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Guidelines for Choosing Resources - Research Computing Services
long_int This queue is dedicated for interactive (foreground / live) work, for testing (interactively) code before submitting in batch or scaling, or for exploratory work. Serial and parallel jobs using 1 to 4 cores are permitted in this queue, can run a maximum of 3... View Details
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Sexual Harassment - Race, Gender & Equity
white women to have recently experienced harassment, even when controlling for sector, industry, size of company, age, and marital/partner status. “I was repeatedly the subject of sexual overtures when I first graduated from HBS. From the... View Details
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Clinical Trials as a setting for Health Policy and Management Research
The clinical trial marketplace is in flux. A decade ago, pharmaceutical firms almost exclusively conducted the study of their novel drug compounds within major academic medical centers. But today, industry-sponsored clinical trials are increasingly using community... View Details
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Payment and Financial Aid - HBS Online
ET. We encourage you to apply at that time. Grant applicants will be notified of their grant application decision on or before August 18, 2025. Dates are subject to change based on availability. Please note that we are not able to... View Details
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What Black Executives Really Want
insecure, and unable to deliver their best work because of the environment in which they were operating. They were surviving, but not thriving. WHAT SOLUTIONS DID YOUR RESEARCH SUBJECTS OFFER? I put it to them this way. "If you were going... View Details
- 14 Jul 2020
- Research & Ideas
Restarting Under Uncertainty: Managerial Experiences from Around the World
had been a subject of an HBS case study in the recent past) and considered them to be exemplary organizations (in terms of productivity and profitability) prior to the pandemic. Almost all the companies contacted participated in the... View Details
- 15 Jun 2007
- Research & Ideas
Remembering Alfred Chandler
would always remind his visitors that good source material was the key to good history and would want to know what research collection they were using at Baker Library. His enthusiasm for the subject of business history, and for history... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 10 Sep 2020
- Research & Ideas
The COVID Two-Step for Leaders: Protect and Pivot
metrics to help determine how agile the company is, how agile it should be, whether it is moving in the right direction at the right speed, and which constraints are impeding progress. Surveys of internal and external stakeholders to obtain their View Details
- 17 Dec 2008
- Lessons from the Classroom
‘Ted Levitt Changed My Life’
it wasn't personal." Levitt's habit of throwing chalk at the blackboard, he says, was a symbol for "think harder." "He subjected himself to a greater discipline than he ever subjected his... View Details
- 23 Jun 2008
- Research & Ideas
Innovative Ways to Encourage Personal Savings
about the subject in a paper, "Consumer Demand for Prize-Linked Savings: A Preliminary Analysis" [PDF]. In the Clarksville survey, there were four characteristics that define people who were most interested in the product: They have no... View Details
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Experience and description-based decision making.
Prof. Barron and his co-authors study the effect of the economic environment on decision making. One example involves the effect of rare (low probability) events. People behave as if they overweight these events in some settings (e.g., when buying insurance and... View Details
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Commercialization of the Polarizer - Edwin H. Land & Polaroid | Harvard Business School
Collections Bibliography SITE CREDITS 15. Edwin H. Land, "Research by the Business Itself," a paper contributed by Edwin H. Land, President, Polaroid Corporation, on the general subject of "The Future of Industrial Research" at the... View Details
- 08 Mar 2021
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International Women's Day Featured Stories
war, yet they are not the solely affected. Women, children, communities, the environment all bear the toils of warfare. The Islamic State’s war in Syria was no different. Women’s freedom vanished – they were subjected to the strictest of... View Details
- 04 Jun 2018
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Are There Conditions Under Which Directors Should Consider Hiring a CEO Fired Elsewhere for Inappropriate Behavior?
track5 How Does a Board Introduce to the Organization a CEO Fired Elsewhere for Inappropriate Behavior? The question of conditions under which a board might hire a CEO fired elsewhere for inappropriate behavior, the subject of this... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 01 Dec 2009
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One Man Crime Wave
his pepper mill of noir. When MacDonald died in 1986 from complications following heart surgery, a distinctive American voice was silenced, and the torrent of words, opinions, columns, stories, and books, an output embracing all manner of View Details
- 01 Feb 2002
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It's academic. (Not!)
player named Carlos Gonzalez (MBA '98). They were married in Turkey in 1999. Finding Reason in the Irrational The year before she enrolled in the Ph.D. program in business economics, Ulrike Malmendier was immersed in the history of Roman law, a View Details
- 20 Mar 2000
- Research & Ideas
Incubators: The New Venture Capitalists?
issues on the subject at the Cyberposium panel "Incubators: The New Venture Capitalists?" Although the forms of their organizations vary in large and small ways, one thing all the participants agreed on was that incubators are... View Details
Keywords: by Kenneth Liss
- 08 Sep 2008
- HBS Case
The Value of Environmental Activists
There are many methods, most financial, to measure the success of companies in meeting goals. But the question becomes a lot harder at Harvard Business School when MBAs are challenged to measure the efforts of environmental organizations like Greenpeace and the World... View Details
- 19 Sep 2016
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Why Isn't Business Research More Relevant to Business Practitioners?
news hook, although it may not be as obvious as, say, a breakthrough in cancer research. Remember the aforementioned research by Bazerman et al., which explained the unconscious biases that cause auditors to do a bad job of auditing? Bazerman first pitched a piece on... View Details