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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
- 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
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Case Studies - Social Impact Collaboratory
investors to customize their portfolio as per their individual preferences. OpenInvest seeks to combine the strengths of both index investing and personalized impact portfolios. Examples of the latter include a lower-carbon portfolio, or... View Details
- 31 May 2023
- News
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
- 01 Jun 2023
- News
Cultivating Prosperity in Afghanistan
Special Forces units while serving in Afghanistan. Saffron currently sells for $2,500 per kilogram because its harvesting and processing are so labor intensive. During the summer after their first year at HBS, Miller served as a brand... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie
- 24 Sep 2018
- Research & Ideas
How Cost Accounting is Improving Healthcare in Rural Haiti
costs to deliver services,” Shah explains. “Every hard-earned dollar needs to be fully utilized to deliver high-quality citizen care.” Case in point is Haiti, where the governmental outlay for health care expenditures was a mere $54 per... View Details
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Strategy Execution Online Course | HBS Online
tools, skills, and frameworks to successfully implement strategy within your organization and drive impactful results. 8 weeks 5-8 hours per week 6 modules Self-Paced with regular deadlines This course earns you a Certificate of... View Details
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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
- 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
- 13 Dec 2021
- Research & Ideas
The Unlikely Upside of Mergers: More Diverse Management Teams
acquisitions affect an estimated 5 million workers per year. While mergers typically lead to staff reductions, the new owners of an acquired company often promote talented women and people of color to oversee newly consolidated units and... View Details
Keywords: by Lane Lambert
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Organizational Leadership Course | HBS Online
your leadership skills to drive organizational success and effectively implement transformative change. 7 weeks 6-8 hours per week 7 modules Self-Paced This course earns you a Certificate of Completion from HBS Online. What you earn .... 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
- 31 Mar 2023
- Research & Ideas
Can a ‘Basic Bundle’ of Health Insurance Cure Coverage Gaps and Spur Innovation?
uncompensated care per year and requiring $11 billion in publicly funded grants for community health centers. The researchers propose offering everyone a basic bundle of health insurance, an approach that has worked for other high-income... View Details
- 11 Apr 2011
- Lessons from the Classroom
Teaching a ‘Lean Startup’ Strategy
Eisenmann hopes to sell students on the idea of first working as high-tech product managers before jumping into CEO roles. "I would love Harvard Business School to crank out a 100 high-tech product managers per year," he says.... View Details
- 25 Apr 2011
- Research & Ideas
What CEOs Do, and How They Can Do it Better
office, while others spent almost none.) Next, the researchers crunched a number of factors measuring company performance—for example, profits per employee—in order to see which CEOs were more productively using their time. Better On The... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 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
- 26 Mar 2024
- Blog Post
IFC India: Financing the Climate Transition in India
focus of this estimate, presenting a roadmap for sustainable investment. Is this gap unsurmountable? We believe there are reasons to feel hopeful - It all depends on how we choose to contextualize. Benchmarking the funding gap against average income View Details
- 23 Aug 2006
- Op-Ed
The Real Wal-Mart Effect
Wal-Mart's domestic sales volume, U.S. consumers save on the order of $18 billion per year. And because Wal-Mart forces its competitors to charge lower prices as well, this figure is a fraction of the company's real impact. These kinds of... View Details
- 20 Apr 2021
- Book
A Simple Question That Can Guide Companies to Epic Success
some of its suppliers. For example, shop-ping malls give Apple a special break. The company pays no more than 2 percent of its sales per square foot in rent, compared with 15 percent for a typical tenant. Why are mall owners so generous... View Details
Keywords: by Danielle Kost
- 20 Jul 2021
- Research & Ideas
Bankruptcy Spells Death for Too Many Businesses
acquisitions costing creditors more than $2 billion per year, Antill finds. "If you could just get all the creditors to agree to lower that debt load, to accept a write-down, then the equity in that company becomes really valuable." That... View Details
Keywords: by Rachel Layne