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K–12 Education | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School

completed together in any order to earn a comprehensive certificate. Public Education Leadership Project (PELP) Summer Institute Taught by a team of faculty members from Harvard Business School, Harvard Graduate School of Education, and... View Details

12 Oct 2022
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When Design Enables Discrimination: Learning from Anti-Asian Bias on Airbnb

income for many people. During 2021, as travel resumed, Airbnb hosts collectively earned $34 billion across 6 million active listings. One possible reason that Airbnb prominently features the names and faces of hosts on its site is to... View Details

Keywords: by Pamela Reynolds; Technology; Travel

13 Nov 2017
Research & Ideas

Want to Be Happier? Spend Some Money on Avoiding Household Chores

makes us happier. To begin their study, the researchers asked more than 6,000 people in North America and Europe, who earned a variety of incomes, whether they spent money on time-saving services. On both continents, those who outsourced... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman

March 2024
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Hippo: Weathering the Storm of the Home Insurance Crisis

By: Lauren Cohen, Grace Headinger and Sophia Pan

Rick McCathron, CEO of Hippo, considered how the firm’s underwriting model could account for the effects of climate change. Along with providing smart home packages, targeting risk-friendly customers, and using data-driven pricing, the Insurtech used technologically... View Details

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01 Oct 1996
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Mastering the Competition — Michael E. Porter (MBA 1971)

New Jersey, Porter earned all-state honors in football and baseball. He also taught himself golf well enough to eventually win a place on the 1968 NCAA All-American golf team while an undergraduate at Princeton, where he also View Details

Keywords: James E. Aisner

05 Sep 2014
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Keeping Education in Check

to the 6th century Why? In short, says Berman, the 1,500-year-old game makes kids smarter. (Berman’s own oldest son is ranked No. 11 in the country for his age group and his 6-year-old recently earned the No. 3 spot among kindergartners.... View Details

Keywords: Maureen Harmon

06 Sep 2004
Research & Ideas

The Innovator’s Battle Plan

them to earn premium prices by reaching undershot customers. They view flight as a positive development. When there are large groups of undershot customers in the higher tiers of a market, incumbents can beat a long and profitable... View Details

Keywords: by Clayton M. Christensen, Scott D. Anthony & Erik A. Roth

23 May 2023
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Lessons on Life, Graffiti, and Value: 'It's in That Darkness That You Can Actually Develop and Evolve'

name is REVOK. “James would often have an outrageous means of approaching the situation that didn’t immediately seem obvious and sometimes you thought was a little bit crazy,” said Williams, now a Detroit-based painter. “But based on past experiences with him and this... View Details

Keywords: by Christina Pazzanese, Harvard Gazette

01 Nov 2019
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Should Non-Compete Clauses Be Abolished?

restrict an employee’s upward mobility and reduce wage and benefits competition among employers. According to statistics cited by the US Senate Committee on Small Business and Entrepreneurship, 12 percent of workers earning less than... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

25 Jan 2023
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The Road to the C-Suite, with Citi CFO Mark Mason

In January, Mark Mason (MBA 1995) was named to the 2022 Forbes CEO Next list, an annual list of 50 executives who are likely to lead some of America’s largest companies. Mason sat down for an interview with Diane Brady for an installment of “The C-Suite Interview,”... View Details

Keywords: Management of Companies and Enterprises; Management

02 Dec 2019
News

Championing the HBS Fund

University more broadly. The pair’s long-standing enthusiasm for Harvard began when they both attended Harvard College and then earned graduate degrees from the University. They even timed it so that they would graduate together— Dosiou... View Details

Keywords: Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

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Bringing a Taste of Japan to the World - Global Activities 2020

help with tuition and other expenses. He notes that the Japan Fellowship, which is supported by alumni in the HBS Club of Japan, “enabled me to be inspired by a new possibility without the concern of heavy student debt.” He explored that possibility full tilt while... View Details

25 Oct 2022
Research & Ideas

Is Baseball Ready to Compete for the Next Generation of Fans?

character of the game. If a batter is good enough, he will find a way to hit around a shift. It’s up to each batter to earn his own hits. That idea is basically inflating batting averages artificially. Separately, the more balanced... View Details

Keywords: by Christina Pazzanese, Harvard Gazette; Media & Broadcasting; Sports

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Augustine Heard & Co.: Building a Family Business - A Chronicle of the China Trade

merchant active in the West Indies. He attended Phillips Exeter Academy in New Hampshire, but never graduated. At at young age Heard became captain of his own brig. He traveled to ports as far-flung as Rio de Janeiro, Liverpool, and Canton, battling weather, disease,... View Details

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HBS - Financials | Supplemental Financial Information

Activity & Cash Flows Consolidated Balance Sheet Supplemental Financial Information Supplemental Financial Information Revenues HBS funds its operations with cash from three primary sources: MBA tuition and fees; earned income from... View Details

19 May 2021
Op-Ed

Why America Needs a Better Bridge Between School and Career

American Jobs Plan promotes significant new investments in training. Policymakers and educators should seize the opportunity to use the funding for programs that braid education with work experience, especially those where people can learn and View Details

Keywords: by Joseph B. Fuller and Rachel Lipson

01 Sep 2023
News

End Game

Illustration by James Steinberg In the 1960s and 1970s, as the environmental movement dawned in the United States, a new generation of activist-minded entrepreneurs appeared. Among them were companies like Body Shop, Aveda, Tom’s of Maine, and Whole Foods—all founded... View Details

Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint; Miscellaneous Store Retailers; Retail Trade

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Faculty - Race, Gender & Equity

Business Administration Ashley Whillans is the Volpert Family Associate Professor of Business Administration at the Harvard Business School, where she teaches the Motivation and Incentives course to MBA students. Professor Whillans earned... View Details

23 Oct 2013
Research & Ideas

Overcoming Nervous Nelly

instance. In buying a house or a car, a disparity in knowledge can cause purchasers to feel anxious over bargaining for the best price. In the study Can Nervous Nelly Negotiate? How Anxiety Causes Negotiators to Make Low Frst Offers, Exit Early, and View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

18 Dec 2017
Op-Ed

Why Employers Must Stop Requiring College Degrees For Middle-Skill Jobs

Credit: Pixsooz American companies have a problem. Over the past decade, they have begun to demand a bachelor’s degree in hiring workers for jobs that traditionally haven’t required one. This uptick in credentialing, or “degree inflation,” rested on the belief that... View Details

Keywords: by Joseph Fuller

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