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- 01 Feb 1998
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Running Up the Score
fans if not necessarily the owners; of the five teams with the highest payrolls in baseball, four made it to the final playoff round of four." As for the public, it seems cranky and less inclined to go the extra mile to support a...
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Garry Emmons
- 01 Jun 2011
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The Best-Laid Plans
resistance to the idea, which was first proposed by Alison Berkley Wagonfeld and Bill Nussey (both MBA 1996) as a project for Professor Josh Lerner’s Venture Capital and Private Equity elective. The next...
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- 01 Feb 1997
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Made, Not Born: HBS Courses and Entrepreneurial Management
skills, as HBS faculty and recent alumni explain in the following course profiles. Entrepreneurial Management Associate Professor Amar Bhide keeps a slide rule tacked above his office desk. "Although I don't use it anymore," he explains, "it taught me an intuitive feel...
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- 01 Jun 2012
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Around the World
in January, when nearly the entire class of 905 traveled to one of 12 cities in 10 countries for a weeklong immersion to test their ideas in the local marketplace, make adjustments as needed, and deliver a final View Details
- 01 Sep 2009
- News
A Student Plan Goes to Washington
of time and lack of knowledge. Their solution? Elevate board service to a profession by creating a nonprofit, public-private Corporate Governance College (CGC) to employ, train, and coordinate the placement of full-time professional directors. The students’ 59-page...
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- 01 Jun 2006
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India Arrives
the airport’s few runways. On the ground, there’s traffic congestion of an entirely different sort. Cars, trucks, three-wheelers, bicycles, rickshaws, and even a couple of horsemen jockey for position on a road far too small to...
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Julia Hanna
- 01 Jun 2011
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What’s after Fannie and Freddie?
propose creating a government-owned corporation that would guarantee new well-underwritten mortgages when private markets fail. We agree that private markets, for the most part, can provide mortgages without...
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- 01 Apr 1996
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Stewards of the Seventh Generation
of future generations to meet their own needs," it is slowly becoming a part of the lexicon of business leaders around the world. Easy Being Green? "One of the problems with turning the idea of environmental sustainability into a viable operating principle View Details
- 01 Jun 2018
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The Long Run
Jim Langford waits for no squirrel. On a clear January morning in Atlanta, driving with considerable speed and purpose, he barrels up the hill of the Carter Center campus in a 2012 Toyota Camry. He’s talking about poetry, which he writes...
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- 01 Dec 2019
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Research Brief: Subject Expert Matters
the first step toward breaking that code. In 2017, the team conducted a field study in collaboration with Harvard Medical School, which announced a call for research proposals View Details
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Jennifer Myers
- 29 Jan 2010
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Back to Glass-Steagall?
failing company. Many of these proposals already are incorporated in legislation that has stalled in the House and Senate. So far, too big to fail has turned out to be too hard for Capitol Hill to handle.
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- 06 Jun 2017
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Many Rivers to Cross
Colombian octogenarian Mariano Ospina-Hernandez (MBA 1951) is the resolute visionary behind an ambitious proposal to improve and expand the country’s transportation infrastructure. His foresight could open new possibilities View Details
- 01 Sep 2024
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From the Classroom to Casablanca
To put what they have learned in the classroom to the test in the field, more than 900 HBS first-year students embarked in May on the FIELD Global Immersion (FGI), a cornerstone of the MBA Program since 2012. This experiential learning opportunity dispatches students...
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Jennifer Gillespie
- 01 Jun 2009
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Too Big To Fail
that pose no systemic risk should face relatively light regulation, ensuring their continued dynamism and innovation. If Moss’s tough love approach to the biggest financial institutions sounds familiar, you’re right. Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner’s View Details
- 01 Dec 2003
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Roger Ullman: Going Green with E2
We will make you an effective environmental advocate in ten minutes a month or less,” says Ullman. He explains that participation can be as simple as clicking “yes” in response to an e-mail requesting use of the member’s name in support...
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- 12 Dec 2015
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Racial Discrimination in the Sharing Economy
Earlier this year, HBS professors Benjamin Edelman and Michael Luca, working with doctoral student Dan Svirsky sent 6,400 rental requests to Airbnb hosts in five cities using distinctly white or distinctly African-American names. In the...
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- 15 Jun 2021
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The Value of Difficult Conversations
create a lot of tension.” Desai hopes the conversation about reparations will ripple out from the HBS classroom. To help make that happen, the School is offering for the first time a free pdf of the written case, and educators can also...
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- 01 Sep 2014
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Groundwork
provide space for staff and activities housed in Allston and Watertown, and to create more community convening spaces. To satisfy those goals, O’Brien notes, the master plan places significant emphasis on “the way the built environment...
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- 01 Dec 2017
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Diagnosing DC’s Dysfunction
School’s US Competitiveness Project from business leader Katherine Gehl and University Professor Michael Porter. Gehl and Porter use the lens of industry competition to analyze the US political system and propose a strategy View Details
- 01 Mar 2013
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Sweet Deal
Hostess Brands, the maker of some 30 iconic American bakery products such as Wonder Bread, Ho Hos, Ding Dongs, and Twinkies, declared itself in liquidation and its assets for sale last November. As an adviser to the Teamsters union, Harry...
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