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Stata Temporary Files and Stata Tmp - Research Computing Services

(or permanently, if set in your account's login scripts .bashrc/.bash_profile ; but this is not recommended). This then allows two choices for file redirection and potential manual temporary file cleanup:... View Details
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The Railroads: The First Big Business - Railroads and the Transformation of Capitalism | Harvard Business School

technological systems among state railroads began to emerge. Coordination of functions became not a choice but a necessity in order for the railroads to perform even the most basic services of running on time and avoiding catastrophic... View Details
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AOM Ethno PDW 2009-2014

AOM PDW 2014: Being There/Being Them: Entry, Exit, and In-Between in Organization Ethnography

Co-Organizers: Michel Anteby, Harvard; Curtis K. Chan, Harvard; Julia DiBenigno,... View Details

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Faculty & Researchers - Managing the Future of Work

Workforce and the Boston Foundation, July 2021. With Rachel Lipson and Dorsey Eden. Working to Learn: Despite a growing set of innovators, America struggles to connect education and career , White Paper, Harvard Project on Workforce,... View Details
  • 16 Apr 2018
  • Research & Ideas

Can Consumers Be Saved From Their Misguided Decisions?

How can we make the best choices if we don’t know what we don’t know? When looking at the issue of selecting the best health care protection, for example, administrators, consumers, and researchers have different View Details
Keywords: by Rachel Layne; Consulting; Retail
  • 09 Oct 2001
  • Research & Ideas

Driven: How Human Nature Shapes Organizations

bores you, and which the world does not need—this life is hell. —W.E.B. Du Bois In the organizational context, the four-drive theory implies that every person, from the CEO to the most junior employee will bring a predictable set of... View Details
Keywords: by Paul Lawrence & Nitin Nohria
  • 24 Nov 2009
  • First Look

First Look: Nov. 24

"setup" of a negotiation itself—its parties, their interests, their no-deal options, the sequence and basic process choices or design-into the realm of strategic and tactical choice. Hiding the Evidence of Valid Theories: How... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 08 Feb 2011
  • First Look

First Look: Feb. 8

embrace Western models of professional organization as they now exist, or to set off on an independent path, adapting elements of Western practices to their own historical and cultural situation. In doing so, the authors in this volume... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 23 Apr 2012
  • Research & Ideas

How to Brand a Next-Generation Product

in the low-risk scenario were much more likely to go with the new model regardless of whether it was called Spectra or FS-E50; given the choice of either new model, the low-risk set tended toward the... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
  • 09 Jan 2012
  • Research & Ideas

Location, Location, Location: The Strategy of Place

they don't have much choice but to cozy near the competition, especially when they need to plug into unique knowledge that exists in certain areas. Biotech companies, for instance, often operate close to top-notch universities to interact... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
  • 26 Apr 2024
  • Blog Post

How I Spent my 2+2 Deferral: Matthew Young

The HBS 2+2 program is a deferred admission process for current students in their final year of study, either in college or a full-time master’s degree program. If you are admitted through 2+2, you work for two to four years in a field of your View Details
  • 02 Feb 2016
  • First Look

February 2, 2016

volitional (experiments 2A and 2B) and are driven by decreases in trustworthiness engendered by decisions to hide (experiments 3A and 3B). Moreover, hiders do not intuit these negative consequences: given the choice to withhold or reveal... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • April 2017
  • Supplement

Imprimis (C)

By: Ramon Casadesus-Masanell, Karen Elterman and Marc Appel
This case is a supplement to Imprimis (A & B). Set in 2015, it first describes Imprimis’s decision to introduce its own line of compounded eye drop medication called LessDrops. The case then examines the moral dilemma faced by CEO Mark Baum, who was struck by the... View Details
Keywords: Health Care and Treatment; Cost; Moral Sensibility; Competitive Strategy; Decision Choices and Conditions; Pharmaceutical Industry; United States
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  • 21 Jan 2014
  • First Look

First Look: January 21

Hervas-Drane Abstract—We analyze the implications of consumer privacy for competition in the marketplace. We consider a market where firms set prices and disclosure levels for consumer information, and consumers observe both before... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 05 Oct 2020
  • Book

Want to Be Happier? Make More Free Time

hesitation, she opted for the higher-paying position in a new city, figuring it would be an adventure with her partner of eight years and lead to more exciting work opportunities down the road. It’s a choice many people face at key times... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
  • 19 Oct 2022
  • Op-Ed

Cofounder Courtship: How to Find the Right Mate—for Your Startup

early on—rookie mistakes can set back (or kill) a business before it’s barely out of the gate. Read Khalid Halim’s thoughts on Hypergrowth and the Law of Startup Physics for more on this point. “Unless you are doing hard science that is... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Austin
  • 09 Feb 2010
  • First Look

First Look: Feb. 9

results illustrate how firms redesign their organizational structure through a set of complementary choices in response to changes in their environment. We discuss several possible interpretations of these... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 27 Aug 2013
  • First Look

First Look: August 27

simplifies the retirement savings plan participation decision. Individuals received an opportunity to enroll in a retirement savings plan at a pre-selected contribution rate and asset allocation, allowing them to collapse a multidimensional problem into a binary View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • April 2012 (Revised August 2013)
  • Case

General Motors Technical Center India – Powertrain Engineering

By: Willy Shih, William Jurist, Brian McIntosh and Helen Wang
Prabjot Nanua was proud of the growing capabilities of the General Motors Technical Center India Powertrain Engineering group that he oversaw. Since 2003, engineers there had expanded the center's capabilities, developing a reputation within GM for completing... View Details
Keywords: Decision Choices and Conditions; Business Headquarters; Research and Development; Business Strategy; Manufacturing Industry; Auto Industry; India
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  • 03 Mar 2003
  • Research & Ideas

Top Ten Legal Mistakes Made by Entrepreneurs

they leave earlier, that stock can be retrieved and given to whoever is brought in to replace them. #8: Hiring a lawyer not experienced in dealing with entrepreneurs and venture capitalists. Many venture capitalists say that they often rate the judgment of... View Details
Keywords: by Staff