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Competitiveness of States & Regions - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness

Development in Inner Cities Economic Development in Rural Areas Cluster Studies International Cluster Competitiveness Profiles Competitiveness of State... Competitiveness of States & Regions Prosperity... View Details

07 Feb 2023
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Supervisor of Sandwiches? More Companies Inflate Titles to Avoid Extra Pay

managerial titles and then analyzed a subset of 830 jobs. That, in turn, yielded 256 “fake-sounding” job titles, with most clustered just above the federal pay threshold separating hourly workers from managers. To check this connection,... View Details

Keywords: by Scott Van Voorhis

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Stata Temporary Files and Stata Tmp - Research Computing Services

Technical How-To’s & Notes Technical How-To’s & Notes Stata Temporary Files and Stata Tmp The Problem: On not-so-rare occasions, Stata creates problems on our cluster due its usage of temporary files. When launching Stata, when running... View Details

29 Jan 2018
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How 'Teaming' Saved 33 Lives in the Chilean Mining Disaster

abandon holes that deviated too much, discouraging as that might be. As they learned more about the search challenge, the odds of success diminished further, with one driller putting it at less than 1%. In this extreme story, different View Details

Keywords: by Amy C. Edmondson; Mining

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Research Areas - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness

Edition by Michael E. Porter See All Publications Projects & Activities U.S. Competitiveness Project U.S. Cluster Mapping Project International Consortium for Health Outcomes Measurement Social Progress Index View Details

14 Apr 2014
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Facts and Figuring: An Experimental Investigation of Network Structure and Performance in Information and Solution Spaces

Keywords: by Jesse Shore, Ethan Bernstein & David Lazer

2020
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Acting Now While Preparing for Tomorrow: Competitiveness Upgrading Under the Shadow of COVID-19

By: Christian H.M. Ketels and Peter Clinch

This paper aims to provide policy makers, especially those focused on the longer-term growth potential of their countries, with an initial framework to think about their action priorities in the context of the overall COVID-19 response. Our focus is on the... View Details

Keywords: Competitiveness; COVID-19 Pandemic; Competition; Government Administration; Health Pandemics; Economy; Supply Chain; Safety

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Logging In - Research Computing Services

Compute Cluster Logging In 116ms Follow our instructions to connect to the HBSGrid via a GUI or Terminal. Connection Requirements On-HBS-Campus TEST TEST To connect to the HBSGrid from on-campus, you must be connected to the HBS Network... View Details

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About the Project - U.S. Competitiveness

% of business leaders expect U.S. firms to be less able to compete, pay well, or both in three years. More from “Problems Unsolved and a Nation Divided” Research Tracks Core Readings PK–12 Education Transportation Infrastructure Cluster... View Details

25 Jun 2018
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In America, Immigrants Really Do Get the Job Done

work, Kerr found that immigrants tend to cluster in particular industries—Vietnamese manicurists, Korean dry cleaners, Haitian cab drivers—making it easier for new arrivals to learn how to launch businesses of their own. On the more... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Agriculture & Agribusiness; Technology; Service

01 Sep 2023
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Startup Success Beyond Silicon Valley

late 2010s, Professor Paul Gompers started noticing clusters of entrepreneurial ecosystems popping up in places around the world not known for such activity: Kenya, Pakistan, the Philippines. What was driving their emergence? What could... View Details

Keywords: Jennifer Mele

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Pagliuca Harvard Life Lab | About

become a life sciences cluster and their understanding of the need for lab space to support Boston as a hub for biotechnology ventures,” said Harvard Business School Dean Nitin Nohria. Harvard President Drew Faust added, “The Life Lab is... View Details

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Running a Program/Submitting a Job - Research Computing Services

variety of software is available on the cluster by default . These are augmented by an extensive set of software environments available through the Lmod software module system . Additionally, we offer users the ability to install their... View Details

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The Gift of Global Talent

change would help Google, Facebook, Apple and hurt outsourcers Ethan Baron 24 Oct 2018 | The Mercury News Why Global Talent Clusters Around Cities Richard Florida 18 Oct 2018 | CityLab What Will Trump Do Next With Chinese Student Visas?... View Details

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The New Role for Government & NGOs - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness

& Melinda Gates Foundation, have begun to see the power of working with businesses to create shared value. The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, for example, has formed partnerships with leading global corporations to foster agricultural View Details

26 Oct 2021
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What Companies Want Most in a CEO: A Good Listener

accounted for 29 percent. The researchers used machine learning algorithms to map the text of the job descriptions into six distinct clusters of skills: administrative, management of financial and material resources, management of human... View Details

Keywords: by Jay Fitzgerald

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The Panama Canal

The Big Ditch is the first quantitative economic history of the Panama Canal and its effect on Panama, the United States, and the world economy. It makes three general arguments. First, that the Panama Canal was very important to... View Details

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Training - Research Computing Services

materials to get users acquainted with HBS’ compute cluster (“the HBSGrid”) Other Training Resources IQSS Data Science group Center for Geographic Analysis Training Harvard Library Research Data Instruction Harvard Digital Scholarship... View Details

01 Mar 2024
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The War Within

variety of practitioners makes it difficult for civilians to know where to turn. And the cluster of nonprofits and NGOs offering services that have sprung up since the 2014 invasion are not able to coordinate in an effective way. What’s... View Details

Keywords: Janelle Nanos; illustration by Daniel Bejar

11 Oct 2023
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Soldier On

Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes In November of 2022, 33-year-old Phillip Jones (MPA/MBA 2021) was elected mayor of Newport News, Virginia, where he had spent part of his childhood. The son of two Air Force veterans, he served six years in... View Details

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