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- 29 Oct 2019
- Sharpening Your Skills
Robots in the Boardroom
artificial intelligence, and related technologies in the twenty-first century Making Sense of RecommendationsWe compare computer recommender systems to human recommenders in a... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
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Research - Behavioral Finance & Financial Stability
NOV 2020 In the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic, the financial and legal system will need to deal with a surge of financial distress in the business sector. In this paper, the authors try to size up the coming surge of financial distress,... View Details
- 22 Apr 2002
- Research & Ideas
Does Spirituality Drive Success?
in America, and Work in Progress (co-authored with Michael Eisner, chairman of the Walt Disney Company). Schwartz is now president of LGE Performance Systems and co-created its Corporate Athlete training program, which aims to apply the... View Details
- 10 May 2010
- Research & Ideas
What Top Scholars Say About Leadership
Moss Kanter discussed in a preface to a collection of Follett's works, Follett was way ahead of her time. She was admittedly a utopian and romantic, but she had a profound appreciation for human relations and was one of the earliest View Details
- 07 Jan 2019
- Research & Ideas
The Better Way to Forecast the Future
come from diverse sources Chief among the recommendations from Grushka-Cockayne and her colleagues is aggregating several probability forecasts, typically from between five and 10 experts. Ideally, those experts should have some... View Details
- 20 Dec 2010
- Research & Ideas
Panama Canal: Troubled History, Astounding Turnaround
Canal (1.5),the Bay Area Rapid Transport system (1.6), and the Washington Metro (1.8), although the Panama Canal's construction overruns do compare favorably to the Miami Metrorail (2.1), Boston's infamous Big Dig (2.9), and the... View Details
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Strategy Execution Online Course | HBS Online
of the core tensions of strategy execution, including how to balance growth, profit, and control Design measurement systems for every dimension of business performance Identify and manage risks that could derail strategy execution Empower... View Details
- 17 Sep 2013
- First Look
First Look: September 17
selection and recommendation incentives than their sell-side peers. We examine the selection and performance of stocks recommended by analysts at a large investment firm relative to those of sell-side... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
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Strategy for Health Care Delivery - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness
Align your organization around a value-based strategy: Build a firm foundation for exploring and implementing strategy transformation Manage the issues that arise when implementing new approaches Lead strategic and organizational change to generate value Improve health... View Details
- 05 Feb 2019
- News
The First Five Years: Karan Shah (MBA 2016)
our growth strategy to diversify the business portfolio. One of my key responsibilities is to ensure that everything we do has a well-documented system and process. A day at work could involve any or all of the activities I mentioned... View Details
- 14 Sep 2018
- Blog Post
10 Things I Learned During My First Month in the MS/MBA: Engineering Sciences Program
It was exciting to see how to apply what we learned in a real-life context. Many of my classmates felt they actually understood statistics for the first time thanks to the incredible faculty. 5. Systems and Controls A little more... View Details
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Alternative Investments Course | HBS Online
Kaushal Khodifad Senior Systems Engineer at Infosys Alternative Investments provided more substantial coverage than what I previously had from school versus on the job. Emily Stebbins External Vendor Data Relationship Manager, Index &... View Details
- 07 May 2024
- Blog Post
Opportunity to Offset Travel Emissions with Carbon Credits that Meet HBS Criteria
members of the Harvard Business School (HBS) community have asked HBS to provide carbon credit recommendations to offset their travel emissions. After exploring options, HBS is suggesting travelers consider the CNaught carbon credit... View Details
- 08 May 2012
- First Look
First Look: May 8
isolation, and as a consequence avoid deviating much-for any given subset-from the expected overall distribution of judgments. For instance, an interviewer who has already highly recommended three applicants on a given day may be... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 11 Jun 2018
- Research & Ideas
Why South Korea's Samsung Built the Only Outdoor Skating Rink in Texas
legal system is predicated on a jury of our peers deciding a case based on their own independent opinions, not on their warm feelings from the advertisement they saw on their way to the courthouse. To prevent unfair persuasion, Cohen... View Details
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Software Tools - Research Computing Services
typing ls /usr/local/bin or ls /usr/local/app , to see what else is in the default PATH. Additional Notes on PATHs By default, when you log in to your account, the default PATH variable , a Unix variable that defines where the system... View Details
- 11 Aug 2003
- Research & Ideas
Why Budgeting Kills Your Company
decoupling of the company's resource allocation process from the highest-value strategic opportunities. The answer, some experts say, is to dispense with budgets entirely. The answer, some experts say, is to dispense with budgets entirely—and replace them with a View Details
Keywords: by Loren Gary
- 12 Oct 2011
- First Look
First Look: October 12
accountability reporting system is likely to be more useful if it (1) accommodates for a delegate's information advantage over her delegator, (2) produces periodic performance and position reports, and (3) has a mutually agreeable due... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
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Credential of Leadership, Impact, and Management in Business | HBS Online
to learn more. I would recommend this to any leader wanting to further their skill set or leadership skills. Suzanne Linton CLIMB Participant Experienced Leaders have four or more years of managerial experience and seven-plus years of... View Details
- 27 Feb 2006
- Research & Ideas
When Rights of First Refusal Are a Bad Deal
also markets as a whole. (Details matter there, too, and the wrong details can lead to bad outcomes.) My colleagues and I have recently helped redesign the labor market for gastroenterologists, the high school choice system for New York... View Details