Monitoring - Publications - Faculty & Research

08 Aug 2005
Research & Ideas

Decision Rights: Who Gives the Green Light?

"happens all too often," says Michael Jensen, professor emeritus at Harvard Business School and managing director of Cambridge, Massachusetts-based Monitor Group's organizational strategy practice. "Allocating decision... View Details

Keywords: by Peter Jacobs

26 Jul 2022
Research & Ideas

Burgers with Bugs? What Happens When Restaurants Ignore Online Reviews

restaurant review websites not only provide a useful guide for consumers, but could help influence the restaurant business and its regulators. After all, Farronato says, monitoring hygiene isn’t merely in the hands of regulators.... View Details

Keywords: by Kara Baskin; Entertainment & Recreation; Food & Beverage; Retail

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Help - Research Computing Services

and files. Monitoring CPU usage of your jobs on the HBSGrid Learn how to run a Unix command or query LSF to check the status of a current job. HBSGrid Project directory space notifications Tips on how to View Details

08 Nov 2022
Research & Ideas

How Centuries of Restrictions on Women Shed Light on Today's Abortion Debate

societies where men were away from home for extended periods to work and found it difficult to monitor the behavior of women, for example in societies that relied more on pastoralism rather than agriculture. In pre-industrial times,... View Details

Keywords: by Kara Baskin

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HBS Alumni Conference: Accelerating Climate Solutions - Alumni

their shareholder votes. Meanwhile, several NGOs have built certifications and other monitoring and assessment tools to understand how companies are progressing against their targets. This panel will explore the different mechanisms and... View Details

16 Oct 2017
Research & Ideas

The Most Successful Startups Have Hands-On Founders

the researchers, is intensive mentoring and monitoring of staff. “Because many young companies face both technological and market risks, founders may prioritize dealing with these challenges rather than the more mundane aspects of human... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman

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Resources for Investment Management and Financial Analysis

a warehouse of financial, accounting, banking, economics, management, marketing, and public policy databases accessible through a single Web-based interface. Industry Research reports Geographically focused trends and data ABI/ProQuest
Business... View Details

24 Jan 2018
Research & Ideas

How to Get People Addicted to a Good Habit

“Obhyash nai,” which means “I do not have the habit,” Hussam says. Monitoring vs. offering incentives The researchers randomly divided the villages into “monitoring” and “incentive” villages, taking two approaches to inducing the... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

31 Jan 2023
Op-Ed

Can Insurance Technology Solve the Uninsured Driver Problem?

assets or savings to protect, coverage may provide minimal benefits. Low-income drivers also may not see insurance as a great deal, since they drive less often but are rarely rewarded with lower premiums because it is too costly for insurers to View Details

Keywords: by Ray Kluender; Insurance

22 Oct 2007
Research & Ideas

Bringing ‘Lean’ Principles to Service Industries

this fall and will continue to monitor developments at Wipro. Says Upton, "There's a question as to where things go down the road: whether this continues to be a lean implementation or evolves into the Wipro Production System when... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Computer

22 Oct 2021
Research & Ideas

Want Hybrid Work to Succeed? Trust, Don’t Track, Employees

employees are working in remote or hybrid environments far from the eyes of watchful supervisors. Attempts to reassert the “butts in seats” metric by using awareness technology software to measure computer keystrokes or monitor time spent... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

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Patent search: A comparative table of databases

Includes patent records from Canadian, China, European, Japan, Korean, US, and WIPO Real-time one-stop-shop service for monitoring and managing patent examination process Application number, patent number and pre-grant... View Details

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Brian Kenny | About

where he engineered a branding and marketing program to help propel the university into the top 100 nationwide. Previously he oversaw global marketing for management consultancy The Monitor Group and led marketing for Genuity, a $2... View Details

25 Apr 2011
Research & Ideas

What CEOs Do, and How They Can Do it Better

what the boss is doing all day. For all of the minute-to-minute monitoring of employee performance from the time of Henry Ford onward, it's amazing how little any of us really know about how CEOs of major companies spend their time.... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

23 Oct 2019
Blog Post

How to Talk Gooder in Business and Life

cognitive demands on your brain—we suffer from egocentrism because our minds are too busy monitoring our own behavior and the behavior of those around us to fully understand what others are thinking. What does egocentrism trip us up on... View Details

04 Mar 2019
What Do You Think?

What’s the Antidote to Surveillance Capitalism?

than how businesses use it That same monitoring capability (used to fight terrorism) could be turned against American citizens if the regime ever lessened or abandoned its commitment to personal civil liberties.” Asher Rospigliosi... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett; Advertising; Consumer Products

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Compute Cluster - Research Computing Services

Compute Cluster and Data Storage Compute Cluster and Data Storage Compute Cluster 12ms Running Jobs Comprehensive guide to running programs and scripts on the HBSGrid, including how to choose your resources, monitor and troubleshoot your... View Details

24 Nov 2003
Research & Ideas

Boards and Corporate Governance: A Balanced Scorecard Approach

board performance even more difficult. Effective boards are those that take the initiative to design clear and focused forward-looking agendas, concentrating board energy on a company's specific value drivers, and then employing tools and information systems to help... View Details

Keywords: Re: Robert S. Kaplan & Krishna G. Palepu

28 May 2019
Research & Ideas

Investor Lawsuits Against Auditors Are Falling, and That's Bad News for Capital Markets

system. We can strengthen other aspects. One source of investor protection is the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board (PCAOB). One can make the case that the monitoring of auditors has greatly increased since the PCAOB was created... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Financial Services; Accounting

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Running Jobs - Research Computing Services

of the compute cluster. Using the Program Application Center to start an application with a run script is an example of running a batch job. Monitoring Jobs & Troubleshoting Monitoring the progress of your... View Details

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