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Data Storage - Research Computing Services

Keep an eye on the space usage, as project spaces that reach capacity will throw errors in programs and when transferring files, and data loss may result. As with home folders, project spaces that reach... View Details

31 Jul 2019
Research & Ideas

Distressed Employees? Try Resilience Training

depression and anxiety can be reduced by coaching employees to increase their resilience, the ability to maintain good mental health despite psychological or physical setbacks. In fact, one study found that... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Health

06 Aug 2019
Cold Call Podcast

Super Bowl Ads Sell Products, but Do They Sell Brands?

lot about social responsibility, and they want their companies to be doing the right thing. They want to feel good about where they work. I could see where other big brands start to move in this direction,... View Details

Keywords: Advertising; Sports; Entertainment & Recreation; Media & Broadcasting

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FAQs - Christensen Center for Teaching & Learning

that will be good additions to our coaching collections or for use as examples in our workshops and client consultations. Before using any class recording, the Christensen Center will request written... View Details

01 Feb 2002
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It's academic. (Not!)

background, and they have a good idea of what they want to do with that experience when they get here." The flexibility and freedom of academia has an entrepreneurial appeal... View Details

Keywords: Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools

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Tethys | Baker Library | Bloomberg Center | Harvard Business School

Skip to Main Content Tethys Search Baker Library Search Search Search Overview The Tethys Mos aic Morgan Hall, Harvard Business School Founded in 300 BCE, the Syrian city Antioch-on-the-Orontes (in modern Turkey) was a major center and... View Details

August 2019 (Revised February 2020)
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New Hope Liuhe: Building an Integrated Agri-Food Business

By: Forest L. Reinhardt, Shu Lin, Natalie Kindred and Nancy Hua Dai

In October 2018, LIU Chang (Angela), chairman of Beijing-based New Hope Liuhe (NHL), was considering the strategy of the firm. With $9 billion in sales and a presence in nearly 20 countries, NHL was China’s largest animal feed producer and a major pork and poultry... View Details

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01 Mar 2021
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What Does Remote Work Mean for Middle Managers?

(iStockphoto/FreshSplash) There seems to be limited interest in middle management or the managers that occupy such positions among those who study management today. Go to Amazon or Google, for example, and check out the number of recent... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

28 May 2020
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Coronavirus Could Create a 'Bankruptcy Pandemic'

With a pandemic temporarily closing many businesses and stifling consumer demand, whole industries, especially those that recently leveraged their balance sheets to take advantage of near-zero interest rates, are seeing their profits... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Financial Services; Banking

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Dr. Lurtz researches the history of agricultural economies in Latin America. She has a particular interest in export agriculture and attendant state- and locally-driven modernization projects. Her current work looks to the coffee economy of southern Mexico in the 19th... View Details

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HBS - Financials | Supplemental Financial Information

fiscal 2021, comprising 16 percent of the School's operating budget. Although HBS characterizes costs charged to HBP, HBS Online, and Executive Education as operating expenses, in a profit-seeking enterprise they would in large part be... View Details

01 Oct 2021
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Furthering the Legacy of Whitney Bowman (MBA 2006)

current-use fellowship in 2016 in honor of his 10th Reunion. HBS was a good fit for the couple, who delivered their fourth child just before graduation. “We had such good relationships with his sectionmates... View Details

01 Oct 1997
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L.E. Simmons

major role" in shaping the $50Ð$100-billion-a-year oil field service industry. But in 1987, L.E. decided that he wanted to change direction: "I wanted to go beyond the investment banking aspects of the business and to try my hand at... View Details

Keywords: Deborah E. Blagg

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the Art of American Advertising - Advertising Products

single-sided sheets), simple business cards, or small newspaper notices. The growing volume of mass-produced and mass-distributed goods after the Civil War, however, led to the creation of diverse forms of... View Details

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The founding and expansion of new firms is central to innovation and economic growth, but the determinants of a new idea’s success are difficult to ascertain. The decision to form a new firm and its ultimate outcome are impacted by ownership structure, financing... View Details

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2024 Reunion Presentations - Alumni

fashionable. Here’s the problem: The sunny rhetoric in books, articles, and podcasts is too often simplistic and superficial. It fails (!) to make the crucial distinctions that separate View Details

24 May 2017
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Ilene H. Lang, MBA 1973

better,” says Lang, simply. “What’s good for women is good for the bottom line, good for men, good for business, View Details

Keywords: Susan Young

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HBS - The year in Review

and an academic career in management by partnering them with a faculty member to work on articles, cases, and other research projects. As part of the School's efforts to increase diversity in doctoral... View Details

06 Aug 2012
Research & Ideas

Strategic Intelligence: Adapt or Die

assets, people assets, or relationship assets—that they find difficult to change and that creates a structural inertia. Ultimately, it's the people in a company who are intrinsic to both developing and... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

20 Feb 2019
Research & Ideas

Rocket-tunity: Can Private Firms Turn a Profit in Space?

space race have been blessed somewhat by the glamour of it all. Investors enthusiastically, maybe too much so, backed a host of startups including those headed by superstar names like Sir Richard Branson, Jeff Bezos, and Elon Musk. Rich... View Details

Keywords: by Scott Wallask; Aerospace; Tourism; Transportation

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