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at improving health care value. 28 June 2019 Media Mention White House Addressing Laws that Impede Value-Based Health Care White House Addressing Laws that Impede Value-Based Health Care by Rachel Roubein,... View Details

01 Mar 2024
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Action Plan: Wild at Heart

At first glance, Heather Evans (MBA 1983) might not seem the likeliest candidate for a career in ecological landscaping. A former chief marketing officer and “true urbanist” (“to the extent I used to hate visiting people in the country!”), Evans spent most of her life... View Details

Keywords: Christine Speer Lejeune; gardening; entrepreneurship; sustainability

11 Oct 2023
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Soldier On

Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes In November of 2022, 33-year-old Phillip Jones (MPA/MBA 2021) was elected mayor of Newport News, Virginia, where he had spent part of his childhood. The son of two Air Force veterans, he served six years in... View Details

01 Mar 2024
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The War Within

which often depicted air raids and destruction. “The children were drawing their nightmares,” she says. (Stanislav Ivanov/Global Images Ukraine via Getty Images) In February 2022, Ames had been planning to relocate to Ukraine. She had sold her View Details

Keywords: Janelle Nanos; illustration by Daniel Bejar

01 Aug 2022
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Does Religious Belief Affect Organizational Performance?

Katherine Lawrence put it: “The current JIT rose out of both hubris and myopia.” Citing the Ukranian War and its impact on logistics, she points out that “our transportation networks and systems are susceptible to variables we cannot predict or control, and we should... View Details

Keywords: Re: James L. Heskett

22 Sep 2023
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Capital Connection

Vernon Beckford (MBA 2013) saw the gap almost immediately. From the beginning of his career in commercial real estate finance—first at Credit Suisse and then later at CW Capital and Global Atlantic Financial Group—Beckford observed Wall Street’s obsession with... View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley; Real Estate

12 May 2023
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Independent Project: The Rise of Electric Heat Pumps

segments that are most equipped to make the switch first: Smaller-sized homes requiring smaller, cheaper pumps Lower-income households that can qualify for up to $10K in rebates. The IRA has been a major tipping point in electric heat pump adoption as this reduces a... View Details

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Global Opportunity Fellowship GO: AFRICA - Alumni

bonuses, relocation/moving expenses, and housing allowances will be added to the base salary to determine the applicant’s total guaranteed compensation. You were not sponsored for, nor did you receive reimbursement for, your MBA tuition... View Details

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Baker Library / Bloomberg Center | About

38,000 square feet were added to the 130,000-square-foot building. With 67 faculty offices in Baker Library | Bloomberg Center, all HBS professors are now housed in three adjacent buildings—Baker | Bloomberg, Rock Center, and Morgan... View Details

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Events - Business History

History Seminar The World's Biggest Landlord: How the U.S. Military Built its Arsenal of Houses A. J. Murphy, Brandeis Nov 16 16 Nov 2020 Business History Seminar 'Funk Money': The End of Empires, the Expansion of Tax Havens, and... View Details

10 Oct 2023
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Policy Drivers for Environmental Justice: What Businesses Need to Know

terms mean to have meaningful conversations. The White House discusses environmental justice (sometimes called climate justice) in their statement on the Inflation Reduction Act, stating that the IRA will “improve public health, reduce... View Details

01 Aug 1998
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Spangler Family Gift Endows New Campus Center

keeping with the Georgian style of architecture that we see on much of the campus." The building will provide a central location for a variety of functions now spread throughout the campus and create additional meeting and dining space for the MBA Program. The Spangler... View Details

Keywords: Nancy O. Perry

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Winners & Runners-Up | New Venture Competition

architecture to meet the mission of “building houses for the poor” in Mexico. Business Track, 2000 Bang Robert Rosin Robert Dreyer Tim Tuttle Sarah Boatman Business Track Winner Based on a revolutionary distributed network, Bang Networks... View Details

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HBS Alumni Conference: Accelerating Climate Solutions - Alumni

climate, clean energy, clean cars, and protecting natural resources, most recently as undersecretary of the California Natural Resources Agency (CRNA). Before CNRA, Barranco was chief executive for River LA, deputy chief of staff at the US Department of View Details

02 Nov 2016
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The Benefits of a Residential Campus

in closet (this wasn’t me, but I’ve heard some classmates joke about this), know that there are many on campus housing options — everything from three bedroom apartments with kitchens, to dorms designed with the executive education... View Details

11 Mar 2001
Research & Ideas

Merchants to Multinationals: British Trading Companies in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries

opening up the shareholding of the parent trading company, but by floating separate 'free-standing' firms on the British capital markets, which the merchant houses continued to control through management contracts and other means in the... View Details

Keywords: by Geoffrey Jones

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Why Your Gift Matters - Alumni

cash along the way. GREEN HOUSE Betsy Harper (MBA 1984) Betsy Harper’s “Passive House” proof-of-concept in Cambridge could be a prelude to a home-design revolution. Learn how other HBS alumni and faculty are making the world a better... View Details

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Tommaso Ruggeri

memory? As a kid, I loved dinosaurs! I had a whole collection of dinosaur toys, and my favorite thing was go to my grandma's house and play with them for hours. I used to meticulously line them all up with my mom, based on their actual... View Details

30 Jul 2018
Research & Ideas

Why Ethical People Become Unethical Negotiators

that the home is generally in good condition, although the seller knows the furnace conks out with some regularity. A month after the buyer takes ownership, the furnace blows. The seller may still stand by the statement that the house was... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman

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Online Business Analytics Course | HBS Online

interpret its equation through an analysis of housing data Perform a regression analysis of box office and home video sales using Excel and interpret the output 8 hrs Module 5 Multiple Regression Identify relationships among three or more... View Details

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