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- 11 Dec 2017
- Blog Post
3 Ways Financial Aid is Unique at HBS
the financial position of recent HBS graduates. For the Class of 2017, the average debt was $87,300. The median starting salary at graduation was $135,000 and the median signing bonus (for students who... View Details
- 07 Dec 2010
- First Look
First Look: Dec. 7
win in the marketplace. This means channeling resources into the right efforts, striking a balance between innovation and control, and getting everyone to pull in the same direction. How do you accomplish... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 08 Mar 2004
- Research & Ideas
Secret to Success: Go for “Just Enough”
reasoning. But, argues the wise chorus, "from death alone he still cannot escape . . . Limitation is built in to the human condition. You need to bend to higher laws." Limits? Tell that to today's college graduates, more in debt... View Details
Keywords: by Laura Nash & Howard Stevenson
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Buy Now, Pay Later: Pre-Industrial Credit in Practice
inconvenient, merchants relied instead on “bookkeeping barter,” keeping careful records of a web of debts and credits denominated in shillings and pence, though hard money... View Details
Frederic N. Schwartz
Schwartz orchestrated Bristol-Myers' growth as a multinational health and beauty care provider ushering in ten consecutive years of market value appreciation. He oversaw the successful acquisition of Clairol View Details
Keywords: Healthcare
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Supplemental Financial Information | Annual Report 2024
operating costs in fiscal 2024, consistent with fiscal 2023. Debt Service Three pools of funding—gifts, unrestricted reserves of internally generated cash, and the strategic use of View Details
- 01 Jun 2013
- News
Extending Opportunity: Brock Family Fellowship
Harvard Business School," she says. Brock-Wilson recalls that paying for graduate school was not easy. "After I was accepted, I remember frantically applying to every foundation imaginable. The Hattie M. Strong Foundation gave me a grant, View Details
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Buy Now, Pay Later: The Secondary Credit Market
people in industrializing societies to get themselves into debt. At the same time, waged employment in booming nineteenth-century cities created a class of borrowers who lacked the social networks necessary for older types of neighborly... View Details
- 01 Sep 2003
- News
Jonathan Mariner
negotiated as part of last year’s collective bargaining agreement will usher in a new era of fiscal responsibility. “Those measures — luxury taxes, revenue sharing, and debt limits — have teeth,” Mariner... View Details
- 04 Jun 2008
- News
Whistle While You Work
roles with others.” Business borrows these metaphors and lingo from other group-oriented pursuits in order to better understand itself and improve its performance. The world of... View Details
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Career Support & Exploration Funds | MBA
Career Support & Exploration Funds Attending Harvard Business School is a profound and life-changing experience. So it’s no surprise that so many students change career paths after completing their MBA. The School has a strong commitment... View Details
James J. Ling
Ling was a maverick in the development of the conglomerate business model, building in 14 years the 14th largest industrial corporation in the United States. A major risk taker, Ling extensively used debt to sustain parent company growth... View Details
Keywords: Fabricated Goods
- 29 Jul 2013
- News
Opening New Markets for Black South African Winemakers
warnings that it was dangerous for foreigners to enter the township. Along with good food, camaraderie, and jazz, she discovered some fabulous wines with an added, rare distinction: they were produced by black South African vintners.... View Details
- 20 Jan 2015
- First Look
First Look: January 20
Publications January 2015 Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization Prosocial Norms in the Classroom: The Role of Self-regulation in Following Norms of Giving By: Blake, P.R., M. Piovesan, N. Montinari, F. Werneken, and F. Gino... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
Erwin C. Uihlein
tenure, all done without any debt financing. Because of Uihlein’s success, Schlitz was the United States’ second largest producer of beer in the 1950s and 1960s. View Details
Keywords: Food & Tobacco
- 08 Feb 2011
- First Look
First Look: Feb. 8
including assessing charges for insuring against losses. Without such a comprehensive assessment and improvement plan, boards cannot do their jobs, and the system will remain as subject to calamitous events... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
Frederick D. Underwood
When Underwood took over management of the Erie Railroad in 1901, it was barely surviving. Though its owner, JP Morgan had brought the company’s debt within a manageable range, the road itself had suffered much deterioration. Undertaking... View Details
Keywords: Transportation
- 01 Dec 2007
- News
Subprime Time
modesty for all concerned: the rating agencies, the banks, asset managers. And certainly the masters of the debt universe and the Ph.D.’s with their black boxes turned out to... View Details
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JJ Singh
ballooning national debt and a financial system in disarray. *** I want to change attitudes and the way we imagine our future. I want to influence policy so that we invest in... View Details