Affordances - Publications - Faculty & Research

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

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

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

29 Feb 2024
Blog Post

African American Student Union Spotlight on Social Enterprise

affordable housing nationwide, high-quality education in predominately underserved communities, and many other initiatives essential to accelerating Black economic mobility, I believe firms can reverse the wealth gap trend dramatically,... View Details

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

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman

07 Jul 2003
What Do You Think?

Can We Have Too Much Productivity Improvement?

living more affordable for everyone. But can we have too much of it, especially when there is insufficient demand for the resulting output? Given the economic challenges facing the world's economies, does productivity improvement at a... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

21 May 2012
Research & Ideas

OSHA Inspections: Protecting Employees or Killing Jobs?

killing jobs at a time when the United States can ill afford to lose them. Few regulatory agencies have a more direct effect on businesses than the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA), the federal agency responsible for... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

20 Feb 2017
Research & Ideas

Having No Life is the New Aspirational Lifestyle

coined the term “conspicuous consumption”) to television shows such as Lifestyles of the Rich and Famous. And if you didn’t actually have a life of leisure, you could pretend you did by buying increasingly affordable luxury brands like... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

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

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HBS - Financials | Supplemental Financial Information

item on the Statement of Activity and Cash Flows. Making education at HBS affordable to a broad cross section of applicants, regardless of their financial circumstances, is a long-standing goal of the School. The prospect of entering or... View Details

18 Aug 2008
Research & Ideas

How Disruptive Innovation Changes Education

write, "Disruption is a positive force. It is the process by which an innovation transforms a market whose services or products are complicated and expensive into one where simplicity, convenience, accessibility, and affordability... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Education

01 Mar 2023
News

Step Change

affordability as a consideration for current and future students,” she says. “The challenge now is to align financial and environmental sustainability in our investments. “I believe in starting somewhere,” she continues. “If we study our... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; photographed by Abdelrahman Gabr – Koree; entrepreneurship; women; venture capital; Egypt; developing economies; Finance

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

19 Jan 2022
Blog Post

From Retail to HBS: How I’m Building a Career Path at the Intersection of Arts, Culture, and Business

American Art in New York. The role is part of the HBS Leadership Fellows Program, a one-year fellowship that affords new HBS graduates both outsized access to senior leadership and opportunity for transformative impact within their... View Details

25 Mar 2015
HBS Case

Tate’s Digital Makeover Transforms the Traditional Museum

putting free content out there, boy are they delivering on their mission, but when does that become financially untenable, given the cost of producing and disseminating digital content? On the other hand, if they charge people for digital content, they can View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Education

28 Mar 2024
Blog Post

IFC India: RMZ EcoWorld

require a combination of innovation on affordable sustainable solutions (such as cleaner cooking technologies) as well as government subsidies and regulations to make these technologies more accessible. Elephant Art Exhibit in EcoWorld View Details

02 Aug 2021
Research & Ideas

What If Closing the Wage Gap Means Everyone Earns Less?

salaries can credibly say to employees seeking a raise: “If I give you a higher salary, I will have to give everyone else a raise, too, and I just can’t afford that.” This allows employers to set overall salaries lower and hold firm on... View Details

Keywords: by Avery Forman

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Emily Schlichting

"I started assessing what my life would be like as a sick person. And I realized that if I didn't maintain health insurance now, I never would – I wouldn't be able to get it in the future. Fortunately, the Affordable Care Act (ACA)... View Details

Keywords: Healthcare/Biotech; Nonprofit/Government/Education

11 Mar 2021
News

Leading with Heart

Yeah. And that's such an important question because it's easy to say that, but how do you do it? Because those who can afford it the least get impacted the most. Unfortunately that's how life works. So some examples of how we did that... View Details

01 Mar 2021
What Do You Think?

What Does Remote Work Mean for Middle Managers?

relationships associated with remote work made the middle manager’s role less necessary? Can much of what middle managers do be replaced by artificial intelligence? Can companies that compete based on cost afford to expand or even retain... View Details