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- 01 Sep 2007
- News
Ali Allawi
Iraq from the perspective of an insider — The Occupation of Iraq: Winning the War, Losing the Peace. Published last spring, it’s a damning indictment not just of America’s many missteps, but also of the “utter mediocrity, incompetence,... View Details
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Supplemental Financial Information - Annual Report 2017
fewer contract resources than planned, while postponing certain capital projects and vendor agreements. As a result, the School’s total publishing and printing expenses for fiscal 2017 were $70 million—unchanged from the prior year. Space & View Details
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Supplemental Financial Information II - Annual Report 2020
for fiscal 2020 increased by $4 million, or 5 percent, from the prior year, to $81 million. This amounted to 10 percent of the School’s total operating costs, compared with 9 percent in fiscal 2019. Space & Occupancy The HBS campus... View Details
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Statement of Activity & Cash Flows - Annual Report 2020
Occupancy 71 72 71 Supplies & Equipment 12 13 12 Professional Services 59 72 68 Fellowships 57 51 50 University Assessments 26 26 24 Debt Service 3 3 3 Depreciation 45 46 42 Other Expenses 102 102 82 total expenses $ 831 m. $ 821 m. $ 766... View Details
- 13 Jan 2016
- Research & Ideas
The Problem with Productivity of Multi-Ethnic Teams
with Kenya’s electoral commission, Pons and his colleagues tracked the efforts of teams of canvassers as they braved the slum’s twisting streets, knocking on doors and trying to convince occupants to register to vote. For each of 15,000... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 11 Jun 2018
- Blog Post
Meet the 2018-2019 Blavatnik Fellows in Life Science Entrepreneurship
care and is the CEO and co-founder of InfiniteMD, a telemedicine company connecting Chinese patients with US physicians for second opinions. She is a practicing Preventive Care and Occupational Medicine physician at Cambridge Health... View Details
- 01 Sep 2007
- News
Got Global?
reconstruction. We talked at length by phone about his new book, The Occupation of Iraq: Winning the War, Losing the Peace (see story). For Ramalinga Raju (OPM 19, 1993), the solutions he sought were less elusive (see story). The founder... View Details
- 01 Apr 2001
- News
Beyond Accommodation
to be blind can perform as well as anyone else. Gibbons hopes his own example will inspire other blind people to reach beyond traditionally “blind” occupations — in advocacy, rehabilitation, or service positions — to consider careers in... View Details
- 25 Feb 2020
- News
The Influence of Geography on Work and Innovation
personal: A spouse’s or partner’s job, a child’s schooling, or a parent’s health can prevent a worker from considering a move. Often, though, the stumbling blocks affect larger groups of workers. “There’s a lot of geographic immobility because of regulation, View Details
Keywords: April White
- 10 Oct 2005
- Research & Ideas
Homers: Secrets on the Factory Floor
workers trained on such software was taking on work that used to be done in the workshops. The seemingly anecdotal homers encapsulated micro-struggles for recognition, ones in which the identity threats that craftsmen were facing were challenged. These artifacts echoed... View Details
- 01 Feb 1997
- News
Herzlinger on Health Care: Revolution in Evolution
already have lower occupancy due to advances in technology. Then where does the misconception arise that expensive technology - such as MRIs and CAT scanners - is pushing up the cost of health care? Hospitals like to showcase the latest... View Details
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4.5 University-Wide Statement on Rights and Responsibilities - MBA
a character as to amount to grave disrespect for the dignity of others be regarded as an unacceptable violation of the personal rights on which the University is based. It is implicit in the University-wide Statement on Rights and Responsibilities that any unauthorized... View Details
- 23 Feb 2021
- Research & Ideas
COVID-19 Shines New Light on Working Conditions in Supply Chains
more than 20 years, the devastation in meatpacking is just one example of how lax regulation can make a grave situation deadly. The lack of safety guidance from the US Occupational Health and Safety Administration (OSHA) nearly a year... View Details
- 24 Nov 2009
- First Look
First Look: Nov. 24
trends in cost behavior. First, when revenues are growing, "indirect" costs related to sales, distribution, marketing, personnel, technology, and occupancy are far from fixed in this industry. In some cases they are... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 13 Jul 2009
- Research & Ideas
Diagnosing the Public Health Care Alternative
prospective physicians who must incur massive debt for their education reluctantly opt for other occupations in which the government is not their sole source of revenues. A government market with an underpriced Medicare would likely lead... View Details
- 17 Dec 2001
- Research & Ideas
Risks and Rewards of the Intrapreneur
Your company is forming an intrapreneurial venture, and has asked you to join the start-up team. Is this a career pick-me-up, or occupational suicide? It could be either one, and employees should carefully weigh the pros and cons before... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 19 Oct 2015
- Research & Ideas
Business Research that Makes for Smarter Public Policy
originated. “We are using data from regulators, writing studies, but seldom going back to the regulators to say, ‘This is what we learned,’” says Harvard Business School Professor Michael W. Toffel, whose research examines companies’ environmental and View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 25 Feb 2020
- Research & Ideas
For Migrant Workers, Homesickness Can Reduce Productivity
occupational licensing, personal/psychological costs, and economic costs. He is currently studying productivity effects of new forms of remote work, such as “work from anywhere” and “all-remote work” arrangements on individuals,... View Details
Keywords: by Kristen Senz
- 03 Nov 2016
- Op-Ed
Forget About Making College Affordable; Make it a Good Investment
reason is that college graduates who can’t secure college-level employment often settle for non-college jobs. According to U.S. Census American Community Survey data, millions of college graduates with at least a bachelor’s degree work full-time in View Details
- 28 Jun 2016
- First Look
June 28, 2016
https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=51197 Social Networks, Ethnicity, and Entrepreneurship By: Kerr, William R., and Martin Mandorff Abstract—We study the relationship between ethnicity, occupational choice, and... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne