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Welcome to The List, where faculty in MIT Sloan’s Applied Economics Group share the books, articles, films, and locales that are informing and inspiring their work and lives.
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In the MIT Sloan Applied Economics Group, we use economic theory and econometrics to address the practical challenges facing humanity.
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Mud Bay's Good Jobs Journey
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This case describes how leaders at Mud Bay, a chain of pet products based in Pacific Northwest, changed the way they operated their business from 2014 to 2017. They adopted a framework that included heavy investment in people with operational choices that leverage that investment by increasing produ...
Quest Diagnostics (A): Improving Performance at the Call Centers
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In July 2015, MaryAnn Camacho joined Quest Diagnostics’s National Customer Service (NCS) organization as its Executive Director. Quest was the leading provider of diagnostic services and solutions in the United States. Camacho was hired to turn around an organization that had gone through a complex ...
Managed by Q
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In July 2015, Managed by Q co-founder and CEO Dan Teran was trying to decide how best to grow the 15-month old on-demand office cleaning and maintenance company. As Teran saw it, Q, which differentiated itself from the competition by leveraging people and technology, could grow by acquiring customer...