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- 01 Mar 2003
- News
All in a Day's Work
Fellow, Oakes and nine other alumni from the Class of 2002 receive a one-year subsidy from the School to supplement the lower salaries typically paid at nonprofit and government organizations. All fellows are placed with the top... View Details
- 01 Dec 2001
- News
Reaching Out
satisfaction of applying their learning to a problem about which they care a great deal." Funded by the School principally through generous alumni gifts and supplementing what employer organizations can pay, fellowships enable students to earn a summer View Details
- 01 Mar 2007
- News
The Winning Season
pretty businesslike in your judgments,” he says, noting that even a backup player generally earns an annual salary of $1 to $2 million. “The financial skills I learned at HBS have been extremely useful in that sense. You need to be able... View Details
- 25 Jan 2016
- News
Helping Young African Managers Find Their Way Home
school applicants.” The group also is starting to put together a salary database so that MBAs will be better able to negotiate when they take jobs in Africa. “It’s not necessarily about going back to the continent,” he says. “People who... View Details
Keywords: Constantine von Hoffman
- 01 Dec 2005
- News
A Matter of Opinion
the years. To Nation contributor Calvin Trillin, who claims Navasky originally hired him for a salary in the “high two figures,” The Nation is “a pinko sheet on cheap paper.” (Trillin adds that it’s the only magazine whose pages look... View Details
- 01 Sep 2017
- News
Turning Point: Getting to Giving
was also very practical: After I graduated, my husband and I would be living on one salary while he went to business school. When he graduated, we decided to continue to manage our money as if only one of us was working. I didn’t realize... View Details
- 01 Mar 2009
- News
Your Taxi Is Waiting
by using VLJs. Their research showed that introducing the new jets would reduce the company’s travel budget by over 25 percent. The savings held firm even when employees at salary levels below $50,000 used the VLJs to travel. “As... View Details
- 01 Dec 2013
- News
Faster, Bigger, Stronger: Supersizing the NFL
teams; the worst-performing franchises have the first picks in the league's annual draft of college players; and salary caps help ensure that wealthier teams can't just buy up all the best players. A congressional partial exemption from... View Details
- 01 Dec 2008
- News
Seth Klarman
Professor Bill Poorvu recruited him to help manage a $27 million pool of capital in the newly formed Baupost. While the starting salary was an underwhelming $35K, it turned out to be the opportunity of a lifetime. In 26 years, Baupost has... View Details
- 01 Jun 2022
- News
Ink: Start Small, Rise Above
Stacey Abrams didn’t dream of becoming an entrepreneur. Her first small business was a consultancy that she launched out of necessity to supplement her salary as a member of the Georgia House of Representatives. Lara Hodgson (MBA 1998)... View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint
- 08 Nov 2011
- News
Saluting Our HBS Veterans
their ranks. But they don’t have the same salaries or support networks as other outfits and many are young guys with families facing all the same risks as the other special ops units.” The foundation is funded through donations, relies on... View Details
- 01 Oct 2002
- News
The Class of 1977
grip on corporate America. Starting salaries averaged $22,500 in 1977. Neckties were wider, and the corporate uniform was dark business suits for men and conservative skirts and jackets for women. Saving time for family commitments was a... View Details
Keywords: Desmond Wong
- 01 Jun 2008
- News
Kash Rangan
day, even counting graduates from other business schools, if you produce 2,000 to 3,000 MBAs a year to work in a sector with more than 1.4 million nonprofits, it’s just a drop in the bucket. There are huge salary discrepancies as well.... View Details
- 25 Aug 2022
- News
Turning Point: Dream Weaver
got on a plane and went to California for the first time, eventually finding a secretarial job at a starting salary that would have driven down our class average dramatically, had I reported it to HBS. But I knew this was the world where... View Details
- 01 Apr 1999
- News
Spirit at Work
going to have to inspire a strong sense of mission and purpose that goes beyond salary and profits." Vaill agrees, adding, "Where is that inspiration going to come from? I contend that executives themselves will need a spiritual program... View Details
Keywords: Marguerite Rigoglioso
- 09 Mar 2021
- News
Addressing Education Inequities Exacerbated by the Pandemic
terms of spending. When you get really gross spending disparities per capita for students, that shows up in everything from extracurriculars, to the depth of a curriculum, to the salaries paid to teachers. And those disparities also have... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie
- 25 Aug 2014
- News
Gerald Chertavian, MBA 1992
full time within four months of graduation. Chertavian, who didn’t take a salary for six years, says that Year Up works not because of charity, but because the program’s participants are providing meaningful skills. The leaders of some... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 08 Mar 2013
- News
The Accidental Innovator
spend per student, with the Khan Academy method, can you parlay that into a $150K or $200K salary for a teacher? If you could do that, it immediately professionalizes teaching to be on a par with medicine or law because in principle it’s... View Details
- 01 Mar 2012
- News
The Accidental Innovator
why have teachers teaching individually in separate classrooms, why not teach together in large collaborative spaces? If $10K or $15K a year is about what school districts spend per student, with the Khan Academy method, can you parlay that into a $150K or $200K View Details
- 01 Sep 2004
- News
Promise & Perils
a variety of measures, including tolls, to shelter local enterprises from competition. They are motivated by the need to protect the local tax base. Without it, local officials stand to lose a major source of revenue needed to pay their own View Details