Operations Improvement - Publications - Faculty & Research

10 Jun 2015
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High-Tech Tools Won’t Automatically Improve Your Operations

01 Jun 2024
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Redefining How Businesses Operate

In her LinkedIn profile, Rebecca Hu (MBA 2023) describes herself as a “biologist-turned-technologist obsessed with building great software products.” A product manager at the language learning app Duolingo, Hu immersed herself in electives and activities centered... View Details

Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie

30 Nov 2016
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Improving On-the-Fly Teamwork in Health Care

18 Jun 2024
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Valuable Tips for Improving Sales Hiring

18 Feb 2010
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A Mission to Improve Patients' Lives

Keywords: Hospitals; Health, Social Assistance

01 Dec 2017
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2017 in Finance: Helping Consumers Improve Their Financial Life

Large consumer banks have historically collected a lot of data on their customers, which they have used to sell standardized products. Increasingly, however, we have seen new entrants using customer data to help the consumer and provide them with customizable products... View Details

Keywords: Omer Ismail (MBA 2007), chief commercial officer, Marcus by Goldman Sachs, the firm’s digital consumer financial services business; Finance

16 May 2019
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To Improve Food Inspections, Change the Way They’re Scheduled

05 Jan 2021
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Using Behavioral Science to Improve Well-Being for Social Workers

24 Apr 2014
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Improving the lives of underprivileged children in rural India

groups, has interests in telecom, agribusiness, retail, and financial services. The group’s flagship company, Bharti Airtel, ranks as the world’s fourth-largest mobile operator in terms of subscribers. In 2006, the Bharti Foundation... View Details

20 Jul 2012
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Use Social Media to Partner with Customers and Improve Service

02 Oct 2015
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The Harvard Contest That's Trying to Improve Health Care Delivery

Keywords: healthcare; innovation; entrepreneurship; Ambulatory Health Care Services; Health, Social Assistance

24 Apr 2014
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A taste of home leads to jobs creation and community improvements

In a small, undercapitalized cheese manufacturing operation in rural Wisconsin, Paul Scharfman (AB 1976, MBA 1979) saw the opportunity to develop a variety of specialty cheeses that would appeal to the palates of the growing population of... View Details

01 Oct 2012
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Harvard Business School to Convene More Than 400 Leaders in Chicago to Discuss Paths Forward for Improving U.S. Competitiveness

02 Sep 2014
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Many of the best ideas for improving health care are quite simple

Managers know that individuals who have experience working together can influence team performance. Yet most managers underestimate the benefit of such familiarity, according to Robert S. Huckman, Professor and Chair of the MBA Required Curriculum. Studying teams in... View Details