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All relevant policies, rules, and guidelines governing events should be reviewed in advance, and must be observed while using HBS facilities. This is for the benefit of all community members, to maintain security and safety, and to ensure... View Details

01 Mar 2007
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Private Equity under Investigation

collaborative practices constituted an anticompetitive conspiracy. The judge observed that activities the government depicted as nefarious were “nothing more nor less than a gradual, natural, and normal growth or evolution by which an... View Details

Keywords: Josh Lerner; syndication; antitrust enforcement; Funds, Trusts, and Other Financial Vehicles; Finance

06 Jul 2009
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Are You Ready to Manage in an Irrational World?

(personal and individual) biases and all becomes 'rational' again for management purposes." Ron Palmer observed that the discussion "adds weight to the ideas that we need new and better tools for managing complexity ." Tony... View Details

Keywords: by Jim Heskett

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SAS/CONNECT - Research Computing Services

necessary */ libname lcldata 'C:\Documents and Settings\hbsuser\My Documents\My SAS Files\'; /* Proc Freq on the remote data is processed locally */ proc freq data=rmtdata.salesdat; tables type; run; /* The WHERE statement moves only the type BP View Details

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Ed Rogers

contribute to their well-being. Blood pressure readings are an example. But now we have activity trackers that can give us quantified metrics relevant to any number of health goals. By observing these metrics and gaining deeper... View Details

Keywords: Financial Services; Tech

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Ann Chao

Just before the Beijing Olympics, Ann Chao took a year off from college to study at Peking University. “I was writing a thesis on blindness in China and was interested in seeing how business could lift people with disabilities out of poverty,” Ann says. Among the... View Details

01 Dec 2017
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Examining the Magnitude of Syria’s Refugee Crisis

professors’ firsthand observations of the crisis helped inform the classroom conversations. “We discussed what it actually means to be a refugee,” says Fabbe. Trumbull adds, “Really understanding the political and social turmoil... View Details

15 Nov 2016
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Field Course Helps Nascent Entrepreneurs Connect with Customers

Frank Cespedes (photo by Neal Hamburg) Frank Cespedes (photo by Neal Hamburg) “Every entrepreneur is selling all the time—to customers, investors, employees, and strategic partners,” observes Thomas Eisenmann, the Howard H. Stevenson... View Details

01 Jun 2016
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Escape from Alcatraz

Conquer: To escape from the first room of the Spook House, team members have to divide up tasks, each taking responsibility for observing and reporting on a different part of the room. Fail to Succeed: What can you learn from sand,... View Details

Keywords: April White

03 Aug 2011
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No Ducking the Debt Ceiling

a deal fell through, “the damage to the economy had already been done”. After the vote, he observed, the deal amounted to little more than kicking “the can down the road.” Professor Rosabeth Moss Kanter blogged that “for many observers of... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services; Administration of Economic Programs; Government

01 Jan 2020
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Why Not Open America's Doors to All the World’s Talent?

have observed it in operation. Familiarity breeds contempt. Julie commented, “So, at how many companies have American workers been rounded up, coerced into training their replacements, then terminated? This is not supplementing our... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett; Technology

14 May 2019
Research & Ideas

Ethics Bots and Other Ways to Move Your Code of Business Conduct Beyond Puffery

report violations when they observe them, so they are actually violating their ethics code by not reporting violations,” Soltes says. Companies have good reason to try and change that. For starters, firms that have an effective compliance... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

16 May 2018
Research & Ideas

How Companies Managed Risk (and Even Benefitted) in World War Internment Camps

examples. The internment of German employees/nationals in India offers a new way of showing that events as dramatic and disruptive as World Wars I and II can also have nuanced, more granular impacts, observes Giacomin. She suggests... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Manufacturing

07 Aug 2017
Research & Ideas

'Be Yourself (Within Reason)' and Other Job Search Survival Tips

them. It is a challenge because only you can observe what you want, and others may not want the same thing. My trick has always been to assume (often wrongly) that my desires are shared with most people in the world. That’s why I’m always... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Accounting; Education

04 Mar 2015
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Can a Laissez-Faire Approach Fix Labor Market Inequality?

wage disparity, which is more a symptom than a cause of the larger problem. These discussions often elicit an observation that, in many developed economies, too many workers can't live on the money they make. For whatever... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett; Retail

25 Jan 2013
Research & Ideas

Why a Harvard Finance Instructor Went to the Kumbh Mela

that need to be built in India and throughout Asia, Africa, and South America; the research will draw from our observations of how these lessons fit in the framework of infrastructure and urbanization. I'm here to look at the roads, the... View Details

Keywords: by John D. Macomber; Construction; Real Estate

06 Mar 2013
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Who Should Manage Our Work Time?

thinks they are important). The topic has reached the pages of the McKinsey Quarterly, especially its January issue, where Peter Bregman observes that "you can't get everything done, even if you follow the right system." He... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

28 Jan 2013
Research & Ideas

Helping Yelp Create More Accurate Reviews

newer reviews are more accurate about current conditions.] Moreover, they don't account for observable patterns in the way individuals rate restaurants." Luca's team decided to try to develop what they believed would be an optimal way to... View Details

Keywords: by Kim Girard; Food & Beverage

03 Nov 2011
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The Ultimate Question in Management

this type was proposed by Pete DeLisi: "Do you make your people feel like they want to be a better man or woman?" Favorite "ultimate" questions that managers could ask of their reports included several adherents to "Do you trust your... View Details