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- 01 Jun 2009
- News
Just Chillin’
Keeping things cool at HBS during the hot summer months is the chilled water plant, a 19,700-square-foot facility located underground near the B-School parking lot. With hundreds of thousands of gallons coursing through miles of pipe, the plant operates on a... View Details
- 27 Jan 2016
- Research & Ideas
A Politician's Investment Portfolio Might Tip Off Corruption Potential
switch, the more conservative you are. This is a standard risk elicitation method that’s been used in the laboratory countless times now,” Minor says. He then compared the survey results to the investors’ actual portfolio choices. What he... View Details
Keywords: by Roberta Holland
- 01 Sep 2005
- News
Making History, Starting Over
British government to declare a state of emergency and place businesses on a three-day workweek to conserve electricity. It would take more than luck to grow a business in such conditions. By 1977, two of the founding partners had moved... View Details
- 24 May 2017
- News
Angie Hicks, MBA 2000
newsletter he’d used in Indianapolis. The idea sounded risky, so Hicks consulted her conservative grandfather. “‘What’s the difference between looking for a job when you are 22 and when you are 23?’ he asked,” she recounts. She arrived in... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 06 Nov 2012
- Op-Ed
Stop Talking About the Weather and Do Something: Three Ways to Finance Sustainable Cities
The wrath of Hurricane Sandy has illuminated a fundamental question: How do we ensure that our cities are resilient in the face of inevitable future disasters? A destroyed city is not a sustainable city. I'm making the case that it's time to stop complaining about... View Details
- 14 Apr 2021
- Research & Ideas
The High Cost of the Slow COVID Vaccine Rollout
accounting that includes health care costs puts the savings figure closer to $1.3 trillion. And capacity to produce an additional 1 billion vaccine courses could similarly be worth on the order of $1 trillion. “Astoundingly, even those are pretty View Details
- 27 Oct 2020
- News
HBS Votes
health of democracy does not align the company with a liberal or conservative agenda. It is simply an expression of confidence and trust in people—people just like its own employees and customers.” View Details
- 01 Dec 2009
- News
Up on the Green Roof
than 45 energy conservation measures, offsetting greenhouse gas emissions by the equivalent of 2,495 metric tons of carbon dioxide, reducing operating costs $920,000, and maximizing utility rebates totaling upwards of $830,000. Shad’s... View Details
- 04 Sep 2001
- Research & Ideas
Five Questions for Max Bazerman
to create a Habitat Conservation Plans (HCP) within the ESA. HCPs allow private landowners such as Cone "incidental take" of endangered species during lawful development, provided they undertake certain steps to preserve the... View Details
Keywords: Re: Max H. Bazerman
- 13 Jun 2017
- News
Finding Common Ground
wildflowers,’” Crespin explains. So CollaborateUp helped create the Honey Bee Health Coalition, which brings together beekeepers and beekeeper associations, conservation and environmental groups as well as big agriculture and government... View Details
Keywords: Ralph Ranalli
- 01 Dec 2005
- News
Baker’s back
future. Thus, the new building was designed with a Historical Collections reading room (named in honor of the de Gaspé Beaubien family’s support for the collections), a storage facility, and space for a conservation laboratory. In... View Details
- 04 Mar 2008
- News
HBS Blogs
1976D Jack Schultz, BoomtownUSA, http://boomtownusa.blogspot.com/ (on the trend to leave the urban rat race for small towns; archived since Oct. 2004) MBA 1976E Tom Frey, Frey vs. Frey. Conservative vs. Liberal, Religious vs. Secular,... View Details
- Web
From the Chief Financial Officer - Annual Report 2020
from operations—the School’s operating surplus—came in at $30 million versus $104 million in fiscal 2019. The ability to generate a surplus—despite the unprecedented events late in the fiscal year—speaks to the diversity of our revenue streams, our View Details
- 09 Sep 2013
- Lessons from the Classroom
Teaching Climate Change to Skeptics
faculty illustrate these points through case studies. Patagonia, for instance, recently teamed up with The Nature Conservancy and Argentine rancher network Ovis XXI to implement a sustainable sheep-grazing protocol that, beyond protecting... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 08 Mar 2017
- Op-Ed
Op-Ed: Can the Proposed American Health Care Act Improve on 'Obamacare'?
coverage and increase premiums. However, the new proposal actually looks far more similar to Obamacare than many anticipated--causing some conservative groups to speak out forcefully against it. Criticizing the plan, Republican Senator... View Details
- 28 May 2019
- News
Case Study: Building the Base
thinking reader’s alternative to the cesspool of anonymous comments at the bottom of a news story. With at least 70 million millennials in the United States, Patel is optimistic about the market. “Even if we were able to capture interest in 1 or 2 percent of that,... View Details
- 12 Nov 2008
- First Look
First Look: November 12, 2008
sponsorship (PE-backed firms) and those that do not (non-PE-backed firms). The findings indicate that PE-backed firms generally have higher earnings quality than those that do not have PE sponsorship, engage less in earnings management, and report more View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Jun 2011
- News
What’s after Fannie and Freddie?
assistant professor in the Finance Unit. They detail their proposal in a paper titled “The Economics of Housing Finance Reform: Privatizing, Regulating, and Backstopping Mortgage Markets.” Scharfstein recently answered questions about the proposed reforms. Some View Details
- 06 Jun 2024
- Blog Post
Revolutionizing Wellness: Kate Twist (MBA 2008) Shapes the Future of Consumer Health Brands
be smaller for them, they will also need to be even more conservative with cash. Underrepresented founders often will be held to a higher standard in terms of financial progress and are likely to be faced with more board oversight (more... View Details
- 08 May 2020
- In Practice
Nonprofits Hurt by COVID-19 Must Hoard Cash to Hold On
galvanizing their teams to try new services, ideas, or approaches (even if most of them may fail) that will meet the challenges in this new normal. John J-H Kim is a senior lecturer of business administration. McFarlan: Conserve cash and... View Details
Keywords: by Danielle Kost