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11 Aug 2020
Blog Post

Supporting Independent Workers During COVID-19: One Phone Call at a Time

people visiting our website per day (and that may have just been our parents checking out our website!), but once word began to spread about our services, we were quickly up to several hundred hits per day and the traffic only grew from... View Details

11 Jan 2016
Blog Post

Meet the Business and Environment Initiative

sign up for our newsletter, event and research updates, check our website for career resources and participate in the mentor program. They can also apply to be on our advisory board. Is the BEI involved in case writing? We have a group of... View Details

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Alumni-Authored Books | Baker Library

Alumni-Authored Books Building our collections with the work of HBS graduates All Services for Alumni Overview A curated selection of alumni-authored titles for honored years: 1979, 1984, 1989, 1994, 1999. Alumni may check out print... View Details

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Admissions & Financial Aid | MBA

account will be the single source of communication and repository for materials throughout the application process.Indicate your interest in the MS/MBA: Engineering Sciences Program by checking the appropriate box on the application.... View Details

01 Dec 2002
News

Think Globally, Teach Locally

it's of such vital importance for our faculty to spend time outside the United States. You get out and see new things, new parts of the puzzle — and in the process, your work becomes more relevant.” In the stories that follow, the Bulletin View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna

01 Jun 2010
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Health IT at the Bedside

prescription from CVS and automatically check for any drug interactions. The hospital, like many community hospitals and doctors’ offices, did not have electronic records, but his office did.Â Would he ever go back to a paper prescription... View Details

Keywords: Sachin H. Jain; Ambulatory Health Care Services; Health, Social Assistance; Data Processing, Hosting, and Related Services; Information

20 Jan 2003
Research & Ideas

Fixing Corporate Governance: A Roundtable Discussion at Harvard Business School

in governance. In spite of all the checks and balances, failures occurred with boards of directors, auditors, regulators, financial analysts, and professional investors and money managers. We thought we had a pretty good system, one the... View Details

Keywords: by Garry Emmons

15 Sep 2008
Research & Ideas

The Coming Transformation of Social Enterprise

Professor Kash Rangan is one of the pioneers of Harvard Business School's Social Enterprise Initiative, now 15 years old. Back in 1993, most people took a "spray and pray" approach to philanthropy—writing checks to charities and... View Details

Keywords: by Roger Thompson

06 Aug 2007
Research & Ideas

High Hills, Deep Poverty: Explaining Civil War in Nepal

This observation reinforces the fact that poor areas are always at more risk.” Most of the empirical literature has been cross-country. That's always a little bit of a problem because you're almost comparing apples and oranges. Here we had the same conflict and the... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

09 Jan 2007
First Look

First Look: January 9, 2007

they should be focusing on their most important priorities, but without stepping back to reflect, few actually know where they are allocating their time. Kaplan advocates writing down what you do every working hour for a week and checking... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

30 Apr 2001
Research & Ideas

Entering the Age of Alliances

carry out community service projects, to which they gave more than twenty thousand employee hours in 1998. Each organization considers the relationship with the other to be of central strategic importance. That these emerging strategic alliances go far beyond View Details

Keywords: by James Austin

26 Feb 2019
Blog Post

Forget Cash. Here Are Better Ways to Motivate Employees

like an empty gesture or a mere financial transaction and may not act as a strong motivator to work hard, Whillans says. It’s best to avoid merely adding a cash bonus to a worker’s paycheck; a separate bonus check stands out more as a... View Details

Keywords: All Industries

02 Mar 2023
News

Carbon's Second Act

Business and Environment Initiative. It is available wherever you get your favorite podcasts. For more information or to find archived episodes, visit alumni.hbs.edu/skydeck. And if you are interested in hearing more about what businesses are doing, can do, and should... View Details

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Bibliography - Option Pricing in Theory & Practice: The Nobel Prize Research of Robert C. Merton - Exhibits - Historical Collections

2 (spring 1965): 13-31. * Available at another Harvard University Library, check HOLLIS . The Formula Black, Fischer, and Myron S. Scholes. "Capital Market Equilibrium and the Pricing of Corporate Liabilities." Financial Note No. 16C... View Details

16 Sep 2015
News

Built for Speed

companies and platoons, General Medina told him. He knew that world now. It’s hard to get out, the general explained. Plus, there were capital considerations. “How much money do you have in your bank account?” “You know, sir, I’ve got like $8,000.” “Last time I View Details

Keywords: Dan Morrell; Machinery Manufacturing; Manufacturing

21 Mar 2019
News

Helping Veterans Build Careers

on-site with a potential grantee, using the Endowment’s strict screening protocols to evaluate nonprofits in four areas: financials; performance; background checks on leadership and how the nonprofit takes care of its employees; and... View Details

Keywords: Jill Radsken

01 Jun 2017
News

Case Study: Something New

suggesting voluntarily sharing cost information improves retailers’ sales. For more information about pricing strategy or retail supply chains, check out ABI and other resources on eBaker. View Details

Keywords: April White

21 Apr 2008
Research & Ideas

The New Math of Customer Relationships

organizations with whom we've had no previous contact that get in touch with us to check up on the latest thinking that they say has influenced their management over the past decade or so. Finally, the service profit chain turns up in... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

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Lara Hodgson

us out of business,” she recalled. Selling to small boutiques had been simple. Those stores paid immediately with a check or credit card. The large companies, on the other hand, paid anywhere from 30 to 90 days after receiving a... View Details

20 Jul 2020
Blog Post

Minorities Who 'Whiten' Job Resumes Get More Interviews

class are removed from resumes before hiring managers see them. Companies can also perform regular checks for discrimination in the screening process, for example by measuring how many minorities applied for a position and comparing that... View Details