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- 29 Aug 2023
- News
Helping Consumers Decarbonize their Purchases
This episode of Climate Rising features a conversation between Professor and host Mike Toffel and Sanchali Pal (MBA 2018), founder and CEO of Commons, an app designed to help consumers make more climate-friendly purchasing decisions by... View Details
- 16 Dec 2019
- Research & Ideas
Taking on the Taboos That Keep Women Out of India's Workforce
the government work program, with women’s labor force participation rising in the private sector. In addition to increasing financial inclusion and autonomy among women, Rigol and her coauthors found that one year into the study, women in... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna
- Web
Electricity - Business & Environment
especially vulnerable to the impacts of climate change: hurricanes, wildfires, and sea level rise pose immense risks for the reliable delivery of electricity. As one example, restoring electric power in Puerto Rico following Hurricane... View Details
- 01 Jun 2022
- News
The Exchange: Same Great Price, Now with Fewer Chips
John Gourville and Alex MacKay (Image by John Ritter) Rising inflation and pandemic-related supply-chain challenges are driving up prices at the grocery store. While some manufacturers, like Procter & Gamble, have come forward to announce... View Details
- 20 Nov 2012
- First Look
First Look: November 20
advertising agency services and the slow pace of change over several decades. We model an agency's decision as a tradeoff between the fixed cost to the advertiser of establishing a relationship with an agency and pecuniary economies of... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- Web
HBS - Financials | Supplemental Financial Information
costs for faculty support staff and travel, and for the School's network of global offices. Additionally, HBS allocates a portion of the costs associated with library resources, campus facilities,... View Details
- 15 Jul 2019
- Book
Many Executives Are Afraid of Finance. Here's How They Can Gain Confidence
distribute it, should you use dividends or buybacks? In the last 20 years, we’ve seen this shift from keeping cash to distributing cash through buybacks. This trend is either demonized or heralded while the truth is more subtle. The demonization arises because the... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 07 Apr 2015
- News
Warrior Spirit
a fact Sityodtong has made one of the gym’s competitive advantages despite the expense involved in recruiting and relocating fighters from as far away as Brazil. (Monthly pay for an Evolve instructor ranges from $5,000 to $15,000; housing View Details
- 21 Feb 2005
- Op-Ed
Is Business Management a Profession?
since the Middle Ages by the rise and ongoing progress of modern science. The development of the germ theory of disease in the nineteenth century, for example, and of the science of genetics in the twentieth, have gone into the formation... View Details
- 28 Oct 2014
- First Look
First Look: October 28
increase reported revenues, matching the third-party estimate when provided. Firms also increase reported costs by 96 cents for every dollar of revenue adjustment, resulting in minor increases in total tax collection. Download working... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
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Doubling Down on Women’s Health Innovation and Leveraging the Private Sector in a Post-Roe v. Wade Era - Blog: Health Supplement
right to determine if and when to have children. No matter what one’s personal or religious views are, the impact will be felt by all - health systems and payors bearing costs from pregnancies now forced to continue, employers with more... View Details
- 07 Jul 2003
- What Do You Think?
Can We Have Too Much Productivity Improvement?
www.alumni.hbs.edu/bulletin.) It does seem to be a problem, and getting more serious." Alejandro Ocana suggested that "productivity improvement [should mean], 'How much more can we do with the people and resources that we already have?' and not 'How can we... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 04 Apr 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research, April 4
to a disproportionate rise in innovations where information on future prospects is revealed quickly and cheaply and has reduced the relative share of innovation in complex technologies where initial experiments View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 12 Nov 2021
- News
Alumni Business Leaders on Confronting the Climate Change Challenge
economy. As governments grapple with the right set of policies, business leaders must come together to engage in the political system to help drive solutions achievable at the lowest cost in the shortest amount of time. Public policy... View Details
- 06 Jun 2008
- What Do You Think?
Why Don’t Managers Think Deeply?
rises to the top levels are very productive and very diligent individuals who tend not to reflect and are extremely efficient at deploying other people's ideas," implying that this type of leader is not likely to understand,... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Heskett
- 20 Oct 2010
- Op-Ed
Export Competitiveness: Reversing the Logic
other policies to change relative prices can provide a countervailing force by subsidizing exports. But they increase the costs of imports, hurting both domestic consumption and export-oriented industries with high import content. More... View Details
Keywords: by Christian Ketels
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Credential of Leadership, Impact, and Management in Business | HBS Online
Psychologically Safe Teams Leading Effective Teams 45-50 hrs Term 1 Course - 7 Modules Organizational Leadership Organizational Leadership equips you with the skills, strategies, and tools to rise to expanded leadership responsibilities... View Details
- 04 Apr 2023
- Blog Post
Maersk’s Journey to Decarbonize Shipping
more than fivefold over 2021 and 2022. Graph showing forty-foot equivalent (FEU) container prices on various routes increasing in 2021 and falling in late 2022. Source: Freightos Maersk’s decarbonization strategy While many consumers and businesses struggled with View Details
- 21 Jan 2022
- Blog Post
Tipping Point: Investing in the Women of Kenya’s Coffee Farms
market is under $1 a pound, while the actual cost to produce that pound is between $1.62 and $2. The coffee farms are profitable only when they rely on free labor, typically from the women in the farming family. During harvest season in... View Details
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HBS - Financials | Supplemental Financial Information
Services 5% Depreciation 3% University Assessments 1% Supplies & Equipment 0% Debt Service Faculty research expenses include a portion of faculty salaries and benefits expense, as well as direct costs for faculty support staff and travel,... View Details