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Identifiers in Business Information Databases

designations. Also, many identifiers do not change even if a company changes its name. There are many different identifiers available for companies and securities. Most databases have their own identification codes, but there are also universal View Details

30 Mar 2003
Research & Ideas

The Future of IT Consulting

expertise in designing and coding complex computer applications. SAP and Seibel have developed unique package software, and have provided specialized consulting services to assist in the implementation of the package software. A third... View Details

Keywords: by Sarah Jane Johnston; Consulting

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Global Opportunity Fellowship GO: AFRICA - Alumni

Director, HBS Career & Professional Development, 617-495-6390, kpiemonte@hbs.edu . GO Fellowship applicants and recipients agree to abide by the HBS Community Values and the MBA Honor Code . Awards Award amounts are determined based on... View Details

04 Aug 2003
Research & Ideas

Shackleton: An Entrepreneur of Survival

of us. We live to serve our selves, greater good, and our organizations. We live to serve with integrity. There are historians who have said that a particular code of behavior, a way of seeing the world—one often associated with an older,... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

2008
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Corporate Honesty and Business Education: A Behavioral Model

By: Rakesh Khurana and Herbert Gintis

Since the mid-1970s neoclassical economic theory has dominated business school thinking and teaching in dealing with the nature of human motivation. However valuable in understanding competitive product and financial markets, neoclassical economic theory employs an... View Details

Keywords: Business Education; Ethics; Managerial Roles; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Organizational Culture; Business and Shareholder Relations; Mathematical Methods; Behavior

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17 Dec 2014
Research & Ideas

How Our Brain Determines if the Product is Worth the Price

neuroscience tools to shed light on how our brains make purchasing decisions. "We were interested in whether considering the price first changed how people thought about the decision process, and whether it changed the way the brain View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Retail

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Training Materials - Research Computing Services

Libraries Research Data Management Program / Instruction Harvard Research Data Webinars and Explainers R Introduction to R Static notes with code examples and results All workshop materials as downloadable archive Main site for all R... View Details

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Impact of the New Medium - Edwin H. Land & Polaroid | Harvard Business School

RESEARCH & MANUFACTURING COMPANY Commercialization of the Polarizer Innovation and the War Effort A Rewarding Working Life INSTANT PHOTOGRAPHY The Idea of Instant Photography Research and Development, Project Code SX-70 Introducing... View Details

23 May 2018
Research & Ideas

How to Know If Your Neighborhood Is Being Gentrified

business received, housing prices in that ZIP code increased by 1.4 percent. More college-educated residents = more food options To compare housing prices with other markers of gentrification, the researchers turned to the Federal Housing... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman

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Events - Business History

Event Vanessa Ogle, Berkeley Nov 2 02 Nov 2020 Business History Seminar Codifying Credit: Everyday Contracting and the Spread of the Civil Code in Nineteenth-Century Mexico Casey Lurtz, Johns Hopkins University 3:30 - 5:00 p.m. Oct 19 19... View Details

17 Apr 2022
Book

How to Avoid the 'Ethical Slide' That Leads Companies Astray

you get to the point that all your time is spent in crisis management.” Cultivating a ‘speak-up culture’ While cultivating good ethics may sound daunting, Nelson says it isn’t complicated. For example, Costco’s code of conduct is based on... View Details

Keywords: by Lane Lambert

Portrait Project

Ryan Yu

numbers and figures on white paper. One year before HBS, without any coding experience, I stumbled into a data science startup. Confronted by a dark screen awaiting instructions, I felt like a kid in a factory, lost and out of place, yet... View Details

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Shira Asa-El

which ultimately led me to where I am today. What is your favorite childhood memory? My first summer at MEET (Middle East Entrepreneurs of Tomorrow) when I was 15. Marina, who lived in Ramallah, and I struggled together in front of a computer screen to write our very... View Details

01 Mar 2024
News

Unlocking the Power of Community

When Tara Fung (MBA 2016) explains Co:Create, the company she cofounded in 2022 and now leads as CEO, she doesn’t mention Web3 first. “We help innovative brands and creators unlock the power of community,” she explains. Co:Create does this with a new, gamified approach... View Details

Keywords: April White

21 Feb 2005
Op-Ed

Is Business Management a Profession?

practice; a commitment to use specialized knowledge for the public good, and a renunciation of the goal of profit maximization, in return for professional autonomy and monopoly power; a code of ethics, with provisions for monitoring... View Details

Keywords: by Rakesh Khurana, Nitin Nohria & Daniel Penrice

07 Apr 2022
Blog Post

Product Management at HBS: Roll Up Your Sleeves and Learn by Doing

I gained first-hand experience with product management in the gaming industry, including identifying a market need, creating a game design document, coding in a game engine, fostering a Reddit and Discord community with over 100 alpha... View Details

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Research Design - Impact Investments

of the fund managers. The goal of this project is to build upon previous work from the Private Capital Research Institute (PCRI) and the Harvard Business School Private Capital Project which has spent years matching private equity funds with investee companies,... View Details

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Help - Research Computing Services

HBSGrid Saving plots and images created by R on the HBSGrid requires minor modifications to the typical R code for saving these files. Connecting Remotely to WRDS on Windows Directions for how to connect remotely to WRDS on Windows using... View Details

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Advisory Board - Entrepreneurship

, and Boulevard of Broken Dreams. ) He also examines policies on innovation and how they impact firm strategies. (That research is discussed in the books Innovation and Its Discontents , The Comingled Code , and the Architecture of... View Details

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Is AI Coming for Your Job?

technological innovations, certain sets of skills become more important, while others become less important. I believe the same will be true with generative AI. Programmers, for example, will not need to write as much code from scratch.... View Details

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