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How HBS Financial Aid Can Help You Meet the Cost of Your MBA | MBA
programs available to eligible students after graduation. Every financial aid package is different, but by using a combination of resources, you can meet the cost of our MBA program. We understand that an HBS MBA can be a significant... View Details
- 06 Aug 2001
- Research & Ideas
Go Global—or No? Can You Make the Case?
presenter from Group B. "We came up with the idea of Benro but didn't have time to pursue it. They might be willing to talk about reciprocal distribution." Benro was a small software shop in Norway. Greg knew if had made about $5 million in sales last year... View Details
Keywords: by Walter Kuemmerle
- 23 Apr 2020
- Research & Ideas
This Crisis Loan Program Preserved Jobs—and Made Money
Insights) Read COVID-19 coverage from Working Knowledge The current rescue package might end up being more expensive for the American taxpayer, he added, because the guaranteed loans are forgivable under certain conditions. Researchers... View Details
- 01 Dec 2016
- News
HBS Alumni On Leading Their Alma Mater
decades? SG: Cost is absolutely a challenge. We’re very fortunate at HBS to have the capability to provide robust financial aid packages and to be able to support our students while also furthering our research and our goals. We’re always... View Details
Keywords: Dan Morrell
- 01 Sep 2015
- News
The Protagonist Goes Prime Time
managing a Beijing sock factory, came packaged with a CD-ROM of short video clips. The case laid the foundation for a new type of storytelling within the confines of the tested HBS case method, but the fledgling online video technology... View Details
Keywords: April White
- Profile
John Smith-Ricco
needed an MBA in order to advance. More importantly, he says, "I wanted to discover what business could do for the world. If I wanted to have an impact outside of packaged foods, I needed additional skills." Right away, HBS... View Details
- 01 Jun 2000
- News
Going Public: Shari P. Hubert
afford." During Hubert's sophomore year at Dartmouth, her mother took a severance package from General Motors and accepted a job as a live-in nanny in upstate New York to cut down on her living expenses. "I was working more than twenty... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg
- 03 Apr 2012
- News
Just Compensation
rather than inspirational leadership.” Of one CEO’s recent exit package ($26.4 million in stock, plus $100 million in cash), Ferracone, noting that the individual’s compensation history was already excessive, told USA Today (November 11,... View Details
- 09 May 2017
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, May 9
suggest that workers with higher rank should receive compensation packages more heavily weighted in equity. However, we observe the puzzle that many firms adopt an equality-in-equity strategy: they offer different cash salaries across all... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Sep 2007
- News
Riding It Out
the company would wait for the test results. “We’ve always followed a ‘Do what’s right and take your lumps’ approach to business. We had to execute the recall.” READY TO GO: A stringent quality-process at the company’s packaging Plymouth,... View Details
- 15 Dec 2015
- Blog Post
One MBA's Path to Boston Consulting Group
people. Lastly, I wanted to build out my consumer packaged goods knowledge that I began building while working at PepsiCo. Consulting felt like the right match but the question became which firm and why. Boston Consulting Group (BCG)... View Details
- 13 Jun 2016
- Blog Post
Is HBS Cutthroat or Collaborative?
team is eager to share with Smart’s management the product recommendations that we have created and packaged in a polished PowerPoint presentation. How did a formerly rag-tag group of unfamiliar individuals, consisting of a creative... View Details
- 01 Sep 2016
- News
The Untold Story of the US Auto Bailout
Courtesy Argos Pictures; iStock “Because Congress failed to make funds available for these loans, the plan I’m announcing today will be drawn from the financial rescue package Congress approved earlier this fall. The terms of the loans... View Details
- 11 Jan 2017
- Research & Ideas
The Paradoxical Quest to Make Food Look 'Natural' With Artificial Dyes
cheese no longer comes packaged with a Day-Glo orange powder, thanks to a pledge to stop using artificial dyes (Yellow 5 and Yellow 6) in the product. “Due to consumer protests against synthetic colors, the standardization of color moved... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 17 Feb 2014
- Research & Ideas
Companies Detangle from Legacy Pensions
nearly all corporations ceased offering defined benefit plans in favor of "defined contribution" packages such as 401(k) plans—in which employees contribute a set amount from their paychecks that would be individually invested... View Details
- 15 Aug 2024
- Op-Ed
Post-CrowdStrike, Six Questions to Test Your Company's Operational Resilience
When cybersecurity firm CrowdStrike distributed a faulty software update in July, it impacted a staggering 8.5 million devices. The crisis rippled through commercial airline operations, package delivery logistics, ecommerce, and health... View Details
Keywords: by Hise Gibson and Anita Lynch
- 06 Mar 2025
- Blog Post
IFC India 2025: Sustainability in Action: Inside Hindustan Unilever’s Public Sanitation and Plastic Recycling Facilities
India. Material Recovery Facility (MRF), Mumbai Today, over 10 million tons of plastic waste is generated annually in India and that figure is expected to double in the next two decades due to development, causing a $133 billion loss of material value used in plastic... View Details
- 01 Feb 2000
- News
New Releases
chosen." In Down to Earth, Reinhardt draws on studies of companies in industries as diverse as energy and packaged consumer goods to illustrate approaches for reconciling shareholder value with environmental performance. One such company,... View Details
- 01 Dec 2010
- News
Do Good: Eat Chocolate
investing ahead of its growth, the company has become more focused on breaking even in the current economic climate. From the start, Endline knew that her approach to chocolate would be “colorful, whimsical, and playful.” The reusable, recyclable tins that serve as... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna; candy; chocolate; Crop Production; Agriculture; Food Manufacturing; Manufacturing
- 20 Jan 2003
- Research & Ideas
Fixing Corporate Governance: A Roundtable Discussion at Harvard Business School
rising stock market. Another was the use of stock options—because options are so complex, they can obscure the amount of pay actually being given to executives. In most cases where we see big excesses, it has to do with compensation committees not holding the line, as... View Details
Keywords: by Garry Emmons