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- 10 Sep 2020
- Research & Ideas
The COVID Two-Step for Leaders: Protect and Pivot
top executive. Because of the COVID-19 outbreak, we are all taking in vast amounts of new information every day and adjusting to an entirely new set of behavioral habits. In addition, most of us are dealing with unprecedented tasks and... View Details
- 04 Apr 2023
- Blog Post
Maersk’s Journey to Decarbonize Shipping
rather than just those in countries like Denmark where it is already a priority. In fact, Maersk’s government affairs director expressed disappointment in the fact that shipping was not included in the Paris Climate Agreement, which he believed could have View Details
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Scaling Work - Research Computing Services
functions in R ( apply() , lapply() , etc.). As when using implicit parallelism, you must request the number of CPUs you will use when submitting a job. We also recommend that you do not statically indicate ('hard code') the number of cores that you'll be using in your... View Details
- 17 Aug 2021
- Research & Ideas
Can Autonomous Vehicles Drive with Common Sense?
figuring out what to do at an intersection if a traffic light fails. In testing new AVs, De Freitas and his colleagues propose that companies should adopt a standard they refer to as SPRUCE—teaching AVs to drive in a manner that is:... View Details
- 12 Nov 2021
- News
Alumni Business Leaders on Confronting the Climate Change Challenge
October 14, experts warned that “voluntary” carbon reduction targets being set at COP26 are far from sufficient to meaningfully address climate change. Methane, which is 60 to 80 times worse than CO2, they said, isn’t even part of the... View Details
- 01 Dec 2022
- News
Full Court Press
organization required a very specific kind of leader, and he had one in mind: former classmate Williams, who led corporate and investment banking for African markets at South Africa’s Standard Bank. “He’s always been a real strategic,... View Details
Keywords: Dan Morrell
- 01 Aug 1998
- News
High Honors
Johnson & Johnson in 1973 and in 1977 joined Standard Brands Incorporated. There she rose to become vice president of marketing for the margarine division. Standard merged with Nabisco in 1981, and in 1987... View Details
- 09 Jun 2024
- Blog Post
The EC Formula: MBA Class of 2024 Looks Back
factoring in long-term economic sustainability should be standard in developing any corporate strategy—something I learned through the course and have already been able to apply. After taking this course, I firmly believe that what’s good... View Details
- 21 Aug 2000
- Research & Ideas
From Emerging Economies to the Global Market: The Case of Embraer
posted a 54 percent jump in sales and a 35 percent gain in second-quarter earnings. A new HBS case study on Embraer, presented in Buenos Aires (in a modified version of how such a case might be taught in a standard classroom setting),... View Details
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Frequently Asked Questions | HBS Online
are no live interactions during the course that requires the learner to speak English. Coursework must be completed in English. Can I work ahead of the course pace? Modules are released according to a schedule communicated at the start of each course or program. You... View Details
- 15 Jan 2013
- First Look
First Look: January 15
installments are 11 percent less likely to be missed under the group liability setting in comparison with individual liability. In addition, compulsory savings deposits are 20 percent less likely to be missed under group liability... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 15 Oct 2007
- Research & Ideas
Businesses Beware: The World Is Not Flat
power of states. But the world is not flat, argues HBS professor Pankaj Ghemawat. Think of it as partly globalized, or "semiglobalized." "Strategies that presume complete global integration tend to place far too much emphasis on international View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 24 Nov 2003
- Research & Ideas
Boards and Corporate Governance: A Balanced Scorecard Approach
time, managers and corporations seek capital for their ideas, but in doing so they have an inherent conflict of interest about what information to disclose. Therefore, for this complex system to work smoothly requires a governance system where View Details
Keywords: Re: Robert S. Kaplan & Krishna G. Palepu
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Teaching Quantitative Material - Christensen Center for Teaching & Learning
awareness: What data would help us solve this problem? How would you analyze it? What would you expect to find? What analysis did you run—why? What assumptions did you make? How did you set up the calculation? How did you account for x... View Details
- 12 Jul 2004
- Research & Ideas
Enron’s Lessons for Managers
new rules, such as the documentation of internal controls as dictated by the Sarbanes-Oxley Act, are turning out to be extremely expensive to implement. The new rules for the corporate governance system highlight three assumptions, he said: 1. The minimal View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 25 Jan 2024
- Blog Post
Climate Stories Episode #15: Hilton Augustine III on Financing Climate Ventures
on those foundations to accelerate the time to deployment.” At Harvard College, Hilton started an energy club and set up a solar technology demonstration for Earth Day. He studied engineering and sought out “classes on energy policy,... View Details
- 16 Sep 2019
- Research & Ideas
Crowdsourcing Is Helping Hollywood Reduce the Risk of Movie-Making
probably not how you would do it,” Luo says. Rather, you’d take a (sizable) number of people, allocate the scripts to them, ask them to rate and rank the scripts based on a standard set of criteria, and not... View Details
- 27 Sep 2011
- First Look
First Look: September 27
set of insights regarding how networks of interorganizational relationships shape the behaviors and outcomes of corporate actors. This research has provided compelling evidence that the concrete patterns of relationships in which... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 13 Oct 2009
- Research & Ideas
7 Lessons for Navigating the Storm
Authentic Leadership. "Everyone inside and outside the company is watching what they do. It is imperative that they stay focused on their True North as it sets a standard internally for principled... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 01 Dec 2009
- News
One Man Crime Wave
his fiction, casting young managers in manufacturing and industrial settings as his protagonists. But his focus was not on their business activities so much as on their warps, biases, emotional hang-ups, and “all other decisions of... View Details