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- 04 May 2020
- Research & Ideas
Predictions, Prophets, and Restarting Your Business
and recovering from a crisis, increasing close rates, the efficiency of a sales model, and its segment focus are strategic issues, not only sales management tasks. Consider: when commerce resumes, what’s the impact on your business from... View Details
Keywords: by Frank V. Cespedes
- 20 Apr 2020
- Book
Why COVID-19 Raises the Stakes for Healthy Buildings
(Environmental Insights) COVID-19 Business Impact Center (Harvard Business School) Read COVID-19 coverage from Working Knowledge Many elite companies already use their building’s efficiency or grandeur to send a signal to customers and... View Details
- 16 Jun 2014
- Research & Ideas
The Unfulfilled Promise of Educational Technology
game-changer. Programs are developing that allow teachers to share lesson plans and streamline grading. On a district level, technology can help pair teachers and students. "Currently, nearly 80 percent of school funding is spent on people," says Kim. The... View Details
- 07 Oct 2002
- Research & Ideas
What Leaders Need to Do To Restore Investor Confidence
"Let's focus on becoming much more efficient in competitive terms." And it worked in accomplishing that objective. But it fails to connect to all the constituencies—other than the shareholders—whose energies and commitment you... View Details
Keywords: by Harvard Management Update
- 11 Jan 2000
- Research & Ideas
Calling All Managers: How to Build a Better Call Center
increased benefits and efficiency for their customers. While institutions that spent more on information technology also demonstrated shorter times when customers were kept "on hold", the study also found a company may concern... View Details
- 01 Oct 2002
- News
Sam Hayes
market is still the most efficient in the world,” he says. “Over the longer term, one can buy and hold investments and be confident that price disparities will smooth out with time and be reflective of real value.” The author and coauthor... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 10 Mar 2021
- Blog Post
COVID Killed the Traditional Workplace
they have lost time for those casual conversations that come before and after a meeting or from just walking in the hallway or bumping into folks you might otherwise never know at work when you're grabbing coffee. Post-COVID, I encourage leaders to foster the same... View Details
Keywords: All Industries
- 07 Mar 2018
- Research & Ideas
Electronic Health Records Were Supposed to Cut Medical Costs. They Haven't.
twice the administrative overhead found in Canada and is significantly higher than most other high-resource countries. Adoption of certified EHR systems was seen as a potential antidote. By digitizing patient records and adding billing workflows around them, the View Details
- 21 Jan 2016
- Blog Post
HBS and the Arts
loading dock and throughout the facility. Once we had refined the procedure, making it more efficient and improving accountability, I helped to train the art handlers who would be following it day to day. I spent the second half of the... View Details
- 03 Oct 2024
- Blog Post
Van den Ende Rozen
a plant to grow a new flower. The total capacity of the 4.5-hectare greenhouse is 400 roses/m² per year. The growers use a mix of extensive experience and technology to efficiently grow a high-quality product. Throughout the greenhouse,... 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
- 16 Oct 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, October 16, 2018
time-varying, regularized parameters, and multiplicative errors can make its quantile forecasts more accurate than leading diffusion models, such as the Bass, gamma/shifted-Gompertz, and trapezoid models. Fifth, the model's estimation procedure is based on an View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 02 Jul 2015
- Op-Ed
The Future of the Greek Economy
not just the politically connected or the business elite. Necessary steps to ensure this include the promotion of transparency in government affairs through the adoption of high-quality standards for government accounting that will improve the management View Details
- 15 Nov 2010
- Lessons from the Classroom
Connecting Goals and Go-To-Market Initiatives
indicates that while production efficiencies have enabled an average S&P 500 company to reduce the cost of goods sold by about 250 basis points over the past decade, SG&A (selling, general and administrative costs) as a percentage... View Details
- 09 Feb 2004
- Research & Ideas
Got a New Strategy? Now Make it Happen
originally adopted a functional organization structure. This enabled them to exit many marginal, local businesses and focus on the opportunities that were most promising from a global perspective. It also allowed them to introduce more View Details
Keywords: by Michael Beer & Russell A. Eisenstat
- 02 Jan 2001
- Research & Ideas
Gurus in the Garage
the individual but eventually brought ruin to all. The culture of Silicon Valley turns that system on its head. The bank of expertise in Silicon Valley represents a triumph of the commons: resources are extracted and replenished in a self-regulating and View Details
Keywords: by Dorothy Leonard & Walter Swap
- 08 Nov 2024
- Op-Ed
How Private Investors Can Help Solve Africa's Climate Crisis
African people, businesses, and nations are becoming increasingly stressed by climate-related perils like droughts, river flooding, extreme heat, and rising sea levels. This is leading not only to the destruction of assets but also challenges to lives and... View Details
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Social Entrepreneurship Fellowship | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School
sustainable, and relevant to the stakeholders. Risk : The plan addresses the risk to people and planet that impact does not occur as expected, due to evidence risk, external risk, stakeholder participation/drop-off risk, efficiency risk,... View Details
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Policy - Business & Environment
balanced and diversified energy portfolio that aligns with our greenhouse gas reduction commitments. The portfolio includes solar, off-shore wind, hydropower, emerging technologies such as energy storage, and our nation-leading energy View Details