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- 13 May 2022
- Research & Ideas
Company Reviews on Glassdoor: Petty Complaints or Signs of Potential Misconduct?
malfeasance but can cause problems nonetheless. “They are not even designed to detect misconduct, which is part of what makes this work—employees feel much more comfortable talking than they might in a narrower platform,” says Campbell.... View Details
- 03 Feb 2012
- HBS Seminar
Dr. Regina Dugan, Director, Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA)
- 17 Aug 2021
- Research & Ideas
Can Autonomous Vehicles Drive with Common Sense?
AVs to drive with common sense may partly entail making them aware of what humans expect of other drivers. For example, an AV that slows down near crosswalks could lead a pedestrian to infer that the AV has detected her, even when it... View Details
- 30 Nov 2016
- What Do You Think?
How Do Leaders Manage the Tension Between Pride and Arrogance?
native genius.” Growtall advised leaders to continually “assess the level of pride” in an organization and “educate and re-educate its employees” about how to detect indicators of creeping arrogance. Olufemi Adeyemi suggested that... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 21 May 2012
- Research & Ideas
OSHA Inspections: Protecting Employees or Killing Jobs?
sites in order to evaluate whether the program is effective." Or as Levine puts it: "It's costly to learn, but it's more costly to be ignorant." To Read More: If you'd like to read the researchers' article in Science, "Randomized Government Safety Inspections Reduce... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
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Scaling Work - Research Computing Services
the work (as well as 5 GB of RAM for a run time limit of 12 hrs). If your code is written as above, using LSB_MAX_NUM_PROCESSORS , then your code will detect that 4 cores have been allocated. (Please note the second, long command may wrap... View Details
- 21 Feb 2019
- Blog Post
Machine Learning and Behavioral Economics
more – we can understand each person’s baseline health, making it easier to detect signals of disease before they fully manifest themselves. It’s a proactive versus reactive approach.” Applying a general management perspective to machine... View Details
- 01 Jun 2004
- News
Working the Street
the gang symbology that’s so visible to potential employers, so provocative to other gang members, and such a strong reminder of one’s troubled past,” says Henry H. (“Kurt”) Timken II (MBA 1992). A police detective and anti-gang... View Details
- 14 Jul 2020
- Research & Ideas
Restarting Under Uncertainty: Managerial Experiences from Around the World
other multinationals immediately detected new operational and commercial approaches across their international branches and standardized and distributed them to subsidiaries. This proactive behavior toward information was not limited to... View Details
- 22 Feb 2022
- News
Breaking News
cautions that it’s definitely a lower-bound estimate: First, the count includes only the instances that have been documented by a regulator who visited a facility, detected a problem, then imposed a fine—the very tip of the misconduct... View Details
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My focus is empirical financial accounting research, with particular interests in governance, valuation, M&A, and short-sellers. All three of my papers to date fall under the broad heading of “alternative governance mechanisms”—studies of how accounting information is... View Details
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Overview
My focus is empirical financial accounting research, with particular interests in governance, valuation, M&A, and short-sellers. All three of my papers to date fall under the broad heading of “alternative governance mechanisms”—studies of how accounting information is... View Details
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Commercialization of the Polarizer - Edwin H. Land & Polaroid | Harvard Business School
filters included glare-free desk lamps, airplane windows, optical devices, educational kits for demonstrating the principles of light polarization, Polariscopes to detect strains or stresses in glass and other transparent materials, and... View Details
- 10 Oct 2011
- Research & Ideas
Retailing Revolution: Category Killers on the Brink
televisions is becoming increasingly unproductive. Return on invested capital at Best Buy has declined from 23.68 percent to 15.01 percent since 2007, and domestic sales per square foot (including online sales) have also declined in the same period, from $909 to $853.... View Details
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Harvard Business School
company's devices enable agents from the Department of Homeland Security, United States Customs and Border Protection, and about sixty foreign governments to detect even the most cleverly concealed drugs, cash, and guns. Harris notes, “I... View Details
- 15 Apr 2014
- First Look
First Look: April 15
Firm Competitiveness and Detection of Bribery By: Serafeim, George Abstract—Using survey data from firms around the world I analyze how detection of bribery has impacted a firm's competitiveness over the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 16 Mar 2017
- News
Making Rapid Progress in the Fight Against Cancer
detect cancer earlier. We know that for the majority of people who develop cancer, the earlier we can detect it, the greater the chances of successful treatment. “I don’t think we will ever eradicate cancer.... View Details
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Data Tips & Toolkits - Research Computing Services
such as bert-base-multilingual-uncased that leverage BERT, RoBerta, and DistillBERT, and are available on HuggingFace . Packages Capturing How Text is Communicated Spelling and grammar error detection Detect... View Details
- 01 Sep 2015
- News
High Yields
from inspecting bridges to tracking energy usage. But the biggest vertical of all—one expected to account for 80 percent of the commercial market—is in agriculture. Using a Hawk Aerial drone and some high-tech spectral analysis, farmers can View Details
Keywords: Francis Storrs
- 25 Feb 2014
- First Look
First Look: February 25
https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=45998 Firm Competitiveness and Detection of Bribery By: Serafeim, George Abstract—Using survey data collected from senior corporate executives around the world I analyze how View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne