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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 per year. I had View Details

01 May 2020
What Do You Think?

Does Remote Work Mix with Organizational Culture?

stimulates them.” She finds it “challenging to implement our ‘flexible’ mindset to our clients’ employees because upper management has not embraced it themselves.” Remote work can help some avoid a toxic culture. Alison Leuders comments, “Reasons why I love it include:... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

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VCPE Database Comparison

black; border-left:1px solid black">Great all-around company database with granular screening criteria. Can also save screens at HBS level to share with... View Details

11 Oct 2006
What Do You Think?

How Do We Respond to the “Dependency Ratio” Dilemma?

a discussion on Accounting for Social Insurance (PV): http://www.fasab.gov/pdffiles/si_newsrelease.pdf Of course, dependency ratios are not reduced without other economic and social effects. For example, to the extent that current consumption is replaced by View Details

Keywords: by Jim Heskett

27 Jun 2011
Research & Ideas

Recovering from the Need to Achieve

that you've chosen family." Jeff found himself feeling more and more guilty when she made these types of observations. She was stating her position more stridently than she had on other occasions; her patience was wearing thin. What View Details

Keywords: by Kim Girard

25 Aug 2003
Research & Ideas

Why IT Does Matter

playing out over the past decade. Our advice to the CEO is to look at IT use through several different lenses. One lens should be focused on improving cost savings and efficiencies. Another should be focused on the incremental improvement... View Details

Keywords: by F. Warren McFarlan & Richard L. Nolan

12 Feb 2021
News

How Dunkin’ Donuts Took Over the World

page turner in terms of how we were going to escape the claws of this hostile predator who in fact, had bought Lincoln Savings in New York and Union Oil in Canada. And within a year or two from the time that we were successful in terms of... View Details

Keywords: brands; leadership; management; strategy; operations; career; Food and Beverage Stores; Retail Trade

Portrait Project

Shardule Shah

in. The lines between parenting and working are increasingly blurred, but I am here for all of it. It took me a while to realize that having kids adds value even in business. I had thought that the guiding light for my biotech startup would be the prospect of View Details

12 Sep 2023
Blog Post

Harvard Climate Entrepreneurs Circle: Taking Climate Solutions from Idea to Action, Faster

the campus as a “living lab,” to lower Harvard’s own environmental footprint. Aatish is not alone. When CarbonRe started in the Climate Circle, they knew they could use AI to help decarbonize heavy industry and save energy, but they were... View Details

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Buy Now, Pay Later: Home Finance

urged prospective home-buyers to save the entire purchase price before acquiring a home. In practice, however, most home-buyers and home-builders after the Civil War got themselves a mortgage—or three or four. By the 1920s, economists... View Details

21 Feb 2005
Op-Ed

Is Business Management a Profession?

looked to a new "profession of business" for nothing less than saving modern, industrial civilization from itself. As the professionalization project that had provided the agenda for American business education from its founding... View Details

Keywords: by Rakesh Khurana, Nitin Nohria & Daniel Penrice

29 Aug 2018
What Do You Think?

What Should Harley-Davidson’s Management Do?

a decision was made to invest about $200 million in a strategy to build motorcycles in Thailand for export to Europe. Annual savings of $65 to $75 million were expected from the move. In part, this decision was prompted by the imposition... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett; Auto

26 Mar 2024
Blog Post

IFC India: Financing the Climate Transition in India

entire fleet to electric (10k+ busses)c. Over a period of 10 years, they will save approximately 6,000 million liters of fuel and reduce CO2 emissions by 6.5 million [metric] tons Takeaways: Operational Model Shift: BEST's shift from a... View Details

11 Mar 2021
News

Leading with Heart

And Aisha unfortunately had the same condition that Tanya did. And then we had to battle like crazy to save her. We had to fly her to the UK. I had only $2,000 in my pocket. Enough to just buy an air ticket, one-way air ticket. I didn't... View Details

24 May 2017
News

David G. Bradley, MBA 1977

time, print media was rapidly losing ground to its electronic competition, but Bradley was undeterred. “The happiest day of Mort Zuckerman’s career was the day I bought the Atlantic from him,” says Bradley with a laugh, noting that he was determined to View Details

Keywords: Susan Young

06 Jan 2021
Blog Post

My HBS Student Loan Story: Gorick Ng (MBA 2018)

consulting for two years prior to coming to HBS. Growing up in a family that prioritized saving for a rainy day, I had been contributing as much as I could to retirement savings. I was relieved to find that doing so would not hurt my... View Details

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Research - Health Care

save the life of her seven-year-old daughter, Jenesis, who was diagnosed with a terminal illness called Pulmonary Arterial Hypertension (PAH). At... November 2024 Article The Health Costs of Cost Sharing By: Amitabh Chandra , Evan Flack... View Details

Portrait Project

Arpit Agrawal

did not care. I just wanted to play. I just wanted my shot in this major league of teenagers. They agreed. In the next one hour, I gave it everything I had. I chased every ball down. I dived to save every run. I did everything to help my... View Details

01 Dec 2022
News

Singing to the Corn

new application of technology, he set his sights on winning it—and did. “AutoCAD had been around, but it wasn’t being used at Bath Iron Works,” he recalls. “I ran the numbers on the cost savings and—lo and behold—won the award. Management... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; photographed by Vance Jacobs; Agriculture

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HBS - Financials | Supplemental Financial Information

million, down 28 percent from the prior year. This amounted to 9 percent of the School's total operating costs in both fiscal years. As with other line items on the income statement, the reduction in on-campus activity due to COVID-19 resulted in significant View Details

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