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- 01 Jun 2024
- News
Outside Voices
In just 15 years, Greece managed to seesaw from one economic extreme to the other, from almost breaking the eurozone at the depth of its debt crisis to becoming one of the fastest growing economies in Europe in 2023, according to the IMF. Now wages are rebounding,... View Details
- 08 Jan 2025
- News
Mapping Pain Points at the IRS
Having spent a decade helping retailers optimize customer service, Fumi Tamaki (MBA 2014) could not pass up the opportunity in June 2024 to take on the challenge of improving the customer experience at the government organization that... View Details
- 04 Dec 2020
- News
Hour by Hour
head back to a former position. They’ve also launched UIHelp.org, to help people navigate unemployment insurance through the pandemic. Since April, the site has helped more than 140,000 workers find benefits... View Details
- 01 Dec 2000
- News
Latin America's Decade
U.S. dollar, Juan Peirano of Velox Group explains, "The system is very rigid. The price we pay is higher unemployment and a slower rate of economic growth, but I think we will start to move again by the end of 2000." HBS professor Pankaj... View Details
- 01 Dec 1997
- News
Making Real Progress in the Middle East: The Bottom-Up, Economic Solution
than 35 Israeli-Jordanian and Israeli- Egyptian joint ventures are already up and running. Why are top Middle Eastern business leaders now seeking out strategic alliances with their neighbors? What benefits can regional cooperation at the... View Details
- 01 Apr 2001
- News
Big Deals: Project Finance Helps Mitigate Risk in Large-Scale Investments
difficult to manage and prone to conflicts between actual and optimal investment behavior. An inherent lack of flexibility compounds these challenges, because most projects involve binary “go/no-go” decisions. Esty uses the forthcoming... View Details
- 07 Dec 2022
- News
Dubai-Based Proptech Builds Up
Dubai to Saudi Arabia and beyond. "There are almost 25,000 short-term rentals here in Dubai and 550 companies are operating them," he said. "These are often small companies that do a great job, but in a piecemeal manner. They don't necessarily have access to technology... View Details
- 04 Sep 2019
- News
Ask the Expert: Bounce Back
web optimization and cookies, there’s no way to know exactly who is visiting your site, especially when devices and browsers are shared by multiple users, such as among family members, for example. Email accounts are very rarely shared,... View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint
- 01 Sep 2007
- News
HBS Launches Unique Deferred-Admission Program
YOUNGER FACES IN STUDY GROUPS: The typical MBA student has five years of job experience; the new program welcomes those with two. HBS has unveiled a groundbreaking deferred-admission program for outstanding college seniors who want an MBA but who would View Details
- 01 Jun 2009
- News
Social Innovation Goes Mainstream
the bully pulpit, President Obama should educate the public about the benefits of government partnerships with social enterprise organizations, said Jonathan Greenblatt, cofounder of Ethos Water and lecturer at UCLA’s Anderson School of... View Details
- 01 Jun 2020
- News
Prognosis
to offsetting the financial costs of those unique needs. PS: Right. And as unemployment grows, the number of subscribers that private insurers will have is likely to go down. Even so, the difference between premium and medical expense has... View Details
- 01 Mar 2018
- News
Money (Actually) Can Buy Happiness
greater overall satisfaction with their lives. One of the things we are working on now is understanding how decisions about time, money, and happiness play out in the context of romantic relationships. What is the optimal way you and your... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 01 Mar 2011
- News
Making Their Way
with every link in the chain benefiting with endless opportunities for continuous innovation and improvements. That, of course, translates into job creation and retention. Without this, we all stagnate and lose that uniquely American... View Details
- 01 Mar 2015
- News
A Boomtown's Echo
Beyond the Boom Senior Lecturer John Macomber The oil boom has lowered the unemployment rate in Williston, North Dakota, to less than 1 percent. “With respect to the city, if you want to diversify the economy and make it attractive to... View Details
- 01 Jun 1998
- News
Short Takes
Who Benefits from Bonuses? Over the past decade, senior corporate executives have been earning record-high bonuses in record-high numbers. What accounts for this striking increase? Do bonuses motivate executives and enhance organizational... View Details
Keywords: Orna Feldman and Caroline Chauncey
- 01 Mar 2025
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books
impressions; methods for optimizing communication productivity; how to build strong relationships at a distance; ways to win negotiations and solve conflicts from behind a screen, and more. With enlightening stories, interviews with top... View Details
- 13 Dec 2017
- News
Skydeck Live: What Really Motivates American Voters?
not benefited from the prosperity of our country. And I think to see income inequality and to see what's going on with people's lives, it does change my view of things. Morrell: Thanks so much, Diane. We'll take some questions now from... View Details
- 01 Dec 2018
- News
Hard Choices
that the system is today less popular than it once was. There are other reasons, as well, that could be covered in a different, longer speech. But we should all keep in mind that the benefits of capitalism are not so obviously and... View Details
Keywords: Seth Klarman (MBA 1982)
- 20 Jul 2020
- News
Responding to Racism Amid a Pandemic; LGBT Alumni Take Pride Celebration Online
understanding that a diverse and inclusive club benefits everyone, we are committed to collaborating and engaging all club members who seek a more just and fair society. Since our founding 100 years ago as an alumni community in New York... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 01 Jun 2024
- News
The Exchange: Chance Encounters
different kinds of organizations. “There continues to be a wasted opportunity to think about workplace design more strategically.” That hallway encounter evolved into a Harvard Business Review article, “What’s the Optimal Workplace for... View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint