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- 01 Dec 2023
- News
A More Accommodating Approach
Shelly Nooner (GMP 33, 2022) had already proven herself to be visionary and execution-focused during her two decades at Trimble, an industrial technology company that provides hardware, software, and services across agriculture, construction, geospatial, and...
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Jennifer Gillespie
- 03 Oct 2005
- Research & Ideas
The Truck Driver Who Reinvented Shipping
York and Cuba. In addition, it was not uncommon for ships to randomly carry large boxes on board, but no shipping business was dedicated to a systematic process of hauling boxed cargo. Seeing the feasibility of these types of operations...
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Tough Tech Prize - New Venture Competition
of uncertainty around both technical feasibility and market demand. Tough Tech Venture Definition Tough Tech ventures are those working on transformative technology that solves the world’s most important challenges through the convergence...
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How to Apply | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School
your questions and concerns, and as much of your application as you have completed. LRAP will review these materials on a case-by-case basis to advise on the feasibility of participation within the program constraints. If, after receiving...
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Sponsors & Partners - New Venture Competition
expertise to provide candid feedback and judge the feasibility of the plans entered within the Competition. Business track judges and alumni judges come from a variety of backgrounds, including funders, founders, industry experts and...
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- 18 Jun 2024
- Research & Ideas
Industrial Decarbonization: Confronting the Hard Challenges of Cement
abatement costs of individual measures but require an optimization algorithm that selects the cost-efficient combination of measures from all feasible combinations. Using new industry data, the researchers examine the incentives for...
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Globalization - Faculty & Research
governance is important and feasible in the global context and for the most risky transactions. Finally we examine the interdependence between the IGO network and the domestic institutions of states. The interdependence between these...
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- 20 Oct 2010
- Op-Ed
Export Competitiveness: Reversing the Logic
three different levels: How can export competitiveness be improved, is export competitiveness (still) a feasible policy approach, and is export competitiveness an appropriate policy objective? How can the effectiveness of export...
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by Christian Ketels
- 28 Apr 2015
- Blog Post
3 Reasons Engineers Thrive at Business School
data analysis, to have a logical and structured thought process, and to analyze the feasibility of some of your classmates’ ideas and comments. Miranda: While at HBS, I have consistently used my engineering training. Many skills and...
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- 01 Aug 2001
- News
Richard B. Fisher (MBA '62)
of his first assignments—an analysis of the economic feasibility of a Canadian hydroelectric plant—required him to master the FORTRAN and COBOL programming languages. "Building a computer model was no mean feat in 1962," Fisher recalls....
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- 30 Jul 2007
- Research & Ideas
Repugnant Markets and How They Get That Way
we're not involved with, so it's an idea that is catching on. Actually, the idea is pretty old, but the first kidney exchanges were in this century. The point is, we started off observing that kidney exchange wasn't repugnant because people had written about it. It was...
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by Martha Lagace
- 07 May 2024
- Blog Post
Opportunity to Offset Travel Emissions with Carbon Credits that Meet HBS Criteria
Interested in offsetting your travel carbon footprint? Click here. Are you traveling soon, but feel concerned about the carbon footprint of your flight or drive? Planes and cars release greenhouse gas emissions (GHG) such as carbon dioxide, along with other pollutants...
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Technology & Operations Management Awards & Honors - Faculty & Research
of Behavioral Operations at the Production and Operations Management Society (POMS). Karim R. Lakhani: Winner of the 2023 Best Paper Award from the Technology and Innovation Management (TIM) Division of the Academy of Management for “When Does View Details
- 24 Feb 2022
- Op-Ed
Want to Prevent the Next Hospital Bed Crisis? Enlist the SEC
hospitals that have credible plans. Nonprofit hospitals with excellent plans may also experience a boost in donations, which strongly correlate with good performance. The “new normal” requires a variety of initiatives, including realistic plans for surge capacity. Our...
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- 25 Aug 2003
- Research & Ideas
Why IT Does Matter
management should understand about IT is its associated economics. Driven by Moore's Law, those evolving economics have enabled every industry's transaction costs to decrease continually, resulting in new economics for the firm and creating the View Details
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by F. Warren McFarlan & Richard L. Nolan
- 02 Apr 2007
- Lessons from the Classroom
Making the Move to General Manager
arrive on their desk flagged as marketing or finance issues; part of the challenge is problem identification. Then the challenge is to design a feasible and integrated solution that works for the entire business unit. You're A Case Study...
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by Martha Lagace
- 04 Apr 2023
- Blog Post
Maersk’s Journey to Decarbonize Shipping
becomes technologically feasible for ocean shipping, Maersk believes that legal, safety, and public perception challenges make it highly impractical as a primary energy source. Similarly, with biomethane, Maersk sees emissions slippage...
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2022 Reunion Presentations - Alumni
and the resulting “Munich Agreement” of 1938, are often considered among the greatest strategic and moral failures in history. Is this a fair characterization of what transpired in the lead-up to World War II? What could have been done differently? Would your preferred...
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- 28 Apr 2003
- Research & Ideas
Supply Chain Risk: Deal With It
insurance is no longer as feasible as it once was. Insurance carriers, which made huge payouts to cover losses related to the 9/11 attacks, have reexamined the risks implicit in today's leaner supply chains. As a result, "what was...
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by David Stauffer
- 13 Nov 2019
- Research & Ideas
Don't Turn Your Marketing Function Over to AI Just Yet
feasible nor economical. Machine learning technology today excels at self-contained tasks like image recognition and content-sorting. “The kind of tasks that we want to do in marketing tend to be more challenging, because we’re trying to...
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by Kristen Senz