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- 01 Apr 2001
- News
Hit Radio Show and HBS Alumni Help Young Classical Musicians
year and now heard on more than two hundred public radio stations across the United States, is a weekly one-hour program that showcases virtuoso performances by precollege musicians. “From the Top is the most popular classical music... View Details
- 01 Jun 2022
- News
Eyes in the Skies
Beijing—simply by dropping a pin onto a map. Because the company’s satellites fly over the same sites multiple times a day, customers can monitor evolving situations over time, such as tracking tug boats as they haul barges laden with cargo down a river in the View Details
Keywords: Alexander Gelfand
- 05 Jan 2011
- Op-Ed
Funding Unpredictability Around Stem-Cell Research Inflicts Heavy Cost on Scientific Progress
a new research stream, and there is a low probability you will get funded in a new area. You may be fired. In short, your career is in danger of total meltdown. That is the real cost of our randomized model of research support in the View Details
- 01 Mar 2012
- News
Balanced Scorecard and Beer Game Go High-Tech
reassess how their strategy is working and to change initiatives if need be. It’s a high-impact lesson in driving corporate performance. Later that day, all nine sections played the latest version of the Beer Game. The simulation, first played on paper in the 1960s,... View Details
- 29 Aug 2011
- Research & Ideas
Decoding Insider Information and Other Secrets of Old School Chums
situations as well.” The decision to study alumni connections was borne of the professors' personal school ties: both received their PhDs in finance from the University of Chicago. In 2007, each landed a position in the Finance Unit at... View Details
- 01 Feb 2000
- News
No Place Like Home
two-bedroom apartment rents for $1,400, considerably more than 30 percent of an average South End family's income. In Massachusetts as a whole, one recent study estimates that between 1990 and 1997, two hundred thousand more people moved out of the View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 05 Aug 2015
- What Do You Think?
What Happened to the ‘Innovation, Disruption, Technology’ Dividend?
How patient should we be in waiting for the tech productivity dividend? What do you think? Original Column For years we have been regaled with prospects of outsized productivity increases in the United View Details
- 10 Mar 2008
- Research & Ideas
Encouraging Entrepreneurs: Lessons for Government Policy
ideal choice for the study because its labor market shares many of the same characteristics as those found in the United States and the United Kingdom. "Aside from being a... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna
- 22 Aug 2007
- Research & Ideas
The Hedge Fund as Activist
investment horizons make them willing to accept takeover offers that do not fully recognize the overall value of the target—a merger at a low price is preferred to no merger at all. Another question that interests us is what the role of activist investors in countries... View Details
- 22 Feb 2022
- News
An Rx for Small Business Recovery
first-year MBA students will travel to 15 cities across the United States to work on projects that involve the design of a new product, service, or experience for a local segment of that city’s population.... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg
- 01 Feb 2000
- News
Q & A: Laura Liswood and the Council of Women World Leaders
outside the power structure. I'd like to see a few self-indulgent female millionaires run for office! Is the United States ready for a woman in the White House? Currently, about 75 percent of the population... View Details
Keywords: Nancy O. Perry
- 01 Apr 2019
- What Do You Think?
Does Our Bias Against Federal Deficits Need Rethinking?
the United States, which provides the foundation for much of the world’s monetary policy, is exempt from the gravity-like nature of traditional economics in which, as GOlsen said, “Countries can run deficits until they run out of willing... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 25 Feb 2020
- News
In My Humble Opinion: Mr. Coffee
enjoying incredible coffee in the cafés of Milan, I came back to the United States and began looking around, trying to figure out what I was going to drink,” he says. “And a friend of mine told me about... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 01 Jun 1996
- News
New Initiatives in MBA Recruiting
also provides students with two additional weeks to pursue off-campus opportunities throughout the United States and abroad." MBA Career Services continues to work with students and companies to enhance... View Details
- 01 Sep 2010
- News
Alumni Books
Greatness by Mitt Romney (MBA ’74/JD ’75) (St. Martin’s Press) Romney asserts that America’s strength is essential for its own well-being and the world’s, but its national advantages have eroded. The United View Details
- 01 Sep 2012
- News
On a Sound Track
that is relevant in Shanghai, Panama, South Africa, Europe, or wherever. The United States is one big market. Contrast that with Europe, where we have a central office, but where there are lots of different... View Details
- 22 Sep 2017
- News
The Epicenter of Miami’s Vice
actions. What else was fueling the insanity of the Mutiny club beyond drugs? Farzad: I didn't realize the extent to which our kind of misadventure in Cuba, the United States, what happened between years 1959 in 1962, led to the cocaine... View Details
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Buy Now, Pay Later: The Secondary Credit Market
until the middle of the next century. 25 Pawnbrokers everywhere strove to make themselves instantly recognizable to persons, including illiterate ones, desperate for quick cash. In China, pawnbrokers hung a distinctive decorative staff from their storefronts; in Europe... View Details
- 01 Dec 2005
- News
The Deleterious Effects of Dirty Money
address this problem? They should close the difference between money laundering that arises domestically and that which arrives here from abroad. If it’s an offense in the United States, that same kind of money coming from abroad should... View Details
- 18 Aug 2015
- News
New HBS Fund Chairs
numerous leadership positions including launching the firm’s European Leveraged Finance unit in 1997 and leading it for three years. He has held his current position, head of Global Private Equity, since 2007. The couple is eager to help... View Details