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Guidelines for Choosing Resources - Research Computing Services

[jharvard@rhrcscli01:~]$ bjobs –l MEMORY USAGE: MAX MEM: 788 Mbytes; AVG MEM: 446 Mbytes This MAX MEM values in bold can now inform how much RAM you would ask for next time you do similar work or work with the same data. If you would like... View Details
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Scaling Work - Research Computing Services

functions in R ( apply() , lapply() , etc.). As when using implicit parallelism, you must request the number of CPUs you will use when submitting a job. We also recommend that you do not statically indicate ('hard code') the number of View Details
  • 05 May 2011
  • What Do You Think?

How Ethical Can We Be?

that, under the circumstances, "we should be as ethical as the situation around us can determine while at the same time be mindful of the consequences ." Turning to the core issue of the column, why do we so often regard... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Heskett
  • Profile

Philippe Rival

Why did you choose this path at this point in time? After six years of working as a civil engineer, the importance and value of adding management skills to an existing engineering and technical base became apparent to me. The MBA was the... View Details
  • 18 Aug 2003
  • Research & Ideas

How New Managers Become Great Managers

successful. They should pursue situations in which their strengths are really needed, important weaknesses are not a serious drawback, and their core values are consistent with those of the organization; in... View Details
Keywords: by Linda Hill
  • 20 Oct 2010
  • Op-Ed

Export Competitiveness: Reversing the Logic

WTO, World Bank, and the OECD. Or they could be related to lagging capabilities of domestic companies, either in understanding foreign markets or in their own products, services, or value chains. Another large body of thinking is devoted... View Details
Keywords: by Christian Ketels
  • 05 Feb 2013
  • First Look

First Look: Feb. 5

A core feature of youth service programs, namely their dual identity of helping others (i.e., service beneficiaries) and helping oneself (i.e., participants), might partly explain the mixed outcomes. We find that participants focus on one... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 26 Apr 2011
  • First Look

First Look: April 26

April 2002, started providing its branch managers with customer lifetime value (CLV) information about mortgage applicants. The data allow us to gauge the effects of enriching the information set of these employees in an environment where... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 01 Feb 2021
  • What Do You Think?

Has the New Economy Finally Arrived?

conveyed the sense that the challenge is substantial. They suggested, among other things, that organizations need to change their value structure, training, hiring, and measurement. Danny commented that “Diversity and inclusion must be... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
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Harvard Business School

Baker Library Special Collections Exhibits More Exhibits Explore the Exhibit Student Pioneers The Value of Business Education The Golden Age of Black Business AASU Early Years & Influence AASU Founders Core... View Details
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2022 Reunion Presentations - Alumni

customers are partitioned away from the operation, they are less likely to fully appreciate the work going on behind the scenes, causing them to place a lower value on the product or service being offered. To address this problem, leaders... View Details
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Business Economics Online Course | HBS Online

pricing strategies Benchmark costs compared to competitors through relative cost analysis Apply conjoint analysis to understand what features customers value most Understand the power of network effects to drive demand Identify sources of... View Details
  • 11 Mar 2021
  • News

Leading with Heart

the team the following three core values that they can expect from me and hold me accountable to. The first value that I have is one of congruence—that what I think, feel, say,... View Details
  • 17 Jun 2015
  • Lessons from the Classroom

Excellence Comes From Saying No

School Professor Frances Frei has explored that question for years in the retail realm, culminating in her 2012 book, Uncommon Service: How to Win by Putting Customers at the Core of Your Business. This past semester at HBS, the UPS... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
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Strategy Awards & Honors - Faculty & Research

Foundation Core Infrastructure Initiative Grant with Karim Lakhani in 2022. Maria P. Roche : Winner of the 2022 Strategy Science Conference Best Paper Award for “Beefing IT Up for Your Investor? Open Sourcing and Startup Funding: Evidence... View Details
  • 25 Jan 2010
  • Research & Ideas

A Macroeconomic View of the Current Economy

GDP, that is, total aggregate output, the market value of all final goods and services produced. In a sense, all that you (as a country) have is the total output that you produce in a year—your GDP. Sometimes people think if everyone... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
  • 29 Oct 2013
  • First Look

First Look: October 29

among adults around the world, and the warm glow of giving can be detected even in toddlers. These benefits are most likely to emerge when giving satisfies one or more core human needs (relatedness, competence, and autonomy). The rewards... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 03 Mar 2015
  • First Look

First Look: March 3

we identify core insights about how firms compete against one another in established markets. Based on our evaluation, we argue that a promising research opportunity for strategy lies in exploring how firms strategically interact in new... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 21 Aug 2018
  • First Look

New Research and Ideas, August 21, 2018

new world. Typical approaches used by legacy players such as using technology to improve efficiency, encouraging business units to do digital experiments, or launching independent units to spur innovation have met with limited success. These players have to strengthen... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 22 Feb 2021
  • Book

Reaching Today's Omnichannel Customer Takes a New Sales Strategy

Management That Works: How to Sell in a World That Never Stops Changing, Cespedes, a senior lecturer at Harvard Business School, offers research-based insight and context, and presents sales productivity not only as a core way to increase... View Details
Keywords: by Kristen Senz