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01 Mar 2023
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Clearing the Air

estimated ability to remove 40 million metric tons of CO2 from the atmosphere each year. Meanwhile, human activity adds about 51 billion tons of carbon dioxide to the atmosphere every year. The UN’s climate change commission, the... View Details

Keywords: April White and Dan Morrell; Illustrations by Richard Borge

08 Dec 2020
Blog Post

2+2 Where Are They Now Spotlight: Brooke Carter (MBA 2019)

HBS had on your career? I only graduated a year and a half ago, so it’s still early. But even just within this time, HBS has empowered me to take an active role in my career. I continually reflect on what projects excite me and the skills... View Details

02 Sep 2014
First Look

First Look: September 2

https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/download.aspx?name=14-062.pdf September 2014 Managing Consumer Services: Factory or Theater Customer Experience and Service Design By: Karmarkar, Uday, and Uma R. Karmarkar Abstract—While services already dominate economic View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

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Policies | Baker Library

the Harvard Library community and as active participants in its Copyright First Responders program, we work to create a shared culture of understanding of copyright. For more information and resources on issues related to copyright,... View Details

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About Us | Information Technology

included the formation of anti-racism discussions across IT, increased community engagement activities with a focus on learning more about one another, and an action plan to keep this work visible and active. View Details

04 Sep 2019
News

Research Brief: Ending the Legacy of Poverty

send their children to private schools, as well as providing enrichment activities such as music lessons or summer camps. As parents, they have more time to spend with their children, particularly when they are very young, and in the... View Details

Keywords: Jennifer Myers; Educational Services

19 Sep 2016
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Thomas S. Murphy (MBA 1949)

for $19-billion. “Building a company with a great culture and doing it with integrity is something that I look back on with satisfaction,” says Murphy. While known for his business acumen, Murphy is equally recognized for his public service. He is View Details

01 Mar 2016
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A Club for the Cosmos

Ezzeddine (PLDA 17, 2014), was having a liftoff of its own. The group’s activities will focus on three industry clusters: civil aviation, defense/security, and space exploration. READ MORE The New Space Race Maiden Voyage UAE’s ambitious,... View Details

Keywords: Robert S. Benchley

01 Mar 2014
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Ask the Expert: Taxing Questions

revenue-neutral reform: A much-reduced rate, to facilitate US domestic investment and discourage transfer pricing games. A transition to a territorial regime of taxation with only US-earned profits subject to taxation and foreign View Details

Keywords: ask the expert; Finance

01 Dec 2011
News

Research With Impact: Changing Global Health Practices

Keeps HBS Ahead? You Do! The Personal Touch Donor Spotlight FAQ Associate Professor Nava Ashraf, the MBA Class of 1966 Research Fellow, exemplifies one of the many HBS faculty members who is actively overturning prevailing assumptions to... View Details

Keywords: birth control; Administration of Housing Programs, Urban Planning, and Community Development; Government

12 Jan 2004
What Do You Think?

How Should We Think About the Exportation of Jobs?

generally came down in support of the free exportation of jobs, regardless of how imperfect labor markets are in comparison with markets for capital, goods, and services. Those arguing for some kind of intervention in this market activity... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

26 Sep 2024
Blog Post

Syngenta Tomato Vision

In January 2024, Professors Willy Shih and Mike Toffel led 45 HBS MBA students on site visits to witness the energy transition and innovative sustainable production activities throughout Denmark and the Netherlands, in the second year of... View Details

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Annual Cost of Attendance | MBA

in another health insurance plan with comparable coverage to the Student Health Insurance Plan (SHIP), you may waive the SHIP portion of your health fees. Optional Activities There are countless opportunities to participate in optional... View Details

01 Dec 1999
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New HBS Portal Offers Alumni Just-In-Time Business Information

Lifelong Learning To access HBS Working Knowledge, you must have an active Lifelong E-mail Forwarding Address (LEFA) and password, which serve as your log-on IDs for this site. In addition, the LEFA serves as a forwarding mechanism,... View Details

30 Mar 2010
First Look

First Look: March 30

Alfaro and Andrew Charlton Abstract We explore the relation between international financial integration and the level of entrepreneurial activity in a country. We use a unique firm-level data set in a broad sample of developed and... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

01 Sep 2020
News

The Devil You Don’t Know

of the 1930s, because it’s the economic crisis against which all others are typically compared. Importantly, one of the most striking things about the Depression, according to observers both at the time and since, is that economic View Details

April 1993 (Revised December 2001)
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General Dynamics and Computer Sciences Corporation: Outsourcing the IS Function (B)

By: F. Warren McFarlan and Katherine Seger

Designed to look at outsourcing from the perspective of a major computer services company trying to get into the business. View Details

Keywords: Communication Technology; Business Startups; Business Plan; Business Strategy; Job Cuts and Outsourcing; Financial Management; Management Teams; Communication Strategy; Organizational Design; Product Design; Accounting; Activity Based Costing and Management; Computer Industry; Information Technology Industry

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April 2010 (Revised September 2011)
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Supply Chain Partners: Virginia Mason and Owens & Minor (A) (Abridged)

By: V.G. Narayanan and Lisa Brem

Owens & Minor (O&M) performed lean inventory services for Virginia Mason (VM) as its Alpha Vendor, but the outdated industry pricing model created perverse incentives and could not capture O&M's costs. Together, O&M and VM created an activity-based pricing model: Total... View Details

Keywords: Supply Chain Management; Partners and Partnerships; Activity Based Costing and Management; Business Model; Non-Governmental Organizations; Nonprofit Organizations; Motivation and Incentives; Asset Pricing; Cost Accounting; Fair Value Accounting; Medical Devices and Supplies Industry