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Responsibilities and Acceptable Use - Research Computing Services
Ensure that you routinely monitor your interactive and batch jobs , so that you can terminate them if they stall or become idle. Remember that resources 'in use' are not available to anyone else. Please do scaling tests if planning large... View Details
- 06 Aug 2018
- Research & Ideas
Supersmart Manufacturing Tools are Lowering Prices on TVs, Bulbs, and Solar Panels
something into mechanisms within that machine that allow the process to become routine and repeatable. Let’s use an example. Many of us have seen glassblowers who manipulate a glowing hot lump of molten glass and shape it into a bottle or... View Details
- 09 May 2018
- Research & Ideas
A Simple Way for Restaurant Inspectors to Improve Food Safety
new research about how scheduling affects worker behavior. The potential result: Americans could avoid 19 million foodborne illnesses, nearly 51,000 hospitalizations, and billions of dollars of related medical costs. Government health officers View Details
- 26 Mar 2014
- Research & Ideas
How Electronic Patient Records Can Slow Doctor Productivity
allows for information exchange through summary reports, it's a great innovation because it allows them to share information they were not routinely sharing before." Lessons For Business Aside from the implications for physicians, the... View Details
- 25 Aug 2003
- Research & Ideas
Should You Sell Your Digital Privacy?
regulatory approach? Isn't the telemarketing hotline working? Deighton: Regulation solution routinely disappoints. Rules lag behind the cunning of those who want to exploit the limitations of the rules, particularly in the nimble digital... View Details
- 01 Dec 1997
- News
Banking on HBS
institutional agility are also priorities. In addition, Wolfensohn wants to create a "Knowledge Bank," to take advantage of new technology as a repository of the Bank's decades of accumulated data, information, and know-how that could View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 12 Jun 2014
- News
The First Five Years: Minal Mehta (MBA 2011)
personal well-being has allowed me and my team to build a strong community." Can you finish this statement? "A great fitness routine is " "One that keeps you coming back for more. Ever heard of BollyX?" Follow Minal Mehta on Twitter at... View Details
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Field Course: Life Sciences Venture Creation - Course Catalog
Grading The course is highly focused on ensuring each team’s venture evolves towards success criteria unique to their needs based on indication, modality, and requirements. Session participation, including working directly with industry mentors and View Details
- 09 Jan 2014
- Research & Ideas
Excerpt: ’Fortune Tellers’
effort they enjoyed wide institutional backing. Courts of law routinely supported those who made predictions based on dispassionate scientific rules rather than those who, say, enlisted the help of the stars. Many U.S. jurisdictions... View Details
Keywords: by Walter A. Friedman
- 06 Jun 2013
- Op-Ed
How to Do Away with the Dangers of Outsourcing
Staffing, risks, benefits, and regulatory compliance are all increasingly externalized, most often to parts of the world where need routinely trumps prudence. Rather than manage their own corporate assets, CEOs and other top executives of... View Details
- 07 Sep 2021
- News
Alumni Perspective: The Morning After 9/11
Or in the lower right one? There we find what separates the extraordinary from the ordinary. In that HBS faculty meeting on the morning of September 12, 2001, the message Frances heard was: class is important. In this moment of tragic destabilization, View Details
- 26 Oct 2010
- First Look
First Look: October 26, 2010
fact that insiders trade for a variety of reasons, we show that there is predictable, identifiable "routine" insider trading that is not informative for the future of firms. Stripping away these routine trades, which comprise... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 21 Nov 2016
- Research & Ideas
It Matters That Your CEO Doesn't Know Much About Sales
really a misnomer to call planning strategic,” he says. Rather, most planning is an annual affair linked to the budget process, routinely taking four or five months to complete. “But sales must respond customer by customer in market time,... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 10 Dec 2012
- Research & Ideas
Why We Blab Our Intimate Secrets on Facebook
targeted advertising for the same reason: they didn't want anyone tracking their behavior. On the other hand, millions of people routinely share the most intimate details of their lives via various social media sites. With a series of... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 11 Jun 2012
- Research & Ideas
When Business Competition Harms Society
repairs and routine service. "The short-term benefit of failing a vehicle pales in comparison to the long-term benefit of retaining the customer's service and repair business," the paper explains. "Annual service and repair... View Details
- 06 May 2021
- Blog Post
The Extraordinary Things We Do on Ordinary Days: A Mother’s Day Tribute
Schedules and routines are so helpful when it comes to transitions. Being able to predict what’s next makes it easier to adjust. I try to keep certain parts of our day as similar as possible so Adeline feels successful. I am teaching her... View Details
- 11 Jun 2014
- News
The First Five Years: Brittani Rettig (MBA 2010)
insane amount of energy. To ensure that I can handle everything on my plate, I have developed a routine of prioritizing what really needs to get done. Another similarity between these jobs is that they both are in the spirit of... View Details
- 01 Jun 2015
- News
Ink
experiences, situations, and learning will keep us more mentally sharp and physically fit than a routine without these. Wendy and I wanted to work hard for a cause, but we also wanted to take advantage of our situation and take in all... View Details
- 10 Sep 2018
- Research & Ideas
Celebrating 'The Men and Women of the Corporation' 40 Years Later
interplay. There were women in management, but they tended to be concentrated in the more routinized functions. And if you're in the more routinized functions, it's hard to break out, because you're not... View Details
Keywords: by Robin J. Ely
- 13 Mar 2017
- Research & Ideas
Hiding Products From Customers May Ultimately Boost Sales
Retailers routinely swap out the products they display to customers. It’s called assortment rotation, and it’s a popular business strategy for many brick-and-mortar and online stores alike. Retailing trends such as “fast fashion” (think... View Details