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- 01 Jun 2020
- News
Inside Out
The second 90 percent that we are ignoring is the true cost of operating our buildings: the people inside. Most companies spend as much as 90 percent of their budgets on human resources, a figure largely driven by their salaries View Details
- 01 Mar 2007
- News
Private Equity under Investigation
into any one deal. Syndication allows venture groups to undertake transactions that otherwise they would need to pass on, due to concerns about lack of diversification. Are there costs of syndication? Undoubtedly. When venture groups team... View Details
- 01 Apr 2000
- News
Award-Winning Article Urges Companies to Loosen Ties that Bind
One function builds relationships with customers, another develops products, and the third oversees the operational infrastructure. Even though these activities often conflict with each other, traditionally they have been bundled together... View Details
- 01 Feb 2000
- News
Jerry Shafir: A Simmering Success Story
worrying about cost overruns, loans called in early by nervous banks, and credit-card debt. The company's woes strained the partnership, which ended in 1990, when Shafir took loans from his two Wall Street... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg
- 01 Jun 2010
- News
Alumni Books
design thinking, rooted in how knowledge advances from inchoate mystery to codification, thereby causing productivity to grow and costs to drop. Martin shows how companies like Procter & Gamble View Details
- 01 Sep 2006
- News
Strange Bedfellows
Since when do the taxman and the shareholder agree? IRS Commissioner Mark Everson and SEC Chairman Christopher Cox (MBA 1976) have advanced a simple, but controversial proposal. Companies would be required... View Details
- 01 Sep 2020
- News
Road Work
impacted just as hard but received less assistance.” In response, Camino expects to come to market with a recovery loan that lowers the cost to borrowers and lends to nonessential industries that have been... View Details
- 26 Jan 2021
- News
Numbers Talk at Tesla
When Zachary Kirkhorn (MBA 2013) became CFO of Tesla in early 2019, few envied him. The electric carmaker had just reduced headcount by 7 percent. Tesla needed to cut costs and its vehicle prices to avoid... View Details
- 01 Dec 2003
- News
An Authentic Leader
excess costs, which was a good thing. But many CEOs saw how much people were making in these takeovers and raiding attempts and thought they should be well compensated too. They started to get very large... View Details
- 17 Jan 2025
- News
Tracking Modern Air Travel’s Takeoff
all kinds of approaches, but the fact remains is that all the competition around it was low fare, low cost competition, and we had to be competitive with them. We recognized that we had to affect change in... View Details
- 01 Jun 2018
- News
Case Study: Tip the Scale
photos courtesy of Walden Local Meat In 2014, Walden Local Meat founder and CEO Charley Cummings (MBA 2011) crisscrossed New England in a company truck to personally deliver orders of chicken, pork, lamb, View Details
- 23 Aug 2017
- News
Developing Leaders Behind Bars
them. If we don’t help them, they will likely not break the cycle of recidivism. And the cost will be much more than dollars – it will be the lives of them and their families.... View Details
Keywords: Robert Bochnak
- 01 Sep 2009
- News
Read All About It!
declined. As the twenty-first century unfolded, many families found themselves caught between the rock of expanded consumption and the hard place of seemingly static incomes. And to make matters thornier,... View Details
- 01 Jun 2000
- News
Social Capital Markets: Creating Value in the Nonprofit World
which recruits at-risk youth to work in Ben & Jerry's shops). It monitors employee progress and tries to quantify the costs each represents to society. It then tracks how that View Details
Keywords: Anne Kavanagh
- 01 Mar 2014
- News
Insight: Yenball
Business of Sports course and has conducted research for both professional teams and leagues. In a new HBS working paper, he and Isao Okada—a journalist View Details
- 01 Dec 2000
- News
Q&A: Andrew Kendall
committed to maintaining it forever. Over time, that cost will far exceed the acquisition price. We've got to be ready to invest significant resources to endow the preservation of these properties so that my successor, View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg; Management of Companies and Enterprises; Management of Companies and Enterprises; Management of Companies and Enterprises; Management of Companies and Enterprises; Management of Companies and Enterprises; Management of Companies and Enterprises; Management of Companies and Enterprises; Management of Companies and Enterprises
- 01 Sep 2018
- News
After the Fall
have been researching the root causes and consequences of the crisis in the intervening decade, helping to shape our understanding of the economic and financial forces that... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Myers; illustration by Dan Bejar; Securities, Commodities, and Other Financial Investments; Securities, Commodities, and Other Financial Investments; Securities, Commodities, and Other Financial Investments; Securities, Commodities, and Other Financial Investments; Securities, Commodities, and Other Financial Investments; Securities, Commodities, and Other Financial Investments
- 01 Jun 2016
- News
The Difference Fellowships Make
their merits rather than their ability to afford the cost of an HBS education. The resulting richness of perspectives is what causes the one-of-a-kind classroom experience that is a hallmark of HBS. Simply put, need-blind admissions would... View Details
- 01 May 2013
- News
Michael F. Cronin, MBA 1977
of skills, imagination, and interests. Harvard needs to educate the very best MBA candidates from the widest possible applicant pool. That means we have to remove cost as a barrier.” A native of Boston’s... View Details
- 24 Apr 2014
- News
Positive impact that hits home
of a fellowship. “I still think about money in our local currency,” Seck Mercier says, “and with the two years’ cost of Harvard Business School, in my country I could buy a lot of real estate.” Seck Mercier says her fellowship means... View Details