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HBS - Financials | Supplemental Financial Information
Salaries & Benefits 10% Publishing & Printing 9% Other 8% Space & Occupancy 7% Fellowships 6% Professional Services 6% Depreciation 3% University Assessments 2% Supplies & Equipment 0% Debt Service Faculty research expenses include a portion of faculty salaries and... View Details
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Sexual Harassment - Race, Gender & Equity
white women to have recently experienced harassment, even when controlling for sector, industry, size of company, age, and marital/partner status. “I was repeatedly the subject of sexual overtures when I first graduated from HBS. From the... View Details
- 04 Feb 2010
- What Do You Think?
What’s the Best Way to Make Careful Decisions?
making makes many people highly uncomfortable which is why intuition gets a bad rap. (It implies) emotion a lack of discipline and robustness in analysis the lack of control (replicability)." Pallavi Marathe put it this way:... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 22 Feb 2022
- News
A World of Difference
often pushes us in the wrong direction toward something that is fundamentally familiar and comfortable. Difference is not that. You need curiosity and courage to understand something differently and to learn from it. In addition,... View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint
- 24 Feb 2020
- Research & Ideas
The Hidden Vulnerabilities of Open Source Software
numerous pieces of critical infrastructure. But without appropriate investment and maintenance, that widespread adoption has the potential to become a liability. A preliminary study released February 18, which we directed alongside the... View Details
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HBS - Financials | Supplemental Financial Information
Services 5% Depreciation 3% University Assessments 1% Supplies & Equipment 0% Debt Service Faculty research expenses include a portion of faculty salaries and benefits expense, as well as direct costs for faculty support staff and travel,... View Details
- 22 Feb 2022
- News
Breaking News
24 papers in Colorado was structured to keep control in local hands? We set up the Colorado News Conservancy as a public benefit corporation. We earmarked a majority of shares to be eventually fully locally owned. The Conservancy is... View Details
- 13 Apr 2016
- Research & Ideas
Why Your Company Wants to be a 'Cognitive Referent' (Hint: SpaceX)
what they were doing.” In contrast, the startups that would ultimately become the cognitive referents controlled their messages carefully, expending much effort to correct labels or comparisons they felt were inaccurate and explain their... View Details
- 16 Dec 2021
- Blog Post
African American Student Union Spotlight on STEM
Impact. When you look at making an impact, a large part of it is rooted in directing funds to places that need it. I did that at a very site-specific level as an engineer — if there was a piece of equipment at my facility that was... View Details
- 05 Jul 2006
- Research & Ideas
The Accidental Innovator
direct special attention to it." Similarly, Daguerre, who invented photography, made his breakthrough when he put an exposed plate into a cabinet in which a thermometer had earlier shattered; mercury vapors from the broken... View Details
Keywords: by Sarah Jane Gilbert
- 25 Mar 2015
- HBS Case
Tate’s Digital Makeover Transforms the Traditional Museum
can be tracked through clicks, page views, and time on the site, as well as through a host of other metrics. But, says Avery, "there is often still not a direct link to the type of customer behavior we want to measure, such as ticket... View Details
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Harvard Business School
Accenture). He became a partner in 1976, specializing in the development of financial control and operating systems in retail and banking industries. In 1985, Gates began to develop commercial and residential real estate. His first... View Details
- 01 Jun 2024
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books
innovation, connection, and freedom. In the past decade, it has fallen almost entirely under the control of a very small group of companies like Apple, Google, and Facebook. In Read Write Own, tech visionary Chris Dixon argues that the... View Details
- 30 Jan 2020
- Research & Ideas
The Upside of Highlighting a Product's Downsides
When booking an international flight, the choice often comes down to “expensive but direct” or “cheap with connections.” But what if an airline warned customers that the direct flight was frequently delayed? Would customers appreciate... View Details
Keywords: by Danielle Kost
- 08 Sep 2008
- HBS Case
The Value of Environmental Activists
There are many methods, most financial, to measure the success of companies in meeting goals. But the question becomes a lot harder at Harvard Business School when MBAs are challenged to measure the efforts of environmental organizations like Greenpeace and the World... View Details
- 25 Aug 2022
- News
Up on the Corner
the government of Angola on foreign direct investment. That experience, coupled with childhood memories of the painful structural adjustment programs foisted on Cameroon by the IMF (her own mother lost her job due to austerity-induced... View Details
- 06 Aug 2019
- Cold Call Podcast
Super Bowl Ads Sell Products, but Do They Sell Brands?
Apple's 1984 ad, which aired, not surprisingly, on the 1984 Super Bowl when they announced the launch of the Macintosh personal computer. That is still in the advertising Hall of Fame. It was directed by Ridley Scott, who is a well-known... View Details
- 01 Feb 2002
- News
It's academic. (Not!)
School's investment in its doctoral programs creates intellectual capital with widespread effects. After receiving their degrees, most graduates of the DBA and Ph.D. programs go on to influential faculty positions at HBS and other top business schools.What they have... View Details
- 14 Jul 2020
- Research & Ideas
Restarting Under Uncertainty: Managerial Experiences from Around the World
the imposed closure of most of the stores and shopping malls who had to quickly reroute their business toward e-commerce and direct delivery of products to customers’ homes. This shift heavily impacted Logistics operations, increasing... View Details
- 22 Jul 2019
- Book
How to Be a Digital Platform Leader
advantage. Lagace: What advice do you have for conventional firms looking to explore platforms? Yoffie: There are three potential strategies. You can belong to an existing platform, buy a platform if time to market is critical, or build one if you want to View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace