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Policies | Baker Library
guidelines on accessibility set out by Harvard's University Disability Resources . Animals Per HBS Policy (HBS login required), only service animals are allowed inside HBS facilities, including Baker Library. Pets and emotional support... View Details
- 01 Jun 2020
- What Do You Think?
Will Challenged Amazon Tweak Its Retail Model Post-Pandemic?
(as of the end of 2019), pay $119 per year for Prime membership’s free and rapid delivery and then proceed to spend an estimated $1,400 per year for merchandise and services. (Think of it; that’s a locked-in... View Details
- 17 Sep 2024
- Research & Ideas
Advice for the New CEO: Talk to Your Employees Early and Often
transition. The researchers examined data during the months before and after the CEO change, including the average number of: Meetings employees attended Attendees per meeting Internal emails Recipients per... View Details
Keywords: by Ami Albernaz
- 26 Mar 2012
- Research & Ideas
What Neuroscience Tells Us About Consumer Desire
electrical current, they pressed the lever over and over again, hundreds of times per hour, foregoing food or sleep, until many of them dropped dead from exhaustion. Further research found pleasure centers exist in human brains, too.... View Details
- 12 Sep 2024
- Blog Post
Amager Bakke: I Like This Waste Incinerator in My Backyard!
and lift the waste into the incinerator. The two incinerators can process up to 42 tons per hour at temperatures as high as 1,100°C (2000°F). The exhaust stream reaches twin boilers which produce high pressure steam. The steam powers a... View Details
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Awards | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School
All requests will be reviewed on a case-by-case basis. Honorarium, gifts, or financial incentive payments are not eligible for grant funding (including gift certificates, chocolates, etc.). Meals, per diems, and stipends are not eligible... View Details
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Scaling Technology Ventures - Course Catalog
Launching Technology Ventures (LTV), though there is little if any overlap between the two courses. Enrollment in STV is limited to 70 students per section. Course Content Through case discussions and dialogue with company founders, STV... View Details
- 01 Dec 2022
- News
Flying High
$3,800 per person, about twice the cost of a nonstop first-class ticket. Aero took off in the summer of 2020, when the pandemic had reduced expected global passenger airline traffic by some 60 percent. Subramanian thinks it was the... View Details
Keywords: April White; aviation; airlines; entrepreneurship; leadership; innovation; Air Transportation; Transportation
- 25 Apr 2016
- News
Trail Blazer
BC; Lucerne, Switzerland. It’s a way to see where we are. I couldn’t understand why we didn’t have a bike trail in Napa.” The push for a cycles-only pathway had been attempted before, in part because Napa has the ninth-highest bicycle accident rate View Details
- 01 Sep 2009
- News
Ready for Launch
lights and other electrical devices for three days before it’s swapped out for one that has been recharged. Customers pay a yearly subscription fee per battery and a small fee for each recharge. What comes next: On-the-ground research in... View Details
- 05 Nov 2013
- News
Start-Ups Get a Start in New Orleans
a per capita basis—and there's no indication that has stopped. What's attracted them? "It is a very easy city in which to adopt new approaches," says Wilkins. "It's a very open city in which to take a risk. That's not often the case. It's... View Details
- 05 Sep 2017
- News
Living the Quantitative Life
got older, he turned that hunt inward, started using a simple spreadsheet to manually track his behavior, keeping tabs on the amount of time spent exercising, sleeping, commuting, gradually expanding into include everything from his car's average miles View Details
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RISE Fellowship | MBA
RISE Fellowship Additional Harvard Funding The Recognizing Individuals Seeking Equity (RISE) Fellowship awards $10,000 per year to up to twenty MBA candidates in each class who demonstrated exemplary commitment to serving under-resourced... View Details
- 16 Oct 2012
- First Look
First Look: October 16
purchased by an employee. Subanalyses tracked beverage purchases, including calories and price per beverage. Results: Employees self-identified as white (73%); black (10%); Latino (7%); and Asian (10%). Compared to white employees, Latino... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 14 Oct 2009
- First Look
First Look: October 14
fiscal and risk premium data for Brazil states between 1891 and 1930 to show that Brazilian states with natural endowments that were allowed to export commodities high in demand (e.g., rubber and coffee) ended up having higher revenues View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 30 Jun 2014
- Blog Post
Cambridge to Nairobi
African innovation and tech startups. With so much economic growth in Africa, a rising Kenyan middle class, and staggering levels of internet and mobile phone penetration relative to GDP per person (this is after all, the country that... View Details
- 03 Dec 2015
- Op-Ed
How "New Nuclear" Power Could Save the Planet—If Regulators Would Allow It
technology-ready by investors by 2023. “New nuclear” power must be cheaper than coal for the developing world’s national utilities (less than $0.05 per kilowatt hour) by 2025. ”New nuclear” must be as deployable at the same rate as coal... View Details
- 20 Feb 2025
- Blog Post
IFC India 2025: Building Resilience - Mumbai’s Journey to Sustainable Water Management
challenges. Water Treatment Plant Visit During our visit to the city’s water treatment plant, we were struck by the scale and complexity of Mumbai’s water management system. The facility currently processes 2,800 mega liters of water per... View Details
- 02 Sep 2015
- Research & Ideas
Explaining China's Crash
30 years by growing consistently at 10 percent per year or more, lifting hundreds of millions out of poverty. It has gone from almost nowhere to being the second-biggest economy, contributing 15 percent to the global GDP and 25 percent to... View Details
- 01 Mar 2011
- News
Two Kinds of Green
factory floor workers, that cut energy per unit of lip balm produced by 40 percent); “Dumpster dives” that bring employees face-to-face with the trash they throw away; and reimbursement for employees who buy and ride their bike to work at... View Details