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5.1 Information Technology - MBA

Technology 5.2 Use of Harvard Name & Logo 5.3 Annual Notice: Digital Millennium Copyright Act 6. Important Contact Information Access to HBS networks, applications, computers, and other electronic resources (“the Resources”) is a... View Details

21 Mar 2018
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Why Artificial Intelligence Isn't a Sure Thing to Increase Productivity

prior art existed. Half of the students were assigned randomly to use the Boolean search tool and half to use the machine learning tool. Furthermore, they gave half of each group access to expert advice to help them better craft their... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Technology; Information

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Online Requests - Research Computing Services

outbound traffic (i.e., connections outward made from an HBSGrid login node). For example, you may need to connect to an AWS server from the HBSGrid cluster to access data. If you have any questions about your request or your needs are... View Details

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Past Issues - Alumni

from chaos, affect performance, and ascribe meaning to the mundane details of our personal and professional lives Quantum Leap Quantum computing has revolutionary potential, but it’s been stuck in the lab. John Levy thinks his startup has a way to make it an View Details

09 Jan 2012
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Location, Location, Location: The Strategy of Place

consequences of what they are doing." Such snap decisions can result in geo-mistakes that sap energy out of an organization and cause it to lose focus on what it was doing well in the first place. Geographic expansion should provide View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman

10 May 2011
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The Impact of Forward-Looking Metrics on Employee Decision Making

Keywords: by Pablo Casas-Arce, F. Asís Martínez-Jerez & V.G. Narayanan; Banking

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Platform Information Provision and Consumer Search: A Field Experiment

By: Lu Fang, Yanyou Chen, Chiara Farronato, Zhe Yuan and Yitong Wang

Despite substantial efforts to help consumers search in more intuitive ways, text search remains the predominant tool for product discovery online. In this paper, we explore the effects of visual and textual cues for search refinement on consumer search and purchasing... View Details

Keywords: Consumer Behavior; E-commerce; Decision Choices and Conditions; Learning; Internet and the Web

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January 2017
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Bayer AG: Bidding to Win Merck's OTC Business

By: Benjamin C. Esty, Marc Baaij and Arjen Mulder

Shortly after submitting their best and final offer to acquire Merck's Consumer Care Division (a collection of "over-the-counter" (OTC) products with sales totaling $2 billion), the Bayer M&A team was given a chance to revise their bid because another potential... View Details

Keywords: Acquisition; Bidding Strategy; Valuing Synergies; Negotiations; Corporate Strategy; Business Unit Strategy; Bidding Process; Discounted Cash Flow; Cross-border M＆A; Tax Shields; Valuation; Competitive Strategy; Auctions; Bids and Bidding; Germany; United States; United Kingdom

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07 Nov 2016
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Online Business Strategy Courses | HBS Online

and educational goals. Access Your Free Flowchart Free E-Book How to Formulate a Successful Business Strategy This guide will equip you with the tools, frameworks, and knowledge to formulate a successful business strategy to propel your... View Details

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1.20 Joint Degree Programs - MBA

Learning/Independent Projects 1.18 FIELD Global Capstone 1.19 Immersive Field Courses (IFC) 1.20 Joint Degree Programs 1.21 Use of Course Work & Materials 1.22 Disability Access 1.23 Pregnancy, Childbirth & Adoption during Business School... View Details

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MOC Affiliate Network - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness

students in 67 countries around the world. Participating Institutions The MOC Affiliate Network includes affiliate institutions on every continent, with an average of 10 educational institutions joining every year. Why Join? MOC faculty have View Details

13 Jul 2020
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Merck CEO Ken Frazier Discusses a COVID Cure, Racism, and Why Leaders Need to Walk the Talk

world, you should have access to this vaccine because it is a global pandemic. And my view is unless all of us are safe, none of us are safe. I mean, when you think about the world that we live in with climate change, with ecosystem... View Details

Keywords: by Staff; Pharmaceutical

29 Aug 2017
First Look

First Look at New Research and Ideas, August 29

knowledge sharing networks may struggle to access useful knowledge at work. A knowledge repository (KR) has the potential to help peripheral individuals gain access to valuable knowledge because it is... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

20 Apr 2015
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The 5 Strategy Rules of Bill Gates, Andy Grove, and Steve Jobs

Yoffie has had access to all three men—having served on Intel's board since 1989 and written numerous business cases on Apple and Microsoft. He first started talking about the idea for the book more than six years ago with Cusumano, the... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Computer

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Teacher Profiles - Case Method Project

U.S. History ID Olivia Whitsel Caldwell High School Caldwell, ID Subjects: American Government, U.S. History I MT Josh Wigen Access to Success Helena, MT ID Caroline Wight American Falls High School American Falls, ID Subjects: American... View Details

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Spreading the Word – The Human Relations Movement – Baker Library | Bloomberg Center, Historical Collections

ultimately securing national stability at a time of economic and social unrest. 11 Elton Mayo, The Human Problems of an Industrial Civilization . New York: MacMillan, 1933, p. 159. The "Hawthorne Effect" Research Links Baker Library | Historical Collections | Site... View Details

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Women - MBA

Student Association hosts a series of virtual events about life at HBS. WSA webinars are held monthly during the fall and winter semesters. Access the full library of recorded webinars for prospective students, including a Women's Student... View Details

03 Oct 2005
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The Truck Driver Who Reinvented Shipping

By the end of the 1960s, McLean's SeaLand Industries had twenty-seven thousand trailer-type containers, thirty-six trailer ships, and access to over thirty port cities. With a top market position, SeaLand was an attractive acquisition... View Details

Keywords: by Anthony J. Mayo & Nitin Nohria; Manufacturing; Transportation; Aerospace

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Knowing Your Students - Christensen Center for Teaching & Learning

C. Roland Christensen once noted that the art of case method teaching is the ability to ask the right question of the right student at the right time in the right way—a virtually impossible aspiration without deep knowledge of one's students. At Harvard Business School... View Details

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