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1.10 Cross-Registration | MBA
other family members are not eligible for cross-registration at HBS Number of Credits Permitted Per Term Cross-registrants are limited to the equivalent of 6 HBS credits per term in any combination of long... View Details
- 01 Mar 2015
- News
Fıelds of Gold
elsewhere, obscuring its source and often producing a lower-quality product. The wholesaler sells the packaged saffron to a distributor. The distributor sells it to a retailer. The retailer sells it to the consumer. Retail price: Average of $13–$17 View Details
William L. Clayton
In 1916, Clayton moved Anderson, Clayton and Company’s headquarters to Houston, Texas, where he grew the company into the world’s largest cotton trading organization. During World War I, the firm handled 1 million bales of cotton a year. By World War II, the firm was... View Details
Keywords: Agriculture & Mining
- 01 Sep 2006
- News
Innovative Loan Fund Yields Big Returns
by over 2.7 million pounds per year. That’s equivalent to taking 265 cars off the road for one year, saving 139,000 gallons of gasoline or 2,848 barrels of oil. For Harvard as a whole, loan-fund projects have yielded an average 25 percent... View Details
- 31 Mar 2011
- News
Building an Online Swap Shop
reported (December 18, 2010), prompting thredUP to launch the new exchange. thredUP’s 50,000 registered users swap more than 1,000 boxes of clothes a week. Buyers pay $5 plus shipping per box. Since it’s a swap service, users must send as... View Details
Charles F. Knight
produced 41 consecutive years of increased earnings and earnings per share and 42 consecutive years of increased dividends - both unparalleled among U.S. industrial manufacturers. View Details
Keywords: Fabricated Goods
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Advertising expenditures & budgets
HF5804 .S73 in the Stamps Reading Room Annual listing of companies that spend $200,000+ on advertising per year. Contains company contacts, products, advertising budgets & expenditures, and key personnel. View Details
- 01 Dec 2006
- News
Last Look
on banjo, and MBA ’56 classmates Larry McNichols on trombone, Vernon Johnson on clarinet, Jack Brown on trumpet, and John Eresian on piano. Eresian also recognizes his wife, Van Schlegel (Wellesley ’54), at left, with a scarf in her hair. Pogue recalls that the band... View Details
- 01 Mar 2007
- News
Letters to the Editor
there was a marsh being filled in. That was our ice-skating area. Units in the project rented for $35 a month and consisted of a combination kitchen-dining area, two little bedrooms, a separate living room, and a bath. There were six units View Details
- 01 Jun 2018
- News
Action Plan: Horse Sense
numbers game,” says Finley, who buys 30 to 40 horses annually at an average cost of $200,000 per animal. “Keep in mind that these horses are 18 months old or thereabouts. They’ve never had a saddle on their back, and all you get to do is... View Details
Frank A. Seiberling
a profit, but after Seiberling hired an astute MIT engineer and poured money into product development, Goodyear was producing about 40,000 tires per day and had revenues of $205 million. View Details
Keywords: Automotive & Aerospace
Stanley C. Gault
generated a 4-fold increase in revenues and a 6-fold increase in profitability. While he stripped weak product lines and slashed excess cost, he invested in new product development – generating over 100 new items per year. View Details
Keywords: Fabricated Goods
Jean Paul Getty
billion in 1967. In 1949, the daring Getty paid $9.5 million for a sixty-year concession in Saudi Arabia’s half of the neutral barren tract lying between Saudi Arabia and Kuwait. After an initial investment of $30 million, Getty’s speculation paid off. He found... View Details
Keywords: Utilities & Energy
Henry Ford II
When Ford took over Ford Motor in 1945, the company was losing $9.5 million per month. Ford implemented an audit system for the company, while automating company plants. As a result of Ford’s leadership, the Ford Motor Company boasted net... View Details
Keywords: Automotive & Aerospace
- 21 Sep 2011
- Research & Ideas
Gender and Competition: What Companies Need to Know
it came down to money. In previous studies, Fletcher says, participants were offered a higher pay rate per correct answer in the competitive scenario, so it's possible that men respond more to higher pay rates than do women. Societal... View Details
Keywords: by Kim Girard
- 26 Oct 2017
- News
Can Farming Save the Planet?
According to a report from the University of California Berkeley, “Current carbon sequestration in US cropland soils is only 8.4 million metric tons CO2 Eq. per year, compared to an annual potential of 100 million.” Practices like organic... View Details
- 07 Oct 2013
- Research & Ideas
The Case for Combating Climate Change with Nuclear Power and Fracking
If you ask any given environmentalist to identify the biggest threat to the planet, you may expect to hear about man-made climate change, consumerism, or overpopulation. But if you ask Harvard Business School's Joseph B. Lassiter, he'll toss in another: single-issue... View Details
- 27 Jul 2022
- News
High Flyer
planted on the ground. Alejandro Montagna (MBA 1996) is a different case entirely. As a skydiver and extreme wingsuit pilot, relaxation for him means traveling at speeds in excess of 170 miles per hour while thousands of feet in the air.... View Details
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Class Profile | MBA
select more than one race and/or ethnicity. The racial and ethnic categories listed here reflect those included in our application process, per federal guidelines. *US race / ethnicity enrollment shown as a percent of US citizens and... View Details
- 26 Aug 2009
- Op-Ed
Where Cash for Clunkers Ran Off the Road
standpoint. Whatever the mpg improvement of the new car over the clunker, premature scrapping of functioning vehicles is hardly a contribution to environmental sustainability. In addition, C4C buyers may well drive their higher mpg cars more miles View Details