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Financial Accounting Online Course | HBS Online

company performance using profitability, efficiency, leverage, and other ratios. Highlights Profit Margin Cash Conversion Cycle Show Hide Details Concepts Profitability Efficiency Leverage Other Ratios Impact of Policy Differences... View Details

14 Dec 2007
Op-Ed

When Your Product Becomes a Commodity

offshoring are all squeezing margins, increasing customer price sensitivity, and making it harder to sustain inter-brand differentiation. The product life cycle suggests that, as product categories mature, they become more susceptible to... View Details

Keywords: by John Quelch

01 Mar 2024
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In My Humble Opinion: Role Model

geeky nerds. To counter those stereotypes, Qarnain made a point of gathering more diverse résumés for roles that didn’t explicitly require a white actor, hoping to gradually shift expected norms: “It requires an active decision to break the View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; acting; theater; diversity; career path; Performing Arts, Spectator Sports, and Related Industries; Arts, Entertainment

19 Sep 2023
Blog Post

2023 Summer Internships in Business & Environment

an Engineering Manager at Apple. Antoine Pidoux (MBA 2024, Section H), Summer Internship: MBA Intern – Commercial Development, Nth Cycle (Series B ClimateTech startup based in Boston) Nth Cycle is a metals... View Details

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Research - Behavioral Finance & Financial Stability

. More Info Real Credit Cycles By: Pedro Bordalo , Nicola Gennaioli , Andrei Shleifer & Stephen J. Terry JAN 2021 This research assesses the ability of non-rational expectations to account for boom-bust macroeconomic cycles. The authors... View Details

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Output and asset price fluctuations

What are the sources of business cycles? How are these shocks propagated in the economy? Why are their effects so persistent? How can we explain asset price fluctuations? How are shocks transmitted internationally?To study these questions, I have developed a series... View Details

28 Sep 2011
Research & Ideas

The Profit Power of Corporate Culture

real wages have not been increasing, although compensation often falls rather low on the list of things that employees seek out of the employment "deal." Q: What is the culture cycle? A: The culture cycle begins with the... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

30 Nov 2015
Research & Ideas

Donors Are Turned Off by Overhead Costs. Here’s What Charities Can Do

recommendations from watchdogs like CharityWatch, which tend to give higher ratings to charities with low overhead costs. But that can lead to a harmful cycle in which charities keep their overhead costs unreasonably low in order to... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

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Alumnae Circles - Alumni

current year closed on September 30, 2024 and will reopen for the 2026 cycle in Late Summer/Early Fall 2025. To ensure receipt of Circles communications, alumnae living in a Circles region are strongly encouraged to: Update their Alumni... View Details

2008
Dictionary Entry

Total Factor Productivity

By: Diego Comin

Total Factor Productivity (TFP) is the portion of output not explained by the amount of inputs used in production. The following definition describes the measurement and importance of TFP for growth, fluctuations and development as well as likely future directions of... View Details

Keywords: Business Cycles; Economic Growth; Measurement and Metrics; Production; Performance Productivity; Research

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13 Feb 2020
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Open Your Organization to Honest Conversations

assets, knowledge, and systems. Without such stewardship, the company cannot develop sustained commitment and performance. Instead, cycles of high and low performance destroy value for all stakeholders. And just as boards need to hold... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman

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Curriculum - Business & Environment

Sustainability, Innovation, Strategy, Supply Chain Management The case describes BMW's electrification and decarbonization strategy, and how the company measured carbon emissions throughout the life cycle of its vehicles and used tools... View Details

04 Aug 2023
Blog Post

Aaron Sabin (MS/MBA 2023): Engineering a Climate Change Solution by Cutting the Cost of Carbon Capture

it. Next, the liquid flows through a second cell, where it is deactivated, separating the CO2. Finally, the pure carbon dioxide gas is released from the system and sequestered underground while the solution cycles through the process... View Details

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Systems Integration - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness

improve volume, better utilize resources, and deepen teams Offer specific services at the appropriate facility based on medical condition, acuity level, resource intensity, cost level, need for convenience Clinically integrate care across units and facilities using an... View Details

24 May 2021
Op-Ed

Can Fabric Waste Become Fashion’s Resource?

COVID-19 has broken fashion’s supply chain. As a result, an already wasteful industry has become more wasteful. Even before the pandemic, the global apparel industry was producing about 92 million tons of textile waste a year. That’s about one garbage truck’s worth of... View Details

Keywords: by Geoffrey Jones and Shelly Xu; Fashion

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Advisory Board - Entrepreneurship

for a public-private task force in Chicago, and on Capitol Hill. He then earned a Ph.D. from Harvard's Economics Department. Much of his research focuses on venture capital and private equity organizations. (This research is collected in three books, The Venture... View Details

06 Jul 2023
News

Home Economics

Laidler-Kylander. In the last four decades, Trickle Up has served 445,000 women—a life-changing experience for those individuals, their families, and their communities. (Participants in the program typically invest in areas like nutrition and education that help to... View Details

Keywords: April White

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Regional Winners - Alumni

Graham Lieberman, MBA 2017 Co-Founder Hilary Gallin, MBA 2017, Co-Founder Region: Northeastern U.S./Boston Soteri Skin Soteri Skin is the only clinically tested, non-steroidal, eczema relief topical that breaks the cycle of eczema,... View Details

25 Jun 2020
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Harvard Business School Class of 2021 Student Profiles

Activate Program Peter Gumulia Growing up in Indonesia, Peter Gumulia experienced life as a cycle of “school, athletics, homework, and repeat. Discipline played an important role early on in my life.” This pushed Peter onto the national... View Details

06 Oct 2020
Sharpening Your Skills

18 Tips Managers Can Use to Lead Through COVID's Rising Waters

the end of the first month. To learn more, read How Remote Work Changes What We Think About Onboarding Boris Groysberg, Richard P. Chapman Professor of Business Administration. Tip: Shorten selling cycles The crisis demonstrates,... View Details