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08 May 2024
News

Michael Bloomberg (MBA 1966) Awarded Medal of Freedom

Michael Bloomberg (MBA 1966) was one of 19 people awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom at the White House on May 2. “From finance to media to philanthropy, Michael... View Details

13 Jan 2003
Research & Ideas

The Subconscious Mind of the Consumer (And How To Reach It)

the product is gripped in the hand and in the choice of finish in the device's housing material. In the case of a personal care product, colors and scents known to be evocative... View Details

Keywords: by Manda Mahoney

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Media Coverage - Managing the Future of Work

Rates Unchanged as Trump Tariffs, Economic Concerns Loom Re: Willy Shih 10 Mar 2025 Harvard Business Review How Gen AI Could Change the Value of Expertise By: Joseph Fuller 10 Mar 2025 Business Insider The Surprising Truth About Low... View Details

26 Nov 2007
Research & Ideas

Best Practices of Global Innovators

firm to master all these skills, let alone house them under one roof. Second, a pool of low-cost yet highly skilled labor has emerged in developing countries, creating incentives to substitute these for... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

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The Challenge of Color - The High Art of Photographic Advertising - Baker Library | Bloomberg Center

20th Century Black and White Papers.” Notes on Photographs. George Eastman House website: http://notesonphotographs.eastmanhouse.org/index.php?title=Messier,_Paul._20th_Century_Black_and_White_Papers . Paul Messier, personal interview,... View Details

14 Jun 2010
Research & Ideas

The Hard Work of Measuring Social Impact

Quantifying performance and measuring results are no longer the sole domain of for-profit enterprises. Today, many nonprofit organizations also find themselves on the hot seat—not with stockholders but with donors who expect similar... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna

05 Jul 2023
News

GCC Alumni Celebrate Grand Opening of New Club Center

Clubs News Clubs News The HBS Club of the Gulf Cooperation Council recently marked the grand opening of "The House"—a new permanent club headquarters and collaborative space located in Dubai and open to all HBS alumni living in or visiting the Gulf region. According to... View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley

12 May 2023
Blog Post

Independent Project: The Rise of Electric Heat Pumps

How do you assess the viability of a heat pump? Through an Independent Project with Professor George Serafeim, Meghavi Talati (MBA 2023) set out to develop a tool to help the average consumer navigate this decision. The Rise View Details

06 Feb 2014
Research & Ideas

The Art of American Advertising

Card. Photo: Bates Trade Card Collection, Harvard Business School "The challenges that marketers faced as the United States grew into a national market because of changes in transportation and... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Advertising

June 2016
Article

Vaccination Rates Are Associated with Functional Proximity but Not Base Proximity of Vaccination Clinics

By: John Beshears, James J. Choi, David Laibson, Brigitte C. Madrian and Gwendolyn I. Reynolds

Background: Routine annual influenza vaccinations are recommended for persons 6 months of age and older, but less than half of U.S. adults get vaccinated. Many employers offer employees free influenza vaccinations at workplace clinics, but even then take-up is... View Details

Keywords: Geographic Location; Employees; Health Care and Treatment

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11 Aug 2014
HBS Case

The Business of Behavioral Economics

information on the amount of time they used the walk stations (according to a card swipe upon use); others were sent information on how much they and another random coworker used them; others were sent... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Food & Beverage; Health

22 Sep 2017
News

The Epicenter of Miami’s Vice

[LAUGHS] You know? You're having Nancy Reagan and George Bush travel the country and telling you that there's a war on drugs. I just remember my one experience with it was I was fishing with my cousin at her house on Biscayne Bay sometime... View Details

03 Feb 2016
Research & Ideas

The State of Customer Service Leadership

example, that company would not be selling a “lifestyle” so successfully on a global basis today to its customer base of students, younger singles, and married couples moving into their first apartment or View Details

Keywords: by Jim Aisner; Retail

16 Feb 2018
Blog Post

Out of PE, Into Africa

estates attorney, she has clients and partners to answer to, and as a mom, she worried about the kids’ safety. We both worried about our house and finances. It all seemed a little crazy. Despite the challenges, I was able to convince the... View Details

12 Sep 2011
Research & Ideas

The Untold Story of ‘Green’ Entrepreneurs

In the 1920s, on pitch black nights in rural eastern Montana, the farmhouse owned by the parents of brothers Marcellus and Joe Jacobs stood out for one reason: it had light, although located far from power lines and gasoline supplies. It... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

01 Mar 2008
News

“A National System of Income Supplementation”

and economic inequality http://historymatters.gmu.edu/d/6545/. The so-called Kerner Report, warning that the United States was in danger of becoming two “separate but unequal” societies, recommended federal initiatives to boost education,... View Details

Keywords: Educational Support Services; Educational Services

01 Dec 1998
News

Managing the Business of Life

card company that was licensed to use Disney images, and for the next three years she stayed put in Paris. With the help of a nanny, Dodi says she balanced work and family quite well, settling into the... View Details

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Annual Cost of Attendance | MBA

MS/MBA Program Cost of Attendance for the 2025–2026 Academic Year 10-Month Total Cost Single Tuition $90,505 Course & Program Materials Fee $2,800 HUHS Student Health Fee (SHF) $1,800 Student Health Insurance Plan (SHIP) $4,308 HUSHP for... View Details

22 Jan 2020
News

What Are the Best Personal Loans?

24 Jul 2017
Research & Ideas

People Have an Irrational Need to Complete 'Sets' of Things

and your fiancé struggling to write thank-you cards for all those wedding shower gifts? Try batching the unwritten cards into sets of eight. Rather than feeling overwhelmed by... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

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