Housing - Publications - Faculty & Research

24 Oct 2011
Research & Ideas

The Yelp Factor: Are Consumer Reviews Good for Business?

finishing work on a case study about Airbnb, where anyone can offer a room in their house or an apartment for short-term rentals. "Compared to restaurant choice, people are taking a big risk when deciding to rent their apartment to a... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Food & Beverage

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

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Morgan Hall | About

stone facility housed offices for the Dean, faculty, research staff, and administrative personnel, as well as accounting laboratories, research rooms, and a laboratory of industrial physiology. Special care was taken to preserve Morgan’s... 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

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Why Your Gift Matters - Alumni

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 place.... View Details

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Winners & Runners-Up | New Venture Competition

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 provides leading Internet companies with a... View Details

11 Mar 2001
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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

01 Mar 2024
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Alumni and Faculty Books and Podcasts

your brand’s wow factor, and truly innovate. Supercommunicators By Charles Duhigg (MBA 2003) Random House Come inside a jury room as one juror leads a starkly divided room to consensus. Join a young CIA officer as he recruits a reluctant... View Details

Keywords: Publishing Industries (except Internet); Information

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

02 Nov 2016
Blog Post

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

09 Feb 2021
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Investing in Entrepreneurship

nearly 60 years, and lived in the same house for half a century. When you look at the groves of oaks that have sprouted from the acorns he has planted, however, his extraordinary legacy is evident, inspiring, and enduring. View Details

Keywords: Susan Young

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Online Business Analytics Course | HBS Online

Line Forecasting Interpreting the Regression Output Performing Regression Analyses Forecasting Home Video Units Featured Exercises Identify the best fit line for a data set and interpret its equation through an analysis of housing data... 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

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Ted Obi

would all gather at her house for Sunday dinner. Sundays were filled with love, laughter, and fellowship. Every week, I looked forward to playing with my cousins, learning swear words in Igbo from my uncles, and watching my grandmother... View Details

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Research Computing Services - Faculty & Research

statistical models and simulations. This research cluster is fully integrated with a dedicated research network-attached-storage facility and a dedicated MySQL server used for housing custom databases. RCS offers one-on‐one consultations... View Details

22 Aug 2019
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Moving to the Lower 48 from Alaska for my MS/MBA

a small town in Alaska - where wilderness survival and fishing were necessary parts of her childhood education. I grew up in Alaska, where we spent much of my childhood outdoors. Our house was on a dirt road outside of town, and we spent... View Details

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Leadership Transitions | Baker Library | Bloomberg Center | Harvard Business School

partner at Lehman Brothers, assumed leadership of the firm in 1969, the first non-family member to do so. The investment house suffered a decline in business aggravated by the oil crisis in 1973. That year, Peter Peterson, formerly... View Details

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Eligibility | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School

single and married loan assistance applicant. For all married applicants, we will complete both single and married applicant calculations, and the greater adjusted income will be used to determine eligibility. Single Applicant Calculation Applicant's gross wages +... View Details

06 Mar 2006
Research & Ideas

Four Strategies for Making Concessions

the purchase of a house and that a wide gap exists between your initial offer and the seller's asking price. You are willing to increase your offer by a maximum of $40,000. You will be more effective if you make two smaller concessions,... View Details

Keywords: by Deepak Malhotra

25 Aug 2022
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Up on the Corner

two dilapidated row houses that had been vacant since 1978. She intends to replace them with affordable rental apartments—the opening salvo in an ambitious plan to redevelop West Baltimore Street, whose boarded-up windows and abandoned... View Details

Keywords: Alexander Gelfand; photographed by Melissa Golden; Real Estate

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