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Akash Gupta
wouldn’t be seeing Mom again. I thought that she would eventually come back, not knowing that her inability to pay rent was the result of years spent fighting an invisible battle. Only later did I find out that her steady decline into... View Details
- 24 Apr 2014
- News
Betting big on star power can be a winning strategy in business—not just show business
creating marketing efficiencies. Although the digital revolution promised to democratize content production and distribution, the reality is that blockbuster strategies are more applicable and entrenched than ever before. Citing companies as varied as Apple and... View Details
- 02 Apr 2015
- Research & Ideas
Digital Initiative Summit: Freeing Patient Data to Enable Innovation
offered proper incentives for standardizing and sharing the information they collect. Even the industry's brightest minds and hardest workers have yet to definitively determine what those incentives ought to be. "Consumers don't pay for... View Details
- 11 Oct 2022
- News
On Balance
According to the agency’s most recent report card, which looked at pandemic-era employment between April 2020 and March 2021, the total pay gap between men and women in Australia stood at 22.8 percent. That figure has consistently fallen... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 18 Mar 2008
- News
Election ’08, HBS Style
creating Wikis and message boards with IT. They also hope to increase operating hours in Spangler and Baker. The first half of the debate was a fairly sedate affair. One point of contention was the upfront $200 fee that incoming students View Details
- 02 May 2005
- What Do You Think?
Where is Consumer Generated Marketing Taking Us?
of a study cited in the column that associated companies utilizing mechanisms for paying attention to "emerging customers" with the fostering of "disruptive technologies" raised some eyebrows. As Christophe Meili put... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 25 Jun 2019
- News
After the Storm
It’s fitting that Erik Dyson’s HBS interview was conducted over a pay phone in Costa Rica, where he and his wife, Debbi, were finishing a three-year program for Habitat for Humanity. Now the CEO of the disaster relief organization All... View Details
Keywords: Paul Flannery
- 01 Jun 2006
- News
CEO Compensation Troubles
long-term trend has been for CEO pay to rise along with the pay for other senior executives, and it is now twice as much as that of CEOs in major European countries, according to Towers Perrin, a global... View Details
- Portrait Project
Erica Santoni
language.The hyperactive adolescent who couldn’t pay attention in class.The classmate who struggled with mental health.The gay colleague in a conference room full of straight people. The more I see them, the more I see myself in them. And... View Details
- 24 Apr 2014
- News
Ron Shaich (MBA 1978)
Ron Shaich’s (MBA 1978) first venture, a cookie shop in downtown Boston, evolved into Au Bon Pain. His latest—Panera Cares—allows customers to pay only what they can afford at the popular restaurants he owns, Panera Bread. There’s a box... View Details
- 15 Oct 2014
- Research & Ideas
Apple Pay’s Technology Adoption Problem
company will have trouble coming up with an equally compelling message to drive sales of a service that allows you to pay at the retail counter with a swipe of an iPhone. "What does it do for me as a consumer?" asks Associate... View Details
- 11 May 2020
- News
Better Than Cash
in sanitation or health or education, it starts with a payment system everyone can use.” Goodwin-Groen offers the example of a mother who has to pay for her children’s schooling once each semester. She needs to save money for several... View Details
Daniel Willard
began to pay off for the B&O in the 1920s, and he continued that trend of high quality, introducing, among other things, the first mechanical air-conditioned equipment. During Willard’s later years with the company when the Depression... View Details
Keywords: Transportation
- 01 Sep 2017
- News
HBS Fund Supports Core Priorities Including Financial Aid
2012), a former fellowship recipient, began making gifts to the HBS Fund shortly after graduation. She allocates her gifts for financial aid in order to pay it forward. “My fellowship reduced the economic pressures so I could really... View Details
- 25 Apr 2014
- News
Self-awareness is important if you want to be a good general manager
role that is part ambassador, part recruiter. “I will pay attention to job opportunities in the Greater China area,” he says, “and pass the information along to the club members and also coordinate when people from China come to campus,... View Details
- 01 Mar 2012
- News
Social Investing Pioneers
brokered creation of the first social impact bond, which supports a program to reduce reoffending rates among former inmates of Her Majesty’s Prison Peterborough, a facility 75 miles north of London housing short-term offenders. The bond will View Details
- 11 Dec 2017
- News
Growing from Within
execution with ambition, I have no doubt we will make the most of our strategic priorities—for our customers and our business. What are the numbers that you pay the most attention? What data helps you get a picture of a store’s overall... View Details
- 01 Jun 2007
- News
KPMG for Mayor!
or nonprofit must demonstrate to its shareholders or donors that it can perform efficiently. To state the obvious, companies must make money. How could running a local government be a profitable enterprise? In a word: taxes. Voters in corrupt municipalities currently... View Details
- 01 Mar 2023
- News
An Investment in Tomorrow's Leaders
fellowship funds and annual gifts to the HBS Fund. The average one-year scholarship, typically called a fellowship at HBS, is $43,000, and nearly half of all MBA students benefit from these outright scholarships or grants. Students pay... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie
- 17 Sep 2020
- Research & Ideas
Many Small-Business Employees May Be Close to Losing Health Insurance
A health insurance crisis may be looming for employees of small businesses, with many firms struggling to cover their share of these costs, new research from Harvard Business School finds. Nearly one-third of employers surveyed weren’t sure they could View Details