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How NASA Uses Telemedicine to Care for Astronauts in Space

Harvard Business Review

Since the Expedition One launch to the International Space Station (ISS) in 2001 — the first long-duration stay on the orbital construction site — NASA’s Human Health and Performance team has been developing expertise in the planning and provision of medical support to crews staying in our world’s most remote environment.

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How Share-Price Fixation Killed Enron

Harvard Business Review

In December, 2001, just prior to filing for bankruptcy, Enron Corporation had approximately $2 billion in cash and no debt coming due. In a keynote speech , he said Enron went bankrupt because of "decisions" made in October 2001. Despite its infamous financial chicanery, it still appeared to be a viable, profitable firm.

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How Companies Escape the Traps of the Past

Harvard Business Review

I found that the companies that survive and thrive are good at aligning their organizations around three critical but competing activities : Box 1: Manage the present at peak efficiency and profitability. And yet without Box 2, organizations don’t truly transform; they persist in limiting ways of operating.

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Why GE’s Jeff Immelt Lost His Job: Disruption and Activist Investors

Harvard Business Review

Over a period of years, every GE senior manager would learn the lean startup methodology, and GE would be the showcase for how modern companies use entrepreneurial management to transform culture and drive long-term growth. So is John Rice, the head of global operations, along with CFO Jeffrey Bornstein. Then it wasn’t.

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The Former Head of the CIA on Managing the Hunt for Bin Laden

Harvard Business Review

May 2 marks the fifth anniversary of the operation that killed the world’s most wanted terrorist, Osama Bin Laden. 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. It was not a top-focus item of the Agency’s senior management.

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Case Study: Time for a Unified Campaign?

Harvard Business Review

A few electrical issues in the spa and conference center, but nothing to worry about.". She led him down a long corridor to a door marked "Hotel Manager." Palma Cay is Alegre's newest flagship hotel, and I think I can make it work with lower prices to the key travel agencies, tour operators, and online portals. I need help.".

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How Software Is Helping Big Companies Dominate

Harvard Business Review

Walmart is the country’s largest employer and largest company by revenue and it reached that position through an operating model made possible by proprietary logistics software. Vox is a digital publishing company known, in part, for its proprietary content management system. ” It didn’t turn out that way.