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Statistical & Data Services - Research Computing Services

About Us Statistical & Data Services 33ms Research Computing Services (RCS) provides statistical and data services for the HBS research community, including consultations and expertise in: Advanced statistical analyses (e.g., Baysean,... View Details

05 Jun 2019
Blog Post

Exploring the Beauty Industry through an Independent Project

regularly, understand that different mediums attract different audiences across demographics and age groups, and engage brand partners who are able to elevate their status and help them reach new audiences. I had also taken an interest... View Details

01 Jun 1998
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Simmons Family Endows Professorship

The only way to truly appreciate what you have is to work for it," says Roy W. Simmons, the 82-year-old chairman of Utah-based Zions Bancorporation, one of the most successful bank holding companies in the country. Simmons speaks from... View Details

01 Sep 2003
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Kumar Mahadeva

Cognizant provides application outsourcing services and 24/7 software project management for a small but intensely loyal client base of large U.S. and European companies. Widely praised in the business press View Details

Keywords: Deborah Blagg; Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services; Professional Services

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Finance Awards & Honors - Faculty & Research

Impact of Pensions and Insurance on Global Yield Curves" with Annette Vissing-Jorgensen. Victoria Ivashina : Received the 2019 Apgar Award for Innovation in Teaching. Ishita Sen : Winner of the 2019 European... View Details

04 Dec 2019
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Creating the Experimentation Organization

subtle tweaks to everything from varying shades of color to alternative placement of links and menu options for booking properties. It’s part of an innovative culture of experimentation that pervades every aspect of how the company... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

16 Dec 2020
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My HBS Student Loan Story: Ina Foalea (MBA 2018)

stretched financially. My parents went through the transition in 1989 from the Soviet Union and lost their savings overnight. Fortunately, I had a great education. I was on scholarship in high school and then moved to Canada at age 18 for... View Details

27 Apr 2020
Research & Ideas

How Remote Work Changes What We Think About Onboarding

practice of onboarding new employees. Although hiring is already a forgotten luxury for many firms, at least for the time being, others are still bringing aboard new people, such as those who made hiring... View Details

Keywords: by Boris Groysberg

06 Sep 2004
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The Innovator’s Battle Plan

naturally choose to bring all innovations—sustaining and disruptive—to their core markets where their best customers reside.9 For example, had Western Union purchased Bell's patents, we would predict that it would not have commercialized... View Details

Keywords: by Clayton M. Christensen, Scott D. Anthony & Erik A. Roth

20 Oct 2010
Op-Ed

Export Competitiveness: Reversing the Logic

not only generically more attractive in terms of the prosperity level they can support - the perspective taken by the traditional strategic industrial policy - but also are within reasonable reach for a... View Details

Keywords: by Christian Ketels

04 Dec 2023
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My Summer of Joy with the National Parks Service

had 50/50 experiences with startups, citing remote work, nebulous job descriptions, and lack of fulfillment as their gripes. This role promised solutions to all of those concerns. I reached out to professors, friends, and even dropped... View Details

30 Oct 2019
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How to Recover Gracefully After Shutting Down Your Startup

“There are many things that entrepreneurs can do to position themselves to bounce back from a failure.” If new funds aren’t forthcoming, the founder will likely put the company up for sale, confronting prospective buyers who’ll play a... View Details

Keywords: by Danielle Kost

06 Apr 2023
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Bringing Music to the HBS Classroom: My Journey as a Nontraditional Student in the Summer Venture in Management Program

sources of inspiration for months to come. The Case Method manifested itself just as I had seen in Professor Neeley’s video months before. Each case, covering companies from Walt Disney Studios to Live Nation, developed its own musical... View Details

20 Apr 2020
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Introducing LivelyHood, A Volunteer Nonprofit Founded in Response to COVID-19

Justin Crist Lee (MBA 2021) is working to help launch LivelyHood, a COVID-19 volunteer response effort. LivelyHood is a platform that connects healthy, young volunteers with the elderly and immunocompromised in their local community for... View Details

16 Sep 2020
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Turning a Moment into a Movement: Interview with Anti-Racism Fund Co-Founders Kenneth and Kevin Chenault

equally, NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, The Loveland Foundation, Reclaim the Block, and The Bail Project.” The GoFundMe page for the newly formed Anti-Racism Fund raised $40,000 in less than 12 hours, with donations quickly... View Details

23 Oct 2013
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Overcoming Nervous Nelly

in making their final estimates: 90 percent of anxious individuals relied on advice compared to 72 percent of the neutral participants. She also found that anxious individuals were less confident in their own estimates, suggesting that their lower self-confidence had... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

23 Jun 2023
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Highlights from the Spring 2023 Alumni Board Meeting

Alumni Board members on campus for their annual spring meeting // Credit: Panfoto Hard work, with humility for humanity, is the spirit that animates Harvard Business School's MBA program today, Matt... View Details

02 Jul 2013
First Look

First Look: July 2

between 1920 and 1939. During the 1920s prices reached their highest level in the third quarter of 1929 before falling by 67% at the end of 1932 and hovering around that value for most of the Great... View Details

Keywords: Anna Secino

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Global Activities 2020

than two decades, HBS’s global research centers and offices have broadened the School’s intellectual impact and reach while furthering faculty research and forging deeper connections with alumni around the world. View Details

01 Oct 1997
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Brice Cutrer Jones

Ask Brice Jones, founder and president of Sonoma-Cutrer Vineyards, what he does for a living, and he will answer simply, "I'm a farmer." Spend a morning touring his vineyard and winery in Windsor, California, however, and you will... View Details

Keywords: Judith A. Ross

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