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- 01 Jun 2010
- News
MBAs on a Mission
was,” she says. “Our goal is to raise $150 million and help fund 5,500 homes over the next five years.” In an odd twist, the real estate foreclosure crisis has made it possible for Habitat to serve more families. “The biggest barrier to... View Details
- 01 Nov 2016
- First Look
First Look - November 1, 2016
Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP). Started in June 2013, TTIP negotiations had gone on much longer than anyone had expected. With elections coming on both sides of the Atlantic and a rising opposition in public opinion, what were the View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 08 Oct 2007
- Research & Ideas
Management Education’s Unanswered Questions
that CEOs deserve and should be given a percentage of the value they created. The notion struck me as odd when compared to the logic of other professions. Doctors save lives; lives are infinitely valuable; so do doctors deserve to be paid... View Details
- 01 Sep 2020
- News
The Devil You Don’t Know
and John Maynard Keynes, who was a British economist and one of the leading economic thinkers of the time. Despite their differences, their assessment was remarkably similar; that is, how odd it was that there was no shortage of... View Details
- 15 Dec 2024
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books
resilience and transformation against extraordinary odds and war. Risks and Returns: Creating Success in Business and Life By Wilbur Ross (MBA 1961) Regnery Before being named President Trump’s Secretary of Commerce in 2017, Wilbur Ross... View Details
- 04 Sep 2019
- News
Deep Dive
Discovery Channel. As media interest in this odd endeavor increased, a public relations firm joined the growing team, too. And Vescovo needed to know where to dive. He contacted Dr. Alan Jamieson, a deep-oceans expert at Newcastle... View Details
- 21 Mar 2025
- News
What We Can Learn From “The Oracle of Wall Street”
Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Hi, this is Dan Morrell, host of Skydeck. Byron Wien (MBA 1956) was a Wall Street icon. He had a 50-year career that included chief investment strategist roles at Morgan Stanley and Blackstone, and was well... View Details
Keywords: Finance
- 08 Feb 2011
- First Look
First Look: Feb. 8
rates for 2,159 infant patients, but only after two years. In the shorter term, using these activities is associated with worse performance. By the third year, the positive impact of using deliberate learning activities is similar to the benefit of cumulative... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 06 Mar 2018
- First Look
First Look at Research and Ideas, March 6, 2018
their businesses to shareholders through stock buybacks and dividends rather than invest for the long term, undermining job growth and putting the country’s economic future at risk, often pointing to the high ratio of shareholder payouts to net income. These claims are... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Mar 2016
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for March 2016
things seem impossible. Professor Malhotra draws out lessons using behind-the-scenes stories of real-life negotiations, including drafting the U.S. Constitution, resolving the Cuban Missile Crisis, ending bitter disputes in the NFL and NHL, and beating the View Details
- 01 Dec 2012
- News
From Where We Stand
you stay focused on something at which you're incredibly good, the odds are always going to be in your favor to succeed. That's the advice I would have wanted in the beginning. I believe that if you do too many things and change jobs too... View Details
- 21 May 2019
- Blog Post
Asian Pacific American Heritage Month at HBS
directly correlated with, for instance, how non-Pakistani your English accent was. Speaking Punjabi was considered backwards. Within my “native” country, my seemingly homogenous identity was somehow at odds with social capital. My school... View Details
- 26 Jan 2016
- First Look
January 26, 2016
Abstract—We explore the relationship between managerial incentives and misconduct using the setting of environmental harm. We find that high-powered executive compensation can increase the odds of environmental law breaking by 40%–60% and... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 06 Dec 2018
- News
Source Code
scenarios, expected behaviors—and that this is a critical element of human intelligence. Translated into code, these biological functions became a unique learning algorithm, which Numenta’s business partner Grok makes available as an anomaly detection tool, searching... View Details
- 22 May 2020
- Blog Post
Reflections on Service - Armed Forces Alumni Association Student Profiles
of working odd jobs to realize I needed a career and stability if I was ever to reach my full potential. I decided to start that journey by enlisting in the Navy because the men and women in the Navy are tasked with taking ships to sea,... View Details
- 20 Feb 2008
- First Look
First Look: February 20, 2008
of the development was strong, with the exception of the art museum, which posted losses. Also, the branding efforts by Mori were at odds with other tenants and he needed to manage "the town." Lastly, another competing... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 07 Sep 2011
- First Look
First Look: Sept. 7
Fragmented upstream and downstream channels instead persist, with strong odds against upstream suppliers waging a successful defense of material interests. Such distinctive industrial structures, we show, were a direct result of whether... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Sep 2013
- News
Who Are We?
transportation industry 33 alumni work for a railroad 1908 Railroad Organization and Finance course offered at HBS 1915 James J. Hill Professorship of Transportation endowed 1935 "Railroad weekend" workshops held for business leaders; continue until start of WWII Omaha... View Details
- 15 Oct 2008
- First Look
First Look: October 15, 2008
consumers to not only back teams to win, but also to lay odds for other punters to back. This business model allows punters to cut out the middleman of the bookmaker and leads to a much more efficient two-sided market. Betfair.com's... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Apr 1996
- News
Stewards of the Seventh Generation
energy and make a profit." "The challenge was to find ways to conserve energy and make a profit." Few industries would seem to be more at odds with resource conservation issues than the electric utility business, where profitability has... View Details