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01 Jun 2004
News

Life Lessons

second of five children, growing up under apartheid in rural South Africa, she credits her parents with stressing the importance of education and for making her politically aware and proud of her Sotho heritage. With this strong... View Details

Keywords: James E. Aisner; Garry Emmons; Julia Hanna; Susan Young; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

02 Jun 2011
Research & Ideas

Signing at the Top: The Key to Preventing Tax Fraud?

The instructions went on to say that the participants would receive a tax credit for the cost of their commute to the lab. After the problem-solving exercise, the participants went into another room and filled out a "research study tax... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Accounting

21 Nov 2024
Blog Post

Thoughts on the JD/MBA From a Recent Grad

that all the required credits can be completed during the fall and spring semesters, leaving the three summers free for internships. The majority of students will explore at least one business-related internship and one law-related... View Details

25 Jan 2019
Blog Post

Not Waiting for Progress: Diversity and Inclusion in the Film Industry

Atlanta University Center, and the distinguished civil rights movement leader Reverend Ralph Abernathy was Diamond’s godfather. Diamond credits his mother—who worked in sales with Mary Kay cosmetics—with instilling in him a “high level of... View Details

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Social Entrepreneurship and Systems Change (SESC) - Course Catalog

HBS Course Catalog Social Entrepreneurship and Systems Change (SESC) Course Number 1581 Senior Lecturer Gerald Chertavian Senior Lecturer Brian Trelstad Fall; Q1Q2; 3.0 credits 28 Sessions Paper/Project Career Focus SESC is tailored for... View Details

01 Dec 1996
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Entrepreneurship at HBS

students and graduates that has grown sharply over the decades. Last year, more than 15 percent of all elective credits in the MBA Program were earned in the School's courses on entrepreneurship. Moreover, in recent surveys, over half of... View Details

01 Dec 2002
News

Straddling Two Worlds

equity. Firmly established in the business world, in the late 1980s, Tierney set out to find a way to fight poverty in Latin America and Africa. “I had been involved in various efforts since my Peace Corps days, but I knew it was time to get serious,” explains Tierney,... View Details

Keywords: Susan Young

22 Nov 2016
First Look

November 22, 2016

commercial implications—the technology would be immensely important to biotechnology firms looking to develop gene therapy products and was, therefore, sure to generate strong revenues for whichever entity owned the IP—but would also essentially award scientific View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

23 Jun 2009
First Look

First Look: June 23

communities, and make our cities smarter. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/09-141.pdf The Optimal Taxation of Height: A Case Study of Utilitarian Income Redistribution Authors:N. Gregory Mankiw and Matthew Weinzierl Abstract Should the income tax... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

10 Apr 2007
First Look

First Look: April 10, 2007

associated with taxing foreign-source income. Examples are given of the practical after-tax effects of the major alternatives. Foreign tax credit and "tax haven" based business activities receive special attention. Provides an... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

06 Mar 2019
News

Making Sabbaticals Mainstream

my journey, post-sabbatical, and how I got to where I am now. We started a company that was doing credit scoring in emerging markets. I stepped away to take that sabbatical after seven years, came back, and I decided to step back from the... View Details

01 Dec 1999
News

A Class Act

graduated from the School in 1926. We understand that he has been an active member of the Harvard Club of Tokio [sic] and observe that his alumni dues are paid through October, 1942! War Notes Winter 1955 Married college sweetheart and went with Commercial View Details

Keywords: Nancy O. Perry

01 Jun 2010
News

M.I.A. Boards

anyone. Most of the top executives didn’t understand the risks they were taking, so can you imagine a septuagenarian sitting in the boardroom getting a PowerPoint presentation on synthetic CDOs and credit default swaps?” In a conference... View Details

Keywords: John Gillespie;David Zweig; Finance

25 Sep 2018
First Look

New Research and Ideas, September 25, 2018

for the company to initiate regular quarterly dividends, while some other hedge fund investors were eager to see more share repurchases. Other choices being advocated by various parties included reducing leverage to improve HCA's credit... View Details

Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

01 Dec 2008
News

No Easy Fix for the Financial Crisis

Street, raising the specter of a credit market collapse that would cripple the economy. “It is an anxious time. It is probably even a dangerous time. It is a historic time. And it is a time that we’re going to be teaching about in our... View Details

Keywords: Roger Thompson;Martha Lagace; deregulation; moral hazard; the middle class; Finance

08 Mar 2016
Research & Ideas

Solving an Economic Mystery Surrounding Argentina and Chile

cent in Argentina. Chile retains the highest credit rating in Latin America, based on the low 20 per cent ratio of public debt to GDP. In Argentina that ratio is 45 per cent. There remains also a solid institutional foundation for... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

26 Aug 2020
News

What the Climate Change Movement Can Learn from the Pandemic

users’ credit card purchases and then connects users with offsets they can buy to mitigate their footprint. Part of Pal’s motivation for building Joro was that she wanted a tool that would not only allow her to better measure the impact... View Details

01 Sep 2009
News

Read All About It!

health care, higher education, and housing — climbed steeply. To finance what they needed and wanted, growing numbers of households turned to various forms of credit. By 2001, almost three-quarters of all American families owned at least one View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services; Publishing Industries (except Internet); Information

20 Oct 2015
First Look

October 20, 2015

transactions and vice versa. This paper examines how service quality, competition, and poverty are related to demand and inventory (of electronic credit and physical cash) where, in this setting, service quality consists of pricing... View Details