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Transportation - Business & Environment
contributions are even greater; in the U.S., transportation is the top GHG contributor. [37] Transportation infrastructure--roads, bridges, airports, and ports-- is particularly at risk of disruption from climate change. Flooding, storms, and heat threaten the... View Details
- 17 Feb 2003
- Research & Ideas
Rating Fund Managers by the Company They Keep
mutual funds will adopt our approach. We'd love to work with such a service to help make this information available to investors at large. Q: In your analysis you relied rather heavily on Spectrum and other computer-generated data tools.... View Details
Keywords: by Ann Cullen
- 01 Feb 2001
- News
The Third Force: Indispensable to Society, Nonprofits Should Redirect Oversight Efforts
unpopular social issues, enabling spirituality, redistributing wealth to the needy, supporting cultural activities, and effectively and efficiently providing long-term solutions for social needs. Government and business, she said, cannot... View Details
Keywords: Health, Social Assistance
- 01 Dec 2020
- News
AI Enhances Diagnostic Care
A radiologist and technician at Misr Radiology Center review images taken of a patient and discuss protocol for a brain PET/MRI exam. “AI has improved workflow through higher efficiency and has helped us deliver more personalized care,... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie
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Arjun Goyal
and business responsibilities, including the review of scientific literature and therapeutic guidelines, the analysis of compound licensing opportunities, the structuring of efficient clinical trials, and... View Details
- 27 Aug 2012
- Research & Ideas
Employee-Suggestion Programs That Work
fixing easy-to-solve problems had greater improvement in safety climate than those focused on identifying a bunch of hard-to-solve ones. "To our knowledge, this tradeoff between analysis and action in process improvement programs has not... View Details
Keywords: by Paul Guttry
- 08 Feb 2016
- Research & Ideas
The Civic Benefits of Google Street View and Yelp
algorithm it generates to predict income levels based on images for which data is unavailable. When the researchers crunched those numbers, they determined that the image analysis could give a much more accurate prediction for income than... View Details
- 31 Aug 2011
- Research & Ideas
Improving Fairness in Flight Delays
Assistant Professor Douglas Fearing doesn't have the magic bullet to make this painful part of air travel a thing of the past. But his research on evaluating and improving the performance of complex systems such as air traffic control offers road warriors some... View Details
- 08 Dec 2014
- Research & Ideas
A Manager’s Guide to International Strategy
(with Sumantra Ghoshal), Michael Porter, and Pankaj Ghemawat. “I enjoy the variety and intellectual challenge of the problems that managers confront” More seasoned managers seeking pragmatic guidance on day-to-day decision making can turn to the book's extensive View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna
- 30 Apr 2018
- Blog Post
HBS Grad Drives Lori Systems to Success
catalyst for increasing the relevance I could have in Africa." As it turns out, Josh's research at HKS would become the inspiration for the business he would explore at HBS and pursue after graduation. For his second-year policy View Details
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Arjun Goyal
and business responsibilities, including the review of scientific literature and therapeutic guidelines, the analysis of compound licensing opportunities, the structuring of efficient clinical trials, and... View Details
- 13 Jun 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, June 13
May 2017 American Economic Review: Papers and Proceedings Immigration and the Rise of American Ingenuity By: Akcigit, Ufuk, John Grigsby, and Tom Nicholas Abstract—We build on the analysis in Akcigit, Grigsby, and Nicholas (2017) by using... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Jun 2000
- News
Books
clear that innovative accounting and control tools are needed to implement strategy appropriate to the business dynamics of the 21st century. He offers important new techniques such as profit wheel analysis (integrating profit planning,... View Details
- 30 Oct 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, October 30, 2018
misconduct, or recidivism. We extend our analysis to explore the differential treatment of ethnic minorities and find similar patterns of "in-group" tolerance. Our evidence is inconsistent with a simple Bayesian model and... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 01 Sep 2009
- First Look
First Look: September 1
Working PapersWhat Should GAAP Look Like? A Survey and Economic Analysis Authors:S.P. Kothari, Karthik Ramanna, and Douglas J. Skinner Abstract Based on extant literature, we articulate a positive theory of GAAP under the assumption... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 30 Jan 2007
- First Look
First Look: January 30, 2007
worker dismissal costs will curtail hiring below efficient levels and retain unproductive workers, both of which should affect productivity. These theoretical predictions have rarely been tested. We use the adoption of wrongful-discharge... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
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What Others Are Saying - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness
essentially took micro economics knowledge of structural analysis of industries and made it accessible to managers. That was a very important contribution for a practical purpose. The discussion on the idea of clusters is not exactly a... View Details
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IT Strategy: Building a Smarter, Scalable Future in the Cloud | Information Technology
testing and iteration without significant capital investment, physical infrastructure, or long-term commitments. The cloud allows for seamless scaling based on demand, facilitates more efficient staff management of resources, and provides... View Details
- 21 Nov 2006
- First Look
First Look: November 21, 2006
http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=707409 Istituto Clinico Humanitas (C): Pronto Soccorso Harvard Business School Case 607-022 Follows on from the cases Istituto Clinico Humanitas (A) and (B). Describes the design and running of the new... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 23 Oct 2012
- First Look
First Look: October 23
strategy. Fairness, Efficiency and Flexibility in Organ Allocation for Kidney Transplantation Authors:Dimitris Bertsimas, Vivek F. Farias, and Nikolaos Trichakis Publication:Operations Research (forthcoming) Abstract We propose a... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne