Filter Results:
(170)
Show Results For
- All HBS Web
(1,264)
- News (170)
- Research (890)
- Events (15)
- Multimedia (6)
- Faculty Publications (299)
Show Results For
- All HBS Web
(1,264)
- News (170)
- Research (890)
- Events (15)
- Multimedia (6)
- Faculty Publications (299)
Sort by
- 24 Apr 2014
- News
For African farmers looking to escape poverty, honey brings sweet success
beekeeping demonstrations and training. It purchases honey at fair-trade prices and also processes, packages, and distributes the honey to markets. HCA’s business model, which is being replicated in other African countries, places an... View Details
- 01 Jun 2010
- News
$how Me the Money
alongside money from mainstream business malpractice. One common technique for moving large sums of illict money, Baker asserts, is falsified pricing in international trade. Invoices can be written to reflect one price, while still... View Details
- 01 Sep 2011
- News
Extraordinary People
team. At the time, it was the highest price paid for a sports franchise, in any sport, anywhere in the world. In time, what appeared to be a very risky decision proved to be a winning business move. Kraft’s bold bets over the years have... View Details
Keywords: Performing Arts, Spectator Sports, and Related Industries; Arts, Entertainment; Finance; Executive, Legislative, and Other General Government Support; Government; Religious, Grantmaking, Civic, Professional, and Similar Organizations; Personal Services; Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services; Professional Services
- 01 Mar 2016
- News
Feedback
characterizes the sector. But the sad state of traditional public education negatively impacts all of us—even those who can afford private school for their children. I’m puzzled, though, by his organization’s support of the proposal for... View Details
- 24 Apr 2014
- News
The power to change nuclear waste into cost-efficient energy
Entrepreneur Russell Wilcox (AB 1989, MBA 1995) envisions creating clean energy from the world’s stockpiles of nuclear waste at a price cheaper than coal. He is building Transatomic Power, a startup based on innovative MIT technology that... View Details
- 02 Dec 2019
- News
A Long-Standing Commitment to Global Understanding
of economic development,” recalls Barry of his post-graduation years. He wanted to understand why people in some regions do well economically and improve their standard of living while others do not, and was also interested in exploring how he could have a positive... View Details
- 01 Dec 2017
- News
2017 in Real Estate: A Local Business Goes Global
for example. For several years, it was the number one city for real estate investment. You would have expected that to change dramatically after the Brexit vote—and it did. A lot of European and US investors lost interest in London, but Asian investors filled that gap... View Details
Keywords: Real Estate
- 01 Aug 2001
- News
T.J. Dermot Dunphy (MBA '56)
turn will keep the stock price at a sufficiently high level to ward off prospective predators and maintain the company's independence." Dunphy stepped down as CEO in 1999 and as chairman in 2000. He has since pursued diverse... View Details
- 01 Apr 2002
- News
Underwater Options May Not Sink Incentives
for this include the ten-year maturity of typical option awards, which allows a long window for value recovery, plus the relatively high volatility of many stocks with significant price drops, making a similar rebound less far-fetched.... View Details
- 20 Jan 2017
- News
Bringing Power to the People
building a solar plant of 100 megawatts that will supply power to roughly 200,000 people. And it will be at the cheapest price ever in the region. “We are going to build a solar plant in Mozambique. The electrification rights of Africa is... View Details
- 01 Jun 2000
- News
Priceline's Jay Walker: The Future is Wow
The future of e-commerce will be shaped by a new generation of companies that can consistently deliver convenience, information, entertainment, and savings -- an as-yet-unrealized package that will have an impact summed up by... View Details
- 01 Dec 2019
- News
The Race Against Resistance
illustration by Marcos Chin illustration by Marcos Chin It’s hard to overstate the impact that antibiotics had on medicine after they became widely available in the 1940s. In the United States, the leading causes of death shifted from... View Details
Keywords: Lisa Scanlon Mogolov
- 01 Sep 2010
- News
Faculty Books
offerings, and fatter profit margins. Featuring case studies from around the world, this book shows how to mine sales data to identify “home-run” products, reinvent forecasting and pricing strategies, and extract maximum value from... View Details
- 06 Dec 2021
- News
What's the Word?
She·sesh·un (noun) Ly·ing flat (verb) Post·cook·ie (adj.) Bi·o·rev·o·loo·shun (noun) Dig·i·tul no·mad (noun) Di·ver·si·ty wa·shing (verb) Meem Stock (noun) When the price of supposedly “dull” stocks like BlackBerry and GameStop hit the... View Details
- 01 Mar 2012
- News
Social Investing Pioneers
high-quality transactions to the United States to demonstrate the promise of this instrument,” Palandjian adds. “Social impact bonds have the potential to improve social outcomes at reduced taxpayer expense; shift performance risk away... View Details
- 01 Mar 2018
- News
‘We were just doing what needed to be done’
Little did they know that their call for change would result in a legacy that would have lasting impact at the School. This year HBS is celebrating the 50th anniversary of the founding of the AASU by Clifford E. “Clif” Darden (MBA 1969,... View Details
- 05 Aug 2015
- News
Mobilizing the Public to Fight Bribery
government operates. These insights led Motte-Munoz and his co-founder, Happy Feraren, to focus initially on the little, routine corruption that comes along with accessing basic government services, since that has the most direct impact... View Details
- 15 Oct 2019
- News
Examining Climate Change From a Business Perspective
with Amram Migdal (a former research associate) and Mike Lynch (MBA 2017) for the Business, Government, and the International Economy class to help students explore the impact of policymaking on business around climate change. The case... View Details
- 01 Aug 2013
- News
A Cure for Cold Storage
percent of the children are vaccinated against the virus. And the price of the vaccine is negligible, says Schrader—around 5 or 10 cents. "It's not cost that limits it," he says, but rather infrastructure: Vaccines rely on a complex and... View Details
- 15 May 2020
- News
New Menu
cell-based technology. "If these alternatives are as tasty as their animal-based counterparts, and if they're priced right, then our reliance on animal protein will decrease and the need for factory farming"—a significant contributor to... View Details