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- 15 Sep 2015
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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 Nov 2006
- News
Porter and Teisberg put Health Care on the CEO's Agenda
- 07 Feb 2019
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Business Management in the Cardiac Cath Laboratory
- 29 Jun 2013
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Hospital operators and Obamacare: Prescription for change
- 01 Dec 2019
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A united Tufts-Harvard Pilgrim is better for consumers, CEOs say
- 06 Oct 2020
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How to Build Workplaces That Protect Employee Health
- 01 Jun 2023
- News
Curb Appeal
Jessica Tisch (JD/MBA 2008) has a problem. And she couldn’t be happier about it. It’s a chilly February morning in Lower Manhattan, and Tisch, who was appointed commissioner of the Department of Sanitation (DSNY) last April, has only hours to pivot the world’s largest... View Details
- 01 Mar 2024
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Case Study: Testing the Waters
Illustration by Christina Spano Endurance training was nothing new to Lauren Picasso (MBA 2014), who’d raced through her younger years as a cross-country runner and swimmer. In 2017, when she was director of marketing at Jet.com and looking for a physical challenge,... View Details
- 01 Jun 2024
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Quantum Leap
day quantum computing becomes a reality is the day conventional digital security ends.) They should even be able to do things that digital computers cannot do at all, like realistically modeling molecules for more efficient drug discovery... View Details
- 01 Jan 2013
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Roger W. Sant, MBA 1960
their "least-cost energy" strategy, focusing on minimizing the cost and the environmental impact of energy services such as heat and light. "Cogeneration," a technique that simultaneously generates electricity and useful heat, was one of... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 22 Feb 2022
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New Urban Order
expected to grow. Those combined forces present an existential challenge—and a megalopolis-sized opportunity—for entrepreneurs. “As population growth and weather-related pressures increase, the necessity of using our existing resources more View Details
Keywords: Kathleen Fu, Deborah Blagg, Julia Hanna, and Maureen Harmon; illustrations by; energy; environment; sustainability; entrepreneurship; Transit and Ground Passenger Transportation; Transportation; Water, Sewage and Supply Systems; Utilities; Construction of Buildings; Construction; Waste Management and Remediation Services; Corporate Services
- 19 Jan 2024
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The Values and Virtues of a Quick Fix
But while there's a danger of moving too fast, Morriss tells me, there's also a serious opportunity cost of moving without enough speed. Her new book, Move Fast and Fix Things: The Trusted Leader's Guide to Solving Hard Problems,... View Details
- 01 Feb 1999
- News
Too Much of a Good Thing?
it's supposed to." Bower continues: "Theoretically, when an industry has excess capacity, prices fall and the least efficient producers can't survive." But, Bower adds, that doesn't always happen. "In many countries, for all sorts of... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 01 Jan 2017
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Improving Health Care Delivery
through big data by offsetting the cost of collection and analysis and by tapping into the tremendous amount of existing medical information available. “I think HBS can be a leader in making use of that information from a business and... View Details
- 12 Nov 2021
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Alumni Business Leaders on Confronting the Climate Change Challenge
being disrupted as we retool and refuel machinery, as the dietary preferences of younger generations become more vegetable-based and as we learn to produce our needs with less labor, less equipment, and fewer emissions. Within sectors that remain dependent on fossil... View Details
- 01 Mar 2017
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A Healthy Profit
of Building a Culture of Health: A New Imperative for Business. “But if you have a norovirus outbreak on a weeklong cruise with 5,000 people, and that vessel has to port and the cruise is canceled, that loss will cost Royal Caribbean a... View Details
Keywords: Dan Morrell
- 01 Dec 2016
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Ask the Expert: Energy’s Next Era
Africa’s largest oil- producing country, has expensive and unreliable energy. Whether it is lines for automobile and generator fuels or blackouts of the electricity grid, Nigeria is a perfect example of a country that cannot afford to do without View Details
- 01 Jun 2017
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Streamlining the Supermarket
A new alumni-backed venture hopes robots will change how we buy our milk, bread, and eggs. In early 2016, José Vicente Aguerrevere (MBA 2002) attended a talk at HBS by Mick Mountz (MBA 1996), founder of Kiva Systems. Kiva’s small, mobile warehouse robots had brought... View Details
Keywords: Francis Storrs
- 08 May 2019
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Fellowships Fuel a Passion to Help Underserved Communities
of these experiences has cost ramifications,” she explains. “My fellowships have taken some of the pressure off. Otherwise, my choices would have been driven more by debt than by the difference I want to make in the world.” Asamoah... View Details