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- 08 Jul 2008
- First Look
First Look: July 8, 2008
on five to 10 years of monthly sector returns that are initially drawn from a known multivariate normal distribution. Mean-variance optimization is designed to produce the highest ratio of excess portfolio return to portfolio standard...
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Martha Lagace
- 01 Dec 1997
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Growing Together
sites and perform other labor-intensive high-tech work. A year later, that company is up and running. CitySoft (www.citysoft.com), which harnesses the computer skills of young adults from low-income Boston neighborhoods, has just completed its eleventh View Details
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Marguerite Rigoglioso and Nancy O. Perry
- 10 Nov 2014
- HBS Case
How Restaurants in Lima and Copenhagen Became Best in the World
Viking, its literary press, which any serious author would be over the moon to get a contract with. HBSWK: What would you say is the biggest conflict Noma faces? Khaire: When you as a firm are depending entirely on the chef's creativity...
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- 15 Dec 2009
- First Look
First Look: Dec. 15, 2009
focus events, and maintaining executive dedication to execute the initiative. The case provides a generalizable example for AHCs of how applying explicit management design can foster robust organizational change with relatively modest...
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Martha Lagace
- 04 Dec 2007
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First Look: December 4, 2007
real and sustainable; to decide how low a company must bid in order to win a competitive contract from a rival; to identify opportunities for internal cost reduction; to estimate, in the context of an acquisition, how much the costs of an...
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Martha Lagace
- 09 Dec 2008
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First Look: December 9, 2008
Working PapersAn Optimal Lower Bound for Anonymous Scheduling Mechanisms Authors:Itai Ashlagi, Shahar Dobzinski, and Ron Lavi Abstract We consider the problem of designing truthful mechanisms to minimize the makespan on m unrelated...
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Martha Lagace
- 12 Jul 2021
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Alumni Confront the COVID-19 Crisis
Your Life. NOVEMBER 4 Rod Harl (MBA 2000), president and CEO of Alene Candles, led the pivot of his company from candlemaking to the production of Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) in response to the pandemic. Closing just before a mandated March 2020 shutdown, the...
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Podcast - Managing the Future of Work
business process outsourcing groups that you’re working with?Dines: Yes.Kerr: And tell us a little bit about that user interface and the low code/no-code type environment. I think we can all understand the APIs—application program interfaces—the ways that you’ve View Details
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Podcast - Managing the Future of Work
own something, can’t be an asset. If it’s not an asset, you can’t invest in it. So employees, I’m sorry, can’t be assets. You can’t invest in your employees, because they’re not owned by you. Even people under contract can’t be assets....
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Podcast - Managing the Future of Work
technician. We have contracts with the United States government. We’re working on the vaccine response and tracking. We also provide lab technicians that are working with major pharmaceutical and biotech companies on breakthrough drugs....
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America on the Move - U.S. Competitiveness
firm financed the Miami port tunnel, paying a French construction company that used a German tunnel-boring machine, and another French company won the contract to operate Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority subways and trains....
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