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- 01 Dec 1999
- News
A Class Act
considerations, upon the wonders of the class as a group." That "one direct-mail" opportunity to "wax eloquent" has, half a century later, spawned what we believe to be the largest Class Notes section in any alumni magazine on the planet.... View Details
Keywords: Nancy O. Perry
- 20 Dec 2004
- Research & Ideas
How an Order Views Your Company
similar companies move from segment-and-account or product-and-service-level analysis into the greater detail offered at the order level. By and large, those companies that devoted themselves to the effort were richly rewarded. The order cycle gave them the View Details
Keywords: by Sarah Jane Johnston
- 01 Dec 2002
- News
Bad Times for Business
pay back ill-gotten gains from option exercises that preceded accounting restatements — and longer vesting would be great. Another significant step would be to expense stock options, which would make their costs more evident and more... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 11 Feb 2015
- Research & Ideas
Politicians Benefited From Using Toxic Loans
structured loans usually carry a few years of guaranteed low interest, which allows local governments to reduce the cost of their debt quickly and obviously. But after the honeymoon period, these loans end up carrying highly variable... View Details
- 23 Jun 2014
- Research & Ideas
In Venture Capital, Birds of a Feather Lose Money Together
Unfortunately, that tendency turns out to be bad for business. “At the early stage of a company, you want the people around the table to challenge each other.” In the paper The Cost of Friendship, three Harvard researchers show that the... View Details
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Space, Public And Commercial Economics (SPACE) - Course Catalog
one’s own vision for space and be able to explain why it is worth pursuing. Course Outline Part One: Establish the Market Class session 1: The Inflection Point: Crisis into Opportunity Summary: A new era in how humans interact with space... View Details
- 26 Feb 2021
- News
Latinx on Boards; High-Tech Reforestation
cutting them down.” Working in a test forest site in Western Australia, Maudous says the Lord of the Trees drones can plant more than a million trees—via proprietary seed pods—in just 48 hours, with a success rate of 75%. What’s more, the effective View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 19 May 2003
- Lessons from the Classroom
Business Plan Winner Targets India Dropouts
the rising opportunity cost of staying in school and the perceived lack of economic relevance of staying in school—that fosters as much as a 50 percent dropout rate by Class V. Q: How did your prior business... View Details
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Residential Life | MBA
fees include the cost of utilities at all complexes and Internet in select locations; 24-hour maintenance service is provided. Students and families living in Harvard University Housing have access to the Graduate Commons Program, a... View Details
- 03 Oct 2019
- News
Clubs Convene to Focus on Health Care
public health care, skyrocketing costs of prescription medications, and how AI-assisted personal medicine is coming in the future.” Ahmed says the Cleveland Clinic Canada (CCC) represents one of the growing patient-centric models of care... View Details
- 07 Jul 2020
- Research & Ideas
Market Investors Pay More for Resilient Companies
The steep market drop in the early days of the COVID-19 crisis is being used as a laboratory to study the importance of companies investing in stakeholder relations with their employees, suppliers, and customers, and how those investments could be strategic resources... View Details
- 18 Aug 2014
- News
Closing the Education Gap
guardians, who get paid to learn teaching skills to supplement lessons at home. “Parental involvement is a critical component for the success of this program, and the parent academy was such an eye opener. It gives us the opportunity to... View Details
Keywords: Jill Radsken
- 21 Jul 2009
- First Look
First Look: July 21
slightly for ISO 9001 adopters, although total injury costs did not. These results have implications for organizational theory, managers, and public policy. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/09-018.pdf A Decision-making... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 26 Mar 2025
- Blog Post
How to Approach Your Equity Compensation
ultimately align with your guiding financial priorities. In deciding whether to buy, sell, or hold equity you must consider: Tax and cash flows – Understand the cash outlay (including taxes) required to exercise your equity Opportunity... View Details
- 18 Mar 2014
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First Look: March 18
simplicity of accepting an equal split with the costs of negotiating a differentiated allocation of founder equity. We test the predictions of the theory on a proprietary dataset comprised of 1,476 founders in 511 entrepreneurial... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 17 Oct 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, October 17, 2017
opportunity that's right for you. Entering StartUpLand will guide you as you seek your ideal entry point into this popular, cutting-edge organizational paradigm. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=53337 2017... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 15 Nov 2010
- Lessons from the Classroom
Connecting Goals and Go-To-Market Initiatives
therefore critical to long-term revenue growth for most firms, and poor alignment means both direct and opportunity costs for companies. But it's especially critical for owner-president, privately held, and... View Details
- 31 Jul 2012
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First Look: July 31
PublicationsFinancial Development, Fixed Costs and International Trade Authors:Bo Becker, David Greenberg, and Jinzhu Chen Publication:Review of Corporate Finance Studies (forthcoming) Abstract Exporting firms face significant up-front... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 25 Mar 2013
- Research & Ideas
How Chapter 11 Saved the US Economy
Burnham Lambert's Michael Milken carved out new ways to restructure large amounts of publicly traded debt. Gilson's research suggests that the total costs associated with Milken's method of reorganizing troubled companies were as little... View Details
- 27 Jul 2017
- News
Seeing a Way Forward
are enormous obstacles, with cataract surgery costing between 18,000 to 30,000 pesos (about $1,000–$1,500 USD) in private institutions. Founded in 2011 by engineers Javier Okhuysen and Carlos Orellana, salauno helped more than 150,000... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Myers