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24 Jul 2018
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New Research and Ideas, July 24, 2018

customer-to-customer communications promote different types of usage? We study these questions using two data sets and by developing a multivariate hierarchical Poisson hidden Markov model (HMM), which fits the data significantly better... View Details

Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

01 Jun 1996
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1996 Global Alumni Conference Probes "Information Revolution"

Considering the title of the 1996 HBS Global Alumni Conference - The Information Revolution: "Bridging the Gap" - San Francisco was a particularly fitting locale for this forward-looking event. The city's Golden Gate has long been a... View Details

Keywords: Daniel Penrice

23 Oct 2018
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New Research and Ideas, October 23, 2018

the average forecast, and when they do, they can run counter to existing methods. On two publicly available datasets, we demonstrate that these new ensembles are easily fit to real forecast data and are more accurate than existing... View Details

Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

02 Sep 2014
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First Look: September 2

thought that their technical knowledge of best manufacturing practices (to take one example) was sufficiently developed that processes simply needed to be tweaked to fit local conditions. More often, it turns out, they have to be reworked... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

08 Nov 2016
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November 8, 2016

to understand the resilience as well as effectiveness of that corporate model remains inside the business group itself. As the business groups flexibly evolve, they can adapt and fit in to remain viable organizational models even in... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

15 Sep 2009
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First Look: September 15

problems randomly selected from the same distribution. After collecting the experimental data to be used for estimation, the organizers posted them on the Web, together with their fit with several baseline models, and challenged other... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

01 Apr 2002
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Back in Business

reached out to help all individuals and enterprises, no matter how small, that had been affected by the attack. No other city in the world has a larger concentration of HBS alumni than New York, particularly Lower Manhattan, home of the financialservices industry. So... View Details

Keywords: 9/11; NYC; New York City; Government

14 Mar 2019
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The Merchant of Osaka

would knock on doors and say, ‘Would you be interested in talking with Nippon Life?’ ” She targeted fitness clubs and nursing homes, given the direction of the country’s demographics. Any new business Oishi brought on was passed along to... View Details

Keywords: Health, Social Assistance

02 Sep 2018
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Havana Rising

“Ramen head.” “These things are traumatizing for an elementary school kid—when you don’t fit in perfectly,” she recalls. And there were different customs and norms that required acclimation. The school had no janitors, so the students... View Details

Keywords: Dan Morrell; photographed by Eve North

01 Jun 1996
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Class Acts

difficult for women to fit in. The experience made me realize how important it is for women to form networks." So when Ma attended the WSA Women's Admit Day - a one-day introduction to life at HBS - and met other professional women who... View Details

10 Mar 2017
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The Business of Lego Batman

directed the movie called The Guest, directed the movie. And it stars Nat Wolff. So we're just really excited about it. It is an unusual kind of movie that is a good fit for Netflix in that it's slightly off center. It's definitely weird.... View Details

Keywords: LEGO; Lego

28 Apr 2009
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First Look: April 28, 2009

CSC fits into IBM's broader corporate citizenship portfolio and IBM's globalization strategy. Purchase this case: http://hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=409106 Incept LLC and Confluent Surgical (A) Harvard Business... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

14 Dec 2011
Research & Ideas

The New Measures for Improving Nonprofit Performance

working this into the broader goals of the host country to fit with the government's development priorities. What MCC has in common with Acumen is that it's using the grant as leverage to build the capacity of government agencies to... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna

01 Jun 2018
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The Long Run

person I thought of was Jim Langford,” says Shaw, who had worked with Langford to navigate an archaeologically sensitive area near one of his businesses. “I needed someone with passion, honesty, and reputation who could articulate our story. He View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; photographed by Melissa Golden

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10 Jan 2005
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Motivation and the Cross-Sector Alliance

pays back" is embedded in Indupalma's competitive strategy, but it also serves its risk management, since one of the company's primary objectives is to reduce the threat of armed groups affecting their operations. This kind of double motivation derived from a very... View Details

Keywords: by James Austin, Ezequiel Reficco & SEKN research team

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rational organizations and the firms with the best sales teams will usually win. “Superior sales and distribution by itself can create a monopoly, even with no product differentiation. The converse is not true. No matter how strong your product, even if it easily View Details

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