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01 Dec 2019
News

Bridging the Gap

being improved student outcomes and profits the company could reinvest in students. At a Gestamp automotive manufacturing plant 20 minutes east of downtown Chattanooga, high school students wearing shirts emblazoned with “WBL” (work-based learning) are paid a starting... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; illustration by Josh Cochran; photographed by Melissa Golden; cross sector collaboration; local government; nonprofits; education; leadership; Administration of Economic Programs; Government

2008
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Industrial Specialization and Regional Clusters in the Ten New EU Member States

By: Orjan Solvell, Christian H.M. Ketels and Goran Lindqvist

Purpose—The purpose of this paper is to provide an analysis of regional concentration patterns within ten new European Union (EU) member states, EU10, and make comparisons with EU15 and the US economy.
Design/methodology/approach—Industrial... View Details

Keywords: Geographic Location; Policy; Employment; Industry Clusters; Industry Structures; European Union; United States

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09 May 2023
Research & Ideas

Where to Find Remote Work Now: 250 Million Job Postings Paint a Complex Picture

company location, industry, skill set, and even an individual company’s cultural preference. “The notion that we will go back to a point in which at least some firms will not commit to remote work—we've passed that moment.” From 2019 to 2023, job postings for one or... View Details

Keywords: by Rachel Layne

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Design Thinking Course | HBS Online

this limited-time offer. Design Thinking and Innovation $1,850 Next 7-week session starts May 14th Enroll Now Leverage design thinking principles and creative problem-solving tools to develop innovative solutions to your most challenging business problems. 7 weeks 6-8... View Details

13 Feb 2006
Research & Ideas

When Gender Changes the Negotiation

positions in high-ambiguity industries work for thirty-five years and receive a 3 percent raise per year, the earnings gap grows to more than $600,000 over the course of a career—or $1.5 million, if those extra earnings are saved at 5... View Details

Keywords: by Dina W. Pradel, Hannah Riley Bowles & Kathleen L. McGinn

21 May 2015
Blog Post

3 Ways to Fund Your HBS MBA

literally reduce the price of tuition – so they can make the MBA much more affordable. HBS wants everyone who is admitted to be able to come and therefore the aid is awarded solely based on financial need. Nearly 50% of the class receives an average of approximately... View Details

05 Oct 2020
Book

Want to Be Happier? Make More Free Time

times to get their core work done said they had greater control over their workdays, were less stressed, and were happier with their jobs overall, Whillans found. Also, be aggressive about shielding your time in other ways, Whillans advises. Set a quota on work... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman

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HBS - Financials | Supplemental Financial Information

was different in fiscal 2022 than in a typical year. From 2015 through 2020, total enrollment averaged about 940 students per class. Because of the deferral and leave options, in fiscal 2021 that number decreased to 729 first-year... View Details

27 Apr 2020
Research & Ideas

How Remote Work Changes What We Think About Onboarding

meetings with all these parties are scheduled early on. The hiring manager should v-meet (virtual meeting) daily with the new hire at first, and then move these check-ins to two or three times per week once a relationship is established.... View Details

Keywords: by Boris Groysberg

2015
Report

Clusters and Regional Economies: Implications for the Great Lakes - St. Lawrence Region

By: Christian H.M. Ketels

The Great Lakes – St. Lawrence Region, covering eight U.S. states and two Canadian provinces located around the lakes and waterways that have given this region its name, is what economic developers call a 'macro region'. It is an area of intensive economic interaction... View Details

Keywords: Clusters; Regional Policy; Great Lakes; Economic Development; Industry Clusters; Economy; Canada; United States

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11 May 2009
Research & Ideas

The IT Leader’s Hero Quest

careers at the Harvard Business School, we discovered that the turnover of CIOs ran at around 30 to 40 percent per year. As a result of our research, we described the driving cause as the rapid change of IT through the operation of... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

10 Feb 2023
Research & Ideas

COVID-19 Lessons: Social Media Can Nudge More People to Get Vaccinated

below Ohio’s well-publicized Vax-a-Million lottery campaign, where per-person costs were $68, and it’s lower than the $88 to $380 cost per person for flu vaccination campaigns in the US. Along the way, the team also provided takeaways to... View Details

Keywords: by Scott Van Voorhis; Health; Technology

24 Feb 2021
Blog Post

My HBS Student Loan Story: Les Williams (MBA 2005)

IBM and my mom was a schoolteacher. I went to UVA for undergrad with a full scholarship and I studied Mechanical Engineering. How would you describe your financial situation coming into HBS? I was a mechanical engineer before HBS, making ~$55k View Details

11 Apr 2024
Blog Post

Climate Stories: Water Series - Episode #17: Leni Peterson Redondo (HBS MS/MBA 2023), Founder & CEO of Celeste

as companies cannot operate without water or raw materials that require water to be produced.” Leni explained, “Water is key to growing agricultural raw materials, as well as in mining, manufacturing, and even technology. For example, Google’s data servers use 450,000... View Details

11 Mar 2024
News

In Harmony

private equity in Asia, Kim was born 60 years ago into a very different Korea. In 1970, when Kim was seven years old, Korea’s annual GDP per capita was just under $280. Still recovering from war and finding its financial footing, it’s a... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; photograph by Jun Michael Park

25 May 2021
Research & Ideas

White Airbnb Hosts Earn More. Can AI Shrink the Racial Gap?

White people who host rental properties on Airbnb earn significantly more per year than Black hosts, but a “race blind” pricing algorithm could help close that income gap, new research shows. Black hosts who rely on Airbnb’s algorithm to... View Details

Keywords: by Lane Lambert; Technology; Accommodations

01 Sep 2021
What Do You Think?

Can We Train for Trust?

improvement in the average produced a 2.5 percent improvement in unit revenue, or $250,000 in added revenue per hotel. In spite of the economics, organizations apparently are doing a poor job of building positive employee experiences,... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

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Srivatsa Krishna

Consider just a few puissant facts: More than 840 million people in the world are malnourished-799 million of them are from the developing world. Of the 6.2 billion people in today's world, 1.2 billion live on less than $1 per day. The... View Details

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Climate Impact - Business & Environment

Amanda Li MBA 2018 | COO & Co-Founder, Banyan Infrastructure “The world needs $3T+ more per year in sustainable infrastructure investments to meet climate goals, yet banks and funds are bottlenecked from manual overhead. Banyan... View Details

14 Oct 2020
Blog Post

Veteran Financial Aid Outlook

Section. The Post-9/11 GI Bill (Ch.33) is capped at $25,162.14 per academic year. HBS is a Yellow Ribbon Program (YRP) School that does not have a limit on how many YRP participants are enrolled. If you have earned 100% of the Post-9/11... View Details

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