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- 01 Feb 1998
- News
Not Your Typical Business Conference
early and regularly. According to a recent study, she said, 88 percent of American women invest primarily in low-yield vehicles such as savings accounts and CDs, none of which outpaces inflation. By not entering the more high-yield world... View Details
- 18 Jun 2024
- Blog Post
Alumni Career Journey: Ben Schutzman (MBA 2016) - Driving Positive Impact on Community and Climate
do a lot of work to optimize our maintenance and energy costs while turning these electric vehicles into revenue generating assets that provide stability to the electric grid. How has HBS helped you on your journey? It expanded my mind to... View Details
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Entrepreneurial Finance - Course Catalog
with three guests representing key parts of the puzzle: DoD’s first head of the new Office of Strategic Capital, a prominent VC in the space, and an entrepreneur who built an autonomous underwater vehicle company. In addition, this module... View Details
- 04 May 2016
- What Do You Think?
What Does Boaty McBoatface Tell Us About Brand Control on the Internet?
6 (after this column was posted), an article by Reuters titled "Democracy is Dead" conveyed the news that the research vessel had been named the RRS Attenborough after the famed British naturalist. At the same time, it was announced that the underwater... View Details
- 01 Feb 2000
- News
Executives Convene to Discuss Consumer-Driven Health Care
communication and interaction among HBS graduates involved in all sectors of the health-care industry. "HBS Health provides a natural vehicle for alumni to share information and nuances about what's going on," she noted. "It's important... View Details
- 29 Jan 2008
- First Look
First Look: January 29, 2008
small commercial vehicle, the Tata Ace. Positioned as a replacement for the three-wheelers that predominated as small commercial vehicles in India, the Ace create a new product category and enabled Tata Motors to access a new market... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 02 Dec 2019
- What Do You Think?
How Does a Company like Boeing Respond to Intense Competitive Pressure?
company failing to “mind the gap,” we could ignore it. But somewhat similar charges were lodged in the case of cheating on vehicle emissions technology at Volkswagen just months earlier. A proud engineering group was “encouraged” to apply... View Details
- 20 Mar 2000
- Research & Ideas
No Place Like Home: America’s Housing Crisis and Its Impact on Business
hundred families showed up," she recalls, "to apply for forty apartments." But the private sector, Gould notes, is playing an important role in affordable housing as an investor and is reaping handsome returns for its participation. "The primary... View Details
- Web
2.3.1 Drug & Alcohol Policy | MBA
him or her, or permitted him or her to take, an alcoholic drink. Community members are reminded that there are heavy penalties, including imprisonment, for possession or distribution of illicit drugs. There are also serious penalties for anyone who operates a motor... View Details
- 20 Feb 2014
- News
Managing the World’s Trouble Spots
“because there were virtually no General Motors vehicles there, which meant no spare parts or maintenance available,” Goodwin recalls. Ultimately, politics won out, and the ambulance was shipped, but Goodwin knew it provided no benefit to... View Details
Keywords: Jill Radsken
- 30 Jun 2008
- Research & Ideas
Rethinking Retirement Planning
She'd say that he was worth 4,000 pounds a year. That's how we usually think of our standard of living." Merton says we're used to the mutual fund industry as a vehicle for getting to our retirement goal, yet few of us have a deep... View Details
- 16 Sep 2002
- Research & Ideas
The Irrational Quest for Charismatic CEOs
holders of equity in the U.S., they couldn't just sell the shares in their companies, and the only vehicle through which they could exercise their vote was through their voice. They pressured directors to remove CEOs at under-performing... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- Web
The Ownership Project | Institute for Business in Global Society
Salomon Esther Cho Case studies Patagonia: ‘Earth is Now Our Only Shareholder’ By: Brian Trelstad, Nien-hê Hsieh, Michael Norris and Susan Pinckney KKR at CHI Overhead Doors By: Dennis Campbell and Ethan Rouen SA Taxi: A Vehicle for... View Details
- 01 Jun 2013
- News
Lesson Plans
Blended learning looks like the vehicle to do a lot of this, but we're thinking of it more as a student-centric system that allows for mastery-based learning. Undergirding that approach with technology is the most scalable way to do it... View Details
- 03 Mar 2014
- Research & Ideas
Facebook’s Future
decade of technological progress will result in major changes, and I believe the site will morph into a potent and active force in people's lives. Today, Facebook is a passive vehicle where users manually post pictures, status updates,... View Details
Keywords: by Mikolaj Piskorski
- 01 Sep 2009
- News
Read All About It!
goods and services — from a second or third vehicle to health clubs to text messaging — that their great-grandparents could hardly have dreamed of. At the same time, the underlying sources for all this consumption — our wealth and income... View Details
- 01 Dec 2009
- News
Seven Honored with Alumni Achievement Award
On October 19, the School conferred its highest honor, the Alumni Achievement Award, on seven distinguished individuals. Since 1968, the School has selected outstanding men and women for the award, recognizing their accomplishments in the public and the private... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young; awards; fishing; Funds, Trusts, and Other Financial Vehicles; Funds, Trusts, and Other Financial Vehicles; Funds, Trusts, and Other Financial Vehicles; Funds, Trusts, and Other Financial Vehicles; Funds, Trusts, and Other Financial Vehicles; Funds, Trusts, and Other Financial Vehicles
- 07 Mar 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research, March 7
would manufacture lithium-ion batteries used in Tesla’s electric vehicles on an unprecedented scale. In early 2015, Tesla announced a new product line of battery packs designed for large-scale energy storage for residential, commercial,... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 24 Jul 2000
- Research & Ideas
Global Brands: Connecting With Consumers Across Boundaries
higher. Ignoring the nuances of language, for instance, can doom a product from the start, Jeanette Wagner observed, noting that the Chevrolet "Nova" didn't sell well in Latin America, because the brand name of that vehicle in... View Details
Keywords: by James E. Aisner