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- 01 Oct 1999
- News
New Chairman Updates Development in MBA Program
provide more efficient and customized services. What are some of the changes in the Admissions area? This year we are putting more resources into marketing - both to the world in general and, in particular, to underrepresented groups that...
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- 01 Feb 1997
- News
OPM Celebrates 21st Anniversary at Gala Florida Reunion
group. "A large measure of our success is based on the tremendous legacy of support for our mission from enterprising alumni like you. We see OPM as a very important part of where the School is going in the next century." The next day,...
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- 01 Sep 2016
- News
The Taxi Wars of Jakarta
huge inefficiency.” It was while attending HBS that Makarim formed Go-Jek, a more efficient ojek service that organized 20 or so drivers through a call center; he relied on word of mouth to market the idea to friends and relatives in a...
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- 01 Sep 2011
- News
The City Solution
sidebar, next page) also underscores the opportunities for business and investors in a newly climate-conscious world. Efficiency has become a bottom-line imperative and sustainability an organizing principle that companies can use to...
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- 28 May 2019
- News
Alumni Achievement Awards 2019
Philanthropies: ‘If you can’t measure it, you can’t manage it.’ I think you need to have a vision of how you can make a real difference, and have confidence that it’s going to work. And if it’s not working, be willing to adjust it, change...
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- 01 Jun 2013
- News
Five Bright Ideas
learn (or review) and then points to what the student should next master to proceed most efficiently to his or her knowledge goal. FAST FACT: Knewton was named a 2011 Technology Pioneer by the World Economic Forum. DATA POINT: In a...
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- 01 Jun 1996
- News
1996 Global Alumni Conference Probes "Information Revolution"
knowledge of a market tends to make it more efficient and to intensify competition," Sprinkle noted. "This means that each of us had better start experimenting in this realm right now." At lunch the next day, Vincent H. Tobkin (MBA '75)...
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Daniel Penrice
- 01 Mar 2013
- News
A Healthy Profit
continuous efficacy and efficiency improvements that poverty-reduction initiatives must have to succeed," says Antares cofounder and HBS senior lecturer Michael Chu. Chu speaks from personal experience. After leaving a lucrative Wall...
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- 26 Aug 2020
- News
What the Climate Change Movement Can Learn from the Pandemic
users’ credit card purchases and then connects users with offsets they can buy to mitigate their footprint. Part of Pal’s motivation for building Joro was that she wanted a tool that would not only allow her to better measure the impact...
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- 13 Nov 2020
- News
Faculty Focus Their Research on COVID-19 Issues
expertise on how technology is helping leading companies gain an edge during the pandemic. For example, Lauren Cohen observed: “Technology will be most powerfully utilized . . . by those firms who apply it organization-wide to create more nimble, View Details
- 01 Feb 2000
- News
Executives Convene to Discuss Consumer-Driven Health Care
contribution health care by employers will result in a more cost-effective and efficient system. Participants submitted papers that were read in advance of the conference. These papers will be edited by Herzlinger and published later this...
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- 01 Feb 2001
- News
Drilling Down
past. Now the big strikes lie elsewhere. The wildcatters of today travel the globe from Angola to Kazakhstan to the deep waters off the coast of Brazil in search of "elephant fields" with flow rates measuring in the thousands of barrels...
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- 15 Jun 2021
- News
June 2021 Books and Podcasts
author emphasizes the contribution of his own mentor, Malcom McLean, the inventor of container shipping, and the links between American thought leadership and the extraordinarily efficient industry that subsequently unfolded. In addition...
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- 01 Jun 2009
- News
Too Big To Fail
allow an efficient handling of failed companies. “We really need to insist that no institution is too big to fail,” says Moss. “With what I’m proposing, all systemic institutions would get limited support during a period of economic...
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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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- 02 Mar 2016
- News
The New Space Race
space startups, one giant leap for space exploration. Video Embed Blue Origin’s historic November launch. Arianne Cornell is visible at ~1:08, midscreen with binoculars in hand. This promise of cost savings and efficiency has long been...
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Robert S. Benchley
- 01 Jun 2006
- News
India Arrives
efficient production,” Mahindra observes. “Ours, I think, will lead to more exciting innovation. Think of it as a giant brainstorming session. It’s difficult to do with too many rules. “India is one of the world’s greatest experiments,”...
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Julia Hanna
- 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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- 12 Jul 2021
- News
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