Monitoring - Publications - Faculty & Research

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

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

31 Oct 2011
Research & Ideas

The Most Powerful Workplace Motivator

the monitoring of his own paper's download counts as "like crack for me." Historically, SSRN allowed unlimited downloads of papers, and most of those downloads were reflected in the reported download count on each paper's web page. It... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

18 Jan 2018
News

The Lessons of All-Day Breakfast

came in? Cunningham: I was not on site, but certainly a lot of folks on the team were. We really closely monitored the results and we look at results across three different dimensions. We always look at the consumer dimension, so what are... View Details

Keywords: Food Services and Drinking Places; Hospitality

07 Jun 2004
Research & Ideas

What Drives Supply Chain Behavior?

supply chain problem space to include, among other things, the assignment of roles and decision rights among the coordinating partners, the selection of partners, the design of incentives, and the design of processes to monitor... View Details

Keywords: by Sarah Jane Johnston

30 Jan 2020
Research & Ideas

The Upside of Highlighting a Product's Downsides

The researchers also monitored whether customers closed their accounts during that time. The data helped researchers compare the loyalty and profit potential of customers who received each marketing message. After all, credit cards are... View Details

Keywords: by Danielle Kost

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News - Research Computing Services

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

29 Feb 2024
Blog Post

African American Student Union Spotlight on Social Enterprise

consulting for foundations and nonprofits with the Monitor Institute by Deloitte. What has been the highlight of your HBS experience thus far? HBS has been the greatest learning experience for me. I feel privileged to have the opportunity... 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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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

06 Jan 2016
What Do You Think?

Why Do Leaders Get Their Timing Wrong?

elaborated on this idea: "All you can do is be clear about your long-term direction, make decisions with that direction in mind, monitor results, and make changes or adjustments when you’re not getting the results you expect.”... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett; Auto; Fashion

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Frequently Asked Questions - Research Computing Services

the nodes, but will also give %CPU utilization and well as how much memory is available for jobs How can I tell whether my batch job is still running? You can monitor a job either in Terminal / Command-Line via bjobs or by viewing the... View Details

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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

28 Apr 2022
Research & Ideas

Can You Buy Creativity in the Gig Economy?

gauged by monitoring nearly 1 million reader reviews using, in part, supervised machine learning in addition to searching for keywords such as “original,” “creative,” “surprisingly clever,” “innovative,” and “unexpected.” The researchers... View Details

Keywords: by Pamela Reynolds

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Frequently Asked Questions | HBS Online

Microsoft 365) on a laptop or desktop computer will likely provide the best experience and functionality for learners. Learners may find it beneficial to use a desktop computer monitor when working on the exercises due to the number of... View Details

10 Aug 2015
Research & Ideas

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

10 Sep 2020
Research & Ideas

The COVID Two-Step for Leaders: Protect and Pivot

experiences and perspectives, to focus on what opportunities exist outside the core business. Ask them to think about new revenue streams for the short term and long term. Challenge them to think outside the box. You may also want to consider View Details

Keywords: by Boris Groysberg and Katherine Connolly Baden

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Commercialization of the Polarizer - Edwin H. Land & Polaroid | Harvard Business School

Monitor , and the New York Herald Tribune . H. I. Day of Electrical Research Products, Inc., impressed with the presentation, stated, "Land has solved a problem that every physicist working with light has struggled with for nearly a... View Details

01 Feb 2002
News

It's academic. (Not!)

walk through the analytics of each teaching plan collectively as a group. The attention to detail is tremendous." It was this environment and the School's extensive resources that attracted Gilbert to HBS. Formerly a consultant with the View Details

Keywords: Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

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