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- 26 Oct 2018
- Blog Post
Making the Switch from Finance to Fitness
go to an indoor cycling class with her. I didn’t understand. The bikes didn’t move – why would I do this? Nevertheless, I went to a class at Flywheel Sports and left feeling better, physically and mentally. While I grew up playing... View Details
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HBS - Financials | Supplemental Financial Information
endowment is crucial to providing HBS with sufficient liquidity to finance ongoing campus renewal and expansion projects, and to capitalize on emerging strategic opportunities through economic cycles over the long term. Continuing its... View Details
- 13 Mar 2023
- Blog Post
Career Journey: Karan Khimji, Co-Founder of 44.01
form or escape once it’s been turned into rock. Instead, it’s eliminated from the carbon cycle forever. This sets us apart because we don't need to monitor CO2 plumes for decades after a site is closed off, which is beneficial to the... View Details
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Valerie Porciello | About
services is to enable a holistic view across the life cycle of the faculty, from recruitment through retirement. The DRFD team's singular focus is supporting an environment where faculty members at all stages of their career have the... View Details
- 18 Jul 2022
- Research & Ideas
After the 'Crypto Crash,' What's Next for Digital Currencies?
And so, there’s a lot of uncertainty around crypto; and in times of overall financial market uncertainty, people pull away from riskier assets. At the same time, a lot of the basic technology investment and entrepreneurship in crypto is still going on. We saw this with... View Details
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HBS - Financials | Supplemental Financial Information
strategic opportunities through economic cycles over the long term. Continuing its focus on generating strong cash flow from operating activities, HBS concluded fiscal 2023 with an unrestricted current use reserves balance of $247... View Details
- 17 Jan 2019
- Research & Ideas
Why Business Should Support Employees Who Are Caregivers
careers began when men dominated the workforce and women shouldered all caregiving needs. Now a vicious cycle persists: Employees suffer in silence and eschew potentially helpful benefits, and employers assume that employees are coping... View Details
- 28 Apr 2003
- Research & Ideas
Supply Chain Risk: Deal With It
risk, Raman explains, has been through inventory. But "for numerous reasons, inventory became very expensive." Shorter product life cycles contribute to higher expenses, for example, in the personal computer market, where the... View Details
Keywords: by David Stauffer
- 01 Mar 2023
- News
Step Change
At Consoleya, a coworking space in Cairo’s former French Consulate, multiple levels of meeting rooms and workspaces operate at capacity, from a ground-floor café to a rooftop deck. The scene—coders bent over laptops, concepts scrawled on whiteboards, clusters of people... View Details
- 08 Sep 2008
- HBS Case
The Value of Environmental Activists
There are many methods, most financial, to measure the success of companies in meeting goals. But the question becomes a lot harder at Harvard Business School when MBAs are challenged to measure the efforts of environmental organizations like Greenpeace and the World... View Details
- 18 Jul 2019
- Lessons from the Classroom
The Internet of Things Needs a Business Model. Here It Is
The Internet of Things (IoT) has been near the top of the technology-hype lists for years. In 2018, Gartner’s Hype Cycle for Emerging Technologies ranked IoT platforms as cresting the “peak of inflated expectations” stage and ready to... View Details
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Overview
By: Vincent Pons
Professor Pons studies questions in political economy and development with the goal of understanding how democratic systems function, and how they can be improved.
He decomposes the electoral cycle into four essential steps: the factors affecting voter... View Details
He decomposes the electoral cycle into four essential steps: the factors affecting voter... View Details
- 10 Sep 2020
- Research & Ideas
The COVID Two-Step for Leaders: Protect and Pivot
According to Danaher, the DBS engine “drives the company through a never-ending cycle of change and improvement: exceptional people develop outstanding plans and execute them using world-class tools to construct sustainable processes,... View Details
- 10 Oct 2011
- Research & Ideas
Retailing Revolution: Category Killers on the Brink
model. Amazon leverages its higher inventory turns, lower investments in physical assets, and faster cash conversion cycle to deliver up to 20 percent cost savings to the consumer. At a 5 percent price advantage, consumers might not see... View Details
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Guidelines for Choosing Resources - Research Computing Services
particularly in the batch queues. To prevent this, the batch queues use Fairshare: each person has a dynamic priority score that decreases as you use more compute. This allows the scheduler to move those with higher prioirty to the front of the queue. Since this is... View Details
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Entrepreneurial Management Awards & Honors - Faculty & Research
the 100 most influential people in private equity over the past decade by Private Equity International Magazine , 2012. Ramana Nanda : Won 2012 World Finance Conference Best Paper for "Investment Cycles and Startup Innovation" with... View Details
- 22 Feb 2022
- News
New Urban Order
that more and more cities may zone or franchise waste collection, restricting the number of operators (and emissions) while improving safety in designated areas—as Los Angeles has done, with New York soon to follow. Every landfill is at a different stage in its life... View Details
Keywords: Kathleen Fu, Deborah Blagg, Julia Hanna, and Maureen Harmon; illustrations by; energy; environment; sustainability; entrepreneurship; Transit and Ground Passenger Transportation; Transportation; Water, Sewage and Supply Systems; Utilities; Construction of Buildings; Construction; Waste Management and Remediation Services; Corporate Services
- 12 Oct 2017
- News
Fighting Poverty One Neighborhood at a Time
multigenerational cycles of poverty. “You can’t expect schools to consistently outperform the health of their neighborhoods,” says Majors, a vice president at Purpose Built Communities, an Atlanta-based, nonprofit consulting group. “The... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg
- Research Summary
Political Risk, Foreign Intervention and International Arbitration
The Empire Trap: America's Attempts to Protect Property Rights Overseas, 1898-2008, is a history of the U.S. government's attempts to protect the property rights of American investors when they venture outside the boundaries of the United... View Details
- 01 Dec 2009
- News
One Man Crime Wave
Rowan and John D. MacDonald 1967–1974, 1986) JDM on the Production Cycle “Carl Garrett liked to leave the main offices and walk over to one of the production areas and climb to the catwalk and lean on the rail and look down at the acres... View Details