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5.4 Sample Community Standards Violations | MBA

Inappropriate Behavior or Illegal Activity Excessive alcohol resulting in complaints or harmful behavior Loud/disruptive parties Disrespect to staff or faculty Offensive or threatening behavior or comments (verbal or written) based on any... View Details

01 Dec 2017
News

Environmental Impact

received at the School and the impact it has had on my life,” says McCaw. “I’m delighted HBS is taking a more active role in Africa and pleased that we can support that effort.” View Details

21 Dec 2017
News

A Decent Place to Live

in over 1,300 communities in the US and over 70 countries worldwide. “My job is to make sure that we're preparing and executing programs that really serve people who live in ineffective housing; that we have the resources we need to do that; and that we also are View Details

14 Jan 2008
Research & Ideas

Mapping Polluters, Encouraging Protectors

information themselves. Besides managers, the site's creators hope MapEcos will grab the attention of members of the public, including environmental activists. Users can track factories' pollution activity over time, compare factories in... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Manufacturing; Chemical

29 Sep 2015
First Look

September 29, 2015

construct firm-level measures of the upstreamness of integrated and non-integrated inputs by combining information on the production activities of firms operating in more than 100 countries with Input-Output tables. In line with the... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

17 May 2004
Research & Ideas

Why We Don’t Study Corporate Responsibility

sometimes, employees. A second concern is misallocation or inefficiency. Engaging in activities deemed "socially responsible," critics argue, entails diverting resources best used for economic purposes to advance purposes for... View Details

Keywords: by Manda Salls

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Collecting Strategy | Baker Library

an active web-archiving program. While the collections contain extensive materials on American business leaders from the colonial period to the present, we are actively working to expand both the diversity... View Details

July 1990 (Revised October 1997)
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Siemens Electric Motor Works (A) (Abridged)

By: Robert S. Kaplan

Explores how a cost system can help support a firm's decision to change strategies. In the process, the students are introduced to a simple activity-based cost system. Siemens Electric Motor Works found itself facing an increasingly competitive environment and so made... View Details

Keywords: Activity Based Costing and Management; Cost Accounting; Cost; Adoption; Cost vs Benefits; Management Analysis, Tools, and Techniques; Production; Business Strategy; Electronics Industry; Manufacturing Industry

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01 Dec 2002
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Hong Kong Club Thrives, Plans Next Global Alumni Conference

AMP), and Andrew Yao (MBA '92) at a recent Distinguished Speakers' Forum. Photo courtesy HBSA-HK Anthony Teo (MBA '69, ITP '68), vice president of the Harvard Business School Association of Hong Kong (HBSA-HK), has long been an active... View Details

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Hakeem Belo-Osagie | Baker Library

services. He started at a securities trading outfit and soon realized there was little trading activity going on in commercial paper, treasury bills, and bankers acceptances. Together with Nigerian shareholders and international... View Details

12 May 2016
News

Cooking Up America’s Food Culture

food-education spaces and food-business incubators, Duda has combined his MBA with the lessons he learned in restaurants. He’s also actively involved with the resurrection of the Redland Farm Life School, near Miami. When it opened in... View Details

12 PM – 1:30 PM EST, 21 Nov 2024
Webinars: Career

Considering Retirement

feeling overwhelmed.In this webinar, you will learn:how to know what matters most to you going forward,how to explore options to build the life that works,how other successful graduates have thought about their life and activities in... View Details

06 Jun 2013
Op-Ed

How to Do Away with the Dangers of Outsourcing

The recent collapse of the eight-story Rana Plaza garment factory in Bangladesh was a red alert for every company that has embraced the "virtual organization" model and the outsourcing that goes with it. The lure of the model is obvious. Virtual corporations... View Details

Keywords: by Ranjay Gulati; Manufacturing; Apparel & Accessories; Fashion

01 Dec 2003
What Do You Think?

Is This the Twilight Era for the Managed Mutual Fund?

probably seen the beginning of the decline of the actively managed mutual fund," Charles Broming expressed the hope that "money management will become another technical job and compensation will reflect its real added... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

06 Feb 2023
Blog Post

Meet the Black Investment Club

early-stage venture capital while at HBS, Coates is an active member of the Boston innovation ecosystem from the investor side as a Venture Fellow, now Managing Partner, at Rough Draft Ventures (student fund backed by General Catalyst)... View Details

Keywords: Private Equity; Venture Capital; Investment Management / Hedge Fund

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Harvard and the Legacy of Slavery | About

Glass’s active promulgation of segregationist policies, including poll taxes and literacy requirements that prevented many thousands of Black citizens from voting, that led us to rename the House that bore his name as Cash House. What... View Details

04 Oct 2016
First Look

October 4, 2016

in press Journal of Personality and Social Psychology Artful Paltering: The Risks and Rewards of Using Truthful Statements to Mislead Others By: Rogers, T., R. Zeckhauser, F. Gino, M.I. Norton, and M. Schweitzer Abstract—Paltering is the View Details

05 Jul 2017
Research & Ideas

Are Stockbrokers Illegally Leaking Confidential Information to Favored Clients?

information from an SEC form The researchers also collected information from the Security and Exchange Commission’s Schedule 13D forms for the same time period. And here’s where the potentially shady broker activity starts to become... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Financial Services

28 May 2012
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A Pragmatic Alternative for Creating a Corporate Social Responsibility Strategy

core assets, such as brand reputation or employee morale. In the paper CSR initiatives are explored in three "theatres." Theatre 1 includes activities primarily motivated by charitable instincts, even though they may have potential... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman

16 Jan 2012
Research & Ideas

Private Meetings of Public Companies Thwart Disclosure Rules

are actively breaking the rules of Regulation FD. Rather, he is suggesting that the SEC may need to spend more time determining what constitutes material information. For an astute observer, simply observing a CEO's emotions during a... View Details