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29 May 2023
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Nurturing Breakthrough Ideas

alumni and friends affirms its mission—to serve as an educational springboard that fosters peer collaboration beyond the boundaries of a particular Harvard school, enabling innovators to create meaningful impact across industries,... View Details

01 Aug 1998
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High Honors

billion; and reducing employee turnover to 7 percent. Fortune magazine consistently ranked USAA first among the country's most admired insurers. Upon retirement, McDermott, summarizing his philosophy, asserted that success had flowed from... View Details

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Frequently Asked Questions - Research Computing Services

Help Frequently Asked Questions 24ms Accessing Our Services and Training Can I provide a research collaborator access to the HBSGrid? Non-HBS Collaborators of HBS faculty can gain access to the research computing grid by requesting a... View Details

01 Sep 2023
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Alumni and Faculty Books

Edited by Margie Kelley The Happiness Handbook By Landon Carter (MBA 1967) Marshall and McClintic Publishing Have you ever wished you had the instruction manual for being a happy human on planet Earth? This book will answer some of life’s fundamental questions: Who am... View Details

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Credit default swaps

Bloomberg: Type CDSW or enter Valuation of defaultable fixed-income instruments and hit the green Help key for information. See How can I get help using Bloomberg? for more detailed instructions. Datastream: Open Excel and... View Details

28 Jun 2004
Research & Ideas

How to Avoid a Price Increase

a box of cereal should cost, say, $3.29, and then adjust the quantity accordingly. If the cost to make the cereal is high, the result is a box with fewer ounces and fewer portions. If the cost to make that cereal is low, the result is a... View Details

Keywords: by Manda Salls

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Running Jobs - Research Computing Services

Compute Cluster Running Jobs 44ms The most important goal for using the HBSGrid is for running programs and scripts that might consume more resources than are available on your desktop or laptop. These sections will provide information to give you a complete... View Details

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Rclone - Research Computing Services

Unix file management commands, and a long list of cloud providers are supported . You can use rclone to transfer and synchronize files between HBSGrid storage and your HBS Microsoft OneDrive storage , or any other supported cloud storage... View Details

19 May 2021
Op-Ed

Why America Needs a Better Bridge Between School and Career

impact While many of these challenges are not new, the data strengthens the case for action. Indeed, the crisis has renewed pressure on the US to develop new models and expand existing pathways that can open... View Details

Keywords: by Joseph B. Fuller and Rachel Lipson

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Entrepreneurial Management Awards & Honors - Faculty & Research

A. Hidalgo. Scott Duke Kominers : Winner of the 2018 Western Economic Association International Best Economic Inquiry Article Award for “Big Data and Big Cities: The Promises and Limitations View Details

04 Nov 2010
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Why Do We Chase Stars?

data for 1988 through 1996. It includes ratings before and after an analyst's transfer from one investment bank to another as well as the results of extensive interviews over several years View Details

Keywords: by Jim Heskett

21 Feb 2005
Op-Ed

Is Business Management a Profession?

Repeated and, as of this writing, ongoing revelations of corporate wrongdoing over the past two years have eroded public trust in business institutions and executives to levels not seen in decades. A recent... View Details

Keywords: by Rakesh Khurana, Nitin Nohria & Daniel Penrice

02 Jun 2021
Research & Ideas

A Rare Find in Health Care: A Simple Solution to Racial Inequity

physicians could also provide patients with outcome data for local hospitals, nudging them toward facilities with better track records. Such changes could help not only heart attack patients, but also patients suffering from a wide... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Health

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International Health Economics

By: Mark Egan and Tomas J. Philipson

Perhaps because health care is a local service sector, health economists have paid little attention to international linkages between domestic health care economies. However, the growth in domestic health care sectors is often attributed to medical innovations whose... View Details

Keywords: Health Care and Treatment; Innovation and Invention; Global Range; Economics

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Business Economics Online Course | HBS Online

decisions. Nicholas Grecco Educator and Healthcare Administrator Read more learner stories * Source: 2022 surveys and course data All FAQs Economics for Managers FAQs How does the Economics for Managers certificate program relate to the... View Details

27 Sep 2021
Blog Post

Working to Change the Food System

living in San Francisco working at a data science startup as a product manager. I have always gravitated toward technology and science throughout my life, and machine learning, artificial intelligence, and View Details

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Business, Government & the International Economy Awards & Honors - Faculty & Research

Alberto F. Cavallo : Received a National Science Foundation Trans-Atlantic Platform-Digging into Data Grant, 2017–2019. Marco E. Tabellini : Recipient of a Russell Sage Foundation Presidential Authority... View Details

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Article databases: Which to choose?

regulations, and other government information. ProQuest TDM Studio Yes Yes Yes TDM Studio is a text / data mining tool Allows researchers to run... View Details

06 Nov 2018
Research & Ideas

8 Ways to Make Olympic Stadiums Useful After the Games End

Beijing National Stadium, also called the "Bird's Nest," has been in use since the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games. (bingdian) Few sporting events can equal the pageantry, scale, and drama of the Olympic Games. When an Olympic host... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Sports

Reinventing State Capitalism

In this book we study the evolution of corporate governance arrangements that governments have adopted for their state-owned enterprises (SOEs) in the last 20 years. We show that the process of privatization and liberalization of the 1990s and early 2000s created... View Details

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