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- 01 Dec 2022
- News
Case Study: Your Call Is Important to Us
business by focusing on the small- and mid-sized market across all industries. The question is how to get there. Slang.ai is currently serving clients in three verticals (restaurants and hospitality, ecommerce, and brick-and-mortar retail and services), but the...
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- 01 Oct 1996
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Leading In a New Era
office products, building products, and paper, had expanded production capacity to meet the strong demand for paper in the late 1980s but bore the brunt when demand began to taper off in 1990. The company —...
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Nancy O. Perry
- 17 Nov 2016
- News
Wired for Innovation
ultimate goal of selling transmission capacity to generators of renewable-energy seeking to get their product to market; or to utilities looking to access the lowest-cost clean power in the country. To make...
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- 01 Apr 1996
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Stewards of the Seventh Generation
heat-trapping gases such as carbon dioxide that are released into the atmosphere when coal and petroleum products are burned. That same day, the Wall Street Journal reported that in California and Arizona, General Motors would this year...
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- 01 Feb 1998
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Running Up the Score
fan support. Nobody puts out a more exciting product or showcases more talented and skilled athletes than the major American professional leagues. But have the beauty, fun, and thrills of games - which once far outdistanced the commercial...
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Garry Emmons
- 01 Mar 2013
- News
Sizing Up Social Impact
average time required to collect water from 44 minutes to 32 minutes. Electrification of rural areas and the computerization of rural banks improved the flow of goods and services and decreased check-clearing times at banks. A government-training program designed to...
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- 01 Jun 1997
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Blockbuster Deals
those who were usually called 'raiders' in the eighties - entrepreneurs who were putting their own money and reputations on the line." Jensen believes that most current mergers undertaken to reduce excess capacity and combine related...
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Garry Emmons and Nancy O. Perry
- 14 Mar 2019
- News
The Merchant of Osaka
insight into products and a business. This is what the health care industry was lacking, she realized: a system designed from the patient’s point of view. It would be better for patients and medical staff, “and it could be a nice...
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Health, Social Assistance
- 24 Apr 2014
- News
Meeting an essential health care need in India
increasing capacity (more beds in less space) without compromising revenue or the care, comfort, and safety of patients. Since 2010, when Sundaram won the first annual HBS Alumni New Venture Contest, the company has grown from a staff of...
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- 01 Oct 1999
- News
Historic Gift from HBS to New Radcliffe Institute
venerable history, I recognize the significance of support at the early stages of a new venture." In response, Wilson noted, "Dean Clark's gift is deeply valued for the colleagueship it represents as well as the innovative capacity it...
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- 01 Jun 2000
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The HBS Show Must Go On: "STARt-up WARS" Continues Tradition of Smash Hits
So began the legend of STARt-up WARS Episode One: The Venture Menace, this year's HBS Show, held in early April before capacity crowds in Burden Auditorium. Spoofing the Star Wars films, STARt-up WARS poked fun at the "growing divide"...
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Margie Kelley
- 06 Jan 2012
- News
Where Are They Now?
designer. Manufacturing the beds in India keeps costs down, and making them both upgradable and compact gives buyers—Indian health care institutions—the opportunity to increase capacity [more beds in less space] and revenue without...
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- 04 Nov 2016
- News
The Competitiveness of Lost Causes
HBS Duch worked on independent research with Professor Michael Porter, who had just published his landmark book, The Competitive Advantage of Nations. “It was a great opportunity,” Duch says. “Porter’s work on the capacity of government...
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Deborah Blagg
- 13 Nov 2020
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New Virtual Classrooms Expand Digital Learning
new larger classrooms—increasing flexibility and capacity from 60 participants to nearly 200. “These HBS Live Online classrooms are designed to look and feel like our physical classrooms and to be congruent with our pedagogy,” explains...
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- 01 Dec 2019
- News
Case Study: Farming It Out
percent is spent on labor. Those factors inspired Andersen to found Augean Robotics (AGR), makers of an autonomous farm robot called Burro, which has the carrying capacity of a sure-footed donkey and the smarts of a deep-learning computer...
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- 01 Mar 2015
- News
Ink
Book Review: The Future of Learning To educate America’s youth, we treat them like products in a factory, according to the education experts who wrote Blended: Using Disruptive Innovation to Improve Schools. We march students through...
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- 01 Mar 2018
- News
Ask the Expert: Disaster Master
value concentration; there’s been such a focus on efficiency that there are way fewer redundancies in a company’s production capacity and inventories,” says Beer, who offers insight and advice to alumni...
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Julia Hanna
- 01 Aug 2001
- News
Class Day and Commencement 2001
afford them. In the traditional category, Alec Machiels (MBA '01), and his MIT and Harvard teammates Paul Ashby, David Darst, Jason Hong, Scot Sternson, Martin Szummer, and Angie You created the winning plan for Potentia Pharmaceuticals, a venture that would help...
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- 01 Sep 2011
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HBS Moves Ahead with Curriculum Innovations
capacity of our students. First, we wanted to improve their leadership skills. So Module One of FIELD focuses on leadership — in particular, enhancing students’ emotional intelligence and self-awareness. Module Two, global immersion, aims...
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- 15 Jan 2020
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The Business of Access
services, on the other hand, were delivered at no cost to clients; consequently, the organization was always at capacity and often had to turn people away. “We needed capacity (beds) and had strong...
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Maureen Harmon