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- August 2018
- Case
Christine Lagarde
By: Julie Battilana, Carin-Isabel Knoop, Vanessa Ampelas and Noemie Assenat
For a modular presentation of the same material, please see “Christine Lagarde (A): A French Prime Minister Calls” (HBS No. 419-017), “Christine Lagarde (B): Being a Public Servant” (HBS No. 419-018), and “Christine Lagarde (C): Managing the IMF” (HBS No. 419-019).... View Details
- 5 Sep 2013
- Conference Presentation
The Color of Taste: Selling Food in Clear Packages in the Early-Twentieth-Century United States
By: Ai Hisano
This paper examines the role of color in the marketing and retailing of food products by focusing on the increasingly popular presentation of food in clear packages in the early-twentieth-century United States. In the 1910s, a candy company began using cellophane to... View Details
- 24 Jan 2018
- Research & Ideas
How to Get People Addicted to a Good Habit
“Obhyash nai,” which means “I do not have the habit,” Hussam says. Monitoring vs. offering incentives The researchers randomly divided the villages into “monitoring” and “incentive” villages, taking two approaches to inducing the handwashing habit. In each experiment,... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- June 2023 (Revised July 2023)
- Case
Social Media Background Screening at Fama Technologies
By: Joseph Pacelli, Jillian Grennan and Alexis Lefort
Fama Technologies is an online screening company that uses AI to analyze job applicants' publicly available online content for signs of risk and culture fit. The case opens with Ben Mones, founder and CEO, looking to secure funding from venture firms. He is running... View Details
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Monitoring Jobs & Troubleshooting - Research Computing Services
technote on Monitoring CPU Usage for your Jobs in order to understand the runtime behavior of your code. Note: If using the NoMachine NX client, you will need to open a terminal window to execute these commands. From the menu bar, select... View Details
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Entrepreneurial Management Awards & Honors - Faculty & Research
Greenhill Award in 2021 for Outstanding Service to the HBS Community. Lauren H. Cohen : “AQR’s Momentum Funds (A)” (HBS Case 211-025) with Daniel Bergstresser, Randolph Cohen, and Christopher Malloy was selected as a Case Centre... View Details
- 30 Jan 2014
- Working Paper Summaries
Modularity and Intellectual Property Protection
Keywords: by Carliss Y. Baldwin & Joachim Henkel
- Research Summary
Reforming Social Science
By: Max H. Bazerman
Social science research affects all of us. When researchers learned organ donation rates are higher in countries where human organs are automatically available for donation unless you specifically “opt-out” of the system, as opposed to countries like the U.S., where... View Details
- Research Summary
The New Social Contract: Contractors, Firms, and Agencies
The emergence of a 'new social contract' linking employees and organizations - perhaps most notable for the absence of a promise of lifelong job security - has been widely remarked. A related trend, less noted but potentially important, has been the emergence of a... View Details
- 01 Oct 1997
- News
Brice Cutrer Jones
still on their stems. Inside the state-of-the-art winery, where the cellar temperature is a constant 48 degrees, the juice is aged and fermented inside barrels coopered from air-seasoned oak staves made in France, from trees Jones personally View Details
Keywords: Judith A. Ross
- 24 Feb 2022
- Op-Ed
Want to Prevent the Next Hospital Bed Crisis? Enlist the SEC
investors. If these results were replicated in health care, in the short term, patients could select hospitals with more adequate surge capacity arrangements and investors in hospital debt and equity would reward them. In the longer run,... View Details
- 07 Jun 2004
- Research & Ideas
What Drives Supply Chain Behavior?
supply chain problem space to include, among other things, the assignment of roles and decision rights among the coordinating partners, the selection of partners, the design of incentives, and the design of processes to monitor... View Details
Keywords: by Sarah Jane Johnston
- 10 Sep 2001
- What Do You Think?
Do MBAs Need More Street Smarts?
addressing. The first is, just what are street smarts anyway? The contexts in which the term has come up seem to indicate that they include things like knowing how to close a sale, when to walk away from a deal, when to remain silent, and how to View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 06 Sep 2004
- Research & Ideas
The Innovator’s Battle Plan
technology and detain or swallow potential attackers. Existing telephone companies knew how to build and maintain networks. They had existing customers. They had a ton of cash. These were tough capabilities for wireless entrants to overcome. View Details
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HarvardKey for Alumni
Desk: 617-495-7777 or ithelp@harvard.edu. HUIT can also tell you which email address HAA has on file for you. To claim your HarvardKey, begin here, and select Alumni as your user type. ![]()
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- March 2022
- Case
Skills-First Hiring at IBM
By: Boris Groysberg and Sarah Mehta
This case reviews IBM’s efforts to widen its hiring funnel and broaden its talent pool. View Details
Keywords: Competency and Skills; Experience and Expertise; Talent and Talent Management; Human Resources; Employees; Recruitment; Retention; Selection and Staffing; Jobs and Positions; Job Design and Levels; Job Interviews; Society; Social Issues; Technology Industry; United States; New York (city, NY)
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John H. McArthur | About
Lifetime Achievement Award from the National Association of Corporate Directors. BWH named McArthur a Lifetime Trustee, and also established the John H. McArthur Fellowships in Medicine and Management. In recognition of his strong support over the years, McArthur was... View Details
- 22 Feb 2021
- Book
Reaching Today's Omnichannel Customer Takes a New Sales Strategy
components: actionable customer selection criteria (because resources spent on accounts A and B are not available for accounts C, D, and so on); clarity about the buying process for target customers as it works today, not yesterday; and... View Details
Keywords: by Kristen Senz
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Engagement - Christensen Center for Teaching & Learning
typically used in conjunction with another question type, whether cold call, warm call, or volunteer. The results of a vote – e.g. deciding to “keep or sell,” giving a company or individual a letter grade, or selecting among strategic... View Details
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Scaling Work - Research Computing Services
intends to do intense, focused work for short periods of time (up to a few days) and subsequently exit the software, choosing multiple cores is fine. But if you plan to run an interactive session over the course of the day or two, please View Details