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- 30 Jan 2020
- Research & Ideas
The Upside of Highlighting a Product's Downsides
their products and downplay risks, fearing that any negative sentiment might hurt demand. But research led by Ryan W. Buell, a professor in the HBS Technology and Operations Management Unit, View Details
Keywords: by Danielle Kost
- Research Summary
Overview
By: Iavor I. Bojinov
Over the last decade, technology companies like Amazon, Google, and Netflix have pioneered data-driven research and development processes centered on massive experimentation. However, as companies increase the breadth and scale of their experiments to millions of... View Details
- Web
3.6 VA Benefits - MBA
amount anticipated from the VA on their student account in the form of Anticipated Aid for Chapter 33 or a third-party deferment for Chapter 31. Harvard University will not impose a late fee on students utilizing Chapter 33 and Chapter 31... View Details
- 02 Dec 2010
- What Do You Think?
Making Right Choices: Art or Science?
"A delayed decision, no matter the greatness of it, loses its sheen." The importance of all of these questions and response is framed by C. J. Cullinane when he says, "choice equals... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Heskett
- Profile
Jay Bhandari
of his selection tests, where dozens of candidates had to swim together across a pool at night without visibility. Short on breath and under time pressure, many would attempt to exit the pool as quickly as possible. However, a select few... View Details
- 26 Mar 2020
- Research & Ideas
7 Leadership Principles for Managing in the Time of Coronavirus
in which to communicate decisions and priorities, but also have rapid communication to the entire body of constituents—not delays over hours or days or, even worse, weeks. Silence is absolutely the worst... View Details
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Bringing a Taste of Japan to the World - Global Activities 2020
from investors in Japan, and in November 2019, with Nakamura and some friends, he presided over a mostly successful “Yasu & Masa’s Ramen” pop-up event in Cambridge. “Everyone ate well, View Details
- Blog
Is the Digital Transformation Certificate Right for You?
It's no secret that digital technologies have transformed—and continue to transform—entire industries. The ability to grasp the implications of shifting technologies, from mobile devices to social media to machine learning, is critical for leaders across industries... View Details
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Wilder House | About
would secure its gas from the Mackenzie Delta and the north slope of Alaska. Although the project did not come to fruition, because the Canadian Government decided to delay development in Northern Canada for... View Details
- 06 Jan 2016
- What Do You Think?
Why Do Leaders Get Their Timing Wrong?
long-term strategy and culture. David Wittenberg led the way in making the argument for an inadequate strategy as a primary cause of the problem. He suggested that bad timing is related to a lack of “strategic frameworks to assess the... View Details
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Connell House | About
White as part of the original 1920s campus plan, but its construction was delayed until 1940. Unnamed for many years, the administrative office building was renovated in the late 1960s under Dean George P. Baker View Details
- 05 Sep 2019
- Sharpening Your Skills
Making the Right Technical Hire
clip, then a contract designer may be prudent while you iterate on your MVP. You may pay a little more per hour for these contractors, but that far outweighs over hiring and paying a full-time salary early on. 4. Time View Details
- 01 Dec 2022
- News
Full Court Press
On May 28, 2022, the Basketball Africa League (BAL) held the championship game of its second season, pitting the club team Petro de Luanda, from Angola, against US Monastir, from Tunisia. Traffic snarls outside the stadium, congestion tightened by temporary road... View Details
Keywords: Dan Morrell
- 16 Jan 2006
- Research & Ideas
Adam Smith, Behavioral Economist?
passions and the impartial spectator is the most fascinating part of Smith's TMS for me. The conflict is particularly important when studying savings decisions, since savings is exactly a decision to delay... View Details
Keywords: by Ann Cullen
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News - Research Computing Services
HBSGrid 11 MAR 2024 With the increasing popularity of AI/ML capabilities, we’ve seen a significant increase in the number of people using the GPU node on the HBS cluster. This has decreased the availability of the GPUs, and many users... View Details
- 26 Nov 2001
- Op-Ed
Why Corporate Budgeting Needs To Be Fixed
Corporate budgeting is a joke, and everyone knows it. It consumes a huge amount of executives' time, forcing them into endless rounds of dull meetings and tense negotiations. It encourages managers to lie... View Details
Keywords: by Michael C. Jensen
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2022 Reunion Presentations - Alumni
Reunions 2022 Reunion Presentations Slides and materials have been added for many of the faculty presentations. Session recordings from the Live from Klarman Hall series are available here and on the Klarman... View Details
- 18 Sep 2019
- Op-Ed
WeWork—The IPO That Shouldn’t?
original proposed stratospheric valuation, its byzantine corporate structure, its woeful (or nonexistent) corporate governance, and most of all its flamboyant founder, Adam Neumann. So perhaps it was not a surprise when WeWork, given the... View Details
- 01 Mar 2023
- News
Step Change
At Consoleya, a coworking space in Cairo’s former French Consulate, multiple levels of meeting rooms and workspaces operate at capacity, from a ground-floor café to a rooftop deck. The scene—coders bent over laptops, concepts scrawled on whiteboards, clusters of people... View Details