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01 Apr 2002
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Professorship Brings Brierley's HBS Connection Full Circle

NFL, Nokia, Sony, UPS, and United Airlines. "Well-crafted programs have generated hundreds of millions of dollars of incremental revenue for some of the world's leading marketers, while ill-conceived programs have simply raised the cost... View Details

Keywords: Charles M. Williams; Epsilon Data Management; Computer Systems Design and Related Services; Professional Services

17 Sep 2013
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First Look: September 17

for fulfilling work. In fact, multiple pieces of evidence suggest that diaspora use of oDesk increases with familiarity of the platform, rather than a scenario where diaspora connections serve to navigate uncertain environments. We further show that diaspora-based... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

July 2000
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Aerospace Technologies, Inc.

By: Paul M. Healy and Jacob Cohen

Ben Galil's privately held engineering consulting firm represents aerospace products manufacturers in Israeli government biddings. The company incurs expenses for years before getting paid. This case deals with the alternative methods for booking revenues and expenses... View Details

Keywords: Accrual Accounting; Accounting; Revenue; Cost; Business or Company Management; Profit; Engineering; Bids and Bidding; Government and Politics; Private Ownership; Consulting Industry; Israel

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2022
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The Options Multiplier: Decoding the CareerWise Youth Apprentice Journey

By: Joseph B. Fuller, Rachel Lipson, Farah Mallah, Girish Pendse and Rachel Snyder

As more Americans question the appeal of costly higher education programs, earn-and-learn models, like apprenticeship, are attracting increasing attention from policymakers and employers alike. While apprenticeship is widespread in many parts of Europe,... View Details

Keywords: Apprenticeship; Higher Education; Training; Personal Development and Career; Cost vs Benefits; Success; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms

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Benefits | Information Technology

a difference in the world, while scaling the School’s impact and pedagogy. By removing some of the barriers to learning, like travel cost and logistics, we can allow more people to benefit from, and contribute to, the HBS classroom... View Details

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Entrepreneurial Finance (Q3) - Course Catalog

the relative costs and benefits of each source of funding and the connections between a venture's financing strategy and its product-market strategy. Inevitably, there will be some overlap with courses such as Launching Global Ventures,... View Details

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Bequest - Alumni

President and Fellows of Harvard College, a Massachusetts educational, charitable corporation, for the benefit of Harvard Business School. Benefits Costs you nothing during your lifetime Helps fulfill your financial, tax, and estate... View Details

09 Dec 2020
News

How to Fix America

American child at the time of birth. “At historical rates of equity returns of 8 percent annually, a $6,750 at-birth retirement account—which would cost the government $26 billion a year based on the average number of children born in the... View Details

02 May 2016
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Can Brian Shortsleeve Fix the MBTA’s Budget Woes?

table.” The answers, Aloisi said, will have to come from Baker and from Transportation Secretary Stephanie Pollack, not from Shortsleeve, who serves as more of a chief financial officer than lead visionary. But Shortsleeve said controlling View Details

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Work With Us - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness

interested in working with individuals and organizations who are doing action based research in value-based health care. We are interested in projects that involve integrated practice units, outcomes measurement, cost measurement, bundled... View Details

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Recruiting Platform - Recruiting

Hire Talent Recruiting Platform Hire Talent Recruiting Platform 12twenty Recruiting Platform HBS’s recruiting platform 12twenty encourages the connection and communication between recruiters and HBS students and alumni. There is no cost... View Details

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5.3 Annual Notice: Digital Millennium Copyright Act | MBA

court can, in its discretion, also assess costs and attorneys' fees. For details, see Title 17, United States Code, Sections 504, 505. Willful copyright infringement can also result in criminal penalties, including imprisonment of up to... View Details

17 Jul 2017
Blog Post

Podcast: Should You Consider the MS/MBA: Engineering Sciences Program?

particular feature set of a product depends on both the business model, who's going to buy it, who's going to pay for all those things, as well as the technology, what can you really build, how much will it cost to build it. In many... View Details

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Getting Involved - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness

financial, and executive leaders in the health care industry to learn to apply the principles of Value-Based Health Care in their own organizations. Twice a year we offer our Value Measurement in Health Care seminar, which focuses on measuring View Details

30 Jan 2021
News

Finding a Fresh Approach to Dry Cleaning

or to spot- and hand-clean garments before they go into the dry-cleaning process. “Most cleaners don’t do that,” he says. “That kind of detail isn’t cheap. A laundered shirt that might cost 99 cents to clean at a competitor starts around... View Details

Keywords: Personal and Laundry Services; Personal Services

26 Nov 2019
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Fintech, Small Business & the American Dream

customer bases and a low cost of capital. In 2016, the landscape shifted even further when major platform players such as Amazon, PayPal, and Square entered the space. In spite of these disruptions, Mills says that one can’t discount the... View Details

Keywords: fintech; Artificial intelligence; Small business

01 Mar 2017
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Research Brief: Lost in Translation

In an increasingly global business world, English is the lingua franca that tethers companies and their investors together. Executives without a deep fluency in English could be costing their companies more than they realize. According to... View Details

Keywords: Erin Peterson

01 Dec 2013
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Alumni News | Bookshelf: A Manager's Responsibility in the 21st Century

argument . . . is that it is necessary to look at both the costs imposed upon others without their consent and the rights denied to others, also without their consent, from multiple lenses." Does the business world look different in a... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne; oil spill; Publishing Industries (except Internet); Information

01 Jun 2007
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Delta’s Flight from Bankruptcy

September 2005 and was about a month away from its announced plan to emerge from Chapter 11 when Whitehurst visited the campus. Observing that a key to any turnaround is identifying the problem correctly, Whitehurst explained that Delta had the lowest View Details

Keywords: Air Transportation; Transportation

01 Jun 2007
News

Tribute to Fellowships

School’s ability in recent years to grow fellowship aid at a faster pace than the rise in tuition and fees. “Fellowship aid has doubled over the past five years, so the real cost of attending HBS has actually gone down,” said Light. While... View Details

Keywords: Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services; Social Assistance; Health, Social Assistance

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