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Eligibility | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School
especially those that may be forgiven upon resumption of employment Personal loans from family or friends Bank loans not certified or verified by MBA Financial Aid Home equity loans or lines of credit Applicants who have previously... View Details
- 10 Oct 2023
- Blog Post
Policy Drivers for Environmental Justice: What Businesses Need to Know
https://www.energy.gov/diversity/justice40-initiative. “Justice40 Initiative Covered Programs List.” The White House. April 21, 2023. https://www.whitehouse.gov/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/Justice40-Covered-Programs-List_v1.4_04-20-2023.pdf. “Landowners: Generating... View Details
- October 2013 (Revised August 2016)
- Case
NOWaccount
By: Ramana Nanda, William A. Sahlman and Lauren Barley
It was September 2013, and NOWaccount Network Corporation (NOW®) co-founders John Hayes and Lara Hodgson were putting the final touches on the presentation deck for their annual shareholders' meeting. Along with co-founder Stacey Abrams, the pair had designed NOW's... View Details
Nanda, Ramana, William A. Sahlman, and Lauren Barley. "NOWaccount." Harvard Business School Case 814-048, October 2013. (Revised August 2016.)
- Profile
Tommaso Ruggeri
hopes his son absorbs during our two years together – the best from each of us. It’s vulnerable, heartfelt moments like these that make HBS more than just a business school – it's a family that supports and uplifts each other, both inside... View Details
- Portrait Project
Soley Olafsson
I have lived with a lot of sickness. I was not sick, but many people around me were. I remember my brother losing unhealthy amounts of weight, struggling to stay on the football team in high school, as the doctors ran tests to eventually diagnose him with Crohn’s... View Details
- September 25, 2023
- Book Review
Where Have All the Good Men Gone?: Book Review of 'The Two-Parent Privilege' by Melissa S. Kearney
By: Michael Luca
In 2019, 57% of U.S. children lived with two parents, down from 80% in 1980. Is the rise of single-parent households an emblem of empowerment or a sign of dwindling support for children? This article reviews a new book on the topic, discussing the decline and impact of... View Details
Luca, Michael. "Where Have All the Good Men Gone? Book Review of 'The Two-Parent Privilege' by Melissa S. Kearney." Wall Street Journal (September 25, 2023), A.17.
- 2024
- Book
Retiring: Creating a Life That Works for You
By: Teresa M. Amabile, Lotte Bailyn, Marcy Crary, Douglas T. Hall and Kathy E. Kram
Retirement, as a major life transition, can be both thrilling and challenging in unexpected ways. Written by acclaimed authors in the fields of business leadership, careers, and work, this book goes beyond the typical financial and health-related advice on retirement,... View Details
Keywords: Retirement
Amabile, Teresa M., Lotte Bailyn, Marcy Crary, Douglas T. Hall, and Kathy E. Kram. Retiring: Creating a Life That Works for You. Routledge, 2024.
- 04 Jan 2022
- What Do You Think?
Firing McDonald’s Easterbrook: What Could the Board Have Done Differently?
place there I predict that the metaverse will soon be used to achieve business ends. It will be interesting to see what unforeseen applications arise in management for this fascinating new entertainment medium.” Do you agree? What do you think? Related reading from the... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 16 Oct 2012
- First Look
First Look: October 16
Nuqul Brothers, a large diversified business group. It shows how Nuqul, a Christian Palestinian whose family was forced to flee to Jordan after the creation of Israel in 1948, built a business in his new home, first in trading and later... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 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.... View Details
- 17 Sep 2018
- Research & Ideas
Welcome to Retirement. Who Am I Now?
year later that he had never really identified with his career, that work was just for pay, and that his self-concept as a family man was—and had always been—most important. Maintaining a life philosophy: Many people mentioned holding... View Details
- 01 Jun 2011
- News
Who Was George F. Baker?
Within that context, the Baker family recently donated a major collection of Baker’s papers and memorabilia to the library, archives that no doubt will help scholars and students take fuller measure of the “Sphinx of Wall Street.” View Details
Keywords: Finance
- 01 Jun 2002
- News
Up to the Challenge: Ipsita Dasgupta - Global Perspective, Local Results
summer, and in the fall she will be working in Boston as a strategy consultant for IBM Strategy and Change. “I think I will always be involved in economic development in some way,” she remarks, crediting her mother as a major source of inspiration. “She's worked behind... View Details
- 25 Jun 2007
- Research & Ideas
HBS Cases: Beauty Entrepreneur Madam Walker
interview, women in large numbers were stepping out onto the public stage as members of the workforce and were adopting a more defined role as consumers. Madam C.J. Walker.Photo courtesy A'Lelia Bundles/Walker Family... View Details
- 06 Aug 2021
- Book
Steve Jobs and the Rise of the Celebrity CEO
play? We are given to believe that Steve was very much of two minds about his next move. He was not a boy wonder anymore. He was forty-two, with a family and with more than a billion dollars in assets. His marriage was a success. He loved... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
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Cotting House | About
students, MBA fellowships, and faculty development each year. Cotting belonged to the fourth generation of a venerable New England family that figured prominently in the early development of Boston as a city and business center. Through... View Details
- 09 Dec 2019
- Research & Ideas
Identify Great Customers from Their First Purchase
working paper, Ascarza and coauthor Nicolas Padilla, a doctoral candidate at Columbia Business School, show that a statistical tool known as a deep exponential family model can effectively sort the most relevant variables and account for... View Details
- 25 May 2011
- HBS Case
QuikTrip’s Investment in Retail Employees Pays Off
another family issue." Conversely, workers who aren't doing their part hear about it sooner rather than later, whether it's from a manager or coworkers. "Slow movers are not meant to work at QuikTrip," says Ton. If an... View Details
- 22 Sep 2021
- Blog Post
Meet LASO: The HBS Latino Student Organization
members of our community to go forward, be a role model, and make a difference in our world. And to do it in their own way! As a kid who grew up in so many different countries, my roots were purely through my family and the Spanish we... View Details
- 11 Mar 2001
- Research & Ideas
Merchants to Multinationals: British Trading Companies in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries
public companies, which enabled family ownership and control and most of the past traditions of the former partnerships to continue with little hindrance. This was not exceptional in the corporate context of Britain of this period — the... View Details
Keywords: by Geoffrey Jones