Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 4, 2017

We designed a data center that was 38% more energy efficient and that cost 24% less to build than a traditional data center. Since then, we’ve continued to lead the way in terms of energy efficiency. By instituting environmental impact reductions, we gained important cost efficiencies.

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Project Energy Policies Efficiency 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 22, 2011

According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, the CPI for "wireless telephone services" has declined every year since 2001; the same basket of wireless services in January 2011 cost consumers 12 percent less than what it cost in January 2001, and 40 percent less than what it cost in January 1998. Efficiencies.

Wireless 15

Wireless Price Marketing Survey 15

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 12, 2013

Then, as the labor market changed, automation was simply the most efficient way of dealing with a deluge of candidates. Another reasonable approach is to automate even more and to use technology to handle some of the more standardized tasks associated with selecting the best candidates. Why Japan’s Talent Wars Now Hinge on Women.

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Outsourcing Software Cost Human Resources 14

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 30, 2016

But designing an efficient warning system is more complicated than it might appear. In 2001 the U.S. Going forward, we must remember that in our time of revolutionary technological progress, almost any innovation brings minor risks along with its benefits. A second example is warnings related to mercury in seafood.

Chemicals 8

Chemicals Mass Marketing System Policies 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 5, 2013

Remember the summer of 2001 when CIA Director George Tenet said of the Al-Qaeda threat "the system was blinking red" but few around him seemed to grasp the urgency? Government Information & technology Risk management' I believe the cyber threat right now has much the same character. Welcome to the "Data Under Siege" Insight Center.

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Supply Chain Engineering Information Technology System 12

Harvard Business Review

JULY 22, 2013

They''ve distributed funds after the shootings at Aurora and Virginia Tech, the terrorist attacks on September 11, 2001, and the BP oil spill as well as the Boston Marathon bombings. We talked to her about how the firm balances efficiency with compassion. This is an edited version of our conversation. Why these case-by-case funds?

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Efficiency Class Definition Analysis 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 8, 2010

Right now, yesterday's organizations — from corporations to Congress — have a gaping, yawning disclosure gap: the how, what, why, how and when of disclosure simply isn't good enough for markets and communities to be able to allocate and utilize resources productively or efficiently.

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GDP Hypercompetition IPO Information 20

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 13, 2017

In 2001 the list of companies with the highest market caps was dominated by blue chips. General Electric, Microsoft, ExxonMobil, Walmart, and CitiGroup — all were businesses led by managers who were experts in efficiency and optimization and who grew their businesses by making them work better than they had previously.

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CEO Consensus Management Metrics 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 11, 2016

Salvanes of the Norwegian School of Economics and Business Administration reported that the productivity gap between firms had risen in the UK between 1984 and 2001, and that this phenomenon was linked to income inequality. The competition story revolves around digital technology. Two things happened in the intervening years.

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McKinsey Document Engineering Outsourcing 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 28, 2015

That wasn’t as magical as it might seem, he argued in the 1979 piece, since the required technologies already existed in some form or other. Back in 1979, Daniel Bell didn’t have much sympathy for people who felt helpless in the face of technological innovation. It’s still worth a look now.

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Porter Power Competitive Advantage Film 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 2, 2016

His death was the culmination of a global manhunt that lasted more than a decade and assumed extreme urgency after the September 11, 2001, attacks. Everyone has seen such technology work in the movies, but this was no Tom Clancy blockbuster. The CIA professionals thought the idea was bad.

Management 8

Management Operations Planning Politics 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 19, 2018

And academic research has found that rising industry concentration correlates with the patent-intensity of an industry, suggesting “that the industries becoming more concentrated are those with faster technological progress.” ” Carr distinguished between proprietary technologies and “infrastructural” ones.

Software 8

Software Company Competitive Advantage Henderson 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 4, 2012

To advance in one's career, it was most efficient to specialize. Academics and serious economists were dogmatically dedicated to the efficient market hypothesis — contributing to the inflation of an unprecedented credit bubble between 2001 and 2007. For various reasons, though, the specialist era is waning. Why's that?

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Hammer Real Estate Uncertainty Career 22