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- 01 Jun 2000
- News
Managing the Map
headlines this year for releasing its research on a subscription-only basis, a stance that has caused some consternation in the scientific community. Thanks to large investments in automated gene-sequencing machines - and, it might be...
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Peter K. Jacobs
- 01 Jun 2004
- News
Massport, Back on Course
We use that to spark a sense that Logan’s going to set world-class security standards. Where did you begin? We’re still the first and the only major airport in the country to have a fully automated baggage screening system (begun in...
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- 16 Dec 2021
- News
A Global Alumni Response to the Pandemic
wave in April. —Dr. Ganesh Natarajan (AMP 169) chairman, 5F World, Lighthouse Communities Foundation, and Honeywell Automation India. Using an app called Pune Platform for Covid Resonse (PPCR), businesses and community organizations...
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Margie Kelley
- 15 Nov 2020
- News
Exploring China’s Belt & Road Initiative
offered insightful comments and shared their own perspectives. Sri Lanka Colombo Port and the site of the future Colombo Port City While Colombo Port is the busiest container port in South Asia, the students noted how much less automated...
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- 13 Nov 2023
- Podcast
How Levi Strauss & Co.’s Harmit Singh Finds Purpose in Profit
As the Chief Financial & Growth Officer of the Levi Strauss & Co. clothing brand, Harmit Singh makes tough decisions by sticking to a clear set of values that are well-aligned with the company’s larger purpose. He is inspired, in part, by Levi Strauss himself, who...
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- 23 May 2023
- Podcast
McKinsey's Climate Consulting
In this bonus Deep Purpose release, we are sharing an episode of the HBS podcast Climate Rising with host Professor Mike Toffel. In this episode, Daniel Pacthod, Senior Partner and global co-leader of McKinsey Sustainability, shares how the company works with its...
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- 05 Feb 2024
- Podcast
What it Takes to Lead a Successful Turnaround in Health Care
As a veteran leader in the healthcare sector, José (Joe) E. Almeida, Chairman, President & CEO of Baxter, has made a lot of tough decisions. He led the successful turnaround of the Illinois-based multinational by calling on leadership lessons he gained from his family...
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- 21 Nov 2022
- Podcast
How Higher Purpose Guides CEO Sim Tshabalala of Africa’s Standard Bank Group
In South Africa, CEO Sim Tshabalala of Standard Bank Group worked his way up from the country’s largest Black township to lead one of Africa’s largest financial institutions. It might seem like an improbable trajectory: from the “dusty streets of Soweto” to the...
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- 23 Oct 2023
- Podcast
Saving BlackBerry: CEO John Chen Explains How to Make the Hard Calls
John Chen was hired to save an iconic smartphone company that ran out of juice. BlackBerry had gone from being a corporate world must-have to a global has-been. Chen says the key to turning Blackberry around was being prepared to make hard calls, even in midst of...
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- 04 Dec 2020
- News
Hour by Hour
their former employees so that both can benefit. The company uses a web-based application to connect employers and former workers in good standing, and allows employers to automate and manage their interactions with former employees....
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- 04 Nov 2020
- News
The Long View: Persevering Through Past Crises
Automation in Zurich, Switzerland. More importantly, I love my work every day. It turns out that committing myself to serve others was more important than an impressive ceremony I missed, and somehow, what looked like a detour in my...
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- 01 Apr 2002
- News
Professorship Brings Brierley's HBS Connection Full Circle
writing finance cases, Brierley also volunteered to help his college fraternity find a vendor to automate its 150,000 membership records. Failing to find a specialist in the membership record-keeping arena, and recognizing an opportunity,...
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- 01 Jun 2012
- News
Made in the USA
course the lobster industry tried it, but in less than two years, the traps rusted and the welds broke. Our customers came back, because they realized cheaper wasn’t better.” Equipment that automates repetitive tasks—such as a $2.5...
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- 01 Sep 2007
- News
Riding It Out
to reduce our costs through lean manufacturing and automation so we could get investors to buy into the business. It also required salesmanship to get people interested in the equine business, which is not at the top of everyone’s list as...
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- 01 Dec 2016
- News
Alumni Leading Change
weaving to dyeing, sewing, and retailing. By leveraging vertical integration, best practices, and technology such as automation and robotics, the company is constantly improving productivity and raising product quality. At the same time,...
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- 01 Sep 2018
- News
September 2018 Alumni and Faculty Books
Forsythe stories feature a talented African American man, wrongfully imprisoned, who becomes a successful drug lord. The Carmichael stories feature two generations of Swedish immigrants in upstate New York, facing—or avoiding—the challenges that industrialization and...
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- 22 Feb 2022
- News
An Rx for Small Business Recovery
applications and used automated processing to get cash out quickly. By the program’s second round, companies such as Square, Kabbage, PayPal, and Intuit became approved PPP lenders and handled a significant share of PPP loans. “The...
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Deborah Blagg
- 12 Jul 2021
- News
Alumni Confront the COVID-19 Crisis
Ganesh Natarajan (AMP 169, 2005), Chairman of 5F World, Lighthouse Communities Foundation, and Honeywell Automation India. Navaldi’s highlighted contributions include “delivering medicines, oxygen concentrators, and medical supplies to...
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- 01 Apr 2002
- News
Student Conferences Spark Discussion, Promote Interaction
we think about everything," he remarked. "Information technology has to march in lockstep with business," agreed Verizon CIO Shaygan Kheradpir. Software that automates complex transactions and expanding customer service on the Web are...
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- 01 Dec 1999
- News
The Way You See It
management methods in American business," finished fourth, followed by IBM's Thomas J. Watson, whose "computers enabled the automation of well-informed decision-making, allowing business and the work force to migrate from manual labor in...
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