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- 01 Oct 1997
- News
Antitrust in Historical Perspective
1890. Most people would like to see business provide good jobs at good wages. Yet, many successful businesses ship their jobs overseas, and some companies that have tried paternalistically to View Details
Keywords: Thomas K. McCraw and Richard S. Tedlow
- 14 Mar 2016
- Research & Ideas
The Surprising Connection between 1930s Weather and Today's Labor Unions
There’s something curious about the labor force in the United States. Identical jobs and industries have become unionized in some states while remaining nonunionized in others. Unionization levels vary greatly from state to state. As of... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- Web
Loan Assistance Programs - Alumni
Loan Reduction for Private Sector Employees HBS offers a loan reduction program for students from the Class of 2024 working in the private sector at jobs that pay significantly below the HBS average. These awards offer a one-time loan... View Details
- 18 Oct 2010
- Lessons from the Classroom
Venture Capital’s Disconnect with Clean Tech
MBA students often fall into one of two categories—those hungry to rush into careers as venture capitalists, and those eager to found a venture-funded start-up. For all of them, Harvard Business School professor Joseph Lassiter has some intriguing advice: Spend a few... View Details
- 01 Mar 2014
- News
3-Minute Briefing: Frank Blethen (PMD 35, 1978)
sister. MY FIRST JOB was as a copyboy in the classified ad department. Our brand-new technology was 60 women on IBM Selectric typewriters. I would go around every few minutes to pick up their copy and take it to the composing room to be... View Details
- 01 Jun 2013
- News
School of Hard Knocks
because of my skin color. Recess was guaranteed torture. It started on my first day of school, when the tribal leader's son punched me in the face. I made the mistake of defending myself and fighting back and actually "won" that fight. No... View Details
- 01 Sep 2004
- News
Home Sweet (Modular) Home
the initial workflow issues have been resolved. On-site finish work turned out to be a major problem. It’s the general contractor’s job to hook up the utilities and finish interior details once Greentech assembles its modular structures.... View Details
- 05 Jun 2015
- Blog Post
The HBS Investment
what I thought it would be. I had a clear bright line in my mind of what the cost would mean to me: a safety net of insurance in the brand name, potentially a better job in three years after graduation, and this supposed network that I... View Details
- 01 Jan 2003
- News
Daniel L. Vasella, M.D.
marketing group, hammering out goals and determining resources, work assignments, measures of success, and even rewards and recognition for a job well done. "It is the only method that works if you want to move in parallel paths and not... View Details
- 01 Oct 2002
- News
Dean Clark on Leadership, Educational Priorities, and Funding the Future
leaders in society, and the ed-ucational priorities that are behind the most ambitious fundraising effort ever undertaken by HBS. Looking back on the past year, the School — like other institutions around the world — faced a number of challenges, including the economic... View Details
- 23 Apr 2008
- Op-Ed
The Gap in the U.S. Treasury Recommendations
firm's actions were threatening the system. A newly formed prudential regulator would regulate financial institutions that had some type of explicit government guarantee such as deposit insurance. In that role it would supersede existing... View Details
- 13 Aug 2020
- Research & Ideas
6 Ways to Support COVID-Weary Employees
working together,” the article says. We talked to the researchers about how organizations can help employees cope with this difficult period—including everything from guaranteeing paid sick leave and gathering staff for virtual happy... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 04 Nov 2016
- News
The Competitiveness of Lost Causes
regulations, in part by helping producers secure public guarantees for financing a $17 million water treatment plant. “That was a success story that saved and created jobs and became the basis of an HBS... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg
- 02 Nov 2020
- Blog Post
2+2 Where Are They Now Spotlight: Tyler Teykl (MBA 2017)
alter your post-undergraduate plans? The 2+2 program didn’t alter my path but allowed me more freedom after Purdue. Having a guaranteed next step provided a safety net that enabled me to more freely choose work assignments that I knew... View Details
- 19 Aug 2021
- News
A Letter to My White Friends and Colleagues
mortgage, there were only five-year mortgages. Therefore mortgages were only for the wealthy. And so the federal government said we want to create a middle class so they went to the banks and they said if you give a mortgage and use this new instrument called a 30-year... View Details
- 21 Dec 2009
- Research & Ideas
Good Banks, Bad Banks, and Government’s Role as Fixer
the largest investors in bonds—banks, insurance companies, and mutual funds—aren't willing to pay because they think they do a much better job than the rating agencies. What I propose is a neutral third-party approach to ratings. The SEC... View Details
- 10 May 2022
- News
Alumni Achievement Awards 2022
having a guaranteed job for life.’ I’d always been intrigued by finance, so I applied to HBS.” Leaps and bounds: “It’s not the only measure to consider, but Medtronic had tremendous growth from 1993 to 2006.... View Details
- 01 Mar 2010
- News
Money Matters
DOWNTIME: Varma and Agarwala take a break. Photographs By Tom Pietrasik Imagine that you’ve quit your high-paying job with a big, prestigious firm to launch a financial advisory service tailored for India’s rapidly growing middle class,... View Details
- 01 Dec 2006
- News
The Hard Way
if her students failed to get jobs, so she immersed herself in their job searches and all but guaranteed their placement. It worked, generating powerful word-of-mouth buzz for her fledgling academy. More... View Details
- 03 Oct 2013
- Research & Ideas
Lehman Brothers Plus Five: Have We Learned from Our Mistakes?
Lehman failure. None of these reforms is perfect, but they are improvements over where we were five years ago. Unfortunately, there are other areas in which we've made little or no progress since 2008. Housing finance is still basically a government program, as the... View Details