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- 01 Mar 2011
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Tax and Grow
investment. But even cash disgorged through dividends, share repurchases, or mergers would have a potentially stimulative effect compared with corporations banking the funds. It is tempting to pin hopes of an economic recovery on a... View Details
- 01 Jun 2022
- News
What We’re Reading
joy. I have agency. I can be grateful for the blessings I have (instead of comparing myself to others); I can laugh at myself (instead of taking life too seriously); and I can always be more generous and compassionate (“we go” vs. ego).... View Details
- 01 Jun 2004
- News
Life Lessons
Staats, who sold Posita in 2003. “But I realized I still had a lot to learn about business.” So he followed his younger brother, Bradley (MBA ’02), to HBS. Comparing MBA studies with Ph.D. work, Staats notes, “Few experiences here have... View Details
- 01 Jun 2024
- News
Conducting Business
In 2015 I moved from New York City to Madison, Connecticut, where I met, quite by chance, Ginny Vancil and her brother, Richard. I thought, How many Vancils can there be in the world? I asked if they knew Richard “Dick” Vancil, who was my first professor for my first... View Details
- 01 Dec 2000
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Latin America's Decade
common issues most Latin American countries are dealing with. It's a factor that constrains business strategy across the region." Latin America's equity markets are thin and capital is scarce, Ghemawat says, with the result that companies must avail themselves of... View Details
- 01 Jun 2009
- News
Dispatches from the Global Classroom
response: By providing preventive care and earlier intervention, Primedic’s network will lower costs compared with a public health system notable for its long lines and months-long wait for referrals. Rodríguez, cofounder of the IGNIA... View Details
- 01 Apr 1997
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HBS Duo Offers Personalized Career Assessment
can access an HBS database compiled by the authors through the alumni Web page at http://www.alumni.hbs.edu, where they may also compare their scores to HBS norms. The BCII diskette provided with the book performs all scoring operations... View Details
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- 25 Aug 2015
- News
Sunset in the East?
relatives and partners, underground banks, informal networks) that collectively do not encourage excessive risk. To put it another way, the consumer, compared to debt-ridden state-owned enterprises or local governments, is the most sober... View Details
- 01 Jun 2005
- News
Fellowship Campaign Approaching Goal
wherever you go.” Fellowships at a Glance Since the launch of the HBS campaign, more than 115 new fellowship funds have been established. In 2004–05, the School will award close to $12 million infellowship aid, compared with about $7... View Details
- 01 Jun 2013
- News
School of Hard Knocks
and eighth graders gang-tackled me. Every day after that, I was kicked, punched, spit on, or pinched, due solely to the color of my skin. Lying in the dirt and grease under a pickup truck was serenity compared to the cruel reality outside... View Details
- 17 Dec 2024
- News
Solving the Underemployment Crisis
Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Hi, it’s Dan. Today, we are sharing a brief excerpt from Managing the Future of Work, the critically-acclaimed podcast from my colleagues at Harvard Business School. Each episode, HBS professors Bill Kerr... View Details
- 01 Mar 2012
- News
Speak English, Please!
a universal experience of status diminution when people compare their native language to this new language,” Neeley remarks. “So no matter how fluent some people are in English, they believe they’ll never be as sophisticated, influential,... View Details
- 01 Oct 2002
- News
Making a Difference
manager at Procter & Gamble, Haacker loves the outdoors. His goal at Denali was to explore a potential long-term career in environmental conservation and to get a sense of how nonprofits and government agencies work. “Everybody tells you that working in private... View Details
- 01 Mar 2009
- News
Letters to the Editor
word for it: Numerous sources over the past several years have documented the actual costs of the new generation of nuclear plants, including testimony to regulators by many of the utilities proposing to build them. According to these sources, nuclear power will cost... View Details
- 25 Aug 2022
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Research Brief: Paying the Price for Remote Work
Alberto Cavallo’s paper, “The International Price of Remote Work.” Using a data set from 2019 to 2021 from one of the largest web platforms, Cavallo and coauthors Agostina Brinatti, Javier Cravino, and Andres Drenik found that a country’s gross domestic product largely... View Details
- 06 Nov 2014
- News
Building a Startup Community Beyond Commencement
The rent is relatively cheap ($200/month per person) compared to start-up sites in Kendall Square and South Boston’s Innovation District, its dedicated desks offer more permanence than most co-working spaces, and the access to the i-lab’s... View Details
- 01 Jun 2017
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for June 2017
exceptionally favorable factors in France such as its wealth of assets, human capital, and the French brand. And the disadvantages of the system (the burdens of administration, law, and the cost of labor and taxes) are comparatively much... View Details
- 01 Dec 2004
- News
Retirement's Changing Face
disasters. Photo courtesy Gregg Bemis Mysteries of the Deep Gregg Bemis Jr. (MBA ’54) Age: 76 Home: Santa Fe, New Mexico Gregg Bemis walked out the door of his last corporate job in 1979, at the age of 51. “It became readily apparent that View Details
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- 01 Dec 2010
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This Is What I Do
fluid along the surface at our site, which requires just a relatively small primary pump. SWAC is our only source of cooling — we have no conventional backup.” The SWAC system cost about $8 million, compared with a more conventional... View Details
- 01 Jun 2016
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Making It Possible to Explore and Grow
compared to what I had known in Pakistan,” says Khan. Her work in venture capital was eye-opening. “I start- ed to look at the numbers,” she says. “In 2013 less than 3 percent of all venture capital raised in the US went to female-led... View Details