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- 21 May 2015
- Blog Post
3 Ways to Fund Your HBS MBA
out FinAid and Fastweb, both of which have extensive scholarship directories. You can receive up to $10,000 per year in external funding before HBS adjusts the amount of your need-based fellowship. Loans A certain level of educational... View Details
- 25 May 2021
- Research & Ideas
White Airbnb Hosts Earn More. Can AI Shrink the Racial Gap?
White people who host rental properties on Airbnb earn significantly more per year than Black hosts, but a “race blind” pricing algorithm could help close that income gap, new research shows. Black hosts who rely on Airbnb’s algorithm to set enticing prices instead of... View Details
- 20 Dec 2010
- Research & Ideas
Panama Canal: Troubled History, Astounding Turnaround
cost. By 1940, America's national income was around 4 percent higher than it would have been without the canal—a very large gain from a single infrastructure project. Moreover, by keeping the Panama Canal in American hands, the United States ensured that transit View Details
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This lists media reports covering my firm dollarDEX Investments or me (or my colleagues), or columns written by me (or my colleagues). There are all... View Details
- 01 Sep 2023
- News
Case Study: The Home Team
Illustration by Jon Krause Illustration by Jon Krause Brendan Kennealey (MBA 2006) wasn’t even searching for a business idea. A couple of years ago, the Wilmington, Delaware, native met up with an old friend who’d bought a new house. Over dinner this friend enumerated... View Details
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Impact of the New Medium - Edwin H. Land & Polaroid | Harvard Business School
Kendall Square and, to his dismay, laying off hundreds of workers due to the post-war slump. "Everyone left at Polaroid knew that, at the present rate of decline, the business, the company, and their jobs might not survive 1947 or the... View Details
- 24 Feb 2021
- Blog Post
My HBS Student Loan Story: Les Williams (MBA 2005)
strategy? Over the last 15 years I have worked in technology, real estate development, and entrepreneurship. During that time my compensation has varied, and I have adjusted my loan repayment accordingly. I just finished paying off my... View Details
- 01 Oct 1999
- News
Banking on Success
just hope that things develop as well as everybody's projecting them to. Otherwise, the valuation adjustment could be quite harsh. Is there anything that you've missed out on because of the demands of your career? When you're fully... View Details
Keywords: Deborah E. Blagg
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HBS - Financials | Supplemental Financial Information
utilization of a payout formula means that the annual payout rate is generally lower following years of relatively high investment returns, as was the case in fiscal 2022, and higher following years of lower investment returns. View Details
- 20 Jan 2022
- Op-Ed
3 Steps to Help Companies Rebuild Trust During the Pandemic
Professor Julian Zlatev found that verbally acknowledging other people’s emotions, particularly their negative ones, builds trust. In one of the studies, participants who commented on negative emotions were rated up to 20 percent more... View Details
Keywords: by Sandra J. Sucher and Shalene Gupta
- 12 Oct 2011
- First Look
First Look: October 12
the service and retail sectors. But target firms also create more new jobs at new establishments, and they acquire and divest establishments more rapidly. When we consider these additional adjustment margins, net relative job losses at... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 11 May 2009
- Research & Ideas
The IT Leader’s Hero Quest
thought would be short-lived. But when we looked at the turnover rates again a few years later, we discovered the rate was about the same, but the driving cause was more than just the rapid change in IT: It... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 03 Dec 2020
- Research & Ideas
Cut Payroll Costs with Transparency, Fairness, and Compassion
were instituted, the company’s most productive salespeople left the firm at a significantly higher rate (28 percent) than other agents. The result was a 6 percent sales decline. However, among those who stayed, their workloads did not... View Details
Keywords: by Boris Groysberg and Sarah Abbott
- 27 Jun 2011
- Research & Ideas
Recovering from the Need to Achieve
close friends where phones and PDA's are off limits. "When we're secure in the relationships that matter most," DeLong writes, "it's far easier to take chances at work, to embrace new experiences, to tackle challenging assignments, to View Details
Keywords: by Kim Girard
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HBS - Financials | Supplemental Financial Information
basis points from the prior year. Using the payout formula means that the annual payout rate is generally lower following years of high investment returns and higher following years of lower investment returns. View Details
- 20 Oct 2010
- Op-Ed
Export Competitiveness: Reversing the Logic
surpluses/deficit on a sustained basis if normal adjustments through exchange rate movements work sluggish. This is a possibility that has become very real over the last few years. Export-oriented countries... View Details
Keywords: by Christian Ketels
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HBS - Financials | Supplemental Financial Information
to $184 million, amounting to 23 percent of total revenue. In any given year, the change in the endowment distribution is governed by three factors: a specified rate increase set by the University, which in fiscal 2021 was 2.5 percent;... View Details
- 18 Jul 2019
- Lessons from the Classroom
The Internet of Things Needs a Business Model. Here It Is
says, companies need to be clear about what they offer customers, and be prepared to pursue innovative business models to monetize it. Oftentimes, it’s not immediately obvious how connected devices can help make a customer more efficient. “A company may have a defect... View Details
- 09 Aug 2021
- Research & Ideas
OneTen: Creating a New Pathway for Black Talent
instruction, putting them significantly behind Hispanics (21 percent) and whites (38 percent). With significantly less support than white children, Black students go on to complete four-year programs at public institutions at a slower View Details
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Frequently Asked Questions | HBS Online
colleagues’ ratings will be kept confidential and anonymous. The goal of this 360° assessment—and one of Leadership Principles’ primary learning objectives—is to help you gain greater self-awareness and insight into how peers and direct... View Details