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Case Studies - Social Impact Collaboratory

any potential investment that produced a proprietary expected impact. With this tool in place, Root Capital had an integrated picture of impact and financial performance for a loan and across its portfolio.... View Details

01 Jan 2013
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Thai Lee, MBA 1985

hospice care, but Lee refused to give up. Researching treatment options, she found doctors at Johns Hopkins who performed complicated surgeries. Today, Margaret is cancer-free, and much of Lee's philanthropy... View Details

Keywords: Susan Young

08 Nov 2011
First Look

First Look: Nov. 8

income and a continuum of customer types. A discussion of the multi-product case is included in the appendix. The paper concludes with a discussion of implications for... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

14 Jul 2020
Research & Ideas

Restarting Under Uncertainty: Managerial Experiences from Around the World

Co managed to serve clients profitably, transferring most of the additional costs and getting a bump for improved service-level agreements and number of orders managed similar... View Details

Keywords: by Raffaella Sadun, Andrea Bertoni, Alexia Delfino, Giovanni Fassio, and Mariapaola Testa

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Software Tools - Research Computing Services

interactive application sessions (both GUI and/or terminal) from the terminal, or general putzing around. If you close that terminal window/session, these settings are lost, and you will have to perform the module load again to set up the... View Details

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News - Research Computing Services

to ensure that the login nodes remain stable and are always responsive and accessible for users to submit and monitor their jobs. Read more We are pleased to announce that we are deploying a new capability on the HBSGrid cluster that will View Details

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HBS After October 7

development to address knowledge gaps. They also outlined future areas of focus such as strengthening the ability of faculty, staff, and students to engage in difficult conversations, and View Details

26 Nov 2001
Research & Ideas

How Toyota Turns Workers Into Problem Solvers

individual components themselves that need redesign. In other words, to some extent the first try will be wrong, and the organization designing a complex system needs to design, test, and improve the system in a way that allows iterative... View Details

Keywords: by Sarah Jane Johnston; Manufacturing; Transportation; Auto

20 Nov 2019
Research & Ideas

It's No Joke: AI Beats Humans at Making You Laugh

bring them into the lab and see how they performed and what people thought of them.” As Yeoman’s research shows, AI is often dead-on accurate in pinpointing which products and services people will like. Yet,... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman

04 Apr 2017
First Look

First Look at New Research, April 4

political participation and interest while improving representation of all groups. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=52460 December 2016 Strategic Management Journal Through... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

13 Jan 2021
Research & Ideas

How 'Small C' Change Can Beat Large-Scale Rebuilding

history. What was Hansi Flick's secret recipe for success? Despite pressure to improve the team’s performance immediately after taking the leadership in Munich, Flick surprisingly made Small C changes... View Details

Keywords: by Boris Groysberg, Sascha L. Schmidt, and Sebastian Flegr; Sports

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Cluster Studies - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness

Clusters, Convergence, & Economic Performance by Mercedes Delgado, Michael E. Porter, Scott Stern This paper evaluates the role of regional cluster composition in the economic View Details

30 Oct 2019
Research & Ideas

How to Recover Gracefully After Shutting Down Your Startup

might apply to earning a degree or learning a new skill, some entrepreneurs value persistence to an excess, Eisenmann says. “Founders hear about other entrepreneurs who pulled a rabbit out of a hat in the... View Details

Keywords: by Danielle Kost

21 Aug 2017
Lessons from the Classroom

Companies Love Big Data But Lack the Strategy To Use It Effectively

managers, HR specialists, and data scientists work together to use data to improve employee-related decisions and practices. New analytic approaches and new sources of digital data are starting to... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman

31 Jul 2019
Research & Ideas

Distressed Employees? Try Resilience Training

emphasize their strengths, give to others, and empathize with their own troubles through self-compassion. A second group was given educational materials about how to improve their mental well-being—the equivalent View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Health

18 Nov 2013
Research & Ideas

Pulpit Bullies: Why Dominating Leaders Kill Teams

others—getting the answer 0 percent of the time. That suggests a powerful opportunity to improve performance just by making leaders aware of the... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

06 Jun 2008
What Do You Think?

Why Don’t Managers Think Deeply?

possibility that " managers are not trained for it." Dianne Jacobs cited the possibility that persisting assumptions borne out of success serve as "roadblocks to act on needed change"... View Details

Keywords: by Jim Heskett

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Research - Health Care

The CommunityConnect case management program for Medicaid beneficiaries is run by Contra Costa Health, a county safety net health system in California. Case management infrastructure modestly improved Covid-19 vaccine uptake in a... View Details

24 Nov 2003
Research & Ideas

Boards and Corporate Governance: A Balanced Scorecard Approach

modern economy, and how governance systems differ internationally. He discussed the key functions of boards and reviewed the challenges boards currently face. Professor Kaplan addressed techniques and tools boards can use to View Details

Keywords: Re: Robert S. Kaplan & Krishna G. Palepu

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