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- 27 Sep 2011
- First Look
First Look: September 27
concern. We also hypothesize that the effectiveness of such campaigns depends on the prior responsiveness of line managers. We test our hypotheses in the healthcare setting, in which problems are frequent. We use data on nearly 7,500 reported incidents extracted from... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
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Research & Development, Project Code SX-70 - Edwin H. Land & Polaroid | Harvard Business School
different customs, only to find that we could speak the language at once and master the customs.” Edwin Land, "On Some Conditions for Scientific Profundity in Industrial Research," June 17, 1965 48 In 1944, Polaroid created a special project dedicated to instant... View Details
- 29 Nov 2017
- Research & Ideas
How to Succeed in Business (According to a 15th Century Trade Merchant)
first section, Cotrugli covers the particulars of barter, selling for cash, selling on credit (and receiving payment), and keeping one’s books “in a mercantile manner,” among other business topics. Scholars have noted that it is the earliest known work to cite the... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna
- 17 Sep 2013
- First Look
First Look: September 17
world's largest online platform for outsourced contracts, where India is the largest country in terms of contract volume. We use an ethnic name procedure to identify ethnic Indian users of oDesk in other countries around the world. We... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 04 Dec 2023
- Blog Post
My Summer of Joy with the National Parks Service
Hi all, my name is Rhea! I was lucky enough to work for the National Park Service this summer as a business management intern with the Submerged Resources Center (SRC). The SRC is the NPS national dive program, responsible for... View Details
- 06 May 2021
- HBS Case
How Four Women Made Miami More Equitable for Startups
turn, led to BlackTech Week, an annual event established in 2015 to connect startup founders, tech professionals, and investors, drawing crowds well beyond the Black community. Armed with advanced degrees and a family legacy of Black women scientists, Pandwe Gibson... View Details
Keywords: by Carolyn DiPaolo
- 01 Oct 1997
- News
High Fives
Marilyn Goldstein Fedak Chief Investment Officer Sanford C. Bernstein & Co., Inc. New York, New York In 1993, Marilyn Fedak was named chief investment officer, chairman of the U.S. Equity Investment Policy Group, and a member of the board... View Details
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News - Research Computing Services
documentation as part of their project space request (e.g., IRB25-0000, DUA25-0000, DAT25-0000). All individuals added to new or existing project spaces must be named in the relevant DAT documentation, and as required, IRB protocol.... View Details
- 08 Sep 2020
- Blog Post
2+2 Where Are They Now Spotlight: Ashley Zumwalt-Forbes (MBA 2017)
management, but also systems and financial management. I have also spent literally years of my life on a drilling rig, so that develops some fun stories for your section mates. What impact has HBS had on your career? The HBS impact on my... View Details
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Guidelines for Choosing Resources - Research Computing Services
Application , I MAX MEM: 12 Gbytes; AVG MEM: 12 Mbytes Job , Job Name , User , Project , Application MAX MEM: 607 Mbytes; AVG MEM: 511 Mbytes Finding the RAM Usage in Programming Environments (e.g., Stata) Estimating RAM usage can be easy... View Details
- 01 Nov 2022
- What Do You Think?
Why Aren’t Business Leaders More Vocal About Immigration Policy?
gets lost in this conversation is the extent to which the US needs immigrants. We need their youth, their willingness to work at any job, their productivity, their contributions to a social security system being weighted down by the... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 09 Dec 2002
- Research & Ideas
Most Accountants Aren’t Crooks—Why Good Audits Go Bad
fundamental changes to the way accounting firms and their clients operate. If we are really going to restore trust in the U.S. system of auditing, we will need to go well beyond the provisions of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act. We will need to... View Details
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Scaling Work - Research Computing Services
tools or using LSF job arrays . Requesting multiple CPUs on the HBSGrid When using parallel processing on shared compute systems, you need to indicate to the scheduler, the system software that manages workloads, that you wish to use... View Details
- 12 Feb 2021
- News
How Dunkin’ Donuts Took Over the World
either in money or people, but they also can falter and go out of business because of indigestion—having too many things on their plate and not able to handle way beyond their capabilities. And it was the latter condition that I thought existed for Universal Food View Details
Keywords: brands; leadership; management; strategy; operations; career; Food and Beverage Stores; Retail Trade
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HBS - The year in Review
list. Perhaps the most obvious changes on campus were the more than 6,000 signs added to remind people about room capacities, daily health attestations, and modified traffic flow patterns. Less visible but equally important were the upgrades to air filtration View Details
- 25 Aug 2022
- News
Up on the Corner
to name the building Madikizela, in honor of the late South African political activist Winnie Madikizela-Mandela, a symbol of Black female resilience.) The upper floors will contain well-appointed rentals, whose target market includes... View Details
- 08 Mar 2021
- Blog Post
International Women's Day Featured Stories
famous names in the private market investment community. Kathu Gatobu Harvard MBA Student, Class of 2022 I choose to challenge the idea that women have to give up their aspirations and identity because of motherhood. Having a successful... View Details
- 13 Apr 2021
- Book
How Inclusive Managers Create Glass-Shattering Organizations
companies, and the gender pay gap persists. While young women are aware of these systemic problems, the more nuanced forms of sexism that persist today often take them by surprise, say Ammerman and co-author Boris Groysberg, the Richard... View Details
Keywords: by Kristen Senz
- 01 Feb 2002
- News
It's academic. (Not!)
of 732. Once they clear the formidable hurdle of admission, some 89 students in the programs receive a level of backing and resources for field research that sets HBS apart, thanks in large measure to alumni generosity. "There's an enormous support View Details
- 13 May 2014
- News
Inside Africa
Africa for five years, teaching corporate finance at Wits Business School in Johannesburg and serving on the investment committee of a private equity fund. It was also during this time that she acquired the domain View Details
Keywords: Constantine von Hoffman