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- 31 Mar 2002
- Research & Ideas
You’re Wasting Your Employees! What You Can Do About It
even generate sufficient high quality capital-budget projects to use the available resources—and therefore go on merger-and-acquisition expeditions. The stock market is telling managers what the scarce... View Details
- 24 Aug 2016
- Research & Ideas
Can Obamacare Be Saved?
On August 15th, Aetna announced that it would reduce by 80 percent its participation in the Obama administration’s public exchanges for health insurance policies in 2017, citing significant financial losses. The move came just a few weeks... View Details
- Profile
Anna King
professors to help us figure out where we're going and how to get there." Finding, and giving, support of all kinds Anna came to HBS "to shore up some of the business fundamentals," but once she arrived, she found much more. In her EC year, Anna is... View Details
- 01 Jun 2018
- News
Ink: Alumni Books and Recommendations
of male HBS grads to the executive office was not easy, but for women still unwelcomed above the glass ceiling in the ’70s, getting there was especially difficult. “She was one smart, sharp cookie,” says a classmate of Ellen Marram (MBA 1970), a View Details
- 01 Jun 1997
- News
Ronald P. Mitchell
community education program for minorities. "Young people need role models who can teach them not only basic academic skills," he says, "but also about what the stock market is, how to get a loan, and what... View Details
Keywords: Judith A. Ross
- 28 Jul 2015
- First Look
First Look: July 28, 2015
by the interaction of partner firms that does not necessarily accrue to any of them. The extent of "ambivalent value" is unclear, but its persistence, despite changing structural market features, promises to help sustain... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 12 Feb 2016
- Op-Ed
The Real Jobs Tragedy in the US: We've Lost the Skills
States economy maintained a steady pace in job growth of about 2 percent a year. The US labor force participation rate reflected that, growing robustly for the four decades from 1947 to 1997. Around 2001, both those indicators of the... View Details
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Program Policies - HBS Online
Exceptions Participant Discount Learning Requirements Course Platform Certificate Programs Participants are expected to fully complete all work on the course platform in English in a thoughtful and timely... View Details
- 06 Dec 2021
- News
Tipping Point
Kenyan coffee farm. The price of coffee beans on the global market is under $1 a pound, while the actual cost to produce that pound is between $1.62 and $2. The coffee farms are profitable only when they rely on free labor, typically from... View Details
- 01 Jan 2013
- News
Thomas A. James, MBA 1966
result of the early 1970s stock market decline. "Mary and the boys hardly saw me because we were trying to survive as a company," recalls James, noting that at one point he sold part of his coin collection... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 02 Sep 2002
- Research & Ideas
The Role of Government When All Else Fails
deal in common, since both require participants to spread risk on the basis of an insurance model. The nation's product liability system, which shifts risk from consumers to producers, has dramatically influenced the calculus of... View Details
Keywords: by Laura Linard
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Kayode Ogunro
UK-based emerging markets private equity firm. "I studied liberal arts at Harvard," Kayode explains, "and I was looking for a way to fill in my professional skills." His love of his alma mater, plus the encouragement... View Details
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Road to the White House 2024, a Private Sector Perspective on Presidential Politics - Course Catalog
Business School graduates are in a unique position to help solve the problem - as candidates for elective office, as private sector leaders who actively contribute time and money to candidates with high integrity and sound policy, and/or as View Details
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Harvard Business School and Polaroid - Edwin H. Land & Polaroid | Harvard Business School
the Harvard Business School (HBS) campus on June 4, 1927 marked the formal recognition of HBS as a major research institution, partner with American enterprise, and participant in the greater Boston business community. A leading example... View Details
- 23 Nov 2010
- First Look
First Look: November 23
Abstract Because the market for online advertising is both new and fast-changing, participants experiment with all manner of variations. Should an advertiser's payment reflect the number of times an ad was... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
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Managing International Trade and Investment - Course Catalog
as they participate in and shape cross-border trade and investment. Career Focus This course should interest any student who plans to work for a firm with transnational interests or investments or students with significant interests in... View Details
- 30 Sep 2014
- First Look
First Look: September 30
regimes and codes of conduct-that diffuse global standards. But little is known about the conditions under which companies adhere to these standards. We conduct one of the first large-scale comparative studies to determine which international, domestic, civil society,... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
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Yueran Ma
growing up also had a major influence on my interests in finance. I travelled with my family in China, and everywhere I saw firms and entrepreneurs struggling to raise funding as the financial system was riddled with frictions and barriers. I also witnessed the... View Details
- 01 Feb 1997
- News
Herzlinger on Health Care: Revolution in Evolution
conversation. What are the major market forces that are transforming the health-care system? First and foremost, it's consumers. They have already revolutionized the retailing and information industries because they are so busy working... View Details
- 01 Aug 2002
- News
For Alumni Only: Breakthrough Insights Program Debuts
on Network Associates' efforts to market its encryption software algorithms globally, despite national security concerns raised by the U.S. government. By Tuesday afternoon, participants seemed to have... View Details
Keywords: Laura Singleton