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Running a Program/Submitting a Job - Research Computing Services

indicates the number of compute cores (e.g., RStudio-05G). For a given application, select the appropriate memory footprint for your analysis. For example, you can select 5G, 10G, or 20G when running R. See our Guidelines for Choosing... View Details

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HBSGrid Project Directory Space Notifications - Research Computing Services

Technical How-To’s & Notes Technical How-To’s & Notes HBSGrid Project Directory Space Notifications The default size for project directories on the Research Grid is 50GB, with increases granted upon request. When a project directory is full, the system may not save... View Details

October 1981 (Revised June 1986)
Case

Stratus Computer

Bill Foster has assembled a team to begin a new computer company. He must now develop a financing strategy in view of the various kinds of capital available for new ventures. View Details

Keywords: Financing and Loans; Business Startups; Financial Strategy; Computer Industry

18 May 2008
News

The Computer Industry Comes With Built-In Term Limits

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Stata Temporary Files and Stata Tmp - Research Computing Services

a number of files on the /tmp volume that is local to each compute node. This volume is shared by all jobs on that node, is essential for the health of the node, offers a significant speed advantage over using storage on the network, and... View Details

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Stata and Maintaining Version Stability - Research Computing Services

Software Tools Stata and Maintaining Version Stability 2ms Every two years we update Stata in our research computing environment (both desktops and on the HBSGrid). While this is an excellent opportunity to stay abreast of the new... View Details

February 1990
Case

Retail Financial Services Industry in 1988

By: Dwight B. Crane

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Article

Cloud Computing is No Pipe Dream

By: Jeffrey F. Rayport

Keywords: Technology; Digital; Services; Strategy; Internet and the Web; Marketing

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October 2014 (Revised January 2016)
Case

IDEO: Human-Centered Service Design

By: Ryan W. Buell and Andrew Otazo

The case describes IDEO, one of the world's leading design firms, and its human-centered innovation culture and processes. It is an example of what managers can do to make their own organizations more innovative. In reaction to a rapidly changing competitive landscape,... View Details

Keywords: Design Thinking; Innovation; Service Management; Service; Design; Service Delivery; Innovation and Management; Entertainment and Recreation Industry; Peru

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Changing Permissions on the HBSGrid - Research Computing Services

Technical How-To’s & Notes Technical How-To’s & Notes Changing Permissions on the HBSGrid Background In a project space, there is a default set of permissions for directories and files. This is usually: rwx rwx --- This means r ead/ w rite/e x ecute for the USER (the... View Details

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Change Your Unix Command Prompt - Research Computing Services

Technical How-To’s & Notes Technical How-To’s & Notes Change Your Unix Command Prompt The Unix command-line shell is a very powerful, highly customizable environment. So it's supposed to help you be more productive, right? But not with a drab command prompt that never... View Details

March 1984
Background Note

Note on the Personal Computer Industry (January 1983)

By: John A. Quelch

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2002
Case

Dell Computer Corporation

By: Vijay Govindarajan and Julie Lang

The world's largest direct-selling computer company grew from its philosophy that customers know what they want and Dell can deliver it through custom assembly of outsourced components. Through a combination of financial and non-financial measures, Dell turned itself... View Details

Keywords: Marketing Strategy; Hardware; Customization and Personalization; Consumer Products Industry; Consumer Products Industry

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Connecting Remotely to WRDS on Windows - Research Computing Services

/**********************************************************************/; /* Compute Services: Sample script to submit program remotely to WRDS */ /**********************************************************************/; /* Set up the... View Details

March 2002 (Revised October 2005)
Case

Apple Computer 2002

By: David B. Yoffie and Yusi Wang

In 1980, Apple was the leader of the personal computer industry, but by 2002 it had suffered heavy losses at the hands of the Wintel camp. This case examines Apple's strategic moves as the PC industry evolves in the 21st century and poses the question: Can Steve Jobs... View Details

Keywords: Growth and Development Strategy; Leadership Style; Information Technology; Supply and Industry; Competitive Advantage; Computer Industry; Computer Industry; California

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Machine Learning frameworks (Tensorflow, PyTorch, Keras, OpenCV) - Research Computing Services

ML/AI frameworks can be run on the standard compute nodes or on our compute node equipped with NVidia GPUs. Please see GPU Computing for more information on how to submit jobs... View Details

25 Sep 2000
Research & Ideas

More Than the Sum of Its Parts: The Impact of Modularity on the Computer Industry

The computer age began some six decades ago with general-purpose machines with Star Wars-like names such as ENIAC and EDVAC. They were powered by vacuum tubes, big enough to fill an entire room, and developed by mathematicians under the... View Details

Keywords: by Staff; Computer; Computer; Computer

November 2015 (Revised February 2020)
Teaching Note

IDEO: Human-Centered Service Design

By: Ryan W. Buell

The case describes IDEO, one of the world's leading design firms, and its human-centered innovation culture and processes. It is an example of what managers can do to make their own organizations more innovative. In reaction to a rapidly changing competitive landscape,... View Details

Keywords: Design Thinking; Innovation; Service Management; Service; Design; Service Delivery; Innovation and Management; Entertainment and Recreation Industry; Peru