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HBS - Financials | From the Chief Financial Officer
year, to $137 million. The increase resulted primarily from the arrival of students who had elected the deferral and leave options implemented in fiscal 2021 in response to the pandemic. Total enrollment in the MBA increased to 1,870...
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Supplemental Financial Information II - Annual Report 2020
elected to hold its fiscal 2020 surplus in cash reserves. This decision was made to prepare for the potential of an operating deficit, given continued uncertainty about the duration and severity of COVID-19. Because gifts, internally...
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Annual Report 2019 - Annual Report 2019
David Moss, Tom Nichols, and Sophus Reinert for outstanding teaching in the Elective Curriculum. Three faculty members were acknowledged with the Wyss Award for Excellence in Doctoral Mentoring: Anat Keinan, Jeff Polzer, and Dennis Yao....
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- 26 Aug 2020
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What the Climate Change Movement Can Learn from the Pandemic
the root reasons why communities of color and poor and vulnerable communities are most affected is because of power structures and the way that our economy rewards the people at the top. It's fascinating to me that all of this is happening in an View Details
- 01 Jun 2001
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"Unheard Voices" Brings to Light Three Centuries of American Women at Work
town records of payments to 19th-century schoolteachers. Some of the records have already found their way into the elective MBA curriculum as introductory material in the Women Building Business course. The initiative is ongoing, and...
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- 05 Feb 2007
- Research & Ideas
Business and the Global Poor
several HBS elective offerings in this area. Could you describe those courses and the reaction of students who take them? A: I teach two elective courses: Social Marketing, and Business at the Base of the...
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by Sean Silverthorne
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Global Activities 2020-2021 - Global Activities 2021
Address the Refugee Crisis A paper written by Swedish student Lovisa “Lisa” Tengberg (MBA 2020) for the spring 2020 elective Social Entrepreneurship and Systems Change was selected for development as a case study. “Just Arrived:...
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- 01 Apr 2002
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Urban Evolution - HBS Research on the Inner City
Administration, chairs the School's Initiative on Social Enterprise, teaches the MBA elective Entrepreneurship in the Social Sector, and is the author of numerous articles and cases on the subject. Stressing the power and importance of a...
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- 27 Dec 2015
- Research & Ideas
The Most Popular Stories and Research Papers of 2015
readers, tell us what you think were the most significant trends, ideas, or management lessons from 2015. Then look ahead to next year. How do you think the 2016 presidential election will change the American economy? Will there be...
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- 05 Dec 2012
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Should Managers Bother Listening to Predictions?
Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable, essentially argues that the most important things are not predictable anyway, so why obsess about predictions. Silver's predictions of specific outcomes in the 2008 and 2012 US elections were...
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by James Heskett
- 28 Apr 2003
- Research & Ideas
Shareholders Key to Corporate Reform
owners and actively engage with boards. To start, in the nomination and election process, shareholders could signal their support (endorsement, neutrality, or nonendorsement) for candidates the board puts forth and vote accordingly. If...
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- 12 Sep 2012
- Research & Ideas
The Unexpected Link Between Cadavers and Careers
process." That said, the study's implications extend beyond cadaver donations. To Anteby, who teaches the MBA elective Managing Human Capital, the findings offer proof that our career choices directly affect other major life...
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- 06 Feb 2006
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Should CEOs of Public Companies Offer Earnings Guidance?
for shareholders." Perhaps with this in mind, a small but growing number of public company CEOs are electing not to provide earnings guidance, risking reduced interest on the part of analysts and possibly less publicity for their...
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- 01 Jun 2014
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Early Impact
gift from the family of the late William F. Connell (MBA 1963) will enable HBS to enhance the second-year elective curriculum and ensure that students are fully prepared to lead in an increasingly complex and ever-changing world. Research...
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- 04 May 2016
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What Does Boaty McBoatface Tell Us About Brand Control on the Internet?
been able to anticipate. As Duncan Philps-Tate noted, “This after all is the nation which elected H’Angus the Monkey (the local soccer team’s mascot) as Mayor of Hartlepool.” Those endorsing the name saw it as a way of popularizing a...
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- 20 Apr 2009
- Research & Ideas
Misgovernance at the World Bank
International Development Association (IDA). They meet at least weekly; the IBRD board currently has 24 members. (There is a separate board for the IBRD and the IDA, but the latter is basically a 95 percent subset of the former.) Countries are View Details
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by Martha Lagace
- 26 Jan 2009
- Research & Ideas
Where is Home for the Global Firm?
in my MBA elective course International Financial Management, students are required to write a paper. Two really great students—Billy Rahm and Stefan Kowski (both MBA '06)—wrote a paper on the "repotting" of the manufacturer Celanese....
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by Martha Lagace
- 01 Oct 2000
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Books
and read a twelve-month operating cash flow statement. Many HBS readers will recognize "The R&R Case," by HBS professor Howard Stevenson. Introduced in the 1980s, the case focuses on one of Reiss's business ventures, and for many years it was the first case taught in...
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- 12 Jul 2020
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The Harvard Business School Faculty Summer Reader 2020
at Risk, Joseph Bower, Herman Leonard, and Lynn Paine argue that not enough companies are stepping up to fix big global problems. The Politics Industry: How Political Innovation Can Break Partisan Gridlock and Save Our Democracy Katherine Gehl and Michael Porter argue...
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- 15 Jan 2019
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New Research and Ideas, January 15, 2019
resonated with several segments of the population. While many experts predicted a Clinton victory, Trump was ultimately elected president in November 2016. During his first 100 days in office, Trump tested the boundaries of the U.S....
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Dina Gerdeman