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Scaling Work - Research Computing Services

necessary, as you control all the resources on that machine. However, on a compute cluster, you only control the resources that the scheduler has given you, and it has given you only the resources that you've requested, whether this is... View Details

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Entrepreneurship Course Online | HBS Online

through experimentation. Highlights Describing Successful Ventures The Idea Pivots - Voluntary and Involuntary Show Hide Details Concepts The POCD Framework The Journey of Rent the Runway Post-Launch Considerations Dynamic Fit Management... View Details

12 Nov 2021
News

Alumni Business Leaders on Confronting the Climate Change Challenge

global and a series of regional B Climate Collectives designed to support businesses to share what they are learning on topics such as how to move to a regenerative business model. How might you explore ways... View Details

16 May 2005
Research & Ideas

Nonprofit Networking: The New Way to Grow

network organizations as sharing three characteristics, according to Wei-Skillern: The parties would rather discuss and work through a problem than simply abandon the relationship. There is a high level of... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

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Summer Associates | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School

Experience Feedback from students and employers has helped us identify some key elements for a successful experience: A high level of responsibility with significant chance to explore issues of management in... View Details

17 Nov 2020
Research & Ideas

Why a Blended Workforce May Be Key to Lasting Competitive Advantage

In recent years, companies have been anxious about the lack of skilled workers to fill pivotal jobs. But then came COVID-19 and a subsequent recession. The ensuing business turmoil and record-high unemployment may have temporarily distracted companies from their... View Details

Keywords: by Joseph B. Fuller

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HBS - Financials | Supplemental Financial Information

and participation. The group welcomed 12,722 participants across 179 programs, comprising 132 in-person programs, 28 hybrid programs, and 19 fully virtual programs. A combined 92 Focused View Details

September 2008 (Revised April 2009)
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Martha Goldberg Aronson: Challenges at Mid-Career (B)

By: William W. George

Martha Goldberg Aronson of Medtronic is trying to decide whether to accept the offer from Medtronic CEO Bill Hawkins to become senior vice president and chief talent officer. Aronson returned from an executive role in Europe just 18 months before as vice president,... View Details

Keywords: Decision Choices and Conditions; Job Design and Levels; Leadership; Managerial Roles; Work-Life Balance

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01 Sep 2006
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Marketing Giant Ted Levitt Remembered

Europe during World War II. At the end of the war, he returned to Dayton and a job as a sportswriter at the Dayton Journal Herald, where he helped humorist Erma Bombeck get her start at the paper. He earned... View Details

Keywords: Business Schools & Computer & Management Training; Educational Services

04 Feb 2014
What Do You Think?

Has Listening Become a Lost Art?

Wendy Zito believes that "when you feel you are being listened to then it helps you connect to the other person but it also helps you hear yourself." Gael raised the question to a more universal level with her comment: "Listening to... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

16 Jan 2006
Research & Ideas

Adam Smith, Behavioral Economist?

Adam Smith's The Wealth of Nations, first published in 1776, helped create the discipline of economics with its conjuring of the invisible hand, self-interest, and other explanations of market forces that have influenced academics,... View Details

Keywords: by Ann Cullen

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Sexual Harassment - Race, Gender & Equity

incidents involved sexualized conversations and remarks. Women up and down the organizational hierarchy experienced similar levels of harassment. At the junior, mid, senior,... View Details

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Ignacio Lartirigoyen

After applying his skills at ExxonMobil – "a very exciting time because of the company's size and its level of professionalism"– Ignacio moved to an agribusiness closer to his roots, Adecoagro,... View Details

Keywords: Financial Services

18 Sep 2019
Op-Ed

WeWork—The IPO That Shouldn’t?

especially for smaller tenants. Co-working space is here to stay and this is largely attributable to Neumann. Can the company ultimately be profitable? Probably, as there are other companies engaged in similar models that do make money.... View Details

Keywords: by Nori Gerardo Lietz; Financial Services; Real Estate

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Privacy Policy & Legal Info | HBS Online

and password. Educational Information such as student identification number, courses taken and currently registered for, course progress, and course grade. Employment... View Details

12 May 2020
Research & Ideas

It’s Time To Relaunch Your Remote Team

levels of stress. In the words of John Kenneth Galbraith, renowned economist and diplomat, “All of the great leaders have had one characteristic in common: It was the willingness to confront unequivocally... View Details

Keywords: by Tsedal Neeley

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Introducing One-Step Photography - Edwin H. Land & Polaroid | Harvard Business School

while the SX-70 group made the final push to complete the design of a camera that would make the complex process of one-step photography possible and the act of taking the picture amazingly simple. EXPLORE... View Details

22 Feb 2022
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Breaking News

this platform so that other papers can come in? Maybe that means bringing in local investors and building a cap pooled fund at the state level so we can make other acquisitions. Maybe that means... View Details

Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint; illustration by Dana Smith; News, Library, Internet, and Other Services; News, Library, Internet, and Other Services

20 Jan 2023
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Free Spirits

reduces the ethanol until the preferred level of alcohol remains, and finally that product is reconditioned with carbonation. These techniques were repopularized during Prohibition, when 0.5 percent alcohol... View Details

Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint; Food Services and Drinking Places; Food Services and Drinking Places

29 Aug 2023
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Helping Consumers Decarbonize their Purchases

This episode of Climate Rising features a conversation between Professor and host Mike Toffel and Sanchali Pal (MBA 2018), founder and CEO of Commons, an app View Details

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