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- 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
- 16 Jul 2013
- First Look
First Look: July 16
author cites a number of companies that have moved toward or into what he calls "the efficiency frontier." These include Sarvajal, in India, which saves money and eliminates waste by selling direct to customers through its...
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Anna Secino
- 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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- 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
what, and when, and measuring productivity can be contentious. But in 2023, more than a quarter of employees split their time in this hybrid mode—close to four out of 10 in larger firms. The fully remote model, while less common overall,...
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- 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
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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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- 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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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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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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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
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Podcast - Managing the Future of Work
wage staff going on so that we can be much more efficient on how we deploy limited resources—and things in-between. I was the liaison to the National Space Council, which I think was because I could go to the meetings to be the very...
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- 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