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23 Sep 2020
News

HBS Action Plan for Racial Equity

individuals who apply,” Rivkin told The Wall Street Journal. “Reducing financial barriers is key. It increases financial aid to families that have historically been unable to accumulate wealth over generations and therefore struggled to... View Details

22 Feb 2017
News

Funding Solar’s Future

SolarCity, Vivint and their ilk install individual solar projects on commercial and residential roofs, Barcott and McCready wanted to address the financing needs of the utility-scale solar developers, which provide power directly to the... View Details

Keywords: Electric Power Generation, Transmission, Distribution; Utilities

24 Jul 2020
News

Reimagining Chicago’s Schools

experience. Rather than using the data from standardized tests (which are unpopular with both parents and teachers), and applying it to a school or grade or classroom en masse, Intrinsic employs it to individualize student learning.... View Details

01 Sep 2024
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Alumni Books

Supporting this progress and restoration of the critical infrastructure and built environment, however, was a vast and varied gathering of legislative bodies, public institutions, interest groups, and private individuals and entities.... View Details

01 Dec 2008
News

Lesson from the Fall

published in Enron’s Code of Ethics (available as a collectible on eBay), it was unreasonable to expect that a single individual at Enron, no matter how well-endowed with principled judgment, could be expected to remain untouched by... View Details

Keywords: Malcolm S. Salter; Oil and Gas Extraction; Mining; Electric Power Generation, Transmission, Distribution; Utilities

01 Jun 2013
News

Five Bright Ideas

company in 1992. The long-standing SABIS method, a cycle of Teach, Class Practice, Individual Practice, and Check, involves the teacher presenting one point at a time, with students mastering it via repeated examples of use, various... View Details

Keywords: Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services; Elementary and Secondary Schools; Educational Services

09 Nov 2015
Research & Ideas

These Employers Pay Higher Salaries than Necessary

to get them in the door, and then raising prices later. Think of visiting a restaurant you might not otherwise have visited because you have a coupon for a half-price meal. “The difference in a peer-to-peer market is that even though the platform’s objective is to get... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Employment; Technology; Computer

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Horace W. Goldsmith Fellowship | MBA

served in full-time leadership roles in the nonprofit or public sector prior to enrolling at HBS and demonstrate a strong commitment to a career in the sector. Fellowship is given in addition to any need-based fellowship awards. In an effort to create a network of... View Details

01 Jun 2012
News

Good Fellowship

the recipients but also to the academic enrichment of the School. Through fellowships, almost half of all MBAs (some 900 students) receive financial aid—on average, $59,000 per individual over the two-year MBA Program—thanks to more than... View Details

04 Oct 2004
Research & Ideas

Start to Measure Your E-commerce Success

e-commerce decision- making process should develop metrics appropriate to the strategy and objectives of the e-commerce initiative, the company, and its stakeholders. During the measure selection process, it is useful for the involved View Details

Keywords: by Marc J. Epstein

16 Sep 2015
Research & Ideas

Can Applied Economics Save Homeless Puppies?

One economic problem is search costs—the time, money, and effort spent on researching which dog to adopt. Another is information asymmetry—in which one person involved in an economic transaction has more information than the other. “The View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Retail

01 Sep 2010
News

Letters to the Editor

Individual Donors Enrich Fellows’ Experience As a beneficiary of the HBS Leadership Fellows program, I was excited to see the June cover story about the program and the profiles of several colleagues associated with it. Â As the article... View Details

Keywords: Securities, Commodities, and Other Financial Investments; Finance

17 May 2004
Research & Ideas

Why We Don’t Study Corporate Responsibility

researchers might be able to address such issues as "how corporate practices contribute to or detract from stable societal institutions or democratic processes, or how might companies advance individual learning and growth, or the... View Details

Keywords: by Manda Salls

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HBS Course: Starting a Private Investment Firm

private investment lifecycle. Individual accounts are required to access. Strict data download limit. Preqin
Information on PE & VC firms, funds,... View Details

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4.3 Missing Persons | MBA

than 24 hours. Students are not required to designate a separate individual for this purpose and if they choose not to do so, then Harvard will assume that they have chosen to treat their general emergency contact as their missing person... View Details

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1.21 Use of Course Work & Materials | MBA

students must obtain advance clearance from HBS Publishing to make course materials available to individuals or organizations. This rule applies to both printed and electronic course materials. Reproducing copyrighted materials without... View Details

01 Jun 2000
News

Business Suits You: Experimenting with Professional Identity

junior professionals in consulting and investment banking firms. She found that these individuals had various methods of discovering how to create an effective image for themselves as senior managers. The most prevalent form of... View Details

01 Apr 2001
News

Tatsuyuki Saeki: Putting Stock in New Options at Nasdaq Japan

but some young entrepreneurs are picking up on it — Nasdaq Japan listed forty companies last year. With only 10 percent of private investors participating in the securities market, Saeki sees enormous room for growth. “This country still has a lot of traditional rules”... View Details

Keywords: Alejandro Reyes; Securities, Commodities, and Other Financial Investments; Finance

01 Mar 2004
News

Chinese Premier Speaks at HBS

China is not yet ready, he said, for national elections (although 680,000 villages have elected local officials), the country’s goal is that “the people supervise the work of the government.” China is committed to improvements in human rights, he observed, adding that... View Details

Keywords: Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services; Executive, Legislative, and Other General Government Support; Government

01 Mar 2004
Lessons from the Classroom

Mission to Mars: It Really Is Rocket Science

design "programs" or sequences of projects over time in order that learning is maximized. Most past research on innovation has focused on the management of individual projects. As a result, we know a lot about topics such as... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

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