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- 07 Apr 2023
- Research & Ideas
When Celebrity ‘Crypto-Influencers’ Rake in Cash, Investors Lose Big
should just hold steady—this thing will eventually skyrocket,” Pacelli says. “So, it could be the case that these influencers are just part of that community, and they really believe it’s going to go up forever. It could also be the case...
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by Kristen Senz
- 02 Sep 2020
- Blog Post
My MBAid Story: Christine Keung (MBA 2020)
Christine Keung (MBA 2020) shares how scholarships enabled her to explore, grow, and earn an education that far exceeded her childhood imagination—taking her from Wellesley College to the US Department of State as a Fulbright Scholar to Silicon Valley to HBS. Keung...
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- 24 May 2021
- Op-Ed
Can Fabric Waste Become Fashion’s Resource?
COVID-19 has broken fashion’s supply chain. As a result, an already wasteful industry has become more wasteful. Even before the pandemic, the global apparel industry was producing about 92 million tons of textile waste a year. That’s about one garbage truck’s worth of...
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- 30 Apr 2020
- Book
Fighting Climate Change Requires a New Capitalism
Rebecca Henderson spent her young adult years living two lives. At work, she preached the risks of resisting change to MBA students at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, drawing on lessons she learned while watching factories close as a management consultant....
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Domestic Students - MBA
interest rate and payments can go up over time (although some lenders now offer variable and fixed rates for students). Private student loans may be a good option if you have an excellent credit history and plan to pay off your loans...
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- 15 Oct 2020
- Research & Ideas
IT Job Wages Are No Longer 'Exceptional'
including two economic recessions. Smaller cities and rural areas were excluded because of missing data for at least one year during this time period. Using data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics, Greenstein and Cao parsed both the...
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- 18 Feb 2021
- Blog Post
SIPs in 2021
The fourth year of Harvard Business School’s Short Intensive Programs (SIPs) came during a month of national upheaval and under the ever-darkening cloud of the global pandemic. So perhaps it shouldn’t be surprising that one course, held...
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- 21 Jun 2022
- HBS Case
Free Isn’t Always Better: How Slack Holds Its Own Against Microsoft Teams
When COVID-19 forced companies to send employees home two years ago, newly remote workers largely reconnected on two collaboration apps: Slack and Microsoft Teams. The pandemic propelled Slack beyond its core following in the technology...
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- 28 Nov 2018
- HBS Case
On Target: Rethinking the Retail Website
jimkruger In the mid-1990s, Target was a discount superstore behemoth. The retailer had set itself apart from chief rival Walmart with a focus on more upscale but wallet-friendly fashion and lifestyle lines, spurring double-digit growth by double-digits each View Details
- 25 Jun 2024
- Research & Ideas
How Transparency Sped Innovation in a $13 Billion Wireless Sector
firms and key component suppliers. To create an unusually detailed supply chain, they observed about 4,700 interactions among the firms. “We were looking at a very specific product that didn't even exist 30 years ago,” Greenstein says of...
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- 20 Dec 2010
- Research & Ideas
Panama Canal: Troubled History, Astounding Turnaround
led you to write the book? Noel Maurer: The idea of the book grew out of two conundrums. First, why wasn't Panama richer in 1999, after [nearly] 100 years of the Panama Canal? After all, the United States and Panama were joined at the hip...
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C. Roland Christensen - Christensen Center for Teaching & Learning
grew up in Iowa City, where his father was a professor of history at the University of Iowa. His mother taught at a small college in Des Moines after beginning her career in a one-room schoolhouse. Conversations at lunch and dinner...
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- 25 Apr 2024
- News
Origin Stories
Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Dan Morrell: Hi, this is Dan Morrell, host of Skydeck. Where we come from and how we were raised has a profound effect on who we become. The recipients of this year’s Alumni Achievement Award grew up...
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- 01 Sep 2023
- News
Elevator Pitch: Standard of Care
Illustration by Drue Wagner Mike H. M. Teodorescu (DBA 2018) CEO, SurgiBox Dan Brown (DBA 2019) CFO Concept: Founded in the wake of Haiti’s 2010 earthquake, SurgiBox’s lead product is a portable operating room that fits into a backpack and runs on a rechargeable...
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- 10 Dec 2014
- Research & Ideas
Minimum Wage Debate Is Really About Social Values
Suddenly, the minimum wage debate is on high boil. Perhaps spurred by growing concern over wealth inequality, minimum wage proposals are heating heat up in cities from Chicago to Albany, and in states from South Carolina to Florida....
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- 08 Feb 2022
- Research & Ideas
Silos That Work: How the Pandemic Changed the Way We Collaborate
Employers were so impressed with how smoothly their employees handled remote work during the dramatic lockdowns in the first year of the COVID-19 pandemic that many are going permanently remote, ditching expensive office leases and...
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by Jay Fitzgerald
- 21 Sep 2020
- Research & Ideas
Are You Sabotaging Your Own Company?
than creating an unpleasant situation among one’s fellow workers, engaging in bickering, or displaying surliness and stupidity.” The manual provides several other tips for stirring up “general interference with organizations and...
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by Dina Gerdeman
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African American Student Union Spotlight on Joint Degrees - MBA
Blog Blog MBA Voices Filter Results Arrow Down Arrow Up Read posts from Author Alumni Author Career and Professional Development Staff Author HBS Community Author HBS Faculty Author MBA Admissions Author MBA Students Topics Topics 1st...
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- 12 Mar 2021
- News
My Favorite Case
children are eating with my housekeeper.” I quit the next day and left to start my own small business, because I wanted to enjoy growing up with my children. I kept thinking, they are going to be 8 and 4 for only one year, and I need to...
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- 12 May 2023
- Blog Post
Independent Project: The Rise of Electric Heat Pumps
years as a call to action for consumers to take charge and switch to a 100% electric platform as a pathway to decarbonization. Electric heat pumps are appliances that use an electrical input to move heat between the air inside and outside...
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