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01 Sep 2006
News

Sorry, We’re All Out of Chilean Sea Bass

KNECHT: Save our dwindling fish stocks. PHOTO COURTESY MARION ETTLINGER May I take your order? One Patagonian toothfish, please. If that doesn’t sound appetizing, how about Chilean sea bass — what the fish was renamed to appeal to... View Details

Keywords: Lewis I. Rice; Fishing, Hunting and Trapping; Agriculture

04 Sep 2019
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Impact: Where Science and Business Intersect

University. Indeed, HBS is catalyzing the development of discoveries and enterprises that will benefit society. Annual giving to the HBS Fund by alumni and friends makes this possible. Advancing Diagnostics that Can Save Lives Predicting... View Details

01 Sep 2007
News

To The Rescue

access to immediate help in the event of a medical, police, or fire emergency. RAJU’S BRAINCHILD: In just two years, EMRI’s ambulances have delivered life-saving medical service to more than 11,000 people in the state of Andhra Pradesh. Raju’s goal is to expand the... View Details

Keywords: Garrett M. Graff; emergency response networks; Ambulatory Health Care Services; Health, Social Assistance; Telecommunications; Information

01 Sep 2006
News

Innovative Loan Fund Yields Big Returns

period projected at five years or less. Any Harvard unit or department may apply for the interest-free loans, which are repaid out of the savings generated by reductions in energy consumption, utility usage, and waste removal. HBS was one... View Details

Keywords: Paul Massari; Construction of Buildings; Construction; Business Schools & Computer & Management Training; Educational Services

14 May 2013
Blog Post

“What does it take for us to support our beliefs?” – Johnny Bowman

it takes to get supporters to act on their beliefs. Just as important, I learned of the many significant barriers that prevent us from actively supporting the issues we care most about. As deep as our beliefs may run on saving our... View Details

Keywords: Technology

17 Oct 2014
Research & Ideas

New Treasury Rules Help Long-Retirement Planning

recommended that workers use all their retirement savings to buy life annuities in order to avoid outliving their savings. Nevertheless, few workers want to put their whole retirement nest egg into a life annuity. Why? In one word,... View Details

Keywords: by Robert Pozen; Financial Services

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The Effect of Dividends on Consumption

By: Malcolm Baker, Stefan Nagel and Jeffrey Wurgler

Classical models predict that the division of stock returns into dividends and capital appreciation does not affect investor consumption patterns, while mental accounting and other economic frictions predict that investors have a higher propensity to consume from... View Details

Keywords: Investment; Investment Return; Economics; Stocks; Capital; Business Earnings; Investment Portfolio; Investment Funds; Cost; Saving

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Finding Historical Financial Statements with Compustat

feature in the Code Lookup window) Click Submit Query Data Request Summary window will open Right mouse click on the highlighted file name Choose Save Target As option Save as a .xls file to your computer Open file in... View Details

01 Jun 2009
News

Setting the Legislative Agenda

diplomatic priority. Plan for the next crisis. “Americans have paid dearly for this latest crisis,” the report concluded. “Lost jobs, failed businesses, foreclosed homes, and sharply cut retirement savings have touched people all across... View Details

Keywords: Credit Intermediation and Related Activities; Finance; Administration of Economic Programs; Government

01 Dec 2008
News

What Went Wrong?

from securing mortgages to saving for kids’ college tuition and retirement. But the country’s current financial crisis really threw me for a loop. Beginning last spring, with the demise of Bear Stearns, the steady drip, drip, drip of bad... View Details

Keywords: Roger Thompson; Finance

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Executive Education & Fellows In person access only HBS Alumni In person access only Harvard Faculty, Students, and Staff Remote access available Visitors In person access only Additional Information Sign in as a guest or create an account to View Details

25 Mar 2008
News

Whistling Past the Graveyard

power have been virtually stagnant for decades. Two incomes are required where one used to suffice. Jobs and entire industries have gone overseas. The trade deficit has grown enormously. Tax codes have become skewed to the very wealthy. People have no View Details

Keywords: Securities, Commodities, and Other Financial Investments; Finance

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Company, topic, & industry alerts

innovative products and services. Distributed biweekly each semester. ABI/Inform: Run a search on the company, topic, or industry of interest. Click Save search/alert., then click Create alert (upper right, above the... View Details

18 Oct 2024
Blog Post

The Benefits of Living in a Dorm at HBS

is happening. Most HBS students have internships between their first and second years. Not knowing where I was going to spend my summer when I started school (spoiler that I went back to Los Angeles), I didn’t want to be locked into a year-long lease and need to find a... View Details

25 Aug 2014
Blog Post

Working in Tech 4Dev

and NGO budgets are squeezed. The City of Los Angeles, for example, used our platform to crowdsource broken sidewalk locations for repair, saving the city a costly location survey estimated at millions. Ushahidid’s platform provides ease... View Details

Keywords: Technology

10 Jan 2017
News

Sir David Clementi Named BBC Chairman

broadcaster be run by an external board rather than the BBC Trust, which currently governs the organization. Analysis from a BBC media editor notes some of the challenges Clementi will face in the new role: Foremost is funding. The BBC needs to find hundreds of... View Details

Keywords: Arts, Entertainment

24 Apr 2014
News

Providing lessons in financial literacy

and personal finance curriculum to 5 million students. “It’s not just that (they) should save money. It’s about learning to make informed decisions, such as ‘should I go to college?’ And what are the tradeoffs for those decisions?” says... View Details

24–26 Aug 2016
Reunion

HBS Executive Education Global Alumni Leadership Summit

This special two-day summit is designed exclusively for members of our HBS alumni community. We hope that you will take part in the global conversation, and look forward to welcoming you back on campus for the celebration. View Details

01 Dec 2019
News

Accelerating a Gas-on-demand Startup

customer delivered pizzas. “If you can save me 20 minutes,” he told Frist, “you are saving me money.” Yoshi estimates that it can return 30 hours a year to the average car owner. Today, president and COO... View Details

Keywords: April White; startups; on-demand economy; entrepreneurship; Personal Services

01 Dec 2014
News

Opportunities Realized Through Fellowships

Michailidis says. “I studied with incredibly competent people and two of them became my business partners. We founded Pushpins while we were still at HBS.” The Pushpins application enables users to scan items in grocery stores and receive instant View Details

Keywords: fellowships

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