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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

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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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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

28 Feb 2023
Blog Post

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

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

26 Mar 2018
Research & Ideas

To Motivate Employees, Give an Unexpected Bonus (or Penalty)

penalty,” says Gallani, “but who was expecting to.” Ultimately, such tournament-style motivation schemes may be a zero-sum game, Gallani and Cai found, with the increased productivity of the winners and decreased productivity of the losers canceling each other out to... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Manufacturing

21 Aug 2019
Research & Ideas

What Machine Learning Teaches Us about CEO Leadership Style

First, the researchers looked at the words that CEOs chose, using statistical inference to eventually generate 100 topics as diverse as marketing, corporate boards, and personal family history. Each CEO was scored based on their tendency... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

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Capital IQ: Introduction, Help, Etc.

events, transactions, and affiliations. Capital IQ Search Examples Screen for private equity or venture capital firms investing in a particular industry, stage of investment, and/or geography Locate information and statistics on secondary... View Details

06 Oct 2010
Research & Ideas

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

07 Jul 2003
What Do You Think?

Can We Have Too Much Productivity Improvement?

had risen to the highest rate in nine years. Economists assure us that productivity (the ratio of product and service outputs to labor and capital inputs) improvements are good for all of us, whether we are employed (and thus factored into the statistic) or not (which... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

21 May 2012
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OSHA Inspections: Protecting Employees or Killing Jobs?

help with the data analysis. Thus began the long saga of extracting statistics on inspections and sorting out which were randomly assigned, which followed accidents, and which followed complaints. In addition, Toffel and Levine... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

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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
News

Global Networking Night; Sweden Club Holds Climate Forum

Clubs News Clubs News Global Networking Night 2023 Another successful Global Networking Night (GNN) is in the books, after alumni around the world held nearly 60 separate events on October 25. The annual GNN features alumni gatherings—some in person, some... View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley

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

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RCS Cheat Sheet - Research Computing Services

Help RCS Cheat Sheet 3ms Check out the links below to quickly get started with our statistical/data services, high-throughput compute cluster, research software, and training. For additional assistance, please see our help page. View Details

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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

15 Mar 2022
Research & Ideas

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

25 Feb 2015
HBS Seminar

Jeffrey Schnapp, Harvard Graduate School of Design

02 Oct 2017
What Do You Think?

Do Bitcoin and Digital Currency Have a Future?

statistical trading system; he handled administration and sales. Hedging was an important feature of the fund, since trading in commodities requires frequent short selling of commodities contracts. Registering the fund with the Securities... View Details

Keywords: by James L. Heskett; Financial Services

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