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- 09 Mar 2009
- Research & Ideas
How to Revive Health-Care Innovation
industry.The challenge that we face—making health care affordable and conveniently accessible to most people—is not unique to health care. Almost every industry began with services and products that were so complicated and expensive to... View Details
- Portrait Project
Sue Yang
untold opportunity in a new country. It was the 1990s, and my parents had just emigrated from Shanghai, with me in tow. Shanghai had afforded them rare passage from poverty and illiteracy to higher education, and rarer still, to America.... View Details
- 29 May 2006
- What Do You Think?
How Important Is the “Service Sector Effect” on Productivity?
force people to work more hours to sustain a certain lifestyle. But it may also be that more customers (including workers who need more services if they are to maintain their "work style") want and are able to afford the... View Details
- 12 May 2015
- Blog Post
"Every Day at HBS is a Gift"
different opportunities that HBS affords you – academics, networking, job hunting, industry research, travel, leadership opportunities, clubs, sports, dating, event attendance, hearing from speakers, and more – let alone human necessities... View Details
- 17 Jun 2002
- Research & Ideas
A Litmus Test for Entrepreneurs
afford to pass on any opportunity, no matter how small. They see business much like a game of PacMan—you can bag big fish only by learning to swallow small ones. The best entrepreneurs also recognize that trying out a business model on a... View Details
Keywords: by Walter Kuemmerle
- 01 Oct 1998
- News
A Community Investment
Our class has lived and worked in a prolonged period of unprecedented economic growth, resulting in great wealth for our nation and opportunities for individual prosperity. Our gift affords us a modest, yet critical role in providing... View Details
- 01 Jun 2012
- News
A Better World, One Idea at a Time
essential technologies, such as bicycle-powered machines, affordable solar lanterns, and smokeless cook stoves, designed for the rural poor at the bottom of the economic pyramid. View Details
- 01 Mar 2010
- News
Noted & Quoted
afford to pay their mortgages but walk away from the property instead. (Boston Globe, December 22, 2009) “How predictable was it five years ago that probably well over 90 percent of pictures are taken off smartphones?” — Jim Balsillie... View Details
- 03 Jul 2012
- Research & Ideas
HBS Faculty on Supreme Court Health Care Ruling
week's US Supreme Court ruling. It's time to end three-and-a-half years of political wrangling and make the Affordable Health Care Act (AHCA) work. The law's shortcomings are well known. It provides health care access to 30 million... View Details
Helena Rubinstein
insistence, only women with professional training in cosmetics could sell her products, and this part of the business grew to be the largest. Retaining total control of her company until her death, Rubinstein’s business savvy afforded her... View Details
Keywords: Personal Care & Home Products
- Portrait Project
Constanca Oliveira e Sousa
I didn’t have much, but I had a sewing kit and some sheets. Josilane was a girl that lived in the slums in Montes Claros, Brazil. She wanted to marry but couldn't afford a dress. I was a missionary in this foreign country, living in an... View Details
- 04 Mar 2015
- What Do You Think?
Can a Laissez-Faire Approach Fix Labor Market Inequality?
be found." This was tried by Henry Ford, Nanninga continued, "who reasoned that by paying higher wages there would be more people on the streets who could afford his products." Others would place less reliance on a free... View Details
- 29 Apr 2013
- Research & Ideas
Are First-Time Buyers Left Out of Real Estate’s Rebound?
Department of Housing and Urban Development, the primary agency for dealing with affordable housing in this country, is about $35 billion. Realtors say the sky will fall if we end the mortgage interest deduction—that it would adversely... View Details
- 06 Sep 2024
- Blog Post
Harvard Business School Announces 2024 Goldsmith Fellows
Finance, scaling an impact investment in Anchorage, Alaska to become the state's largest permanent supportive housing program, and designing and launching an impact fund-of-funds to mobilize passive charitable capital. With an interest in designing a fund to develop... View Details
- 08 Jun 2023
- Blog Post
Koppert Cress: Macro Greenhouses, Microgreens
greenhouses appeared to be less than three quarters full. When asked, Baan explained that he grows only enough to meet demand from his clients and no more. With high margins and a maximum production cycle of six weeks, Baan can afford... View Details
- 01 Jun 2008
- News
Understanding the Digital Frontier
LI AND BERNOFF: Executives can’t afford to turn their backs on social networking. Nothing gives CEOs and marketers instant heartburn more than seeing their hard-won brand equity hijacked by forces beyond their control — too often by... View Details
- 01 Mar 2013
- News
Making Change
that the affordable housing buzz started in India, along with the Indian president's call for a "slum-free India." Apprehensive about both government and real-estate developers, my husband, an architect from Italy, and I moved to Delhi... View Details
C. Kemmons Wilson
though operated by a different owner, would be nearly an exact replica of the others, with such amenities as air conditioning, color television and a swimming pool. Because of Wilson’s strict standards and intensive licensee training programs at “Holiday Inn... View Details
Keywords: Restaurants & Lodging
- 17 Nov 2022
- News
Blockchain for Good
has advocated for more regulation, which hasn’t necessarily endeared her to other players in the space. But she says it’s necessary to bridge the gap between the blockchain sector and traditional financial networks—and to ultimately use the technology to View Details
Keywords: Ralph Ranalli
- 09 Oct 2012
- First Look
First Look: October 9
social and business goals, the company had articulated a stakeholder-centric model that benefited consumers through high-quality, fashionable, and affordable eyewear: the global community by donating, through sustainable channels, one... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne