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- 07 Jan 2019
- Research & Ideas
The Better Way to Forecast the Future
Grushka-Cockayne, that executives should adopt a similar approach when it comes to using probability forecasts of business-critical issues; for example, the likelihood that product demand will increase by a... View Details
- 28 Jul 2020
- Research & Ideas
Racism and Digital Design: How Online Platforms Can Thwart Discrimination
people tend to use whatever option is set up as the default, so resetting default options with inclusivity in mind can be a useful strategy. Companies can also consider increasing the prominence of their... View Details
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Rclone - Research Computing Services
new config Enter a name of your choosing at the prompt, e.g., OneDrive At the "Storage" prompt Choose onedrive Respond to subsequent prompts, accepting defaults unless you wish to change them A web browser... View Details
- 01 Dec 2019
- News
Remix
Instead of joining the other parents in a competition for weak Wi-Fi in a crowded waiting room, Dixon camped out in her car. She used the time to strategize her startup; news radio kept her company. In all View Details
- 08 Jul 2019
- Research & Ideas
Are Paywalls Saving Newspapers?
uniqueness of content were driving factors in the likelihood of sales success post-paywall. The study and its findings are detailed in the new working paper, The Comprehensive... View Details
- 04 Nov 2015
- What Do You Think?
Why Does Gender Diversity Improve Financial Performance?
the United States in both parties. Whatever the reason, research is shedding interesting insights on the issue. Findings of a recent McKinsey Global Institute study include: (1) lack of gender diversity is... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 05 Jun 2009
- What Do You Think?
What Does Slower Economic Growth Really Mean?
services? The latter grew so rapidly in the U.S. in recent years (with every mortgage backed security and credit default swap transaction counted, resulting in substantial contributions to growth rates) that, at its peak, it may well have... View Details
- 19 Sep 2016
- Research & Ideas
Why Isn't Business Research More Relevant to Business Practitioners?
relevant research not only helps improve the research, but also increases the likelihood that practitioners will subsequently read and appreciate a translation of that work,” Toffel writes. “This can yield... View Details
- 01 Dec 2016
- News
In My Humble Opinion: Chip Brewer (MBA 1991)
play, there’s a high likelihood you’re going to try regular golf.” Up-and-comer: Aaron Wise, who signed with Callaway after winning the NCAA individual and team championships for the University of Oregon.... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 05 Aug 2015
- Research & Ideas
How Hormones Foretell Whether People Will Cheat
wondered if there were biological or physiological factors that could help to explain the misconduct that we see so frequently in the real world” A new study reveals two key discoveries about the link between the endocrine system and unethical behavior. One, certain... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 06 Oct 2003
- Research & Ideas
The Problem with Hedge Funds
While investors are still learning what happened to them in the 1990s and are trying to get their money back, they find themselves facing a new set of dangers—in some cases from the same people who victimized them before. And while it's... View Details
Keywords: by D. Quinn Mills
- 12 Jan 2023
- News
‘Debiasing’ Debt with Data
repaid in 98.2 percent of instances. “That’s an implied default rate of about 1.8 percent,” Ballard says. For comparison, one SBA loan program included in the data had a... View Details
Keywords: Ralph Ranalli
- 01 Jun 2007
- What Do You Think?
How Should Pay Be Linked to Performance?
performance? The Moody's decision might suggest the assumption that pay reflects value to an organization, and possibly also potential performance. In other words, one's pay in relation to the leader reflects one's value (or even View Details
Keywords: by Jim Heskett
- 09 Jul 2007
- Research & Ideas
Five Steps to Better Family Negotiations
family members begin to leverage the 5 principles of effective negotiation we have outlined, they will increase their chances of successful dealmaking and dispute resolution. The View Details
Keywords: by John A. Davis and Deepak Malhotra
- 23 Jun 2008
- Research & Ideas
Innovative Ways to Encourage Personal Savings
the things I write about in these papers are applicable to a large range of Americans. Programs such as automatic defaults and 401(k) defaults, as embodied in proposals like the auto-IRA and AutoSave, are... View Details
- 10 Mar 2020
- Research & Ideas
The Little Understood Problem Confronting Diverse Workplaces
Ramarajan says. “The default tendency is to withdraw.” But the tutors attempted to engage with students, despite the school’s discouragement of getting too “personal.” For example, one white male tutor told... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna
- 03 Oct 2007
- Research & Ideas
Dealing with the ‘Irrational’ Negotiator
professional accounting firm, conduct an audit of the records pertinent to this dispute and to mail the results to the employee. (This would be far less expensive than going to court.) Having this information would diminish the employee's... View Details
Keywords: by Deepak Malhotra & Max H. Bazerman
- 01 Dec 2023
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books and Podcasts
opportunities. Startup life is exciting, but full of uncertainty. You need the best information possible to make smart choices. The Startup Lottery is for anyone who wants to maximize their likelihood View Details
Keywords: podcasts
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Frequently Asked Questions - Research Computing Services
the HBSGrid? JupyterLab is available on Grid 3.0. To get started with Grid 3.0, please see our documentation here. How can I use the latest version of R or RStudio? This page demonstrates how you can check to see which version View Details
- 28 May 2020
- Research & Ideas
Coronavirus Could Create a 'Bankruptcy Pandemic'
as quite possibly record numbers of businesses (and individuals) default on their debt, restructure, or go bankrupt. The number of US business bankruptcy filings in the first... View Details