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Business Economics Online Course | HBS Online
approach to various planning-related problems I tackle each day. My ability to identify details related to business efficiency and performance that I may have missed in the past was fine-tuned in the program, and my understanding of the... View Details
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Guidelines for Choosing Resources - Research Computing Services
particularly in the batch queues. To prevent this, the batch queues use Fairshare: each person has a dynamic priority score that decreases as you use more compute. This allows the scheduler to move those with higher prioirty to the front... View Details
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2024 Reunion Presentations - Alumni
expanding trade, ever more efficient logistics, and a relatively benign trading environment. Revolutions in transportation and communications empowered the reconfiguration of global supply chains and a dramatic shift in production to... View Details
- 14 Jul 2020
- Research & Ideas
Restarting Under Uncertainty: Managerial Experiences from Around the World
local convenience stores, whose owners received incentives per order. This increased job efficiency by two or three times, as delivery moved from door-to-door to the pick-up station. Meanwhile, the work to pick and pack items also... View Details
- 24 Apr 2014
- News
Seeing glass in a new light
Rao Mulpuri (AMP 171, 2006) wants to transform the building industry by disrupting a common product: glass. View Dynamic Glass brings smart windows to buildings, and is gaining rapid adoption in North America—the California-based company... View Details
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Designing Tech Ventures - Course Catalog
technology, operations, and marketing; and a formula for eventually earning profit. It also requires an organization that can execute that business model. Students will learn the attributes of effective tech venture business models and organizations—and how to design... View Details
- 08 May 2015
- News
Adopting a common language can strengthen global companies
Multinational firms are increasingly mandating a common language—typically English—to gain efficiencies and enhance collaboration overall. Associate Professor Tsedal Neeley has discovered, however, that merely mandating a common language... View Details
- 01 Jun 1999
- News
HBS Alumni Association Board of Directors: President's Report
It was wonderful to see so many of you at the recent Global Alumni Conference in Cape Town, South Africa. Critical to the mission of the School, these annual events provide networking opportunities while offering a dynamic continuing... View Details
- 22 Aug 2024
- Blog Post
LM Wind Power Test and Validation Center
student essays that highlight their reflections. When we visited LM Wind Power’s Test and Validation Center in Lunderskov, Denmark, we saw how they work to optimize the efficiency and safety of their blades through a variety of testing... View Details
- 25 Aug 2014
- Blog Post
Working in Tech 4Dev
free and readily available technologies that involve the whole community. It’s a dynamic space to be working in that feels like the future of government-tech collaboration! While I’m not totally certain where I’ll land after graduating in... View Details
Keywords: Technology
- 01 Jun 2001
- News
HBS Alumni Association Board of Directors: President's Report
The last few months have been exciting ones at the School. We have witnessed the announcement of a new Harvard president, sponsored another dynamic Global Alumni Conference, welcomed club officers along with current and emeriti board... View Details
- 08 Jun 2011
- Lessons from the Classroom
Twenty-first Century Skill: Trading Carbon Credits
minutes trading halts, and students submit their permits. They are obliged to pay a fine of $40 per ton of pollution exceeding their permit holdings. “No one is thinking about efficient reduction of pollution during the exercise.”... View Details
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Celia Stafford
broad level, I’m interested in how to make processes more efficient and people happier,” she says. “Healthcare is an ideal arena from a modeling standpoint because there are so many nonlinear feedbacks.” She has found HBS to be an equally... View Details
- 14 Mar 2007
- Op-Ed
Government’s Misguided Probe of Private Equity
the efficiency of capital markets, the opaqueness of the groups' operations, and the abuse of inside information. It is hard not to feel that history is repeating itself. For not only is this investigation sure to fatten the profit pools... View Details
- 11 Sep 2000
- Research & Ideas
Riding the Internet Fast Track
genuine concern, as is the efficiency of using established distribution systems designed for inter-store delivery to also package and ship thousands of small orders to individual consumers. More important, the substantial losses these... View Details
Keywords: by Peter Jacobs
- 01 Oct 1998
- News
Putting on the Wheels
the development of new economies and profoundly improve the prospects for those countries. "By starting fresh in Eisenach," Hughes explains, "we were able to introduce lean manufacturing processes to workers who were ready for a new approach. Eisenach is today the most... View Details
Keywords: Mary Ellen Gardner
- 08 Jul 2013
- Research & Ideas
Everything Must Go: A Strategy for Store Liquidation
working paper, doctoral student Nathan Craig and professor Ananth Raman introduce a dynamic approach for optimizing the profitability of store liquidation that increases net recovery on cost by 2 to 7 percent of assets on hand, an... View Details
- 26 Sep 2023
- Blog Post
Climate Week NYC 2023
and Chief Solutionist Solitaire Townsend and Group CEO Lucy Shea were dynamic and insightful moderating the energizing panels I attended: Hollywood’s Starring Role in the Climate Economy and How Storytelling Advances Solutions, where Tory... View Details
- 08 Nov 2011
- First Look
First Look: Nov. 8
gain equal to between 0.6% and 1.5% of aggregate annual consumption, and it captures more than 60% of the gain from reform to the dynamic optimal policy. The gains are due to substantial increases in both View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 02 Apr 2013
- First Look
First Look: April 2
https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=41870 Expected Returns Dynamics Implied by Firm Fundamentals By: Lyle, Matthew R., and Charles C.Y. Wang Abstract—We provide a tractable stock valuation model to study the View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne