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Guidelines for Choosing Resources - Research Computing Services

users. The resource reservation with (configurable) grace periods should remedy this. And backfill scheduling should increase job throughput to levels we experience now. Those users who submit jobs with the... View Details
  • 22 Apr 2022
  • Research & Ideas

Companies Can Expand Their Talent Pool by Giving Ex-Convicts a Second Chance

if restricting background checks might backfire, especially if employers resort to racial stereotypes to guess who might have a criminal record—and avoid hiring those people. So the researchers conducted field experiments involving the... View Details
Keywords: by Jay Fitzgerald
  • 13 Jun 2017
  • Blog Post

4 Things You Need to Know about the MS/MBA: Engineering Sciences Program

applicants should still apply in the 2+2 Round).  You’ll then need to indicate your interest in the MS/MBA on your application and write an additional essay. If you’re invited to interview, you’ll then be asked to submit a third recommendation from someone who can... View Details
  • 23 May 2012
  • Research & Ideas

Five Ways to Make Your Company More Innovative

problems have been solved before by somebody in a different environment. Associating that other experience to what's going on in my world may make me look brilliant, but in reality my brilliance was in seeing that this had been solved... View Details
Keywords: by Garry Emmons, Julia Hanna & Roger Thompson
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Technology & Operations Management Awards & Honors - Faculty & Research

Management. Alan D. MacCormack : Received the Apgar Award for Innovation in Teaching in 2011 for his role in designing the new first-year FIELD (Field Immersion Experiences for Leadership Development)... View Details
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Research & Development, Project Code SX-70 - Edwin H. Land & Polaroid | Harvard Business School

simple techniques. . . . Land would talk to the laboratory people several times a day and look at what had happened and then suggest some new experiments to do and of course the technicians would also have their own ideas." 52 In an early... View Details
  • 24 Jan 2018
  • Research & Ideas

How to Get People Addicted to a Good Habit

underinvestment in behaviors like handwashing with soap that we see. If they are rational, it can affect the design of interventions and incentives that policymakers can offer to encourage positive habit formation.” The team’s View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
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Judges - Alumni

machine learning), VR/AR, robotics/autonomy, and space. He has been named to Forbes' 30 Under 30 Venture Capital list. Brandon is currently a formal advisor to CASIS, the organization designated by NASA to manage, promote, and broker... View Details
  • January 2018
  • Case

Kids & Company: Entering the U.S.

By: Boris Groysberg, Matthew G. Preble and Katherine Connolly Baden
In April 2017, Victoria Sopik and Jennifer Nashmi, CEO and CFO (respectively) of Kids & Company, a Canadian childcare provider that they had co-founded in the early 2000s and developed into a nearly 100-unit enterprise, are discussing how the company should proceed... View Details
Keywords: Child Care; Childcare; Day Care; Daycare; Early Childhood Education; Strategy; Growth and Development Strategy; Growth Management; Business Strategy; Competitive Strategy; Competitive Advantage; Expansion; Leadership; Marketing; Product Marketing; Brands and Branding; Service Delivery; Service Operations; Product Design; Product Development; Cross-Cultural and Cross-Border Issues; Selection and Staffing; Customer Focus and Relationships; Entrepreneurship; Service Industry; Education Industry; United States; Canada
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  • 03 Dec 2014
  • What Do You Think?

Can the Brilliant Jerk Be Managed Effectively?

for the phenomenon. Munyaradzi Mushato suggested that, "my experience in industry tells me that most jerks are created by the very systems that are designed to improve performance that is, about 70% of... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
  • 13 Jun 2019
  • Blog Post

Expanding My Worldview Through FIELD Global Immersion

and funny material posted on social media, to promote health, beauty, and snack food products. Our job was to develop a new snack food designed for the Korean millennial consumer. The FIELD course began in second semester. First, we... View Details
  • 13 Jun 2017
  • First Look

First Look at New Research and Ideas, June 13

deontology consists of many principles, which might, at times, conflict. In three studies, we design a conflict around moral principles and find that the relationship between moral judgment and religiosity is more nuanced than currently... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • Web

Why HBS? - Doctoral

Structure Our Doctoral Programs are designed to facilitate research above all other activities. While students are required to fulfill a teaching requirement, they are not required to become research assistants, nor are they required to... View Details
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Disruptive Innovation Online Course | HBS Online

version of this program for individuals with extensive work experience interested in on-campus programming. Learner Stories 76% found HBS Online to be more impactful than other online business programs I have already applied so much of... View Details
  • 16 Mar 2020
  • Research & Ideas

How the Coronavirus Is Already Rewriting the Future of Business

experiences are enhanced for everyone involved. There are three barriers that can prevent us from productively engaging: 1) not being able to help, 2) not knowing how to help, and, 3) not believing our help is important.  Organizations... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
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Value Measurement for Health Care - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness

participate in an Executive Education program on the HBS campus , you enter an immersive experience where every aspect of the learning model has been carefully designed to facilitate your growth. Your... View Details
  • 15 Jun 2009
  • Research & Ideas

GM: What Went Wrong and What’s Next

government. This is a great deal for Magna, but terrible for Chevrolet. GM's best small cars are engineered (and some are manufactured) by Opel in Europe. But it's not just about design and engineering. The supply chains and factory... View Details
Keywords: by Staff; Auto
  • 12 Nov 2013
  • First Look

First Look: November 12

link: http://francescagino.com/#/judgment_research   Working Papers When 3+1>4: Gift Structure and Reciprocity in the Field By: Gilchrist, Duncan, Michael Luca, and Deepak Malhotra Abstract—Do higher wages elicit reciprocity and hence higher effort? In a field View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 16 Aug 2004
  • Research & Ideas

Luxury Isn’t What It Used to Be

we're doing," says McEvoy. Today, Queen Elizabeth II wears her Burberry trench coat. But so does supermodel Kate Moss. At Waterford Crystal, CEO John G. Foley (HBS ISMP '89) has brought on contemporary designers like Versace and Vera... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Consumer Products
  • 20 Apr 2021
  • Book

A Simple Question That Can Guide Companies to Epic Success

but it's not going to create the kind of value that ultimately gets translated into financial success. Kost: In the first line of your book, you say that strategy is simple. Why is that such a provocative statement? Oberholzer-Gee: Because no one View Details
Keywords: by Danielle Kost