Housing - Publications - Faculty & Research

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

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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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

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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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

11 Apr 2022
Research & Ideas

A World of Difference: What Keeps Companies from Becoming More Inclusive

pushes us in the wrong direction toward something that is fundamentally familiar and comfortable." Frei: I grew up in a house where judgment was a delicacy, so I instinctively go straight to judgment. It’s the trait I like least in... View Details

Keywords: by Jen McFarland Flint

23 Nov 2021
Research & Ideas

The Vinyl Renaissance: Take Those Old Records Off the Shelf

now for whom music has always been a free commodity. The more that we talk to college students and teenagers about why they buy vinyl, the common thread is that having vinyl in your dorm room or your house says something about you and who... View Details

Keywords: by Christine Pazzanese, Harvard Gazette; Music

30 Jun 2014
Lessons from the Classroom

The Role of Emotions in Effective Negotiations

A simple view of negotiation presents a cold transaction between what one person has and what the other person is willing to pay for it. If the price is right, the deal gets done. As anyone who has recently bought a car or sold a house... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Entertainment & Recreation; Sports

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Projects - Business History

Library. The Library’s Special Collections houses one of the largest collections outside of Italy of business papers produced by the Medici family. The collection includes nearly 150 manuscript books containing business records dating... 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

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

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Cumnock Hall | About

modern, three-story, brick structure was designed by Earl Flansburgh & Associates and originally housed five flexible classrooms, HBS Health Services, squash courts, and a lounge. In 1989, the courts were removed, and Cumnock was... View Details

30 Jul 2007
Research & Ideas

Repugnant Markets and How They Get That Way

"Kidney exchange is something we have gotten going in New England and elsewhere that doesn't involve any monetary transfers," Roth explains. "It has not aroused any repugnance at all. We've just gotten legislation through the View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

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Historical Data & Sources - Business History

of Total)” Download Data Set in Excel US Home Ownership Rates U.S. Census Bureau, Housing and Household Economic Statistics Division Download Data Set in Excel US Homes Lacking Plumbing United States Census Bureau, Decennial Census,... View Details

25 Apr 2024
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Origin Stories

enslaved in the United States. Gwill York: Even though I’ve lived in Boston for 50 years, I say I’m from Cleveland. I had a magical childhood in Cleveland. I grew up on the same street as my mother and her parents had built a house on... View Details

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A Chronicle of the China Trade. The Papers of Augustine Heard & Co., 1840-1877

China Trade Bibliography Manuscript Collections Related Collections Site Credits “Business is too important and interesting not to be chronicled somehow,” Albert Heard wrote. 1 He was referring to his family’s firm, Augustine Heard & Co., which reigned among the... View Details

14 Jun 2022
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Meet the HBS Jewish Student Association

undergrad and led Moishe House programming for Delaware’s young adult Jewish community. Celebrating Shabbat and holidays through traditions, finding a home among a community of Jewish young professionals, and (of course) playing “Jewish... View Details

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Title IX & Gender Equity | About

496-0871 Cash House 307 Title IX Resource Coordinator for Faculty Cara Sterling (Managing Director, Administrative and Educational Affairs) csterling@hbs.edu (617) 495-6126 Morgan Hall 114A Title IX Resource Coordinator for Staff Sally... View Details

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Teele Hall | About

views of Harvard Stadium and Cambridge to the north and the Boston skyline to the east. The facility previously housed offices for the Harvard Business Review and Harvard Business Publishing. About the Name Members of the Teele family in... View Details

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