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12 Feb 2016
Op-Ed

The Real Jobs Tragedy in the US: We've Lost the Skills

to bring people and jobs together at home. Developing a playbook for equipping Americans with the right skills will be critical if America is to retain its competitiveness in an increasingly global economy. And it is the essential ingredient to restoring View Details

Keywords: by Joe Fuller and Matt Sigelman; Manufacturing; Electronics

01 Aug 2005
What Do You Think?

Is There an “Efficient Market” in CEO Compensation?

companies have seen their companies' CEOs rewarded with bonuses, stock option megagrants, retroactive monetary awards for past performance, pensions, and other compensation that makes the annual income of even media personalities and the... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

27 Feb 2024
Blog Post

IFC India: Development while Decarbonizing - Understanding India’s Agriculture Landscape

the country. Naturally, smaller plots will have lower yield and, therefore, create income constraints for farmer’s livelihoods. Secondly, given such a large swath of the population depends on farming income, fertilizer is overused.... View Details

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Manuscript Collections - Bubbles, Panics & Crashes – Historical Collections – Harvard Business School

receivership after the Panic of 1837. Materials include stockholders’ and directors’ reports, bills, accounts, and incoming letters. Collection Guide Papers relating to the Ames Family and Union Pacific Railroad, 1861 Baker Library... View Details

20 Sep 2012
Research & Ideas

US Competitiveness at Risk

participation is critical to prosperity because the more people who work as a proportion of the total working-age population, the higher per capita income will be whatever the wage level. All of this is threatening the American dream, the... View Details

Keywords: Re: Michael E. Porter & Jan W. Rivkin

07 Oct 2008
First Look

First Look: October 7, 2008

in their degree of revealed credit constraints. Specifically, we analyze how these Americans spend their income tax refunds, using transaction-level data from a stored-value card product. Cardholders may choose among several tax... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

18 Sep 2007
First Look

First Look: September 18, 2007

and Brooke Barton, 309-320. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 2007 Abstract After thirty years of development, commercial microfinance in the developing world—the provision of financial services to low income populations on a... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

01 Apr 1997
News

Facing the Music

certain albums just to have the music documented." Maintaining a strong "catalog" - the label's backlist of albums more than a year old - is often what gives a label the dependable income stream it needs to be able to take risks on new,... View Details

Keywords: Marguerite Rigoglioso

02 Mar 2016
News

The New Space Race

differentiator he sees for space startups: the ability to generate income while they wait—possibly for many years—for the technology and capital to catch up to their ambitions. Planetary Resources’ Arkyd line of spacecraft, a sort of... View Details

Keywords: Robert S. Benchley

25 Jul 2017
First Look

First Look at New Research and Ideas: July 25, 2017

global poverty; their target is to donate 10% of their profits, but as a new capital-intensive business they give 2% of their revenue. Their income streams are mainly direct-to-consumer sales along with corporate sales and a special... View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

26 Jan 2004
Research & Ideas

What Developing-World Companies Teach Us About Innovation

spends approximately one-third of its net income on R&D and employs nearly 3,000 researchers. At Natura, an innovation cycle starts with a monthly meeting among the company's three presidents, its marketing director, and the R&D... View Details

Keywords: by Donald N. Sull, Alejandro Ruelas-Gossi & Martin Escobari

10 Jul 2000
Research & Ideas

Cable TV: From Community Antennas to Wired Cities

operating cable systems, the sample companies' weighted average pretax income was only 3.1 percent of revenues. 19 This low profit margin reflected the interest expense associated with an average debt-to-equity ratio for the sample... View Details

Keywords: by Thomas R. Eisenmann; Media & Broadcasting; Consumer Products; Entertainment & Recreation

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Dean Srikant Datar’s 2022 Commencement Remarks | About

privacy, or be used to cause harm. Other factors necessitate this consideration as well—from the pandemic and the Great Reset, to persistent income inequality, to climate change. Technology and people, then, must always be thought of as... View Details

01 Oct 2000
News

The Entrepreneurial Venture

Three important events happened at the end of the 1970s. First, there were changes in ERISA (Employee Retirement Income Security Act) legislation that allowed pension funds to invest in private equity; second, the growth of the... View Details

24 Oct 2024
Research & Ideas

With Millions of Workers Juggling Caregiving, Employers Need to Rethink Support

than it’s ever been in real dollars. If you’re paying $1,200, $1,300 a month for full-day childcare, for an average American job, that would be equal to the average after-tax, discretionary income that a worker is left with at the end of... View Details

Keywords: by Christine Pazzanese, Harvard Gazette

30 Apr 2025
News

A Social Enterprise Talk in DC; Canadian Alumni Talk Trade; Meet the Leader: HBS Club of Colorado

DC Panel Looks at Social Enterprise in a New Government Landscape The HBS Club of Washington, DC teamed up with the HBS Social Enterprise Initiative (SEI) on April 2, to present an alumni panel discussion on social impact titled “New Perspectives in Social Enterprise,”... View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley

18 Dec 2012
First Look

First Look: December 18

effects on productivity a priori, inhibiting effective capacity management in high load systems. We categorize load into in-process inventory (congestion) and incoming inventory, decomposing the latter into its levels of bottleneck (BN)... View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

14 Dec 2011
Research & Ideas

The New Measures for Improving Nonprofit Performance

(increasing farmer incomes) that becomes the "True North" that holds everyone's feet to the fire. At some point you need to check as to whether farmer incomes actually increased as a result of this huge investment. MCC's time horizon is... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna

16 Dec 2011
Research & Ideas

Reintroducing Intellectual Ambition to the Study of Business History

picture as firms emerge as weak transferors of knowledge and contribute to income divergence. However, the evidence is partial and patchy. Many topics, from the relations between affiliates and parents in multinational firms, to the... View Details

Keywords: by Geoffrey Jones & Walter Friedman

05 Oct 2021
Blog Post

First-Gen Voices: Eric Westphal on Tapping into the Global Alumni Network & Making a Difference Across Borders

cover a wide category of items including grocery, clothing, and small ticket electronics.” Westphal was inspired by the business model Dzodan and his team had developed and how it could benefit people in Brazil. “Facily often serves lower View Details

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