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Frequently Asked Questions - Research Computing Services

can I request an account on the HBSGrid? Please fill out this form . If you have any questions or your needs are not captured by the form, please contact RCS (research@hbs.edu or 5-6100). How can I request research software? Please review the information about research... View Details

09 Oct 2001
Research & Ideas

Driven: How Human Nature Shapes Organizations

the organization seeks to boost their relative share of the scarce resources. This competitive drive to excel others is the greatest source of the restless energy that people bring to the workplace. If this were the only drive in play, it... View Details

Keywords: by Paul Lawrence & Nitin Nohria

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Research - Behavioral Finance & Financial Stability

novel data on 1,240 credit agreements, Victoria and Boris investigate sources of contractual complexity in the leveraged loan market. While negative covenants are widespread, carve-out and deductible clauses that weaken them are as... View Details

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HBS Alumni Conference: Accelerating Climate Solutions - Alumni

half-dozen global companies have successfully piloted the method, and a new HBS case written about Harvard University’s potential use of the method to quantify the benefits from sourcing a low-carbon concrete mix for new building... View Details

01 Mar 2024
News

Giving All Stakeholders a Voice

traditional approaches in building enterprises, their governance, and growth.’’ The technology is open source, so different teams can build together. Participants value open information flow, universal... View Details

Keywords: April White

29 May 2018
First Look

New Research and Ideas, May 29, 2018

diversification to long-term investors do not recede when the source of increased global return correlations is correlated discount rates. Empirically, we document a secular increase in the cross-country correlations of both stock returns... View Details

Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

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The 20th Century Zeitgeist - Leadership

circuit boards replace transistor technology First ATM installed Influence: Medium 70 1970 s 19 Beginning of biotech industry Fiber-optic wire Pong (first video game) UPC bar code Supercomputer Influence: Medium-Low 80 1980 s 19 Software... View Details

12 Oct 2022
Blog Post

11 Stories from HBS PRIDE for National Coming Out Day

this journey. Only recently and at HBS have I started to have a group of healthy friendships with queer people and to view my queerness as a source of extreme happiness in my life, rather than pain And, if you are wondering, I believe you... View Details

11 May 2023
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How FOMO Became a Fixture

process requiring strategic thinking, argumentation, multiple filings, and a bit of flexibility. Protecting a word like FOMO, which had become ubiquitous, required a thoughtful approach. Plus, to obtain a registration, you need to prove that the mark is a View Details

09 Feb 2021
News

Investing in Entrepreneurship

jewel. It is a source of innovation, invention, and cooperation that serves the broader Harvard community.” Noting that this year is the i-lab’s 10th anniversary, Crisp said, “The i-lab has already proven to be a very valuable resource.... View Details

Keywords: Susan Young

13 Jun 2019
Blog Post

Expanding My Worldview Through FIELD Global Immersion

populated. We hopped in a small elevator and quickly arrived on the 7th floor. The open office floor plan had six rows of computers with the company’s CEO and the newest hire sitting practically shoulder to shoulder. We soon realized we... View Details

Portrait Project

Cali Tran

they were about mundane things like test-scores, student-body elections and after-school sports. Unlike my mother, I grew up with the privilege of choice and I fully intend to indulge in this privilege. I choose to remember my family history and draw on it as a View Details

02 Oct 2006
Research & Ideas

Negotiating in Three Dimensions

negotiating set-up. Negotiators sometimes can discover hidden sources of value and then craft agreements to unlock that value and overcome barriers created by poor deal design. Now let's move to some errors in our most familiar first... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

04 Apr 2017
First Look

First Look at New Research, April 4

interoperability or efficiency. Openness multiplies options and expands diversity, thus increasing the platform system’s value. The last two decades of the 20th century saw the rise of three distinct types of View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

30 Aug 2018
Blog Post

My Difficult Decision to Leave Google for HBS

I started believing that entrepreneurship might be the path for me. After graduating, I joined up with Tim to build and launch ZipBooks—modern accounting software for small businesses. While Tim and I haven’t built a lunch-time soccer... View Details

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Is AI Coming for Your Job?

they understand how to use cognitive AI to transform their operations, the impact on workers promises to be dramatic. White-collar workers whose job security was founded on their knowledge of complex processes and ability to integrate information from various View Details

06 Jun 2007
Research & Ideas

Behavioral Finance—Benefiting from Irrational Investors

finance." For example, when investors hold onto stock they've received in an acquisition—taking the path of least resistance—it keeps those shares off the open market and makes the price relatively higher than it would have been... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna

16 Apr 2013
First Look

First Look: April 16

cultural fit with JLL. Staubach paid its brokers with a commission model, which accelerated JLL's decision to let go of its long-standing salary and bonus approach. The merger also surfaced two interesting business opportunities. First, local brokers were now empowered... View Details