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- 19 May 2003
- Lessons from the Classroom
Business Plan Winner Targets India Dropouts
microfinance applied to the problems of education. Specifically, we came to believe that an innovative microfinance-based solution could have a meaningful impact on the reduction of the high dropout rates in primary schools that cause View Details
- 04 Nov 2002
- Research & Ideas
From Lone Star to Team Player
doing so, you have to screen for lone stars. Q: Is there a particular industry or type of firm that is most susceptible to the lone star syndrome? The problem with these people is that they can poison the organization.— Morten T. Hansen A: Companies, industries, and... View Details
Keywords: by Mallory Stark
- 12 Oct 2017
- Blog Post
Why I Spent this Summer Coding
functional products and services. Personal gratification Coding is fun. I see it in fellow members of CODE@HBS and experienced it myself when I took the club’s Python bootcamp last spring. Despite a steep learning curve, I was enticed by... View Details
- 12 Sep 2024
- Blog Post
Amager Bakke: I Like This Waste Incinerator in My Backyard!
($611m). The plant is publicly owned by five Copenhagen-area municipalities. CEO Jacob Simonson led a presentation for our group on how the facility functions within the Copenhagen ecosystem. Amager Bakke provides residents with a dual... View Details
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Data Tips & Toolkits - Research Computing Services
regression, mediation analysis, longitudinal data analysis, structural equation modeling and multilevel modeling. Pwr : Power analysis functions along the lines of Cohen (1988). Visualizations Word Cloud Resources Tableau Public : popular... View Details
- 01 Apr 2008
- News
“Let Us Now Praise Famous Women”
the LEFA (Lifelong E-mail Forwarding Address) system was set up and, shortly thereafter, the “E-Mail Your Class or Section” function on the HBS Alumni Web page. The very large volume of e-mails (more than 1,000 a month) and telephone... View Details
- 06 May 2002
- What Do You Think?
What’s Driving the “New Marketing?”
boundaries and fuses various functions of a firm together (as well as a firm with its customers, suppliers, and partners) may suggest that marketing as we knew it has become so identified with the development and implementation of... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 06 Sep 2018
- Blog Post
How to Thrive in an Unstructured Environment
and let those function as your north star. Every morning, look at your to-do list. Throw out the action items that may no longer be relevant given the new information you learned from the day prior. See how your remaining desired... View Details
Keywords: Entrepreneurship
- 02 Jul 2019
- Blog Post
Summer Listening - HBS Podcasts to Take to the Beach
to making better predictions. As a component of a vast array of activities, enhanced prediction will have ripple effects throughout the economy. What new functions and business models will it create? What difficult questions will it force... View Details
- 10 May 2015
- Blog Post
Brand Strategist Turns Entrepreneur
job functions at HBS? If a role or career interests you, pursue it via HBS clubs, independent projects or internships. I saw several people get a leg up on a new career path by taking a leadership role in a club or helping a company via... View Details
- 28 May 2019
- News
Ask the Expert: In Security
served on the President’s National Security Telecommunications Advisory Committee, which provides industry expertise on national security preparedness. Over that time, cybersecurity has snowballed from a back-office IT function to one... View Details
- 01 Dec 2017
- News
The Robots Are Coming to Save Your Job
can’t handle. And like a good colleague, the robots are easy to teach, Eckert adds. Directing Rethink’s robots is as much about coaching as it is coding: Coworkers take a robot’s wrist, click down to engage, and then manually move the arm through the desired View Details
Keywords: Dan Morrell
- 04 Jun 2008
- News
Whistle While You Work
to incorporate their dynamic ultimately subvert business and the workplace, rather than make them function better? All this got me to thinking that in America, it often seems we’re doing our best to make work into play — and vice versa.... View Details
- 01 Dec 2011
- News
Ticktock
and function in order to avoid the danger of your product becoming a flash-in-the-pan fad? In the “Clocky” case, Nanda cites the Roomba, iRobot’s robotic vacuum cleaner, as an example of a product that manages to steer clear of that fate.... View Details
- 31 May 2011
- First Look
First Look: May 31
environmental functions throughout the investment process. Some of the specific questions examined in the case are as follows: With a more diversified investor base, how could the firm balance the different expectations of investors and... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 25 Jul 2005
- Research & Ideas
An Organization Your Customers Understand
consumer products. Finally, a series of cubes represents major customers. The shapes lie scattered on your desk. Your job is to fit the pieces together. Do you place the spheres on top of the blocks so that functions report to the... View Details
Keywords: by Robert Simons
- 23 Oct 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, October 23, 2018
Organizations: Chapter 7 The Value Structure of Technologies, Part 2: Technical and Strategic Bottlenecks as Guides for Action By: Baldwin, Carliss Y. Abstract—The purpose of this chapter is to present analytic tools based on functional... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 26 May 2015
- First Look
First Look: May 26
functional specialists, not general managers responsible for cross-functional integration. Three decades ago, COOs outnumbered CFOs in Fortune 500 and S&P 500 companies, but the proportions have flipped. Many CFOs are now charged with... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 17 Jun 2019
- Research & Ideas
What Hospitals Must Learn to Compete
is even harder to measure than price. But there’s a great amount of price variation that doesn’t seem to be correlated to quality (at least to quality that we can measure). Which brings us to the question of why: Why can an industry like this that is so important and... View Details
- 06 Oct 2014
- Research & Ideas
Why Businesses Need a Language Strategy
base—3,000 or 4,000 words at an intermediate level. You're not asking people to have native-like mastery in English, which hovers around 10,000 words. You're simply asking them to develop enough skill to function effectively. A language... View Details
Keywords: Re: Tsedal Neeley