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14 Apr 2022
Op-Ed

Let’s Move Forward from COVID—Without Forgetting What We’ve Learned

burned out. The virtual meeting that runs back-to-back has shed light on the need for mini-breaks and recovery time. The result of the remote work environment, in some industries, is that leaders believe that employees are accessible... View Details

Keywords: by Hise O. Gibson and MaShon Wilson

31 Jul 2017
HBS Case

It’s Hard to Fix the Family Business Without Offending the Family

1981. Opened in 1992, Pho Hoa has been run with few formal processes in place and no regular income statement reporting, forecasting, or budgeting. Thanh, wanting to take a well-deserved retirement after 25 years of hard work, has named... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Food & Beverage

17 Jan 2019
Blog Post

MBA Curriculum Spotlight: Short Intensive Programs (SIPs)

otherwise get to study. SIPs run all day over the course of the four days and will typically include programming over dinner on one of the evenings. Here are brief descriptions of this year’s SIPs. Africa Rising: Understanding Business,... View Details

06 Oct 2003
Research & Ideas

The Problem with Hedge Funds

of some $65 billion and their number and the amount invested are growing quickly (more than a fourfold increase in the past 3 years) 279 More funds mean more competition, and some funds are now closing. Investment banks run sessions for... View Details

Keywords: by D. Quinn Mills

12 Sep 2023
Blog Post

Harvard Climate Entrepreneurs Circle: Taking Climate Solutions from Idea to Action, Faster

Or with Liz Purchia, who is advisor to former EPA administrator Gina McCarthy and helped run public affairs at the EPA. Or Rob Shelton, who focuses on scale-up with a specialization in climate. We also work closely with Green Pro Bono,... View Details

27 Feb 2017
Research & Ideas

Reputation is Vital to Survival in Turbulent Markets

companies to compete. The reality is much different in developing economies, where the rule of law might be poorly enforced, social anarchy flourishes, or the military runs the government. So, it is quite remarkable when entrepreneurs in... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

31 Jan 2018
Research & Ideas

American Idle: Workers Spend Too Much Time Waiting for Something to Do

Reading: Why Productivity Suffers When Employees Are Allowed to Schedule Their Own Tasks Hiding From Managers Can Increase Your Productivity The Task and Temporal Microstructure of Productivity: Evidence from Japanese Financial Services What do you think about this... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

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Rclone - Research Computing Services

rclone can use the web browser for authentication. This process is usually simple: open a terminal and run module load rclone to make rclone available, and then run rclone config to start the configuration... View Details

Portrait Project

Brandon Angelini

but that weekend, it was something we built collaboratively as a family. I remember my mom asking me what it should look like (“you can choose?!”), learning that we needed an extra board running diagonally (“to prevent it wiggling back... View Details

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Marketing Awards & Honors - Faculty & Research

viewed to have made a significant long run impact on the field of Marketing. 2012 Jill J. Avery : Winner of the 2012 Marketing Science Institute Best Paper Award for articles published in the "Consumer Identities" special issue of the... View Details

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Frequently Asked Questions - Research Computing Services

window. Now try connecting via NoMachine again. As a last attempt, quit NoMachine. Remove the .nx directory present in your home folder on your Mac or PC, and try connecting via NoMachine again. If you still cannot get in, please contact RCS . View Details

01 Dec 2014
Research & Ideas

The Big Influence of Small Countries in the United Nations Secretariat

Who really runs the world? We're not talking in a power-brokers-conspiring-in-the-back-room sort of way. Rather, by looking at the institutions that countries themselves have set up to organize the world's affairs, can we determine who is... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

Profile

Drew Keller

person from your life that you admire the most today? My mom and my dad. They each have successful small businesses that they started from scratch and have run for over 30 years, and they have supported each other so that they are... View Details

01 Dec 2018
News

In My Humble Opinion: Growth Investor

a more favorable market environment for our impact model, so there was some concern as to whether our model was portable. That building is now one of PD’s best-performing assets.” Inspiration: Former NFL wide receiver Jerry Rice. “No one saw him go back to Mississippi... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna

20 Aug 2014
Research & Ideas

Why the ALS Ice Bucket Challenge is a Social Media Blockbuster

increasingly by individuals. People who use Facebook and Twitter are for all practical purposes running little media houses, and face the problem of their much larger brethren, where will the next story come from? Originality is too... View Details

Keywords: by John Deighton

Portrait Project

Ahmed Farag

ancestors ruled. In the middle of the desert, humble abodes line the village filled with overlooked people, who don’t even have clean running water. I could say, “Who cares? They’re nobodies.” But, how can I look into the eyes of a kid... View Details

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Wyss House | About

with a Swiss company run by four doctors who had developed a new process to help bones heal more quickly and with better results. In 1977 Wyss became president of Synthes USA, where he was responsible for expanding the company’s... View Details

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Monitoring Jobs & Troubleshooting - Research Computing Services

Running Jobs Monitoring Jobs & Troubleshooting 23ms Monitoring and Controlling Jobs Whether using a GUI or the command line, monitoring the progress of your jobs and understanding how to control them is essential. Below we provide... View Details

11 Apr 2024
News

Mission Control

about where Spire's at now. PP: Spire today runs the world's largest multipurpose constellation. We track every spot on Earth over 100 times a day. All of the world's maritime aviation and weather activity is tracked and predicted based... View Details

01 Jan 2012
News

Hiroshi Mikitani, MBA 1993

retail stores sell their products online. Rather than rely on outside investors, Mikitani funded Rakuten with his own money, taking a significant personal risk, and recruited his wife, Haruko (an IBJ colleague), to run the back office. In... View Details

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