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Software Tools - Research Computing Services

script with the bsub , make , make install sequence, otherwise just follow the instructions provided with the software you are installing. As an illustration, we can build the development version of the R environment for statistical... View Details

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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 View Details

28 Feb 2023
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Celebrating Socioeconomic Diversity and Inclusion at HBS (Part 1)

statistical anomaly but also as a source of hope and encouragement for others pursuing similar goals. This experience is both a burden and an inspiration, a struggle and a calling. Brandon Corts, Class of 2023 It's embarrassing admitting... View Details

14 Feb 2017
Research & Ideas

A Strategy For Steady Leadership in an Unsteady World

forecasting, strategic planning, and statistical decision making have not prepared them for this amount of flux in the environment. In short, these rapid-fire changes are putting extreme pressure on business leaders to lead in ways not... View Details

Keywords: by Bill George

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

Personnel Research Federation in New York in 1929. It includes findings from the experiments and a summary of the relay assembly test room studies. Thomas N. Whitehead. The Industrial Worker: a Statistical Study of Human Relations in a... View Details

Portrait Project

Ahmed Farag

can I look at my younger reflection and not desire for them to have ambition? Without my own parents, I would’ve just been another statistic of illiteracy in a third world country. My moral insomnia continues to drag. If I can’t find... View Details

06 Oct 2010
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John Kotter: Four Ways to Kill a Good Idea

into a forest of complexity where nearly anyone can become lost. Statistics can be powerful weapons, used not to clarify but to bewilder. "You are trying to solve a problem that doesn't exist. Just look at this [twenty-two-page]... View Details

Keywords: by John Kotter & Lorne A. Whitehead

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Documenting the Wartime Effort | Baker Library | Bloomberg Center | Harvard Business School

(including a number of full-page images) of steel production and research efforts. In subsequent annual reports from the early to mid 1940s, images of steel production placed alongside financial statistics underscored to stockholders the... View Details

20 Nov 2019
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It's No Joke: AI Beats Humans at Making You Laugh

of tests to make its own estimations. The computer had no way of parsing the language in the jokes, nor did it follow a model indicating what features made a joke funny. Instead, it relied on “collaborative filtering” algorithms to learn which sample jokes were View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman

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V.G. Narayanan | About

desirable habits and to harness other motivators such as peer pressure and frequent feedback. Education Phd in Business, Graduate School of Business at Stanford University , June 1995 MA in Economics, Economics Department Stanford University, June 1994 MS in... View Details

01 Jun 2024
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Leveraging Generative AI

about half of the class never or rarely used it, saying that they wanted to figure out the concepts themselves. The rest of the class used it sometimes or frequently, primarily to understand statistical or machine learning concepts or to... View Details

Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie

09 Jan 2006
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When Benchmarks Don’t Work

indicate a range of expenses, typically measured by the cost of the support department as a percentage of total revenue or the number of full-time-equivalent (FTE) employees per billion dollars of revenue. Hackett presents summary View Details

Keywords: by Robert S. Kaplan; Service

06 Jan 2020
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Motivate Your High Performers to Share Their Knowledge

the monetary incentives increased it by 13 percent. Combining the two interventions boosted the total by a small but statistically insignificant amount over the structured meetings alone. After the study period ended, however, something... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

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Buy Now, Pay Later: Home Finance

statistics identified friends and family, savings banks, and building & loan societies as the three largest sources of mortgage lending. Trade journals, like this report of too-easy financing during the real estate boom of the 1920s,... View Details

22 Feb 2021
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Reaching Today's Omnichannel Customer Takes a New Sales Strategy

sales productivity is not only about profit maximization and shareholder value—which, by the way, I don't think a CEO or Harvard Business School needs to apologize for—it also affects growth, civic discourse, and the lives of millions of people. Bureau of Labor View Details

Keywords: by Kristen Senz

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Technology & Operations Management Awards & Honors - Faculty & Research

Complete Paper Award at the 2022 INFORMS Workshop on Data Science for "Ensemble IV: Creating Instrumental Variables from Ensemble Learners for Robust Statistical Inference” with Gordon Burtch, Mochen Yang, and Gediminas Adomavicius. Seth... View Details

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RCS Cheat Sheet - Research Computing Services

Help RCS Cheat Sheet 35ms Check out the links below to quickly get started with our statistical/data services, high-throughput compute cluster, research software, and self-paced training. For additional assistance, please see our help page. View Details

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Industry Information - Alumni

care, justice, the environment, international affairs, and national security; non-partisan, global scope. Data.gov Portal for US-focused data and statistics from hundreds of organizations including federal agencies. World Bank DataBank... View Details

03 Nov 2023
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Global Networking Night; Sweden Club Holds Climate Forum

range of global statistics and to drive home the dire climate situation. “One thing we can’t buy is time,” he said. “We believe we can solve this, but we are running out of time.” Stockholm Climate Leadership Forum HBS Professor and... View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley

15 Mar 2022
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This Workplace Certification Made Already Safe Companies Even Safer

recovering—declined even more at 24 percent. Inside the studies Researchers accessed detailed injury data from the US Bureau of Labor Statistics for almost 2.2 million establishments from 1995 to 2016. They also struck data sharing... View Details

Keywords: by Rachel Layne

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