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similar challenges in other industries. Professional goals: My goal is to develop innovative technology that addresses critical gaps in accessibility and affordability across various industries, with a focus on consumer technology. I... View Details
- 18 Jun 2020
- Research & Ideas
What Is an "Essential" Purchase for a Low-Income Family?
deemed socially acceptable (or not) for others to purchase. As they find, lower-income people are afforded a much narrower range of "permissibility." “We seem to believe the poor have more basic basic needs." Such a notion... View Details
Keywords: by Rachel Layne
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Health Care - Faculty & Research
Health Care Health Care February 2015 Supplement The Affordable Care Act (A): Legislative Strategy in the House of Representatives By: Joseph L. Bower and Michael Norris In early 2009, the Obama... View Details
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HBS - The year in Review
Students 18 Applications 896 Acceptance Rate 4% More Key Enrollment Statistics Full-Tuition Scholarships Offered In an effort to make the Master of Business Administration (MBA) degree more affordable and accessible to a wider array of... View Details
- 22 Sep 2023
- News
Capital Connection
Vernon Beckford (MBA 2013) saw the gap almost immediately. From the beginning of his career in commercial real estate finance—first at Credit Suisse and then later at CW Capital and Global Atlantic Financial Group—Beckford observed Wall Street’s obsession with... View Details
- 05 Jun 2023
- What Do You Think?
Is the Anxious Achiever a Post-Pandemic Relic?
Share your thoughts in the comments below. References: Morra Aarons-Mele, The Anxious Achiever: Turn Your Biggest Fears Into Your Leadership Superpower (Harvard Business Review Press, 2023) Jenny Odell, How to Do Nothing: Resisting the Attention Economy (Melville View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 09 Nov 2022
- In Practice
COP27: What Can Business Leaders Do to Fight Climate Change Now?
The US government’s newly passed Inflation Reduction Act will direct $370 billion toward advancing renewal energy and reducing greenhouse gas emissions—the country's largest investment in fighting climate change so far. As business and government leaders around the... View Details
Keywords: by Lynn Schenk and Danielle Kost
- 08 Mar 2019
- Research & Ideas
Seven Negotiation Lessons from Amazon's HQ Disaster in Queens
them. For transportation and housing advocates, it could point to the $27 billion in taxes it projected to be paying over the next decade and commit to working with elected officials and interest groups to boost the stock of View Details
- 16 Jul 2020
- Research & Ideas
Restaurant Revolution: How the Industry Is Fighting to Stay Alive
does reopening look like and can we afford it? Throughout the crisis, restaurants and regulatory authorities have discussed game plans for reopening. Prominent features of these plans include reconfiguring floor plans to enable physical... View Details
- 10 Oct 2023
- Blog Post
Policy Drivers for Environmental Justice: What Businesses Need to Know
resilience in affordable housing, which falls under Title III (Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs).[22] Affordable housing is geared towards low-income people, a group that is... View Details
- 25 Aug 2022
- News
Up on the Corner
two dilapidated row houses that had been vacant since 1978. She intends to replace them with affordable rental apartments—the opening salvo in an ambitious plan to redevelop West Baltimore Street, whose... View Details
- 01 Aug 1998
- News
Spangler Family Gift Endows New Campus Center
Known as a persistent advocate of affordable higher education for all, Spangler often spoke of the university in familial terms, emphasizing that "no member of the university family should feel deprived of needed resources." Indeed, in... View Details
Keywords: Nancy O. Perry
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Winners & Runners-Up | New Venture Competition
chain, linking consumers with producers affordably and flexibly. Accio Alex Zannos (MBA 2025) Sara Ballantyne (MS/MBA 2025) Business Track Crowd Favorite Streamline and automates the hardware manufacturing process. Social Enterprise... View Details
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Teele Hall | About
Education administrative offices. Formally renamed Teele Hall in 2000 in honor of Dean Stanley F. Teele (1906–1967), the modern brick, concrete, and glass structure was designed by Goody & Clancy and constructed in 1985. The 49,000-square-foot building has five floors... View Details
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HBS Alumni Conference: Accelerating Climate Solutions - Alumni
climate, clean energy, clean cars, and protecting natural resources, most recently as undersecretary of the California Natural Resources Agency (CRNA). Before CNRA, Barranco was chief executive for River LA, deputy chief of staff at the US Department of View Details
- 30 Jul 2007
- Research & Ideas
Repugnant Markets and How They Get That Way
"Kidney exchange is something we have gotten going in New England and elsewhere that doesn't involve any monetary transfers," Roth explains. "It has not aroused any repugnance at all. We've just gotten legislation through the View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 23 Jun 2023
- News
Highlights from the Spring 2023 Alumni Board Meeting
Alumni Board members on campus for their annual spring meeting // Credit: Panfoto Hard work, with humility for humanity, is the spirit that animates Harvard Business School's MBA program today, Matt Weinzierl, Senior Associate Dean and Chair of the MBA Program, told... View Details
- 05 Dec 2016
- Research & Ideas
How The 2016 Presidential Candidates Misled Us With Truthful Statements
Bill Clinton about allegations of his having had an affair with former White House intern Monica Lewinsky. In his answers, the president speaks in the present tense as a way of dodging Lehrer’s questions. Jim Lehrer: “No improper... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 15 Apr 2015
- Research & Ideas
Why Americans Voted for an Income Tax
most from our way of life can afford to give back a little bit more." Like FDR, Obama wants us to see taxes not as a burden to be lamented but as a fair payment for benefits received. And as our society has grown more complex, the... View Details
Keywords: by Matthew C. Weinzierl
- 21 Feb 2023
- Research & Ideas
What's Missing from the Racial Equity Dialogue?
purchase a home than to rent one in 95 percent of America. This one racist policy has led to an affordable housing crisis that impacts most White home buyers today. “I often ask how racism harms those at the... View Details
Keywords: by Danielle Kost