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Cristiana Torres
"It's clear that I want a family and I want to be in business. So which becomes a priority first? For me, I want to stay in the United States for two to three years to get the raw materials I need to start my own business back home,... View Details
- 01 Jan 2020
- What Do You Think?
Why Not Open America's Doors to All the World’s Talent?
gain admission to the US. He describes the arcane system that puts a limit on the number of H-1B visas issued each year. Demand fluctuates from year to View Details
- 15 May 2020
- Research & Ideas
Find Your Pragmatic Path through Radical Uncertainty
believe those who claim to have definitive answers to these big questions. The data to answer most corona virus questions with certainty doesn’t exist. We won’t know for five years if immunity lasts five years. We can’t understand... View Details
- 11 Sep 2017
- Blog Post
7 Lessons from My Time at HBS
My MBA at Harvard Business School (HBS) is over, but I will harbor memories from my two years there for a long time. I had some incredible experiences, met inspiring friends and professionals, visited fascinating places and - last but not... View Details
- 08 Oct 2013
- First Look
First Look: October 8
population and per capita consumption growth, the limited nature of resources and sinks, and the responsibility and exposure of firms to ensuing ecological risks and costs. We... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 23 Oct 2012
- First Look
First Look: October 23
year gains. We evaluate the performance of all policies under consideration using the same statistical and simulation tools and data as the U.S. policymakers use. Other case studies perform a sensitivity... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 29 Sep 2009
- First Look
First Look: September 29
leverage during bad times. If refinancing-facilitated homeowner-equity extraction is sufficiently widespread—as it was during the years leading up to the peak of the U.S. residential real-estate market—the... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 15 Nov 2016
- First Look
November 15, 2016
entail a countercyclical fiscal policy. A simple debt rule that limits the maximum amount of debt is analyzed and compared to a simple deficit rule that limits the maximum amount of deficit View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 26 Jun 2018
- Blog Post
6 Lessons I learned from HBS Peek
HBS Peek is an educational experience designed for college students to gain knowledge and insight into the MBA degree. Using the renowned case method of instruction, HBS faculty will lead class discussions... View Details
- 01 Jun 2022
- News
'Rooted' In Innovation
whom are women, who average under a dollar a day per capita income. Since cassava spoils within three days of harvesting, it is traditionally used in small-scale family cooking. Roughly 40 percent View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg
- 04 Mar 2009
- Op-Ed
Credit is Not the Bogey
to loan Americans money. In the housing sector, an explosion of subprime lenders gave borrowers deals that were truly too good to be true, trapping them in impossible loans. In the retail sector, credit card agencies flooded mailboxes,... View Details
- 26 Jul 2006
- Research & Ideas
The Strategic Way to Go to Market
1,000 cars per year as compared to, say, the Chevrolet division of GM, which has an average much less than 1,000. Moreover, the Japanese company has about 1,500... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Sep 2009
- First Look
First Look: September 1
varied experience) and learning by groups finds inconsistent results. We hypothesize that repetition of interaction may help explain this difference, as familiar teams may be able to use the knowledge gained... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
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Brittany Williams
Every summer from 7th grade through her senior year in high school, Brittany Williams went to science camp. “I was the kid who went to the NASA space camp—for fun!” Brittany enrolled at the University of... View Details
Keywords: Financial Services
- 28 Jul 2009
- First Look
First Look: July 28
are deciding whether to refinance their home less than two years after taking out an initial mortgage and a subsequent home equity line of credit. Purchase this case:... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 21 Apr 2015
- First Look
First Look: April 21
society as a whole. Publisher's link: http://www.wiley.com/WileyCDA/WileyTitle/productCd-1118646983.html April 2015 Management Science Private Equity and Industry Performance By: Bernstein, Shai, Josh Lerner, Morten Sorensen, and Per... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel & Sean Silverthorne
- Portrait Project
Lisa Marrone
until I was ten. By that point, he had a wife and two kids. I began to spend five days per year visiting him in his life. Where was the rulebook for that? Even though visiting... View Details
- 11 Apr 2007
- Research & Ideas
Adding Time to Activity-Based Costing
cost systems with only two parameters. One is the cost rate of supplying resource capacity (such as cost per minute for people and machine-driven processes, or cost per cubic... View Details
Keywords: by Sarah Jane Gilbert
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Bruce Gago
Why was earning your MBA at HBS important to you? I came to HBS with a background exclusively in real estate finance, and I knew I needed to gain a broad set of managerial and entrepreneurial skills in order... View Details
- 26 Mar 2025
- Blog Post
How to Approach Your Equity Compensation
shares for at least one year (there is not). Rather, this is just a confusion between how ordinary income and capital gains taxation works. Forgetting that market returns are generated by outliers. The vast... View Details