Memory - Publications - Faculty & Research

24 Jan 2005
Research & Ideas

Rethinking Activity-Based Costing

is measured in other units. For example, the capacity of a warehouse or vehicle would be measured by space provided, while memory storage would be measured by megabytes supplied. In these situations, the manager would calculate the... View Details

Keywords: by Robert S. Kaplan & Steven R. Anderson

12 Sep 2022
Research & Ideas

When Experts Play It Too Safe: Innovation Lessons from a NASA Experiment

non-expert group, the researchers found. This shows what the authors called a “feasibility preference.” Novel ideas appear riskier to experts Why do experts react this way? The behavior of chess masters offers some clues, the authors say. Chess masters show better... View Details

Keywords: by Rachel Layne; Aerospace

Portrait Project

Jamie Gong

Wild daisies. Hidden ice cream. Waves lapping against our little island. These memories of childhood summers with my grandmother remain, even as her own memory fades. Seven years ago, my indomitable... View Details

Portrait Project

Salaar Shaikh

“Excuse me. Are you breaking your fast?” As a freshman in college, I spent a summer learning Mandarin in Beijing. The challenging language program overlapped with Ramadan – my first time marking the holy month away from home in Pakistan. I had grown up with View Details

10 Jan 2023
Op-Ed

Time to Move On? Career Advice for Entrepreneurs Preparing for the Next Stage

lowlights What are 1-2 highlights from your experience? This could be a memory of your first big product launch, closing a hard funding round or even just that night that all hell broke loose and you fixed a hairy bug at 2 a.m. What made... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Austin

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Advisory Board - Entrepreneurship

Florida. Mr. Dauten has been active with Lutheran Social Services of Illinois (past board chair), School District #29 (past president), Ascension Church (past president), and the Metropolitan Planning Council (past board nember). He is currently involved with the... View Details

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Accounting & Management Awards & Honors - Faculty & Research

Palepu : Winner of the 2021 Case Centre Award in the Production and Operations Management category for “Ant Financial (A)” with Feng Zhu, Ying Zhang, Anthony K. Woo, and Nancy Hua Dai (HBS Case 617-060). George Serafeim : Winner of the 2021 Richard A. Crowell View Details

09 Feb 2021
News

Investing in Entrepreneurship

has served as a director of more than 50 nonprofit and corporate boards. He has devoted significant energy and support to advancing medicine, an area of deep personal interest since he was 12 years old, when his 13-year-old brother succumbed to leukemia at View Details

Keywords: Susan Young

16 Nov 2010
News

The HBS Tunnels

objects of undergraduate fascination and lore. They’ve been written about in four Harvard Crimson articles in the 1960s-80s (see here, here, here, and here). Besides being the setting for a murder mystery (Jane Langton’s The Memorial Hall... View Details

Keywords: Keith Larson

01 Mar 2024
News

Vital Signs

College London. There, in the great tradition of med students everywhere, she committed to memory the encyclopedic volume of information about diseases and their multiple presentations. That bedrock of knowledge is absolutely critical for... View Details

Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint; Hospitals; Health, Social Assistance

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Past Issues - Alumni

but that didn’t stop her from living her dream. Complete Table of Contents September 2006 One-on-One with Carter Roberts President and CEO, World Wildlife Fund Down the Memory Chute WAC, WOC, and Doing the Write Thing Light Years Ahead... View Details

13 Jul 2020
Research & Ideas

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

summer, fall, without fail. And one of my strongest childhood memories is because I was bused to school, I was the first one into the bathroom after he'd left. So I never would see him in the morning because he was already gone. But my... View Details

Keywords: by Staff; Pharmaceutical

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Social Enterprise - Faculty & Research

management strategies to post-operative patients. In 2020, CWC piloted the role at Grady Memorial Hospital, a busy trauma center in Atlanta, Georgia. By 2024, three LCSs worked at Grady as full-time employees. CWC is ready to expand to... View Details

23 May 2019
News

Tracy P. Palandjian, MBA 1997

spouse, Leon Palandjian, whom she met her sophomore year. It is apt that upon graduation she received the John B. Imrie Memorial Award for her “joyous affirmation of life” and “ability to respond creatively to difficult situations.”... View Details

Keywords: Susan Young

Profile

Brandon Graves

time, I couldn’t anticipate how much my initial opinions and viewpoints would change over an 80-minute case discussion. What is your favorite childhood memory? One of my favorite childhood memories is going to work with my mother. She... View Details

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Events - Business History

the most important corporate archives in India. Vrunda Pathare (Godrej Group) discussed her group’s oral history program, which has undertaken audio interviews with dozens of present and former staff. These interviews, which can be consulted at the Archives, are... View Details

15 Nov 2023
News

Sound Investment

by the Fisk University choir. Rogers’ purchase of the property was influenced by its history: In 1929, white property developers forced seven Black families to give up the land where the church now sits. The Daily Northwestern reports that Rogers plans to create a... View Details

Keywords: diversity; equity; inclusion

01 Sep 2007
News

Alfred D. Chandler Jr. Remembered

lack of pretension,” McCraw observed, a modesty maintained even as Chandler was producing great books that “light up a landscape that had been only dimly perceived, if at all.” A memorial service will be held at Harvard’s View Details

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My Summer of Joy with the National Parks Service - Recruiting

You get paid to live and work in a national park? Doing management consulting? No way . As a native Californian and landscape photographer, so many of my favorite childhood and adult memories took place in national parks. I spent 80% of... View Details

01 Jun 2024
News

Again and Again

was that we’re underutilizing the fact that, by putting things away, we can rediscover them. The beautiful thing about the research is the things that you become most delighted with are not the memorable items but the mundane things that you forget about. You can get... View Details

Keywords: Publishing Industries (except Internet); Information

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