Affordances - Publications - Faculty & Research

19 Oct 2021
Research & Ideas

Fed Up Workers and Supply Woes: What's Next for Dollar Stores?

convenience, the quick in-and-out. And they’ve gone into underserved areas. They’re affordable and in low-population-density areas. They’re very successfully serving those. The pressure will be on the small Main Street merchants in these... View Details

Keywords: by Christine Pazzanese, Harvard Gazette; Retail

22 Feb 2022
News

Breaking News

afforded her a detailed view of the industry’s challenges and opportunities and helped to inspire the founding of the National Trust. The nonprofit launched its test case in May 2021, with the purchase of 24 newspapers and websites in... View Details

Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint; illustration by Dana Smith; News, Library, Internet, and Other Services; Information

28 Feb 2023
Blog Post

Celebrating Socioeconomic Diversity and Inclusion at HBS (Part 1)

essential to quality of life. Education breeds opportunity which, in turn, elevates life. So having parents and grandparents who were not afforded those opportunities meant that their lives took forms different from what mine ever will.... View Details

12 Nov 2018
Blog Post

Student Portraits - Armed Forces Alumni Association

could not be more grateful for my experiences as an Infantry officer in the Army. I was afforded the opportunity to lead, train, and mentor incredible people who are the tip of the spear for American foreign policy and the spreading of... View Details

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

March 2022
Supplement

Winning Business at Russell Reynolds (B)

By: Ethan Bernstein and Cara Mazzucco

In an effort to make compensation drive collaboration, Russell Reynolds Associates’ (RRA) CEO Clarke Murphy sought to re-engineer the bonus system for his executive search consultants in 2016. As his HR analytics guru, Kelly Smith, points out, that risks upsetting–and... View Details

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Harvard Business School

office and retail space in downtown Framingham. Two years later he oversaw a joint venture to develop a 56-unit affordable housing development in Dorchester. Richard America Jr. MBA 1965 Richard America has published on economic... View Details

29 Oct 2006
Research & Ideas

The History and Influence of Andy Grove

started at the bottom—"My first assignment was to get a post office box so we could get literature describing the equipment we couldn't afford to buy"—and worked his way up to the rank of one of the master managers in the... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Computer

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

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Commercialization of the Polarizer - Edwin H. Land & Polaroid | Harvard Business School

working on a major advance in science or technology to (1) be properly financed; (2) go through the extremely difficult periods of study, invention, development, engineering, and production; or (3) afford to advertise and distribute its... 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

17 Dec 2007
Research & Ideas

The Rise of Medical Tourism

India [see article], treats indigent people from neighboring countries—Pakistan, Bangladesh, Burma—who suffer from heart disease and can't afford surgery. Treatment for them is free. The hospital is able to provide it because surgical... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Health; Medical Devices & Supplies

20 Mar 2000
Research & Ideas

Incubators: The New Venture Capitalists?

and Web development expertise. When people are that involved in your company, we can't afford to let one fail," he said. What Cost Incubation? But, asked moderator Lerner, what about the cost of this closer involvement? Does it mean... View Details

Keywords: by Kenneth Liss

01 Mar 2023
News

Making Dreams Attainable

classroom. For these reasons, in particular, the School is continuing to strengthen its efforts to make the MBA Program ever more accessible and affordable for a wider array of students. The stories in this section showcase the work the... View Details

Frank A. Munsey

Frank Munsey revolutionized the publishing industry by bringing financial rigor to the business. Munsey was a pioneer in connecting advertising prices to circulation volume making large-scale magazine production affordable and profitable.... View Details

Keywords: Publishing & Print Media

19 Sep 2022

Behind the Scenes of Writing a Case Study

"How can start-ups in emerging markets compete against established global giants?" Join Professor Ramon Casadesus-Masanell and Khalid Al Omran as they discuss Professor Casadesus-Masanell’s recent series of case studies on Maestro Pizza, a company that opened its first... View Details

Charles M. Schwab

Schwab’s other achievements include the establishment of a profit sharing plan for Bethlehem employees and the creation of a unique leadership hierarchy that afforded lower managers much independence and greater pay. View Details

Keywords: Metals

01 Feb 2000
News

No Place Like Home

Illustration by Mercedes McDonald. Orchard Gardens photo by Ed Quinn/Saba In many parts of the country, housing costs and shortages have begun to show signs of adversely affecting corporations, workers, and local economies. Affordable... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons

01 Dec 2018
News

Ask the Expert: Gimme Shelter

homelessness. But the affordable housing problem is especially acute in urban areas, where entire tranches of the workforce—teachers, laborers, first responders, restaurant and transit workers, for example—are squeezed out of their... View Details

Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint

18 May 2017
News

Pioneer Spirit

program in the 1960s to his role today as president and CEO of Pioneer Group, which creates affordable housing through the renovation and preservation of historic buildings in the American Midwest. Freeman grew up in a small Kansas town,... View Details

Keywords: Constantine von Hoffman

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