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Raymond Hwang

same interests that brought you to HBS will lead you to opportunities where that knowledge will be useful.” In an alternate universe, Harvard and MIT are playing against each other in football. Who do you root for [Hwang also holds... View Details

Keywords: Services; Entrepreneurship; Health Care

02 Dec 2018
News

An Investor’s Guide to Climate Change: Risks and Opportunities

sequestration, grasslands, and the food and agricultural sector. Audience members also contributed climate-smart investment advice, ranging from the role of bicycles in cities to alternatives to plastic and “single-use stuff.” More... View Details

Keywords: Allison Webster; Electric Power Generation, Transmission, Distribution; Utilities; Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services; Professional Services

03 Sep 2009
What Do You Think?

Are Retention Bonuses Worth the Investment?

have been raised, as in the AIG case, whether they are necessary when times are bad and alternative jobs are scarce, regardless of whether recipients at AIG should have been asked to return bonuses already paid. Few have argued that... View Details

Keywords: by Jim Heskett

20 Mar 2019
News

Reimagining Capitalism in a World on Fire

Marrying agriculture and alternative technologies will go a long way in reducing 10–12 percent of total global emissions associated with agribusiness. Business Leaders Must Get Political Business cannot solve climate change by itself, the... View Details

Keywords: Allison Webster; Transit and Ground Passenger Transportation; Transportation

13 Apr 2017
News

Solving Nigeria’s Skilled Workforce Challenge

Competition. “It was my first time living in another African country, and I felt more alive than I had felt in a long time,” she observes. Rewane left the Monitor Group to join the Centre for Public Policy Alternatives (CPPA), a think... View Details

Keywords: Jill Radsken

25 Nov 2014
First Look

First Look: November 25

Provide Wisdom? By: Lee, Charles M.C., Paul Ma, and Charles C.Y. Wang Abstract—We compare the performance of a comprehensive set of alternative peer identification schemes used in economic benchmarking. Our results show the peer firms... View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

15 Nov 2024
News

Driving Change

Speaking to nearly 700 alumni at the Women’s Leadership Summit last week, HBS Professor Robin Ely addressed both current and emerging challenges facing women in leadership roles, while emphasizing the critical importance of continued progress. “Today, we face a fresh... View Details

19 Apr 2016
Blog Post

First Minutes are Critical in New-Employee Orientation

retention. Lessons For Businesses For employers, the implications of the findings are pretty clear: "Given that the standard, organization-focused approach of employee socialization is so common, it would benefit managers to think about an View Details

Keywords: All Industries

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Design: At, Into, & Beyond - Race, Gender & Equity

reroute) the earned compensation of its employees, often including breaktime, overtime and minimum wage violations. LatinX A recent gender neutral alternative to Latin@ that cultivated a national conversation about representation,... View Details

15 May 2015
Blog Post

How to Get a Global Perspective at HBS

doing business in the US to prepare for these cases; instead I must adopt an alternative viewpoint founded on the particular economic context in which the cases are set. 4. Globally focused classes bring international business to life... View Details

22 Feb 2022
News

A Focus on Latinx Entrepreneurs

strong economy is also going to buoy Latinx entrepreneurs, who had difficulty both accessing funds through the Paycheck Protection Program and finding alternative sources of financial support—in addition to dealing with other barriers to... View Details

Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie

01 Jun 2008
News

Alumni Books

political science, management, communications, and public health, and drawing on the experiences of health policies in Canada and several European nations, this book analyzes current and past U.S. health policy and proposes alternatives... View Details

Keywords: Management

25 Mar 2014
First Look

First Look: March 25

and Economic Development By: Schwab, Dan, and Eric Werker Abstract—Using industry-level manufacturing data, this paper demonstrates a negative effect of rents, measured by the mark-up ratio, on productivity growth. This result is robust to View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

14 Jan 2014
First Look

First Look: January 14

conglomerate Tata Group and Envision, an entrepreneurial alternative energy company based in China-and found significant commonalities. These three companies demonstrate the essential attributes of a game-changing organization: they are... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

29 Sep 2009
First Look

First Look: September 29

intensity, we allow the incumbent to consider changes in its business model. We consider four alternative business models—two pure models (subscription-based and ad-sponsored) and two mixed models that are hybrids of the two pure models.... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

17 Sep 2020
Research & Ideas

Many Small-Business Employees May Be Close to Losing Health Insurance

priorities, according to the researchers. “Easing the pathway to alternative coverage could really make a difference,” Dafny says. Streamlining applications to different forms of government assistance could help. For example, unemployment... View Details

Keywords: by Rachel Layne; Health

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1.13 Satisfactory Academic Progress | MBA

cross-registered courses are not tallied with HBS grades, but are considered by the APC if a student is in academic difficulty based on HBS grades. Students in joint degree programs may have alternate academic performance standards.... View Details

22 Sep 2020
Research & Ideas

Recessions Push Some Entrepreneurs to Launch Too Soon

those with outside options or operating in areas unrelated to COVID-19 to consider waiting, if possible, until the economy rebounds. A temporary period of unemployment or reduced compensation/advancement prospects may be the better View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

12 Mar 2018
Op-Ed

Op-Ed: Why BlackRock CEO Larry Fink Is Not a Socialist

come. Related Reading: A Pragmatic Alternative for Creating a Corporate Social Responsibility Strategy How to Heed BlackRock's Call for Corporate Social Responsibility When CEOs Become Activists What do you think? How much of an... View Details

Keywords: by Bill George; Banking

19 Jun 2013
Research & Ideas

Analyzing Institutions to Solve Big Problems

Weeding Out the Competition: How Alternatives Are Eliminated during Institutionalization looks at factors that make us take information for granted, even when the information isn't accurate. For example, the common perception is that the... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel & Anna Secino

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