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07 Dec 2022
Blog Post

2022 Climate Symposium: Tackling Climate Together

chemical recycling technology that is able to remove contamination and reproduce virgin plastic qualities. Earthbond: Digital platform that combines traditional group guarantees with carbon accounting and innovative financing to make solar View Details

28 Jun 2022
Book

The Moral Enterprise: How Two Companies Profit with Purpose

How can government and business work together in this fractious political moment, when finding solutions to pressing problems like inequality and climate change are more urgent than ever? Rebecca Henderson, Harvard University’s John and Natty McArthur University... View Details

Keywords: by Avery Forman

22 Dec 2022
Blog Post

TOP 10 MBA VOICES BLOGS OF 2022

It's been quite a year for HBS students, and as 2022 comes to a close we wanted to share some of the highlights from the MBA Voices Blog. ANSWERS TO YOUR TOP QUESTIONS ABOUT FINANCIAL AID AT HBS At HBS, we are committed to ensuring that an MBA is both View Details

14 Feb 2017
Research & Ideas

A Strategy For Steady Leadership in an Unsteady World

audacious decisions that embody risks and often go against the grain. They cannot afford to keep their heads down, using traditional management techniques while avoiding criticism and risk-taking. In fact, their greatest risk lies in not... View Details

Keywords: by Bill George

15 Jun 2009
Research & Ideas

GM: What Went Wrong and What’s Next

history of this American corporate icon. The U.S. cannot afford to lose the thousands of middle-class jobs of GM workers and management, nor the cutting edge R&D that GM does with its suppliers and partner universities. GM faces a... View Details

Keywords: by Staff; Auto

25 Aug 2022
News

Up on the Corner

two dilapidated row houses that had been vacant since 1978. She intends to replace them with affordable rental apartments—the opening salvo in an ambitious plan to redevelop West Baltimore Street, whose boarded-up windows and abandoned... View Details

Keywords: Alexander Gelfand; photographed by Melissa Golden; Real Estate

16 Aug 2022
Op-Ed

Now Is the Time for Entrepreneurs to Play Offense

stocks, startups. With the market correction, suddenly assets are more interesting to acquire. Many, many startups are flailing. Cash reserves are dwindling and they are desperate to find a safe landing. Thus, the companies that can View Details

Keywords: by Jeffrey Bussgang

29 Aug 2018
What Do You Think?

What Should Harley-Davidson’s Management Do?

declined by about a third at a time when the general market had seen large increases. Factors contributing to these declines were lower-priced competition and a younger customer segment that could afford only used Harleys or that... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett; Auto

15 Dec 2003
Research & Ideas

The New Global Business Manager

Gaucher disease. In the United States, the treatment costs a couple of hundred thousand dollars a year. But Genzyme will treat anyone in the world who has this disease, and there are two prices for the product they produce. One is the price that exists here or in... View Details

Keywords: by Cynthia Churchwell

14 Mar 2024
Blog Post

IFC India: SELCO - Last Mile Solar Powered Energy for Rural India

expanded services to include the supply and distribution of sustainable energy through solar lighting, thermal water heaters, and inverter systems, enabling the underserved sector to receive sustainable energy at affordable costs. SELCO... View Details

20 Jul 2021
Research & Ideas

Bankruptcy Spells Death for Too Many Businesses

for small-business owners facing the possibility of bankruptcy as the country emerges from the pandemic. Small businesses, especially debt-laden or distressed ones, often can’t afford the more expensive Chapter 11 filing and instead file... View Details

Keywords: by Rachel Layne

23 Nov 2020
Research & Ideas

COVID Was Supposed to Increase Bankruptcies. Instead, They've Gone Down.

reasons that people didn't have access to the court system at this time, or they couldn't afford to file,” Kluender says. Two big forces may explain the drop in Chapter 7 consumer bankruptcies, Kluender says. One may be attorney fees. A... View Details

Keywords: by Rachel Layne

13 Nov 2017
Research & Ideas

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

to-do lists would lift our mental well-being, yet people don’t outsource unpleasant jobs all that much—even those who can well afford to do so. The researchers surveyed hundreds of millionaires in the Netherlands, and almost half reported... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman

13 Jun 2011
HBS Case

Mobile Banking for the Unbanked

the costs down dramatically and improving access, so the poor could afford to bank. The problem is that this is not the way that the poor think of money. They hardly have any savings. Their main need is money-transfer." The Success... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Banking; Communications; Telecommunications

16 Aug 2004
Research & Ideas

Luxury Isn’t What It Used to Be

refreshing their product lines and extending their brand to more affordable items. Pressure to innovate is intense, says HBS professor Nancy F. Koehn, a business historian and author of Brand New: How Entrepreneurs Earned Consumers' Trust... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Consumer Products

14 Jun 2023
News

Dean Datar Meets with Alumni in East Asia

affordable to the most qualified students without regard for their financial status. This includes the decision last summer to provide scholarships to cover the total cost of tuition and course fees for those with the greatest financial... View Details

Profile

Peggy Mativo-Ochola

returned to Nairobi, Kenya where she founded and launched Pacemaker International, an educational nonprofit similar to Teach for America. "Kenya is short about 70,000 teachers," says Peggy. "The people most affected by the shortage are students whose... View Details

Keywords: Nonprofit/Government/Education

18 Dec 2017
Op-Ed

Why Employers Must Stop Requiring College Degrees For Middle-Skill Jobs

Credit: Pixsooz American companies have a problem. Over the past decade, they have begun to demand a bachelor’s degree in hiring workers for jobs that traditionally haven’t required one. This uptick in credentialing, or “degree inflation,” rested on the belief that... View Details

Keywords: by Joseph Fuller

07 Sep 2021
Research & Ideas

Who Pays For Wildfire and Hurricane Damage? Everyone.

New Mexico homeowners might think their inland location buffers them from the financial toll of climate change, but they’re still paying for climate-related property damage occurring in coastal states. New research finds that homeowners in New Mexico and other states... View Details

Keywords: by Kristen Senz; Insurance

05 Dec 2016
Research & Ideas

How The 2016 Presidential Candidates Misled Us With Truthful Statements

Medicare to negotiate lower prices with drug companies and allow Americans to buy drugs at more affordable prices. The facts: Some of the information in the claim was true. The prices of brand-name drugs have more than doubled during that... View Details