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Frequently Asked Questions - Research Computing Services
What is the billing structure for our services? Project work is billable to faculty research projects at a rate of $40/hour. Initial consultations, short inquiries, and research software acquisition for faculty and doctoral students are... View Details
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Frequently Asked Questions | HBS Online
Although professors and guest experts will not have direct, real-time interactions with learners, you will hear from them via short videos that explain key concepts and guide you through cases, exercises, and other interactive learning... View Details
- 16 Mar 2020
- Research & Ideas
How the Coronavirus Is Already Rewriting the Future of Business
happens. In a short time it’s not possible to do everything, so there are a few things companies can focus on. First, in a remote world, it’s very important to not only communicate synchronously on Skype or Zoom, but asynchronously,... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
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Guidelines for Choosing Resources - Research Computing Services
Tips for Choosing RAM: If your code runs on your local machine, start by asking for the same amount of RAM or less (for example, if your laptop has 8GB of RAM, try asking for 8GB). If you are loading in native binary data files, ask for... View Details
- 06 Sep 2004
- Research & Ideas
The Innovator’s Battle Plan
technology so it could be useful to Western Union's most profitable real-time long-distance data customers. When an existing firm tries to insert a product or service with disruptive potential into its processes, what comes out the other... View Details
- 03 Oct 2005
- Research & Ideas
The Box Office Power of Stars
such, from the perspective of the trader, the market works much like any other stock exchange. Movies have an initial public offering once the project first takes shape, and traders can buy, sell, cover, and short stocks just as they can... View Details
- 19 Sep 2016
- Research & Ideas
Why Isn't Business Research More Relevant to Business Practitioners?
things to journalists and practitioners that are backed by sound scientific evidence,” says Brooks. “And if I mention my own thoughts or opinions, I make sure to give a big fat disclaimer such as ‘I don’t have View Details
- 01 Dec 2015
- Blog Post
What is the HBS FIELD Program?
for FIELD 2 & 3. What is FIELD 2? In FIELD 2, first year students travel to an emerging market to work on a short term consulting project for ten days in January. Students rank the 13 to 14 locations, and then are put into groups of... View Details
- 01 Oct 2014
- What Do You Think?
Is Too Much Focus a Problem?
"Excess of everything is bad it always relates to the matter in point (for example) getting big data about our customers and focusing too deeply on it will lead to not noticing other important facets However, while finalizing a... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 18 Apr 2018
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, April 18, 2018
Business School Case 718-501 Short Note on Complements, Platforms, and Network Effects No abstract available. Purchase this case: https://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cbmp/product/718501 View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 20 Oct 2003
- Research & Ideas
Gaps in the Historical Record: Development of the Electronics Industry
Japan's Fujitsu; in 1996 they were two and a half times those of its largest competitors, Japan's Fujitsu and Hewlett-Packard. IBM had, of course, been the dominant enterprise in the data processing industry well before the coming of the... View Details
- 22 Aug 2005
- Research & Ideas
The Hard Work of Failure Analysis
of an airliner. Hundreds of hours may go into gathering and analyzing data to sort out exactly what happened and what can be learned. Compare this kind of analysis to what takes place in most organizations after a failure. As noted above,... View Details
Keywords: by Amy Edmondson & Mark D. Cannon
- 29 Jan 2021
- Op-Ed
How Influencers, Celebrities, and FOMO Can Win Over Vaccine Skeptics
is uncertain about what vaccine supplies, if any, are available or when they will be. The World Health Organization estimates that at least 60 to 70 percent of the population would need to be vaccinated to reach herd immunity. While vaccines are in View Details
- 08 Aug 2017
- First Look
First Look at Research and Ideas, August 8, 2017
data-sharing partnership that provided officials with traffic incident and congestion data. Since 2015, her program had enabled officials in Kentucky and elsewhere to share more reliable traffic information more quickly with drivers. Now, the program that Eisnor and... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
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Scaling Work - Research Computing Services
Compute Cluster Scaling Work 3ms There are numerous ways to scale up your work on the HBSGrid, including parallel processing and GPUs . Parallel Processing Also commonly called parallel computing or multicore processing, using multiple cores (CPUs) to analyze View Details
- 05 Sep 2018
- Research & Ideas
The Hidden Benefit of Giving Back to Open Source Software
pixelfit Companies that contribute to open source software and use it in their own IT systems and applications can gain a competitive advantage—even though they may be helping their competitors in the short run. Open source software is... View Details
- 10 Sep 2020
- Research & Ideas
The COVID Two-Step for Leaders: Protect and Pivot
enough data and information to do so. Plans, and the corresponding KPIs and other metrics that will empower your team to execute them, should be adjusted to address the company’s immediate needs and short-term goals, and communicated... View Details
- 12 Nov 2021
- News
Alumni Business Leaders on Confronting the Climate Change Challenge
question: The data and analysis in the latest IPCC report amplified the reality that climate change is widespread, rapidly intensifying, and attributable to human activity. It also signaled both a responsibility and a real opportunity to... View Details
- 15 Jun 2007
- Research & Ideas
Remembering Alfred Chandler
many different audiences he reached. We all consider him a world-class scholar, a once-in-several-generations writer and researcher. You can't say Alfred D. Chandler without taking a short pause before you speak, a bit like Jacqueline... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 29 Aug 2023
- News
Helping Consumers Decarbonize their Purchases
own emissions based on their spending data they could be spending less or more in any given month, so people who emit less might pay as little as $10 a month. For instance, students who have lower credit card purchases or people who have... View Details