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- 26 Apr 2011
- Op-Ed
HBS Faculty Comment on Environmental Issues for Earth Day
its country. The group has influenced customers and suppliers to change their practices, whether by helping a fish harvesting operation in the coastal swamps minimize pollution or encouraging a motorcycle courier company to reduce... View Details
- 08 Nov 2016
- First Look
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
- 13 Aug 2020
- Research & Ideas
6 Ways to Support COVID-Weary Employees
the productivity of busy professionals. For workplace settings devoid of perks, small non-cash rewards like access to valuable online classes or fitness programs can also contribute to well-being. Other non-cash rewards, such as notes of... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 01 Sep 2011
- News
The City Solution
energy sources and state-of-the-art systems, machinery, and products — often come to mind, the most dramatic inroads may be made in much more prosaic ways, especially in the urban setting. “Nontechnical solutions — such as making cities... View Details
- 11 Apr 2018
- Research & Ideas
Sexual Harassment: What Employers Should Do Now
behavior or minimizing it, you’re setting up an environment that allows sexual harassment to flourish.” Professor Max Bazerman agrees companies need to be clear about behavior they won’t tolerate. “Leaders should (realize) that they may... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 17 Oct 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, October 17, 2017
responsibilities—including product management, marketing, growth, and sales—to help you figure out if you want to join a startup and what to expect if you do. You'll gain insight into how successful startups operate and learn to assess... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 12 Jul 2021
- News
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... View Details
- 12 Apr 2010
- Research & Ideas
One Report: Better Strategy through Integrated Reporting
may be the most important environmental objective, and in others it may be reducing the amount of water used. Racial and gender diversity can be a priority, but so too is ensuring some minimal amount of training for all employees every... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 19 Oct 2011
- Research & Ideas
Designing Cities for a Sustainable Future
On a June day in Manhattan with temperatures heading into the 90s, a straphanger named Mike is taking his customary subway ride to work. People are grumbling about the heat, but hey, it's summer, it's supposed to be hot, and besides, "Whaddya gonna do?" New Yorkers... View Details
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Supplemental Financial Information - Financial Report 2015
loans. Consequently, one of the School’s longstanding goals is to assist students in minimizing their debt at graduation by ensuring that fellowship support at least keeps pace with tuition and fees. Extending the School’s long-term... View Details
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Supplemental Financial Information - Annual Report 2016
assist students in minimizing their debt at graduation by ensuring that fellowship support keeps pace with tuition and fees. Extending a long-term record of annual increases in financial aid, total fellowship expense for fiscal 2016,... View Details
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effectively. When to ignore and when to listen to advice from VCs and other key stakeholders. Identify and evaluate market gaps with customer interviews, minimum viable product tests, pricing surveys, and... View Details
- 14 Jun 2004
- Research & Ideas
The Big Money for Big Projects
social returns when they succeed. The problem, says Esty, is that many of the largest products have hit financial turbulence. Esty, whose new book Modern Project Finance: A Casebook, was published recently, teaches the "Large-Scale... View Details
- 22 Jun 2009
- Research & Ideas
“Too Big To Fail”: Reining In Large Financial Firms
philosophical tone in his 1981 inaugural address when he famously observed: "Government is not the solution to our problem; government is the problem." Thereafter, regulatory minimalism and a "market knows best" mindset took hold in... View Details
- 17 Jun 2020
- Blog Post
Black MBA Students Pen Letters to the HBS Community: Letter 2/5
minimize the fact that Trump has blatantly aligned himself with white supremacists through his gracious coverage of white supremacist rallies in Charlottesville, VA. Let’s also not forget this is a candidate that prompted the fawning... View Details
- 08 Sep 2016
- News
How We Make It Work
company. Finally, in 1990, my wife and I purchased a controlling interest in a middle-market manufacturing company with a successful, proprietary product line. I served as president for the first 10 years, and then my wife took her turn... View Details
- 01 Apr 2002
- News
Urban Evolution - HBS Research on the Inner City
education expenses and home purchases for a million new IDA holders. But even if that funding comes through - no easy task, given Washington's post-September 11 spending priorities - convincing financial institutions that low-income savers present a View Details