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- 08 Nov 2016
- First Look
November 8, 2016
capabilities that can be studied via the algorithmic and computational properties of the problems they are meant to solve and the efficiency and reliability by which they search a solution space. It points to several new components of... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 05 Apr 2011
- First Look
First Look: April 5
inception and, to date, has focused on a very distinct market segment: small- and medium-sized employers, Contractors who provide computer programming services, and U.S.-based employers hiring overseas Contractors. Swart believes that the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 29 Jan 2019
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New Research and Ideas, January 29, 2019
micro-foundations for formulating and solving strategic problems. It shows how the languages and disciplines of theoretical computer science, “artificial intelligence,” and computational complexity theory... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 23 Jan 2012
- Research & Ideas
Break Your Addiction to Service Heroes
computer problems on a website, companies that design those interactions purely to cut costs don't succeed. But when they actively partner with their customers to deliver a better service experience," she relates, "that's the... View Details
- 12 Oct 1999
- Research & Ideas
Spirit at Work: The Search for Deeper Meaning in the Workplace
computer consulting firm specializing in e-commerce; Akal Security Company; and natural food enterprises such as the Yogi Tea Company), for which he serves as executive vice president. "Our goal is to provide products and services... View Details
Keywords: by Marguerite Rigoglioso
- 23 Mar 2010
- First Look
First Look: March 23
them and many agents are reluctant to sell them. Purchase this case:http://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cb/product/510040-PDF-ENG A Letter from Prison Eugene SoltesHarvard Business School Case 110-045 Stephen Richards, the former global head of sales at View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 23 Jun 2009
- First Look
First Look: June 23
port their data between products securely and reliably. This paper reviews the rationale for these principles and examines their impact on competition in the cloud computing ("Internet-software") environment. Download the paper:... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 22 Apr 2014
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First Look: April 22
other banks with common exposures. We show how this contagion effect adds up across the banking sector and how it can be estimated empirically using balance sheet data. We compute bank exposures to system-wide deleveraging, as well as the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 07 Sep 2011
- First Look
First Look: Sept. 7
(particularly graphics related), power consumption, and suitability for new computer form factors (tablets, all-in-one machines, etc.). AMD planned to launch Fusion at the beginning of 2011 with a high-end processor, code-named Llano, to... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 26 Apr 2011
- Op-Ed
HBS Faculty Comment on Environmental Issues for Earth Day
the best of the automobile—private on-demand service to many destinations, no delays for others to get on or off, and great flexibility for later expansion. Add the key advantages of public transit—a dedicated guideway without delays from other traffic, plus View Details
- 15 May 2019
- Research Event
The Unconventional Capitalism That Shapes Business History
government’s policies to favor Muslim business over those of Armenian, Greek, and Jewish minorities. These new data sets and analytical techniques, enabled by new tools in computational data science, have potential to broaden and deepen... View Details
- 21 Sep 2011
- Research & Ideas
Gender and Competition: What Companies Need to Know
2011, using cooperative and competitive scenarios in which participants performed both a verbal and a math test at Harvard Business School's Computer Lab for Experimental Research. Each participant was given a pseudonym, with women... View Details
Keywords: by Kim Girard
- 12 Feb 2007
- Lessons from the Classroom
‘UpTick’ Brings Wall Street Pressure to Students
In a Harvard Business School classroom, students in the Dynamic Markets class may have one minute to make a decision in a pressure cooker one called "the most stress I've experienced in ten years." It's margin call time in a real-world market investment View Details
- 14 Jul 2003
- Research & Ideas
Keeping Your Balance With Customers
and profits could be derived from scale. Customer management was relegated to selling and promoting the company's products. The customer relationship was seldom the issue. The New Economy has changed all of this. With the evolution of View Details
Keywords: by Robert S. Kaplan & David P. Norton
- 26 Nov 2001
- Research & Ideas
Women Entrepreneurs Use Springboard for Funding
Serkes Valora Technologies Inc. "We find the needle in the haystack," said CEO and President Sandra Serkes. Her company has a patent-pending computer server, the Linkify Information Connectivity Server, that works to ease the... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 13 Apr 2010
- First Look
First Look: April 13
horizon, implying that growth is less risky than value at long horizons. Investors with access to bills and bonds exhibit similar behavior when value and growth tilts are computed relative to the total equity allocation of the portfolio.... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 14 Dec 2011
- Research & Ideas
The New Measures for Improving Nonprofit Performance
experience in the for-profit sector? Mario Morino: My background was in the IT industry, working in systems management, which is fundamentally about tracking the performance and integrity of large computing platforms. What I experienced... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna
- 12 Feb 2008
- First Look
First Look: February 12, 2007
Barron, and Kagan Tumer Abstract We describe an auction mechanism in the class of Groves mechanisms that has received attention in the computer science literature because of its theoretical property of being more "learnable"... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 24 Jun 2013
- Research & Ideas
Is Your iPhone Turning You Into a Wimp?
poses and less likely in constrictive poses. Now they wanted to look into whether behavior was affected during the poses. This might help to answer questions like: Would people be more likely to join a game of online poker while using a desktop View Details
- 27 Oct 2011
- Research & Ideas
Horrible Boss Workarounds
didn't use computers himself and didn't see the value in the strategy. So a group of self-starters went ahead and designed a small, low-risk e-commerce pilot anyway. It tested well, the CEO was at last impressed, and the project moved... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel