep 2004
What Do You Think?

How Do We Prepare for a World Without Cheap Oil?

Stobaugh and Yergin, today possibly including support for the further development of the hydrogen fuel cell or other technologies. Yet a third might include some attempt on the part of the world's major energy-using countries to create incentives for the View Details