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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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Dhilan Ramaprasad | MBA
unparalleled, and I am continually amazed that two co-founders, with backgrounds in engineering and business, could take their product to large scale production and profitability within such a compressed timeline. I hope to learn so much... View Details
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Strategies for Value Creation - Abridged (SVC-S) - Course Catalog
competitive advantage, and (4) Driving profitable growth. Given the compressed nature of the course, SVC-S will place a somewhat greater emphasis on valuation and financing considerations. SVC-S is designed to provide students with the... View Details
- 01 Oct 2000
- News
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
- News
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
- News
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
- 01 Jun 1997
- News
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
- News
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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- News
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
- 01 Jan 2007
- News
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
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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
- 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
- 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
- 08 Nov 2024
- HBS Case
What Wartime Service Taught These Historic Leaders
improve efficiency, but on the negative side, he misused those same tools in a way that was very problematic in the military,” says Simons. It’s important to “learn as much from your failures as from your successes” and challenge the hubris that “you have all the... View Details