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Frequently Asked Questions - Research Computing Services
individuals to review files and folders to remove old, unused, or temporary work. As a part of this process, you can compress and archive groups of files. See our HOWTO document for this. If space is still needed, contact RCS to request... View Details
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Archiving Your Research Files - Research Computing Services
Technical How-To’s & Notes Technical How-To’s & Notes Archiving Your Research Files Archive your files to an external drive or DVD by doing the following: Put the data or project files in a subdirectory Run the script called make-archive which View Details
Walter P. Chrysler
In 1924, Chrysler created a car, which bore his name, and offered new innovations to the automobile, including the four-wheel hydraulic brakes and a high compression engine. In 1928, Chrysler purchased the Dodge Brothers Company for its... View Details
Keywords: Automotive & Aerospace
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Photograph Albums - Photography Collections - Historical Collections
processing of raw rubber, assembly and packaging of rubber footwear, production and inspection of tires and tubes, and the plant’s warehouses, boiler house, and other facilities. Unloading on No. 4 Platform--Warehouse No. 2. Houston View Details
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Strategies for Value Creation - Abridged (SVC-S) - Course Catalog
combining elements of strategy and finance has four modules: (1) Understanding value creation, (2) Creating competitive advantage, (3) Sustaining competitive advantage, and (4) Driving profitable growth. Given the compressed nature of the... View Details
- 01 Oct 2000
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MBA Cohorts Will Merge Next Year
persuasive. "Applicants to the MBA Program have continued to have an overwhelming preference for September admission," Kester explained. In addition, he noted that the review identified significant disadvantages associated with the system. Among these were the View Details
- 01 Oct 2001
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Barbara Bry: Business is Blooming
Proflowers, there are no warehouses and no network of retail florists. Orders are transmitted electronically to growers, who cut, pack, and ship, usually within 24 hours. This supply-chain compression allows Proflowers to offer a unique... View Details
- 01 Jun 2000
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Flexibility Is Key to Product Development in Internet Time
compressed time frame, or "Internet time," requires that firms generate and respond to new information for a greater proportion of a development cycle, with much of the feedback coming from customers. In fact, early and continuous contact... View Details
Keywords: Judith A. Ross
- 25 Oct 2012
- Research & Ideas
Developing the Global Leader
popular second-year MBA course Authentic Leadership Development (ALD), which he has compressed into a five-day Executive Education program at Harvard Business School. "The most successful leaders will not necessarily be those with... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna
- 01 Jun 1997
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HBS Cyberposium Brings Online Future into Focus
depend to a large extent on the availability of increased bandwidth and compression technologies, which speed access to information and facilitate navigation within a site. At a session titled "Far Future," panelist Bill Taylor, founder... View Details
Keywords: Meg Gardner
- 13 Jan 2021
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Stress Test
them in that same compressed period also a feat? It’s been a pretty heroic undertaking. Beginning in Q2 2020, some of the smartest people on the planet have been working on this, first for personal protective equipment and now for the... View Details
- 05 Sep 2000
- What Do You Think?
Whither the Information Economy?
primarily because of information's unique properties. The argument, optimistic in its tone, went something like this: Unlike goods, information is expandable without any obvious limits; is compressible for easier handling; is... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 30 Jun 2008
- Research & Ideas
Rethinking Retirement Planning
compression ratios on car engines. Or dual overhead camshafts. What does that mean in terms of what matters to me? Does it get me more gas mileage? In the same sense, what you're really worried about is your standard of living, not what's... View Details
- 05 Jun 2019
- Research & Ideas
If Your Customers Don't Care What You Charge, What Should You Charge?
explains, is often because of compressed investigation timelines, as well as the commonly held belief that incorporating consumer inertia would lead to higher price increases post-merger–the opposite of what the research found. “Many... View Details
- 01 Sep 2014
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Ask the Expert: Byte-Testing Bitcoin
of silver go from $5 to more than $40, then back to $5, then again to $15 and then back to $5. The pattern and ranges are similar to what Bitcoin has experienced, though Bitcoin’s volatility is compressed over a shorter period of time.... View Details
- 01 Jun 1996
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Capitalist Revolutions Analyzed in MBA "Foundations" Course
rooted in the popular MBA elective, The Coming of Managerial Capitalism: The United States, an offering designed in the 1980s by HBS professors Alfred D. Chandler, Jr., and Richard S. Tedlow. To expand this course into the global arena while View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
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Lessons in Economics | Baker Library | Bloomberg Center | Harvard Business School
elegant style and use of the Rolleiflex camera in travel, fashion, documentary, and industrial photography. 55 In a compressed schedule of 10 weeks, he traveled more than 20,000 miles documenting 30 of U.S. Steel’s subsidiary plants... View Details
- 01 Jan 2007
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A. Malachi Mixon, III, MBA 1968
different items such as customized and computerized wheelchairs, beds and bedside equipment, ambulatory aids, respiratory devices for patients with sleep disorders, and a revolutionary new system that enables emphysema patients and others to make portable View Details
- 01 Jun 2020
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Meal Plan
of our brands—Sonic and Arby’s in particular—are doing well, and doing so in more compressed timeframes, because breakfast and late-night dining are no longer part of peoples’ routines. THE WAY FORWARD See more from the online-only June... View Details
- 09 Oct 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, October 9, 2018
create software that could assist doctors in making diagnoses. By July 2018, Zebra had developed seven algorithms to analyze scans for emphysema, liver density, compression fractures, bone density, brain bleeds, breast cancer, and a... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman