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02 Jul 2024
Blog Post

Climate Story #19: Nicole Neeman Brady (MBA 2008): The Critical Role of Business in Tackling Water Challenges

advancement.” She warned that “Until we start viewing water as an asset instead of an expense or input, we won’t get the public interest.” Asked how or when the American public might begin to demand more and... View Details

26 Feb 2020
News

Phoenix Rising

of fresh orange juice. For the last 18 years, Arhodidis worked for Eurobank, one of the country’s four systemic banks. When he left last July, he was a member of the executive board and a general manager in... View Details

Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint

26 Sep 2024
HBS Case

If a Car Can Drive Itself, Can It Make Life-or-Death Decisions?

“Automating Mortality: Ethics for Intelligent Machines.” You Might Also Like: Struggling With a Big Management Decision? Start by Asking What Really Matters How Humans Outshine AI in Adapting to Change What Happens When Business Owners... View Details

Keywords: by Tom Quinn; Auto; Technology

30 Jul 2024
News

Reddit’s Rise

Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Dan Morrell: Hi, this is Dan Morrell, host of Skydeck. When Jen Wong (MBA 2004) joined Reddit as COO in 2018, the user-generated content site wasn’t exactly a burning building...but it might have been... View Details

29 Sep 2009
First Look

First Look: September 29

older investors prefer dividend-paying stocks. Together, these tendencies generate geographically varying demand for dividends. Firms headquartered in areas in which seniors constitute a large fraction of... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

19 Jul 2006
Research & Ideas

Political Turmoil and Mexico’s Economy

history, HBS assistant professor Noel Maurer considers these questions and opens the door to other queries involving issues of economics and governance that reach well beyond the United States and its neighbor to the south. Mexico makes a good laboratory View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna

05 Jul 2006
First Look

First Look: July 5, 2006

overweighting of minor (but easy to evaluate) attributes that would be overlooked under an all-inclusive price format. The effect of price partitioning on demand can be detrimental or beneficial, consistent with existing conflicting... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

01 Feb 2000
News

Financial Services 24/7

frequently praised for its ability to reinvent itself. The pilot work for creating an easily accessible Internet trading component was done outside of normal operations at Schwab. "Only when it was clear... View Details

Keywords: Susan Young

10 Aug 2010
First Look

First Look: August 10

more than twice as likely to be untrustworthy as uncertified sites. This difference remains statistically and economically significant when restricted to "complex" commercial sites. Meanwhile, search engines create an implied endorsement in their selection of... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

Web

Supplemental Financial Information | Annual Report 2024

Reflecting the strong demand for international business learning materials—including cases, articles, simulations, and other content—HBP International revenue accounted for 43... View Details

01 Oct 2002
News

What's Cookin'

chocolate-chip cookies. Fox, who owns Community Bakery in Little Rock, Arkansas, says he never imagined he'd one day make his living absorbed in the business of food and its many challenges, including long hours, the unending demand View Details

Keywords: Hanna, Julia

04 Oct 2016
First Look

October 4, 2016

depends on the assets purchased and the degree of segmentation in the market. For example, QE1, which involved significant purchases of GSE-guaranteed mortgages, increased GSE-eligible mortgage originations... View Details

01 Apr 1996
News

Stewards of the Seventh Generation

because waste is lost money. By developing a reputation as a company that produces products that are as safe as possible for people and the environment, we also improve our market share. This is going to... View Details

Keywords: Marguerite Rigoglioso, Garry Emmons, Linda Goodspeed, and Elaine Gottlieb

23 May 2011
Op-Ed

Leading and Lagging Countries in Contributing to a Sustainable Society

Editor's note: Please see related story, Corporate Sustainability Reporting: It's Effective. To what extent companies contribute to a sustainable society is a question increasingly important, not only to the companies themselves, but also to investors, the countries... View Details

Keywords: by Robert G. Eccles & George Serafeim

01 Feb 1997
News

Made, Not Born: HBS Courses and Entrepreneurial Management

skills, as HBS faculty and recent alumni explain in the following course profiles. Entrepreneurial Management Associate Professor Amar Bhide keeps a slide rule tacked above his office desk. "Although I don't use it anymore," he explains, "it taught me an intuitive feel... View Details

01 Mar 2009
News

Your Taxi Is Waiting

bankruptcy court protection in November 2008 despite high advance demand for its planes. In January, a judge approved the sale of Eclipse’s assets to Eclipse Jet Aviation... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; Air Transportation; Transportation

01 Feb 2000
News

No Place Like Home

beyond the reach of many. Today, the demand for affordable housing exceeds the supply by a record 5.3 million units. READ MORE William Jones: Builder With a Mission Bart Harvey: Opportunity View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons

15 Feb 2017
Op-Ed

What Africa Can Teach the United States About Funding Infrastructure Projects

road person does not talk to the power person who does not coordinate with the zoning authority. Or, where a “bridge to nowhere” gets funded, absent market demand for the crossing. Much of the above sounds... View Details

Keywords: by John Macomber; Construction

31 May 2016
First Look

May 31, 2016

benefit of increasing equity risk declines. We show that there is an interior optimum and that it is reached at lower leverage for firms with high asset risk. Empirically, the risk anomaly tradeoff theory... View Details