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Archiving Your Research Files - Research Computing Services
Technical How-To’s & Notes Technical How-To’s & Notes Archiving Your Research Files Archive your files to an external drive or DVD by doing the following: Put the data or project files in a subdirectory Run the script called make-archive which View Details
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Copying & Extracting Files - Research Computing Services
your local machine) to your home on the research storage. While it's probably best to compress all the files you intend to transfer into one file, this is not always an option. To copy the contents of an entire directory, you can use the...
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Walter P. Chrysler
In 1924, Chrysler created a car, which bore his name, and offered new innovations to the automobile, including the four-wheel hydraulic brakes and a high compression engine. In 1928, Chrysler purchased the Dodge Brothers Company for its...
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Automotive & Aerospace
- 01 Oct 2000
- News
MBA Cohorts Will Merge Next Year
persuasive. "Applicants to the MBA Program have continued to have an overwhelming preference for September admission," Kester explained. In addition, he noted that the review identified significant disadvantages associated with the system. Among these were the View Details
- 01 Oct 2001
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Barbara Bry: Business is Blooming
Proflowers, there are no warehouses and no network of retail florists. Orders are transmitted electronically to growers, who cut, pack, and ship, usually within 24 hours. This supply-chain compression allows Proflowers to offer a unique...
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- 01 Jun 2000
- News
Flexibility Is Key to Product Development in Internet Time
compressed time frame, or "Internet time," requires that firms generate and respond to new information for a greater proportion of a development cycle, with much of the feedback coming from customers. In fact, early and continuous contact...
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Judith A. Ross
- 01 Jun 1997
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HBS Cyberposium Brings Online Future into Focus
depend to a large extent on the availability of increased bandwidth and compression technologies, which speed access to information and facilitate navigation within a site. At a session titled "Far Future," panelist Bill Taylor, founder...
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Meg Gardner
- 13 Jan 2021
- News
Stress Test
them in that same compressed period also a feat? It’s been a pretty heroic undertaking. Beginning in Q2 2020, some of the smartest people on the planet have been working on this, first for personal protective equipment and now for the...
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Best Practices - Research Computing Services
top level directory with a project summary including who was involved, dates, and a listing of the directory structure and important files within that project folder. Avoid unnecessary creation of data sets - combine multiple data steps into a single step if possible....
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- 05 Jun 2019
- Research & Ideas
If Your Customers Don't Care What You Charge, What Should You Charge?
explains, is often because of compressed investigation timelines, as well as the commonly held belief that incorporating consumer inertia would lead to higher price increases post-merger–the opposite of what the research found. “Many...
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- 01 Sep 2014
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Ask the Expert: Byte-Testing Bitcoin
of silver go from $5 to more than $40, then back to $5, then again to $15 and then back to $5. The pattern and ranges are similar to what Bitcoin has experienced, though Bitcoin’s volatility is compressed over a shorter period of time....
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- 05 Sep 2000
- What Do You Think?
Whither the Information Economy?
primarily because of information's unique properties. The argument, optimistic in its tone, went something like this: Unlike goods, information is expandable without any obvious limits; is compressible for easier handling; is...
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by James Heskett
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Lessons in Economics | Baker Library | Bloomberg Center | Harvard Business School
earned a reputation for his elegant style and use of the Rolleiflex camera in travel, fashion, documentary, and industrial photography.55 In a compressed schedule of 10 weeks, he traveled more than 20,000 miles documenting 30 of U.S....
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- 30 Jun 2008
- Research & Ideas
Rethinking Retirement Planning
compression ratios on car engines. Or dual overhead camshafts. What does that mean in terms of what matters to me? Does it get me more gas mileage? In the same sense, what you're really worried about is your standard of living, not what's...
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- 01 Jun 1996
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Capitalist Revolutions Analyzed in MBA "Foundations" Course
rooted in the popular MBA elective, The Coming of Managerial Capitalism: The United States, an offering designed in the 1980s by HBS professors Alfred D. Chandler, Jr., and Richard S. Tedlow. To expand this course into the global arena while View Details
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Susan Young
- 01 Jan 2007
- News
A. Malachi Mixon, III, MBA 1968
different items such as customized and computerized wheelchairs, beds and bedside equipment, ambulatory aids, respiratory devices for patients with sleep disorders, and a revolutionary new system that enables emphysema patients and others to make portable View Details
- 02 Mar 2023
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Carbon's Second Act
Photo credits: Brenae Bowers Brix and Russ Campbell Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Dan Morrell: This story starts the way all classic stories of tech entrepreneurship do: In Todd Brix's garage. Brix (MBA 1997) started his career in the...
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- 01 Jun 2020
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Meal Plan
of our brands—Sonic and Arby’s in particular—are doing well, and doing so in more compressed timeframes, because breakfast and late-night dining are no longer part of peoples’ routines. THE WAY FORWARD See more from the online-only June...
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- 09 Oct 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, October 9, 2018
create software that could assist doctors in making diagnoses. By July 2018, Zebra had developed seven algorithms to analyze scans for emphysema, liver density, compression fractures, bone density, brain bleeds, breast cancer, and a...
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Dina Gerdeman
- 02 Mar 2015
- Research & Ideas
‘Retail Revolution’ Excerpt: The Scale of the Ecommerce Threat
professional and customer reviews, and ratings systems” Understanding how online retailers can cause these same-store sales and gross margin declines by affecting the operating metrics of a retail store is fundamental to understanding the threat brick-and-mortar...
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