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- 01 Sep 2008
- News
Reality to News Biz: Drop Dead
bucks made renting out its ubiquitous terminals. Or how News Corp.’s film and TV numbers conveniently hide the rounding error that is the Wall Street Journal. One commentator even proposed that the nation’s wealthiest universities set aside 3 percent of their View Details
- 11 Jan 2011
- First Look
First Look: Jan. 11
belonging to a group are obliged to make payments to one another by using a liquid asset. The paper studies the exogenous endowments of this asset that are necessary to assure that all obligations are met. Conditions are presented under... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 24 Jan 2012
- First Look
First Look: Jan. 24
Investments Office staff must decide whether to continue to allocate the bulk of the university's endowment to illiquid investments-hedge funds, private equity, real estate-given the impact of the recent market turmoil. The case explores... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Jun 2011
- News
The House that Howard Built
with all I have.’ ” McArthur was as good as his word. Through his efforts, and thanks to a chair endowed in 1981 by HBS roommates and Silicon Valley pioneers, Arthur Rock and Fayez Sarofim (both MBA 1951), Stevenson became the first... View Details
- 05 May 2023
- News
Fail Better
can not always be positive. No rose gardens. So this experience of mine helped me very much. JH: Depelsha Thomas McGruder (MBA 1998) is treasurer and COO at the Ford Foundation, enabling the organization's grantmaking program as it leverages a $16 billion View Details
- 01 Apr 2002
- News
Student Conferences Spark Discussion, Promote Interaction
business scholar," said Maurice Cox, PepsiCo's vice president of corporate development and diversity. "Helping to endow the chair at HBS, as well as establishing the fellowship program in his name, is a small way for PepsiCo to... View Details
- 01 Mar 2008
- News
An American Odyssey
“I’d like to see a number of our major corporations pick one African school of business, fully endow it, and help make it really good,” America says. “Upgrading management quality in the Third World will increase efficiency, creativity,... View Details
- 06 Mar 2007
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First Look: March 6, 2007
Office must decide whether to continue to allocate the bulk of the university's endowment to illiquid investments—hedge funds, private equity, real estate, and so forth. Considers the risks and benefits of a different asset allocation... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 May 2007
- First Look
First Look: May 1, 2007
sharing where all peers are endowed with standard preferences and show that the endogenous structure of the network is conducive to sharing by a significant number of peers, even if sharing is costlier than freeriding. We build on this... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 15 Sep 2008
- Research & Ideas
The Coming Transformation of Social Enterprise
number more than 34,000, an increase of 22 percent between 2001 and 2005. Big foundations have more money in their endowments than they can give away. And there is an intergenerational transfer estimated at $6 trillion over the next fifty... View Details
Keywords: by Roger Thompson
- 30 Apr 2001
- Research & Ideas
Entering the Age of Alliances
geography Web site to promote Internet content integration in the K-12 curriculum and is simultaneously partnering with the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Council of Great City Schools, National Council on Economic Education,... View Details
Keywords: by James Austin
- Web
Key Metrics | Annual Report 2024
Endowment 5,398 5,132 5,086 5,265 4,092 Total Assets $ 6,942 $ 6,639 $ 6,603 $ 6,755 $ 5,558 MBA 2024 2023 2022 2021 2020 Incoming Class Applications 9,856 8,149 8,264 9,773 9,304 Percent Admitted 12% 14% 15% 13% 13% Yield 85% 87% 86% 87%... View Details
- 30 Apr 2007
- Research & Ideas
All Eyes on Slovakia’s Flat Tax
idea of a flat tax to gain ground in the U.S. or Western Europe? Dessain: Economists and business leaders alike are talking about flat taxes in many countries. As Western European countries lose ground vis-à-vis countries in Eastern Europe View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 01 Dec 2005
- News
Trillion-Dollar Fixer-Upper
(MBA ’84), president and CEO of AEW Capital Management, a Boston investment advisory firm with $30 billion under management. “Certainly my clients — pension funds and endowments — aren’t that optimistic about the stock and bond markets,... View Details
- 22 Sep 2009
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First Look: September 22
exists. Traditional economic explanations emphasize factors that reduce entry costs or raise entrepreneurial returns, thereby increasing net returns and attracting entrepreneurs. A second class of theories hypothesizes that some places are View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- Web
Dean Srikant Datar’s 2022 Commencement Remarks | About
and inspiration I felt working at the firm. Then, as it does today, the Tata Group prides itself on being a values-driven organization. In 1892, Jamsetji Tata, the founder, set up the JN Tata Endowment to give back to society; since that... View Details
- 01 Oct 2000
- News
The Entrepreneurial Venture
line. Not surprisingly, therefore, the class has no shortage of members involved in the sort of entrepreneurial ventures that demand innovative thinking. RELATED LINK Class of 1975 Endows Chair in Entrepreneurship While many classmates... View Details
- 22 Feb 2022
- News
March 2022 Alumni and Faculty Books
work, asking, “How do I find my purpose?” That’s the wrong question. You don’t find your purpose—you build it. The HBR Guide to Crafting Your Purpose is packed with stories, tips, and activities to teach you how to cultivate more meaning in your life and work and View Details
- 01 Jun 2022
- News
June 2022 Alumni and Faculty Books
R. Cross reveals the man behind the art. It is the surprising story of a life led on the front lines of history. In that life, this Everyman made archetypal images of American culture, endowed with a force of moral urgency through which... View Details
- 01 Dec 2001
- News
Reaching Out
mission and helping underprivileged people," Nundy explains. "Once you get a taste of that, it's hard to feel fulfilled doing anything else. I see myself working in the nonprofit sector for the long term." (For graduates who want to make a full-time commitment to... View Details