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09 Sep 2015
Research & Ideas

Leadership Lessons of the Great Recession: Options for Economic Downturns

that had left the company in a compromised state. Over the next six years, Cote worked to turn Honeywell around through implementing a series of improvements in the company’s operating systems, forming a single culture from all the merged... View Details

Keywords: by Sandra Sucher & Susan Winterberg; Aerospace; Electronics

28 Apr 2022
Blog Post

Harvard Team Wins Second Place in MIINT Impact Investing Competition

valuable learning experience. Swapan Mehra (MC/MPA 2022) explained “I have a background in climate project finance and policy and felt that MIINT would help me enhance my repertoire of skills. I learned about the process of innovation... View Details

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Transferring Data - Research Computing Services

Data Practices Transferring Data 2ms Transferring data to and from your analysis environments is now a more challenging endeavor due to a number of factors, including increases in dataset sizes, increases in confidential information and... View Details

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Industry Information - Alumni

In addition to providing industry insights, the magazine includes several rankings on topics ranging from "Top 25 Consultants," "Best Firms to Work For," “Small Jewels," and "Women in Consulting." Vault Online Career Library In-depth... View Details

11 Jul 2023
Blog Post

Second Life: Reflections on Complementing Success with an Encore Career

mind was working. With so much time available, how best should he use it? “It occurred to me that I didn’t have to concentrate on one thing, but could have a portfolio-like encore career,” says Kloeblen, “I wanted the flexibility to work... View Details

13 Apr 2009
Research & Ideas

Kind of Blue: Pushing Boundaries with Miles Davis

you working on next? Rob Austin: My work focuses on the role of aesthetics in business competitiveness, and I'm continuing to play around with the case as a literary form. I'm View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Music

14 Jan 2014
First Look

First Look: January 14

that colleagues support one another's efforts to do the best work they can. That has always been true for efficiency reasons, but collaborative helping becomes even more vital in an era of knowledge work, when positive business outcomes... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

11 Feb 2020
Sharpening Your Skills

10 Rules Entrepreneurs Need to Know Before Adopting AI

trap. What’s the MVA (Minimum Viable Algorithm)? As the saying goes, “perfect” is often the enemy of the “good.” Business strategy has come to embrace the power of injecting a minimally viable product into the market quickly and iterating based on real-world feedback.... View Details

Keywords: by Rocio Wu

01 Jun 2013
News

Building a Better Brazil

Education programs, which annually attract some 10,000 executives from around the world—a substantial proportion of them from Brazil. Esteves, a member of the School's Latin America Advisory Board, and his colleagues have previously View Details

Keywords: Securities, Commodities, and Other Financial Investments; Finance; Paper Manufacturing; Manufacturing

23 Jun 2009
First Look

First Look: June 23

Working PapersCatering to Characteristics (revised) Authors:Greenwood, Robin, and Samuel Hanson Abstract When investors overvalue a particular firm characteristic, corporations endowed with that characteristic can absorb some of the... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

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Launching Tech Ventures | HBS Online

someone who’s worked in a large company for the past 20-plus years, it gave me the foundation and vocabulary to engage more confidently in the venture capital and startup community." Stephanie Laguna Health Care Strategy & Innovation... View Details

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Guidelines for Choosing Resources - Research Computing Services

importing a text file (e.g., .csv), you may need to request up to 10x the size of the text file. We discourage ongoing reading and writing of text files; to save time and RAM, try to read your text files into binary data files and work... View Details

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RCS Cheat Sheet - Research Computing Services

and the backgrounds of our team members. Email research@hbs.edu to book a consultation with a team member or engage with us on project work. Additional information about how we work can be found here . HBS... View Details

02 Jun 2021
Research & Ideas

A Rare Find in Health Care: A Simple Solution to Racial Inequity

for these long-standing disparities.” For the past 20 years, Chandra has been examining differences in health outcomes between white and Black Americans, searching for solutions to shrink the gap. In a recent working paper published... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Health

02 Aug 2011
First Look

First Look: August 2

progress and enhance inner work life every day. The book shows how to remove obstacles to progress, including meaningless tasks and toxic relationships. It also explains how to activate two forces that enable progress: 1) catalysts—events... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

23 May 2012
Research & Ideas

Five Ways to Make Your Company More Innovative

But companies shouldn't count on people succeeding despite the odds; they should shift the odds. Here are three ways to do that. Put innovation at the heart of strategy, and tout it in every message. Think of innovation strategy as a pyramid: big bets at the top, a few... View Details

Keywords: by Garry Emmons, Julia Hanna & Roger Thompson

15 Mar 2022
Research & Ideas

This Workplace Certification Made Already Safe Companies Even Safer

according to the working paper Do Management System Standards Indicate Superior Performance? Evidence from the OHSAS 18001 Occupational Health and Safety Standard. To earn the voluntary certification, workplaces need to demonstrate that... View Details

Keywords: by Rachel Layne

September 2013 (Revised August 2015)
Background Note

Leadership and Teaming

By: Ethan Bernstein

Small differences in the leadership of teams can have large consequences for the success of their efforts. Many initiatives fail not because of a fatal error in judgment or insufficient ideas, knowledge, motivation, or capabilities to deliver a solution. They fail... View Details

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19 Mar 2012
HBS Case

HBS Cases: Overcoming the Stress of ‘Englishnization’

program successful. Neeley, who has studied this unmined subject for nearly 10 years, worked closely on the case with Mikitani, described by some as Japan's Bill Gates. Mikitani expected that the initial global English-only conversion... View Details

Keywords: by Kim Girard

06 Sep 2022
Blog Post

To Go-Go: A Foodtech Startup Serves Up Scale in Latin America

off the ground? That is exactly what Juan Azuero (MBA 2019) and Daniela Izquierdo (MBA 2019) are doing with Foodology, a foodtech startup with operations in Colombia, Mexico, Brazil, and Peru. Azuero and Izquierdo both grew up in Bogotá, both View Details

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