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- 20 Nov 2019
- Research & Ideas
It's No Joke: AI Beats Humans at Making You Laugh
output of an airline algorithm more if it pauses briefly to search for flights, giving people the sense that the computer is “thinking.” “The delay helps people make sense of the process. The longer it takes, the better they think the...
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by Dina Gerdeman
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Bringing a Taste of Japan to the World - Global Activities 2020
from investors in Japan, and in November 2019, with Nakamura and some friends, he presided over a mostly successful “Yasu & Masa’s Ramen” pop-up event in Cambridge. “Everyone ate well, and no one got food poisoning,” he laughs, “but it was definitely a learning...
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Connell House | About
White as part of the original 1920s campus plan, but its construction was delayed until 1940. Unnamed for many years, the administrative office building was renovated in the late 1960s under Dean George P. Baker and named for Henry H....
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Is the Digital Transformation Certificate Right for You?
more programs. If you have already completed one or more qualifying HBS Executive Education programs, you can count them toward your certificate, but just keep in mind that all three programs must be completed within 36 months. Faced with the rigorous demands of...
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Wilder House | About
would secure its gas from the Mackenzie Delta and the north slope of Alaska. Although the project did not come to fruition, because the Canadian Government decided to delay development in Northern Canada for ten years, Wilder’s efforts...
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Jay Bhandari
of his selection tests, where dozens of candidates had to swim together across a pool at night without visibility. Short on breath and under time pressure, many would attempt to exit the pool as quickly as possible. However, a select few would View Details
- 02 Oct 2006
- Research & Ideas
Negotiating in Three Dimensions
problem. More broadly, the best response to a barrier in one dimension may be moves within other dimensions. As the purchasing agent calms down a bit, for example, he mentions that cash is very tight, "especially this quarter." Is this a deal-design barrier?...
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by Martha Lagace
- 26 Sep 2011
- HBS Case
HBS Cases: Lady Gaga
called "Fame Ball," involved small venues and was not profitable. If they flat-out canceled the tour, team Gaga could certainly prevent losses beyond the $4 million already spent on "Fame Kills." But in delaying...
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- 14 Mar 2023
- Blog Post
How I Spent My 2+2 Deferral: Dyllan Muller
be indefinitely delayed due to COVID. While I was upset about not being able to start my career in an in-person workplace setting with all the easy connections and water cooler conversations that would come along with it, I decided to...
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- 05 Sep 2019
- Sharpening Your Skills
Making the Right Technical Hire
clip, then a contract designer may be prudent while you iterate on your MVP. You may pay a little more per hour for these contractors, but that far outweighs over hiring and paying a full-time salary early on. 4. Time delay + J-curve Just...
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- 21 May 2012
- Research & Ideas
OSHA Inspections: Protecting Employees or Killing Jobs?
as one could with randomized deployment. "There is a perceived cost in doing a portion of the work in a randomized fashion," Toffel says. "But if you want to learn, it requires an investment and some patience. You have to be willing to View Details
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by Michael Blanding
- 02 Dec 2010
- What Do You Think?
Making Right Choices: Art or Science?
"A delayed decision, no matter the greatness of it, loses its sheen." The importance of all of these questions and response is framed by C. J. Cullinane when he says, "choice equals freedom." Is choosing more than an...
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by Jim Heskett
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Rare Disease Day – Small Numbers, Big Challenges… and Big Opportunities - Blog: Health Supplement
age of diagnosis in early to middle adulthood. Rare diseases are plagued with delays in diagnosis, as well as frequent misdiagnoses (40% of cases) . Coupled with a lack of treatment options, this can result in significant and sometimes...
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- 09 Dec 2002
- Research & Ideas
Most Accountants Aren’t CrooksWhy Good Audits Go Bad
grow stronger as their personal ties deepen. The longer an accounting partner serves a particular client, the more biased his judgments will tend to be. Discounting. People tend to be far more responsive to immediate consequences than View Details
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2022 Reunion Presentations - Alumni
enormous burden on society. Delaying the onset of AD by just 5 years can save nearly a trillion dollars in the next decade in the US alone. Despite growing knowledge, treatments for AD have been largely ineffective because changes in the...
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- 15 Oct 2001
- Research & Ideas
What You Don’t Know About Making Decisions
Competing arguments become difficult to judge, since advocates will suggest using those measures (net income, return on capital, market presence, share of mind, and so on) that favor their preferred alternative. Fuzzy thinking and long View Details
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by David A. Garvin & Michael A. Roberto
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News - Research Computing Services
HBSGrid 11 MAR 2024 With the increasing popularity of AI/ML capabilities, we’ve seen a significant increase in the number of people using the GPU node on the HBS cluster. This has decreased the availability of the GPUs, and many users have experienced View Details
- 12 May 2020
- Research & Ideas
It’s Time To Relaunch Your Remote Team
interactions might be more suitable for delayed communication platforms, like email, which allows team members time to think and prioritize before responding. Other topics might require instant communication tools like video conferencing...
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by Tsedal Neeley
- 06 Jan 2016
- What Do You Think?
Why Do Leaders Get Their Timing Wrong?
our ability to act that delays decisions. It is our ability to learn ” Edward advanced the notion that "too many (leaders) are blissfully out of touch with what really goes on in business maybe because they are slaves to the P&L...
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Should You Pursue the Certificate of Management Excellence?
three-year timespan for completion creates essential momentum. Faced with the rigorous demands of day-to-day work, many executives delay pursuing executive education, thinking to themselves, "I'll just do it next year, when things settle...
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