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- 23 Oct 2018
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New Research and Ideas, October 23, 2018
the average forecast, and when they do, they can run counter to existing methods. On two publicly available datasets, we demonstrate that these new ensembles are easily fit to real forecast data and are more accurate than existing...
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Dina Gerdeman
- 02 Sep 2014
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thought that their technical knowledge of best manufacturing practices (to take one example) was sufficiently developed that processes simply needed to be tweaked to fit local conditions. More often, it turns out, they have to be reworked...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 10 Jul 2018
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New Research and Ideas, July 10, 2018
space, and asks how the voice assistant should fit in with Alphabet's larger portfolio of products and services. While the mobile phone was the major platform for Google Assistant, Alphabet had recently introduced a range of smart home...
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Dina Gerdeman
- 21 May 2013
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First Look: May 21
was considering whether to buy natural gas properties from Dominion Resources. The question is whether the acquisition fits the corporate strategy. In exploring the questions, students will have the chance to consider what is in fact a...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 15 Jan 2013
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Activity Based Costing System to the Theory of Constraints System (TOC). Using structuration theory as a framework, we posit that user responses and attitudes towards TOC are influenced not only by the technical features of the system and the potential economic...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Dec 2008
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A Force for Good
focus was the physical campus, on which he had a huge impact — expanding the Morgan Hall office building from 53,000 to 116,000 square feet, adding the Shad Hall fitness center, and completing the Class of 1959 Chapel. He also effectively...
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- 08 Nov 2016
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November 8, 2016
to understand the resilience as well as effectiveness of that corporate model remains inside the business group itself. As the business groups flexibly evolve, they can adapt and fit in to remain viable organizational models even in...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 15 Sep 2009
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First Look: September 15
problems randomly selected from the same distribution. After collecting the experimental data to be used for estimation, the organizers posted them on the Web, together with their fit with several baseline models, and challenged other...
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Martha Lagace
- 01 Apr 2002
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Back in Business
reached out to help all individuals and enterprises, no matter how small, that had been affected by the attack. No other city in the world has a larger concentration of HBS alumni than New York, particularly Lower Manhattan, home of the financialservices industry. So...
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- 13 Feb 2020
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Not Throwing Away My Shot
themes? Eric: The first theme is mechanization. If you were a young person in the early Republic in America and you could build a machine that did what had been traditionally done by hand, you were in the sweet spot of entrepreneurship. And so Eli Whitney View Details
- 01 Feb 1997
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Doing It Your Way
In the beginning there was the microprocessor. The mass market availability in the early 1980s of this revolutionary piece of technology — which shrank the computer from an unwieldy Goliath of a machine to a compact unit that could fit on...
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- 01 Jun 2015
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Higher Ground
the April concert was Tulane University’s Dixon Hall, with a stage that could barely fit all 67 orchestra members. Location was perhaps the least of the LPO’s challenges that night. Many of the musicians were still living in hotels or...
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- 14 Mar 2019
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The Merchant of Osaka
would knock on doors and say, ‘Would you be interested in talking with Nippon Life?’ ” She targeted fitness clubs and nursing homes, given the direction of the country’s demographics. Any new business Oishi brought on was passed along to...
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Health, Social Assistance
- 02 Sep 2018
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Havana Rising
“Ramen head.” “These things are traumatizing for an elementary school kid—when you don’t fit in perfectly,” she recalls. And there were different customs and norms that required acclimation. The school had no janitors, so the students...
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Dan Morrell; photographed by Eve North
- 01 Jun 1996
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Class Acts
difficult for women to fit in. The experience made me realize how important it is for women to form networks." So when Ma attended the WSA Women's Admit Day - a one-day introduction to life at HBS - and met other professional women who...
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- 10 Mar 2017
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The Business of Lego Batman
directed the movie called The Guest, directed the movie. And it stars Nat Wolff. So we're just really excited about it. It is an unusual kind of movie that is a good fit for Netflix in that it's slightly off center. It's definitely weird....
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- 27 Sep 2011
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First Look: September 27
development is fragmented and lacks a coherent and integrated theory and method for developing an effective organization. A 20-year action research program led to the development and evaluation of the Strategic Fitness Process (SFP)-a...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 12 Feb 2008
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First Look: February 12, 2007
which I conceptualize and describe as different calculative cultures. The study suggests that calculative cultures, which in these cases shaped managerial predilections towards ERM practices, are relevant, albeit so far neglected, constituents of the View Details
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Martha Lagace
- 01 Mar 2017
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A Summit Higher Than Everest
company. He convinced his advisor that because of Carpé’s work studying high-altitude cosmic rays for Bell Labs, the expedition fit the School’s requirements. Following the successful expedition to the top of Mount Bona, Moore requested a...
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