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- 12 Sep 2023
- Research & Ideas
How Can Financial Advisors Thrive in Shifting Markets? Diversify, Diversify, Diversify
and rising average age of its customer base. The low-growth firm struggled with those challenges. Headwinds for financial planners One of the top challenges for the industry is an aging client base. Firms with a higher percentage of... View Details
- 09 Mar 2010
- First Look
First Look: March 9
opened for business, thus changing the face of both world trade and military power and playing a pivotal role in the rise of the United States on the world stage. Today we view the creation of the Panama Canal as a story of U.S.... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
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Business, Government & the International Economy - Faculty & Research
Vries, Simone Cremaschi, Tarik Abou-Chadi and Sergi Pardos-Prado The growing participation of women in the labor market has marked a significant societal transformation, coinciding with the rise of gender conservatism and far-right... View Details
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International Students - MBA
Sponsorships Annual Cost of Attendance Summer Fellowships Career Support & Exploration Funds Fast Facts MBAid Stories Consumer Information RISE Career Fellowship Boustany Foundation The Boustany Foundation... View Details
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Student Loans 101 - MBA
Student Loans 101 Tuition Assistance Additional Harvard Funding External Funding Student Loans 101 Domestic Students International Students Evaluating Sponsorships Annual Cost of Attendance Summer Fellowships Career Support & Exploration... View Details
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Global Impact of the Collapse | Baker Library | Bloomberg Center | Harvard Business School
default swap contracts. As confidence in the banks eroded, borrowing rates rose and home foreclosures continued to spike. Lawrence McDonald, author and a former vice-president at Lehman Brothers, reflects back on the devastating cost... View Details
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Veterans - MBA
Sponsorships Annual Cost of Attendance Summer Fellowships Career Support & Exploration Funds Fast Facts MBAid Stories Consumer Information RISE Career Fellowship FOR VETERANS Yellow Ribbon Program HBS will... View Details
- 23 Jun 2023
- HBS Case
This Company Lets Employees Take Charge—Even with Life and Death Decisions
example for companies struggling to re-engage “quiet quitters” while balancing rising costs and mixed economic signals. The company began in the Netherlands in 2006 as an antidote to what the founders viewed... View Details
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Evaluating Sponsorships - MBA
Evaluating a Sponsorship Offer? Evaluating a Sponsorship Offer? Tuition Assistance Additional Harvard Funding External Funding Student Loans 101 Evaluating Sponsorships Annual Cost of Attendance Summer Fellowships Career Support &... View Details
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Health Care - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness
HBS ISC Health Care Health Care Value-Based Health Care Health Care Courses Fast Facts The Health Care Crisis In spite of countless health care reform efforts over many decades, uneven outcomes and quality, frequent errors, and high and View Details
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International Students - MBA
Student Loans 101 International Students Tuition Assistance Additional Harvard Funding External Funding Student Loans 101 Domestic Students International Students Evaluating Sponsorships Annual Cost of Attendance Summer Fellowships Career... View Details
- 11 Apr 2023
- Op-Ed
The First 90 Hours: What New CEOs Should—and Shouldn't—Do to Set the Right Tone
talent, and in doing so, you are both respecting the past by acknowledging those who brought the organization to the dance and helped it rise to where it is today. But at the same time, you are investing in the future. Promoting... View Details
Keywords: by John Quelch
- 2010
- Book
The Big Ditch: How America Took, Built, Ran, and Ultimately Gave Away the Panama Canal
By: Noel Maurer and Carlos Yu
On August 15, 1914, the Panama Canal was officially opened for business, thus changing the face of both world trade and military power and playing a pivotal role in the rise of the United States on the world stage. Today we view the creation of the Panama Canal as a... View Details
Keywords: Political History; For-Profit Firms; Development Economics; Infrastructure; State Ownership; Ship Transportation; Panama; United States
Maurer, Noel, and Carlos Yu. The Big Ditch: How America Took, Built, Ran, and Ultimately Gave Away the Panama Canal. Princeton University Press, 2010.
- 05 May 2022
- Research & Ideas
Why Companies Raise Their Prices: Because They Can
it is consistent with consumers becoming less price sensitive.” Will prices rise even faster? Meanwhile, company costs have declined over time as firms have squeezed more productivity out of increasingly... View Details
Keywords: by Rachel Layne
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Goldsmith Fellowship - MBA
Additional Harvard Funding Horace W. Goldsmith Fellowship Additional Harvard Funding RISE Fellowship Canadian Fellowship Forward Fellowship Goldsmith Fellowship Junior Achievement Fellowship External Funding Student Loans 101 Evaluating... View Details
- 29 Jul 2019
- Research & Ideas
How Companies Benefit When Employees Work Remotely
to rise with each step toward the full work-from-anywhere policy, the researchers found. Productivity increased 4.4 percent when employees moved from working at home on a limited basis to the location of their choice. Based on a patent's... View Details
Keywords: by Kristen Senz
- 07 Jun 2023
- HBS Case
3 Ways to Gain a Competitive Advantage Now: Lessons from Amazon, Chipotle, and Facebook
understood what people were really willing to pay for,” Karp says. “Having great features is different than having features that will incentivize people to use your product.” As mixed economic signals and the rise of artificial... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 30 Jan 2007
- First Look
First Look: January 30, 2007
worker dismissal costs will curtail hiring below efficient levels and retain unproductive workers, both of which should affect productivity. These theoretical predictions have rarely been tested. We use the adoption of wrongful-discharge... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 10 Apr 2007
- First Look
First Look: April 10, 2007
issues is brief and non-technical. Provides actual deferred tax information from AOL's Form 10-K, where net operating loss carry forwards result in a large deferred tax asset and the accounting for software and deferred subscriber acquisition View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
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Forward Fellowship - MBA
Additional Harvard Funding The Forward Fellowship Additional Harvard Funding RISE Fellowship Canadian Fellowship Forward Fellowship Goldsmith Fellowship Junior Achievement Fellowship External Funding Student Loans 101 Evaluating... View Details