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31 May 2023
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Alumni Achievement Awards 2023

school, and averaged 28 points per game playing basketball. A teacher said, ‘Why don’t you test yourself against the big boys and girls back East?’ So at 16, by myself, I flew to Bradley Field, took a Greyhound bus around New England to... View Details

Keywords: leadership; management; work-life balance

05 Feb 2019
News

The First Five Years: Karan Shah (MBA 2016)

Camshafts Limited (PCL) was founded by my father, Yatin Shah, 25 years ago in a small, 100-square-meter shed. In the beginning, the company manufactured 600 camshafts a month. Today, PCL is listed on the Indian stock exchange, manufactures over 10 million camshaft... View Details

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Redefining Capitalism - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness

per se. This will drive the next wave of innovation and productivity growth in the global economy. It will also reshape capitalism and its relationship to society, and legitimize business again as a powerful force for positive change. The... View Details

Portrait Project

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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Organizational Leadership Course | HBS Online

about this limited-time offer. Organizational Leadership $1,850 Next 7-week session starts May 28th Enroll Now Elevate your leadership skills to drive organizational success and effectively implement transformative change. 7 weeks 6-8 hours 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

13 Jun 2011
HBS Case

Mobile Banking for the Unbanked

account. This was largely because half of the population lived below the poverty line, and banks, understandably, were not eager to serve a moneyless customer base. "Banks find it an unprofitable proposition to serve people who make less than three dollars View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Banking; Communications; Telecommunications

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

09 Jan 2006
Research & Ideas

When Benchmarks Don’t Work

indicate a range of expenses, typically measured by the cost of the support department as a percentage of total revenue or the number of full-time-equivalent (FTE) employees per billion dollars of revenue. Hackett presents summary... View Details

Keywords: by Robert S. Kaplan; Service

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Strategy Execution Online Course | HBS Online

more about this limited-time offer. Strategy Execution $1,850 Next 8-week session starts July 23rd Enroll Now Gain the tools, skills, and frameworks to successfully implement strategy within your organization and drive impactful results. 8 weeks 5-8 hours View Details

23 Apr 2018
Research & Ideas

Sponsorship Programs Could Actually Widen the Gender Gap

guaranteed payment of 50 cents per problem solved, or they could compete for higher stakes. Those who chose to compete received a significantly higher payout (ranging from $1 to $3 per problem) if they... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

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Digital Millennium Copyright Act | About

civil copyright infringement may be ordered to pay either actual damages or “statutory” damages affixed at not less than $750 and not more than $30,000 per work infringed. For “willful” infringement, a court may award up to $150,000 View Details

28 May 2019
Research & Ideas

Investor Lawsuits Against Auditors Are Falling, and That's Bad News for Capital Markets

other financial improprieties. But new research shows that lawsuits against auditors for accounting violations have fallen over the past 20 years, and it’s not because accountants have become so much better at their craft or companies more honest. “The number of... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Financial Services; Accounting

31 Jul 2013
Working Paper Summaries

Learning from Double-Digit Growth Experiences

Keywords: by Eric D. Werker

01 Dec 2015
HBS Seminar

Nicola Lacetera, University of Toronto

22 Mar 2017
HBS Seminar

Gerald C. Kane, Boston College

27 Feb 2017
Research & Ideas

Reputation is Vital to Survival in Turbulent Markets

from Latin America, Africa, Turkey, and South Asia exuded this idea of stability, which assured employees, partners, customers, and everyone else. “After the crisis of 2009, the orders increased and our growth rate over the following five years is 21 percent View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

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

29 Aug 2018
What Do You Think?

What Should Harley-Davidson’s Management Do?

large one-time charge to do so, and increase the cost of motorcycles sold in Europe—an increasingly important market for the Company—by about $2,200 per bike. On the other hand, it could continue to pursue efforts to maintain its profit... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett; Auto

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

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