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- 06 Mar 2012
- First Look
First Look: March 6
productive. The authors have studied when 161 countries adopted 104 technologies over the past 200 years, and they conclude that profound economic advantages-as measured by per capita income-accrue to early adopters of technology. Read...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 19 May 2009
- First Look
First Look: May 19, 2009
efficiency also had more conventional paths to market based on licensing deals to large seed companies. Alternatively, Arcadia could acquire a seed company and develop and market its seed directly. A different near-term growth area...
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Martha Lagace
- 26 Oct 2010
- First Look
First Look: October 26, 2010
consistent predictors of voting behavior. For the former, we estimate sharp measures that control for common characteristics of the network, as well as heterogeneous impacts of a common network characteristic across votes. For common seat...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 28 Apr 2009
- First Look
First Look: April 28, 2009
Encourages readers to think about the impediments to energy efficiency in the buildings sector and the ways in which entrepreneurs can profitably surmount the obstacles. Purchase this case:...
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Martha Lagace
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America on the Move - U.S. Competitiveness
outmoded anyway; it also funds public transit. Expand the scope to include technology innovations. Assemble information that users care about—e.g., port efficiency moving goods, commute times, buses to available health providers,...
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- 17 Apr 2012
- First Look
First Look: April 17
enable efficient response; and an infrastructure for daily management and continuous improvement of the chain's performance. Furthermore, we find that employees on the service delivery unit spent 12% of their day compensating for internal...
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Carmen Nobel
- 14 Feb 2012
- First Look
First Look: February 14
characterizing these networks, our primary measure is "hierarchy," defined as the degree to which transactions flow in one direction, from "upstream" to "downstream." Our empirical results show that the...
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Carmen Nobel
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Podcast - Managing the Future of Work
candidates. It dictates how much time—not very much—is spent by recruiters directly reviewing candidates’ profiles. It limits the amount of time that the ultimate supervisor for the worker spends in the process. That quest to maximize View Details
- 13 Oct 2015
- First Look
October 13, 2015
to the customer over time. Customer relationships become continuous and open-ended, service becomes more efficient and proactive, and new business models are enabled. The rich data on location and environment that products provide take...
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- 16 Sep 2015
- News
Built for Speed
oil by 2050. Written by energy analyst and physicist Amory Lovins, the book noted the lack of efficiency of modern auto manufacturing. Rogers saw an opportunity. And after seeing firsthand the political and human consequences of the...
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- 01 Apr 2002
- News
Urban Evolution - HBS Research on the Inner City
as its discount prices and large selection of merchandise. As Sprint and Walgreens have shown, Porter notes, companies that invest in the inner city and entrepreneurs who start businesses there are well positioned to take advantage of a growing, local labor pool; the...
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Podcast - Managing the Future of Work
employee experience, so that as organizations grew, you'd have consistent experiences, but it was mainly focused on efficiencies and productivity. And we stayed there for a long time. This is where centers of excellence started and policy...
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Podcast - Managing the Future of Work
like Kelly might be in a position to do. Let’s talk about automation for a second, both in terms of vetting candidates, bring them on board, measuring their productivity, but also automation in the sense of how it affects jobs in the...
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Managers 2 Technology & Operations Management Michael Parzen Spring2025 Q4 1.5 Data Visualization for Analysis and Communication Technology & Operations Management Martin Wattenberg,Fernanda Viégas Spring2025 Q4 1.5 Data for Impact: Impact View Details
- 12 Jul 2021
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Alumni Confront the COVID-19 Crisis
the availability of critical resources, and the efficacy of both pharmaceutical and non-pharmaceutical interventions. The company has created a set of free publicly available visual analytic dashboards. "The algorithms highlight the impact of preventative View Details