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Partners & Fellows | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School

Corps Michael J. Fox Foundation for Parkinson's Research Millennium Challenge Corporation New Profit New Sector Alliance NewSchools Venture Fund New York City Public Schools New York Public Radio Nonprofit Finance Fund OneTen Coalition, Inc. Oxfam America Partners In... View Details

15 Jun 2021
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Keeping Hourly Workers Focused on the Stock, Not the Clock

difference,’” says Dave Bangert (MBA 2005), who became CEO of the company shortly after the program was introduced. Some employees were able to pay pressing bills, while others invested in cows for their farm or saved for house down... View Details

Keywords: April White; Management of Companies and Enterprises; Management

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Faculty - Private Capital Project

management, financial distress, capital allocation, and venture capital. His current research focuses on financial intermediation and financial regulation, including research on housing finance, financial system risk, bank lending and... View Details

11 Aug 2003
Research & Ideas

Why Budgeting Kills Your Company

performance indicators that shifts strategic decision making to customer-facing edges of the organization. Others advocate less sweeping but still significant changes: Housing the budgeting and strategic planning functions in one office,... View Details

Keywords: by Loren Gary

27 May 2015
Blog Post

What is an HBS Section?

(Something like the houses in Harry Potter except EVERYONE thinks they’re Gryffindor). Section activities include: Events/Mixers (karaoke, trampoline dodgeball, bowling, brewery tours, board game night) Holiday Celebrations (Thanksgiving... View Details

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Additional Outdoor Sculpture | About

anonymous donor. Tony Cragg Over the Earth, 2014 — Dean’s House Lawn | Learn More Jaume Plensa Inés, 2013 — Aldrich Lawn | Learn More Tony Tasset Arrow Sculpture, 2015 — Schwartz Common | Learn More Hank Willis Thomas Ernest and Ruth,... View Details

15 Apr 2015
Research & Ideas

Why Americans Voted for an Income Tax

rate (the share of the next dollar earned that is paid in taxes) at the top of the income ladder. Speaker of the House John Boehner, for example, argued that those high earners already paid their fair share: "The top one percent of... View Details

Keywords: by Matthew C. Weinzierl

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2018 Financial Risk and Regulation Survey - Behavioral Finance & Financial Stability

use of off-balance sheetactivities that avoided reserve and capital requirements, high investment bank leverage,and in ated housing price beliefs. By contrast the bottom 5 factors were strategic default by underwater borrowers, the... View Details

26 Sep 2023
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HBS Latino Student Association Spotlight: Francesco Rossi (MBA 2024)

aunts, uncles, and cousins. Our house may not have been the grandest or most opulent, but it was a place I cherished because it was always brimming with activity and conversation. Every family reunion, to this day, never adheres to a... View Details

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Our Team - Social Impact Collaboratory

competitive intelligence, and people strategy. Before joining GS, Jonah served as a Consultant with Cognoscere on an education development project in Kurdistan and as a Research Analyst for the Cornell Dyson School of Applied Economics and Management. Jonah has also... View Details

18 Feb 2020
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A Vision of Love@HBS in 2020

stronger each day. Home doesn’t have to be a fancy space. It can be mental space that houses all the memories. It can be a child that reminds us of what we look like and who we are. It can be a source of power to make us stronger and... View Details

21 Oct 2015
Research & Ideas

How to Predict if a New Business Idea is Any Good

their houses to total strangers who may or may not be serial killers. Five VC firms rejected the nascent company’s pitch outright, and another two didn’t even bother to reply. “Investors must have thought, who would ever do this?” says... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Accommodations; Financial Services

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Strategy Awards & Honors - Faculty & Research

European Case Clearing House (ecch) Awards for “Apple Inc. in 2010” with Renee Kim (HBS Case 710-467). 2010 David J. Collis : Harvard Business Review Best Selling Author in 2010 with over one quarter of a million reprints sold. Rebecca M.... View Details

01 Mar 2004
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Derek Ferguson

mind. “I was wrong,” he says. “HBS clarified what I was capable of doing and what I wanted to do.” Moving into Music Ferguson, 38, came of age at the dawn of hip-hop. “Our house was the place where all the neighborhood kids congregated,”... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; Performing Arts, Spectator Sports, and Related Industries; Arts, Entertainment

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HBS - The year in Review

transformation and seismic market shifts. Building RENAMED for James I. Cash In September 2020, Harvard Business School announced it would honor James I. Cash, the James E. Robison Professor of Business Administration, Emeritus, by renaming Glass House. The new Cash... View Details

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New Levels of Capitalism: Finance - Railroads and the Transformation of Capitalism | Harvard Business School

including The American Railroad Journal (established in 1832); the New York Times (1851); The Stockholder: Monitor of Finance and Industry (1862); The Commercial and Financial Chronicle (1865); and the Wall Street Journal (1889). Investment banking View Details

29 Nov 2017
Research & Ideas

How to Succeed in Business (According to a 15th Century Trade Merchant)

reception celebrating the release. The library’s late medieval and early Renaissance Italian business records housed in HBS’s Historical Collections in Baker Library are among the largest and most important collections in the world... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna

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General Management Awards & Honors - Faculty & Research

Entrepreneur. Gerald C. Chertavian : Recognized as a YouthJobs+ White House Champion of Change in 2013. Geoffrey G. Jones : Winner of the 2013 Oxford Journals Article Prize with Christina Lubinski for the best article published in... View Details

01 Feb 2021
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Has the New Economy Finally Arrived?

Twenty-year-old entrepreneurs became mega-millionaires, but not for long. It turned out that the “new economy” of that time was a house of cards. It’s a good time to ask the question again. Policies of the Federal Reserve in concert with... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

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In the News - Creating Emerging Markets

discusses how his course on business history helps his students gain perspective on the future. Mint India’s large corporate houses need to embrace ethics: Tarun Khanna Tarun Khanna, Jorge Paulo Lemann professor at the Harvard Business... View Details

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