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08 Nov 2021
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4 Ways the MS/MBA is Preparing Me for a Career in Health Care and the Life Sciences

understood that it was critical to gain practical experience outside of academia. I decided to join McKinsey & Company, motivated to attain the best possible position to provide me with the essential business experience I lacked. That was the start of a multiyear... View Details

13 Nov 2017
Research & Ideas

Want to Be Happier? Spend Some Money on Avoiding Household Chores

something they could do themselves. Or they may not recognize that, say, spending more on rent to live closer to work could put them in a better state of mind. Swapping money for time might be especially beneficial to women. While women have certainly made strides in... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman

28 May 2020
Research & Ideas

Coronavirus Could Create a 'Bankruptcy Pandemic'

the alternative is liquidation. In other words, Chapter 11 assumes, at least initially, that a live business—one that sells products and services to customers, employs people, invests and grows and innovates—is worth more than a dead... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Financial Services; Financial Services

20 Oct 2010
Op-Ed

Export Competitiveness: Reversing the Logic

sustained growth while pursuing a strong export orientation provided the empirical backdrop for this approach. Government policy to achieve export-led growth is then essentially about findings ways to increase the ability to sell domestically produced goods and View Details

Keywords: by Christian Ketels

27 Aug 2013
Working Paper Summaries

The Impact of Patent Wars on Firm Strategy: Evidence from the Global Smartphone Market

Keywords: by Yongwook Paik & Feng Zhu; Legal Services

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HBS - Financials | Supplemental Financial Information

which increased 6 percent and accounted for 43 percent of the group’s total annual sales in fiscal 2023. Revenue from Corporate Learning products and services increased 7 percent from fiscal 2022. Corporate Learning partners with... View Details

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Buy Now, Pay Later: Credit and the Market Economy: The Rise of Credit Reporting

the 1800s, the American economy embarked on a long, slow transition from a system in which most goods and services were produced for household consumption or local sale to an economy in which commodities were produced for a larger... View Details

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Wilder House | About

House is also home to the Global Experience Office, which administers the global immersion portion of the required first-year Field Immersion Experiences for Leadership Development (FIELD) course, where students travel abroad to work with selected organizations on a... View Details

06 May 2021
HBS Case

How Four Women Made Miami More Equitable for Startups

found a way out of her seed funding dilemma and, in the process, also opened new opportunities for women and people of color in Miami. She used the crowdfunding service Wefunder, which connects startups with investors online. "I know... View Details

Keywords: by Carolyn DiPaolo

21 Feb 2005
Op-Ed

Is Business Management a Profession?

graduate degree for the past twenty years, it is not a requirement for becoming a manager. It is true that for those seeking access to senior executive positions or work in the fields of investment banking or consulting, an MBA has become... View Details

Keywords: by Rakesh Khurana, Nitin Nohria & Daniel Penrice

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A Tradition of Philanthropy - Alumni

and New York business communities. 1910 Four donors contribute $850 to start a loan fund intended to make the School accessible to those with limited means. 1918 A group of businessmen give 1.3 million square feet of marshland (viewed... View Details

25 Jan 2010
Research & Ideas

A Macroeconomic View of the Current Economy

book, which grew out of background notes Moss wrote for his MBA students, is a nontechnical, accessible explanation of broad concepts such as "output," "money," and "expectations"—as well as more specific... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

13 Mar 2005
Research & Ideas

The Tricky Business of Nonprofit Brands

brands establish this incredible level of trust? A: Trust is essential for nonprofits. The purchasers or donors are not the ones receiving or benefiting from the nonprofit organization's services and programs. Since the purchasers cannot... View Details

Keywords: by Manda Salls

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Privacy Policy & Legal Info | HBS Online

to other HBS Online participants may be viewed and downloaded by others who use or access the Service. Please bear this in mind when you post such comments or other information. We may, for example, share information under the following... View Details

24 Sep 2018
Research & Ideas

How Cost Accounting is Improving Healthcare in Rural Haiti

for an individual patient. Ideally, this will help ministries of health in impoverished countries decide how to allocate their limited resources to optimize the quantity, quality, and access to care. “In low-income resource countries,... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Health

18 Jul 2022
Research & Ideas

After the 'Crypto Crash,' What's Next for Digital Currencies?

consumer can gain access and do so in a way that is valuable and much lower risk than today. Frameworks, when they’re developed well and respond directly to the types of problems the market is seeing, can make a market more efficient and... View Details

Keywords: by Christina Pazzanese, Harvard Gazette; Financial Services; Financial Services

15 Dec 2003
Research & Ideas

The New Global Business Manager

now we see new competitors come from smaller countries that, because their home markets are too small to support them, are moving immediately onto the global stage. We also see whole industries that are being born global, particularly the information-based,... View Details

Keywords: by Cynthia Churchwell

11 Feb 2020
Sharpening Your Skills

10 Rules Entrepreneurs Need to Know Before Adopting AI

for neural networks increase, as does accessibility to off-the-shelf APIs from big tech and academic institutions that help speed up innovation. Entrepreneurs have also learned the wisdom of targeting AI applications toward specific,... View Details

Keywords: by Rocio Wu

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HBS - The year in Review

overcoming every obstacle that the pandemic presented, to ensure the continuity of the School's work. Every team leaned in--from food service workers to security to technology and administrative support--whether on campus or remote. Their... View Details

26 Mar 2024
Blog Post

IFC India: Financing the Climate Transition in India

GEAPP is an alliance of entrepreneurs, governments, technology, policy, and financing partners working together to support developing countries shift to a clean energy model that ensures universal energy access while enabling the global... View Details

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