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HBS - Financials | Supplemental Financial Information

enrollment increased 2 percent to nearly 42,000. While enrollment growth slowed from fiscal 2022, the group continued to see strong demand from women, minority, and international participants, while maintaining an overall completion rate... View Details

January 2023 (Revised April 2024)
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First to Fight? Culture, Tradition, and the United States Marine Corps (USMC)

By: Ranjay Gulati, Akhil Iyer and Joel Malkin

Over a history of more than 240 years, the United States Marine Corps has forged a distinct culture and institutional identity centered on its “warrior ethos.” In the wars of American history, Marines fought with uncommon valor, rising to international prominence for... View Details

Keywords: Change Management; Transformation; Talent and Talent Management; Government Administration; Management Practices and Processes; Management Systems; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Organizational Culture; Performance Effectiveness; United States

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February 2016 (Revised July 2017)
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Leadership and Independence at the Federal Reserve

By: David Moss and Marc Campasano

“From the Great Depression, to the stagflation of the seventies, to the current economic crisis caused by the housing bubble, every economic downturn suffered by this country over the past century can be traced to Federal Reserve policy.” Ron Paul, a Republican from... View Details

Keywords: Government Legislation; Central Banking; Policy; Financial Crisis; Business and Government Relations; Banking Industry; Public Administration Industry; United States

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Organizational Leadership Course | HBS Online

colleagues, such as direct reports, clients, or managers, for the assessment. Upon successful completion of the LPT—which requires obtaining ratings from at least two colleagues (and ideally at least six)—you will receive a detailed... View Details

02 Jun 2021
Research & Ideas

A Rare Find in Health Care: A Simple Solution to Racial Inequity

hospital care. They focused on the mortality rates for heart attacks, an ailment that typically requires patients to seek hospital care, and where mortality is a validated measure of hospital quality. They found that in the late 1990s,... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Health

01 Mar 2005
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Turkish Delight

Oxford University, after picking up Henry Kissinger’s A World Restored, he was hooked. “It’s a work of extraordinary genius about the Congress of Vienna at the end of the Napoleonic Wars. I would still rate it as one of the best two or... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; Executive, Legislative, and Other General Government Support; Government

06 Sep 2004
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The Innovator’s Battle Plan

A good way to visualize what incumbents can do when faced with a disruptive attack is to consider how humans respond to a perceived threat. Our body immediately reacts. We produce adrenaline. Our heart rate goes up. Our respiration View Details

Keywords: by Clayton M. Christensen, Scott D. Anthony & Erik A. Roth

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HBS - The year in Review

and build and manage new systems. Throughout, the HBS community worked together to overcome the complexities inherent in this hybrid approach. Students Arrive More than 9,300 applicants sought a place in the MBA Program and nearly 800 applicants in the Doctoral... View Details

15 Jul 2019
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Many Executives Are Afraid of Finance. Here's How They Can Gain Confidence

increasing the asset base through capital expenditures. But those capital expenditures reduce free cash flows dollar-for-dollar—and are conveniently ignored by people anxious to do deals. For example, terminal values will assume perpetual growth View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman

28 Mar 2016
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Why I Chose to Pursue an MD/MBA at Harvard

work on healthcare costs. One is Neel Shah, who I have been working with throughout my time in medical school. Neel doesn’t shy away from big problems or big questions, like why the C-section rate has increased by 700% in one generation... View Details

05 May 2008
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Connecting with Consumers Using Deep Metaphors

consumer needs and preferences. The issue is whether they do so as well as they could by using the most appropriate or insight-bearing tools and techniques. The high failure rate of new offerings and the failure of existing offerings to... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Consumer Products

31 Aug 2020
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Why Don’t More Organizations Understand the Power of Diversity and Inclusion?

they might, they are not making progress on diversity. Instead, they have low retention rates for their diverse talent. In many cases, the “last in, first out” phenomenon may apply in times of crisis. The key to achieving both diversity... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

21 Aug 2019
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What Machine Learning Teaches Us about CEO Leadership Style

communication of CEOs by analyzing their facial expressions using a computer-vision application that rated them according to eight emotions: anger, contempt, disgust, fear, happiness, neutral, sadness, and surprise. This type of analysis... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

22 Aug 2005
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The Hard Work of Failure Analysis

fact that most customers who defected from a particular bank gave "interest rates" as the reason for switching banks seemed to suggest that their original bank's interest rates were not competitive. However, his additional... View Details

Keywords: by Amy Edmondson & Mark D. Cannon

12 Jan 2023
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‘Debiasing’ Debt with Data

repaid in 98.2 percent of instances. “That’s an implied default rate of about 1.8 percent,” Ballard says. For comparison, one SBA loan program included in the data had a trailing 10-year default rate of 17.6... View Details

Keywords: Ralph Ranalli

21 Sep 2023
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Hands-on Learning About Global Markets

case she coauthored, “Doing Business in Buenos Aires, Argentina,” during the classroom portion of the FGI course, which began in March. But even after discussing Argentina’s skyrocketing inflation rate with students, Gerardo Lietz notes... View Details

11 Oct 2006
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How Do We Respond to the “Dependency Ratio” Dilemma?

strong emphasis on education. They suggest that China's dependency ratio will peak at about one dependent to 2.6 workers in the next few years. After that, the effects of encouraged reductions in the birth rate will mean that fewer... View Details

Keywords: by Jim Heskett

16 Aug 2018
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Working with a Giver’s Spirit

Philippine tech incubator behind a number of remarkable companies, including Ayannah, which uses social media and mobile platforms to provide digital commerce and payment services to the world’s unbanked; PawnHero, an online pawnshop that allows people to borrow... View Details

Keywords: Constantine von Hoffman

27 Feb 2017
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Reputation is Vital to Survival in Turbulent Markets

from Latin America, Africa, Turkey, and South Asia exuded this idea of stability, which assured employees, partners, customers, and everyone else. “After the crisis of 2009, the orders increased and our growth rate over the following five... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

01 Sep 2003
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Larry Murphy

managed and which customers rate as a top Disney offering. “We considered joint ventures with established cruise lines, but to do it the Disney way, we realized we had to own and run it ourselves.” Murphy, a Beverly Hills resident, has... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons; Accommodation; Hospitality

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