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- 01 Mar 2009
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Where Are They Now?
financial measures of performance,” he says. “How do you design a performance measurement system that is both useful for monitoring purposes and motivates people to do the right thing? We know that financial measures of performance are lagging indicators. Can we find...
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- 06 Dec 2021
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New Wave
electricity—enough to power approximately 150 households. The turbines are the spinning heart of the Roosevelt Island Tidal Energy (RITE) Project, an initiative undertaken by Verdant Power, the startup that Smith cofounded in 2000 to commercialize tidal energy, a clean...
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- 01 Feb 2000
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Financial Services 24/7
Wallet READ MORE Breaking Down Barriers: The Electronic Wallet Operational Efficiency With more and more consumers using the Internet to conduct transactions of all kinds and with the size of firms growing, the reliability of technology...
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Susan Young
- 01 Dec 1997
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New Releases
enable a company to assemble seamless and reliable real-world products that can thrive in a demanding marketplace. Iansiti's work provides a blueprint for the radical restructuring of corporate research and product development. The...
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Robert Binstock
- 01 Jun 2020
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Unleashed
we like former MIT professor Edgar H. Schein’s iconic framework, which loosely divides organizational culture into artifacts, behaviors, and shared basic assumptions. As Schein argues persuasively, to get people to reliably behave the way...
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Jen McFarland Flint
- 20 Jun 2016
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Having an Impact on Development and Poverty Issues
says, it will create a new asset class for socially minded investors, providing them with a reliable ROI that will advance the investing effort. He also believes that changing from a charity-based model of giving has a huge impact on the...
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Constantine von Hoffman
- 12 Sep 2019
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Skydeck Voices: Finding My Muse
Papa: Steve Papa, 1999. So I fly a lot, globally, and it turns out my most creative thinking is typically after about 12 hours of jet lag and trying to get through in the morning and you just have the craziest ideas when you're waiting for some meeting. That's what I...
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- 24 Apr 2014
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Outside-the-box innovation for off-the-grid energy
sustainably. It has substantial advantages over alternatives—and it works!” Through an “Energy as a Service” financing model, even the poorest communities will be able to afford reliable electricity for irrigation, education, health care,...
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- 22 Aug 2019
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Getting There
the notion that the mobile phone revolution might help unlock a chronic problem in Southeast Asia: safe and reliable on-demand transportation. They launched Grab in Malaysia in 2012. In its earliest days, the company offered an app to...
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- 01 Dec 2000
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Core Values Keep Airline Flying High
Good people are essential for success. Keep the product and the process simple. Deliver the most reliable service at the lowest cost. Invest the time to connect with employees and customers. These are the basic tenets fueling the...
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- 01 Jun 2006
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The Baby Business
for which we don’t have reliable numbers. You say that this market is driven by such deep-seated human feelings that banning it outright would be futile. Yet obviously some rules are needed. We need to look at this area as objectively as...
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- 01 Mar 2015
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A Boomtown's Echo
workers, and the city—or private actors—has to invest in resource efficiency. So how can our water, fuel, and transit go further? By having multifamily housing, by having some kind of mass transit, by having a common water extraction and treatment regime, by having a...
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- 01 Sep 2007
- News
To The Rescue
with huge differences in governance, language, culture, and even the reliability of local police. “Ultimately the plan is very important, because it’s a promise of security we’re giving to people. We can’t get into a situation where we...
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- 01 Apr 2001
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Books: Brand New
competition from other players in their respective industries. Many factors contributed to their success but much hinged on their ability, as Koehn writes, to create “products and connections to buyers that offered not only quality, convenience, and View Details
- 24 Apr 2014
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Creating connections among consumers
embraced technology and tools that make it easier for members to access reviews and deals. “Our members want help with hiring decisions that have a high cost of failure if done improperly, so they’re happy to pay for reliable...
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- 01 Jun 2017
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Supercharged
with the introduction of the affordable and reliable Model T. Several more decades passed before long-distance travel finally became commonplace thanks to the creation of an interstate highway system—all of which, Camargo muses, “is kind...
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- 01 Sep 2010
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RX for Change
sink or swim,” Hamermesh says. “If they’re good at what they do, they’re given even more administrative tasks. In the meantime, they continue to see patients. “The good news is that doctors today can reliably diagnose and treat conditions...
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- 01 Sep 2015
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Alumni and Faculty Books for September 2015
Professor Ramanna explores the political processes determining our system of accounting rules by which corporate profits are reliably measured. He shows how some corporate interests, to increase profits, have been manipulating the...
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- 21 Dec 2022
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HBS Community Comes Together in Wake of Ukraine Invasion
bravery, courage, selflessness and dedication to higher values. Yet, we have to do something! I wanted to respectfully suggest to the 87,000-strong HBS community globally how to support Ukraine: I have specific suggestions on how and where to offer support - View Details
- 12 Jul 2019
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The Birth of a Silicon Valley Blockbuster
UHaul from Boston to San Francisco and we showed up in the summer of 2009 knowing basically nobody with an idea. Ten years later we have a real company with over a thousand people around the world and we helped make the Internet faster safer and more View Details