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to ensure that the login nodes remain stable and are always responsive and accessible for users to submit and monitor their jobs. Read more We are pleased to announce that we are deploying a new capability on the HBSGrid cluster that will... View Details

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

14 Mar 2022
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Lessons from COVID-19: The Business Skills Doctors Need

technology. Yet those opportunities came with managerial challenges. Remote patient monitoring represents a case in point. “Medicine has traditionally relied on a physician seeing a patient in person at a moment in time, but the pandemic... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Health

21 Feb 2005
Op-Ed

Is Business Management a Profession?

practice; a commitment to use specialized knowledge for the public good, and a renunciation of the goal of profit maximization, in return for professional autonomy and monopoly power; a code of ethics, with provisions for monitoring... View Details

Keywords: by Rakesh Khurana, Nitin Nohria & Daniel Penrice

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Selected Digital Historical Resources – The Human Relations Movement – Baker Library | Bloomberg Center, Historical Collections

the Depression The studies monitoring the output of relay assembly workers, which began in 1927, continued until 1932, becoming the longest running Hawthorne experiments. The six operators studied in a separate test room were single women... View Details

23 Oct 2013
Research & Ideas

Overcoming Nervous Nelly

singing the first verse of Journey's "Don't Stop Believin'." Instantly, the participants' heart rate monitors shot up. She inserted one important twist: Before performing, she asked participants to repeat a statement out loud.... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

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Poor’s Manual: The Rise of Business Analysts - Railroads and the Transformation of Capitalism | Harvard Business School

maintenance managers to freight and purchasing agents. Accounting operations were centralized through a company treasurer, and daily accounting figures were fed into weekly, monthly, and annual reports. The deepening granularity of data produced statistics that... View Details

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Richard P. Melnick | About

Planning and Analysis. Rick helps to monitor and manage the finances and compliance issues for the School’s global offices. He is on the audit committee for Harvard Business Publishing. Rick is also involved in university-wide financial... View Details

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Managing Processes

David A. Garvin is examining the nature and use of managerial and organizational processes—the means by which work is accomplished—including strategic processes that chart corporate direction, resource allocation processes that distribute funds,... View Details

2009
Working Paper

International Differences in the Size and Roles of Corporate Headquarters: An Empirical Examination

By: David J. Collis, David Young and Michael Goold

This paper examines differences in the size and roles of corporate headquarters around the world. Based on a survey of over 600 multibusiness corporations in seven countries (France, Germany, Holland, UK, Japan, US, and Chile) the paper describes the differences among... View Details

Keywords: Business Headquarters; Size; Organizational Structure; Culture; Japan; France; Germany; Netherlands; United Kingdom; United States; Chile

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Industry Information - Alumni

executives' point of view on regulatory issues, technology news, and marketing trends. Frost & Sullivan Healthcare Report Provides actionable market, technical, and econometric research. A global team of industry experts continuously View Details

30 Mar 2020
Research & Ideas

The New Rules for Remote Work: Pandemic Edition

them. They’ll be relieved to know this isn’t easy for anyone.” 8. Focus on outcomes rather than monitoring activities Supervisors who lack experience managing remote workers might seek to keep close tabs on employees—asking them to keep... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman

15 Dec 2003
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Women Leaders and Organizational Change

concerns—who might be interested in collaborating to make change. Then together, explore how existing work practices may compromise both equity and effectiveness; design small, local experiments to change these practices; monitor the... View Details

Keywords: by Mallory Stark

21 Sep 2023
Blog Post

Hands-on Learning About Global Markets

saw the cultural differences while developing marketing concepts for Ellie Care, a technology platform based in Buenos Aires providing health and emergency-response monitoring that enables seniors 65+ to live more independently. Early on,... View Details

26 Mar 2006
Research & Ideas

The Office of Strategy Management

resources to support our strategy? Do our people understand it? Are we having outstanding sessions to discuss and monitor our strategy? How do we pull all of this together into a coherent process? We believe that strategy must be managed... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

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Market Research Reports in General Databases

Monitor International (BMI) Multi-Industry Global ABI/Proquest Business Source Complete EMIS 2018 to current 2018 only 2009 to current CBRE Real... View Details

02 Feb 2022
Blog Post

How I Spent My HBS 2+2 Deferral: Nikki Philip

and a community savings and loans cooperative in Migori County, Kenya. At Lwala I worked in Monitoring & Evaluation, Program Design & Implementation, and Development. After two and a half years at Lwala I took a position in Player... View Details

10 Aug 2015
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New Medical Devices Get To Patients Too Slowly

different effects or methods of action, trials essentially consist of monitoring patients for proper dosage, effectiveness, and side effects. Medical devices, meanwhile, can differ from each other in almost every respect, including how... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Health; Technology

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Strategy Execution Online Course | HBS Online

Exercises Identify ways to dial up performance and increase innovation within your team Evaluate the effectiveness of your organization’s core values 6-7 hrs Module 4 Measuring and Monitoring Performance Create performance measurement... View Details

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Student Spotlight: 2023 HCC Co-Presidents Reflect on Their Time at HBS and the Current Health Care Systems - Blog: Health Supplement

fragmented. The health care system delivers innovation, ranging from cell therapies to remote patient monitoring and intervention solutions, to the privileged minority that have access due to care proximity (i.e being near an academic hub... View Details

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