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- 01 Oct 2021
- News
No Time Like the Present
received. “When I first came to Harvard, I couldn’t believe that someone who had never met me was helping to pay for my education.” To Delle, that is one of the most amazing gifts that anyone can give—or receive. View Details
- 01 Jun 1997
- News
Of Myth and Merlin: T.A. (Tom) Barron's Literary Odyssey
monthlong hike in the Colorado wilderness. Musing on the connections between his business and writing careers, Barron observes: "The people I know who have done best in business pay attention to the subtleties of human relations and... View Details
Keywords: Thomas Frick
- 01 Jun 2000
- News
Social Capital Markets: Creating Value in the Nonprofit World
which recruits at-risk youth to work in Ben & Jerry's shops). It monitors employee progress and tries to quantify the costs each represents to society. It then tracks how that cost structure changes due to the nonprofit's intervention. "If employees go off welfare and... View Details
Keywords: Anne Kavanagh
- 01 Dec 2015
- News
In My Humble Opinion: Joss Kent (MBA 1997)
guide, with military and consulting experience in addition to his MBA—was COO of the company and he later became CEO. Today, Kent leads one of its competitors, andBeyond. He describes andBeyond, first, as a “conservation company.” The company’s luxury tourism View Details
Keywords: April White
- 01 Jun 2005
- News
Fellowship Campaign Approaching Goal
no legal requirement that he pay back the money. There was, however, a “moral loan” that he felt obliged to repay because the School had such a positive influence on his life. Dunphy, the retired head of Sealed Air Corporation who... View Details
- 07 Oct 2013
- Research & Ideas
The Case for Combating Climate Change with Nuclear Power and Fracking
If you ask any given environmentalist to identify the biggest threat to the planet, you may expect to hear about man-made climate change, consumerism, or overpopulation. But if you ask Harvard Business School's Joseph B. Lassiter, he'll toss in another: single-issue... View Details
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Olivia Zhao
incentives for companies to make drugs, but then you get to the point where someone has to pay for them. The question is, how do insurers and payers decide what to pay for drugs, and how does that affect... View Details
- 20 Mar 2017
- Book
Why Companies Are Placing Users at the Core of Their Innovation Strategies
good ideas with potential buyers willing to pay in advance to get the products made. “The field has grown quite a bit,” Lakhani says. “This book provides a concentrated view of the frontier of research in this area.” Lakhani practices... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 10 Sep 2014
- Research & Ideas
Become a Value Creator
asked how he could pay back the favor. Cash put his arm around his colleague's shoulder and said, "You don't owe me anything, Brian. This is the way we do things here. Just pay it forward."... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 11 Jun 2012
- Research & Ideas
When Business Competition Harms Society
"It's certainly cheaper than paying for repairs." The study shows that owners of vehicles that fail an emissions test are 11 percent less likely to return to that facility the following year, which implies that those same... View Details
- 03 Mar 2003
- Research & Ideas
The Ingredients of a Deal Disaster
they pay little attention to the social contract, or the spirit of the deal. So while the parties agree to the same terms on paper, they may actually have very different expectations about how the agreement will work in practice. Without... View Details
- 01 Dec 1999
- News
Q & A: Herb Kohl
also have an educational foundation that gives out about $400,000 a year in scholarships and awards to teachers and students around the state. Is it true that you have paid taxes even when you were not required to do so? Yes. It has never bothered me to View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 04 Mar 2009
- Op-Ed
Credit is Not the Bogey
commercials. From one vantage, the credit industry is to blame for our economic woes. The solutions have centered on tightening credit—loaning only to homebuyers who can make a 20 percent down payment, returning to the standards of 20 years ago where buyers were... View Details
- 05 Aug 2015
- News
Mobilizing the Public to Fight Bribery
somewhat accepted, Motte-Munoz says. “The people who are corrupt, you know that they’re corrupt. They don’t really hide it. They have official jobs, which pay them $1,000 a month, but they drive a Mercedes.” The corruption is so endemic... View Details
- 01 Jun 2006
- News
The Baby Business
for creating and acquiring children is, Spar argues, disorganized, legally conflicted, and virtually unfettered. It includes people who sell their eggs; buy sperm from strangers; undergo fertilization procedures; pay surrogates to bear... View Details
- 25 Jan 2011
- First Look
First Look: Jan. 25
founders serve as a director with a non-founder CEO (founder-director firms). We find that founder-director firms offer a different mix of incentives to their CEOs than other firms. Pay for performance sensitivity for non-founder CEOs in... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Dec 2020
- News
The Camel and the Unicorn
didn’t pay off. But generally, the New Bedford whaling industry of the 1800s thrived using this investment model, averaging over 14 percent annual returns, says Alex. Holding up the high end of that average was the firm Gideon Allen and... View Details
- 01 Dec 2017
- News
Yoga Inc.
door to his studio, Yoga by Donation, is never locked. Students slide dollar bills or, occasionally, tens and twenties into a black safe on an unattended reception desk before slipping off their shoes and finding a spot on the floor of the one-room studio. If you can’t... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Halber
- 20 May 2013
- Op-Ed
Making America an Industrial Powerhouse Again
II, hundreds of billions of federal dollars flowed through agencies like the National Science Foundation, the Department of Defense, the Department of Energy, and NASA to pay for the basic and applied research that spawned the... View Details
- 14 Mar 2011
- Research & Ideas
Keeping Credit Flowing to Consumers in Need
credit crunch? Nicolas P. Retsinas: In 2007 the nonprime mortgage market crumbled. Many of these products were predicated on ever-rising home values, which would enable owners to sell, pay off, buy again-a cycle toward ever-bigger,... View Details