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3.2 Financial Aid | MBA

if eligible . Students borrowing federal loans are required to complete promissory notes and student loan entrance counseling. If the amount of their loan exceeds the balance due on their student bill, a refund may be requested. Loan... View Details

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Launching Global Ventures - Course Catalog

examine ventures that are leveraging Africa's growing workforce, responding to the demand for automation in East Asia’s aging economies, and coordinating global climate action in South America, all while balancing scale with local... View Details

01 Mar 2025
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Venture: Time Heals All

Assembling a nursing schedule for a hospital ward can be surprisingly difficult—a little like playing three-dimensional Tetris, says Ilana Springer Borkenstein (MBA 2022). “It is a really challenging, tedious task.” Nurse managers must take into consideration a host of... View Details

Keywords: Amy Crawford; Illustration by Klaus Kremmerz; Ambulatory Health Care Services; Health, Social Assistance

29 Jan 2013
Research & Ideas

Creating the Perfect Super Bowl Ad

Tracking Study, Teixeira and colleagues question whether advertisers are striking the right balance between entertaining and promoting their brands. Could companies entertain less and get consumers to buy more? Teixeira's research offers... View Details

Keywords: by Kim Girard; Advertising; Media & Broadcasting

05 Jan 2009
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Most Popular Articles and Working Papers 2008

Balanced Scorecard Companies often manage strategy in fits and starts, with strategy execution lost along the way. A new book by Balanced Scorecard creators Robert S. Kaplan and David P. Norton aims to make... View Details

Keywords: by Staff

01 Mar 2012
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Donor Spotlight

Investing in HBS Great Expectations Model Teamwork Balanced Scorecard and Beer Game Go High-Tech FIELD 2: Global Intelligence FAQ Walter Haydock When it comes to philanthropy, Walter Haydock (MBA 1979) may shun the spotlight, but the... View Details

Keywords: veterans; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services; Educational Support Services; Educational Services; Religious, Grantmaking, Civic, Professional, and Similar Organizations; Personal Services

27 Sep 2004
Research & Ideas

IBM Finds Profit in Diversity

Like many companies, IBM took big strides to eliminate discrimination by attempting to ignore cultural, racial, and other differences among its vast worldwide workforce. That ended when Lou Gerstner became CEO. Gerstner initiated a diversity task-force initiative that... View Details

Keywords: by David A. Thomas

July 1997
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Graffs, The (B)

By: Carl S. Sloane and Gregory C. Rogers

Supplements the (A) case. View Details

Keywords: Work-Life Balance; Family and Family Relationships; Conflict Management

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July 1997
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Graffs, The (A)

By: Carl S. Sloane and Gregory C. Rogers

Examines dual-career issues and conflicts between spouses' career objectives, personal values, and life structures. It does so by a in-depth examination of the lives and careers of a professional couple (a successful entrepreneur and a lawyer), choice points in their... View Details

Keywords: Work-Life Balance; Family and Family Relationships; Conflict Management

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12 Feb 2022
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If your job doesn’t give you purposeful work, you owe it to yourself to join the ‘Great Reshuffle’

06 Jan 2017
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Mental Illness and the Workplace

Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on SoundCloud More Skydeck episodes Katherine Switz (MBA 2000) is the founder of the Stability Network, which aims to ease the stigma of mental illness. They hope to achieve this by having professionals share their struggles, paving the... View Details

03 Jun 2002
What Do You Think?

Are We Entering an Era of European Management Leadership?

Summing Up Readers of this month's column agree that there are marked differences in the social environment for management in Europe and the United States. In some parts of Europe, at least, they foster management policies that may encourage more View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

15 Aug 2024
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Navigating the Future of Renewable Energy at Port Esbjerg

Turbines A highlight of our visit was the opportunity to get up close to a wind turbine. Standing beneath these towering structures, one cannot help but be awestruck by their scale and the complexity of their design and construction. The sheer size of the blades, the... View Details

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Mental Health | MBA

learning how to simultaneously balance academic, personal, and recruiting obligations, adapting to American culture, or navigating extenuating family circumstances, SAS is committed to helping students find the most appropriate resources... View Details

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Nonbank Lending and Credit Cyclicality

By: Quirin Fleckenstein, Manasa Gopal, German Gutierrez and Sebastian Hillenbrand

We document three facts about nonbank lending in the syndicated loan market. First, nonbank lending is more than twice as cyclical as bank lending. Second, declines in nonbank lending explain most of the declines in syndicated lending during the Great Recession and... View Details

Keywords: Nonbank Lending; Credit Cycles; CLO; Mutual Funds; Leveraged Lending; COVID-19; Great Migration; Non-bank Financial Institutions; Balance and Stability; Financial Institutions; Financing and Loans

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Oscar Mak

Oscar is currently a Senior Director at NORD/LB, a leading bank in financing renewable energy and infrastructure projects. He previously led strategic investments (e.g., M&A, corporate VC, joint ventures) in North America for Toyota Tsusho, a diversified trading... View Details

Keywords: Auto/Transportation/Logistics; Consulting; Clean Technology; Energy; Energy; Startup - Joiner; Entrepreneurship

November 2019
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Corrigendum to "Multilateral Matching"

By: Keisuke Bando, Toshiyuki Hirai, John William Hatfield and Scott Duke Kominers

We identify an error in the claim by Hatfield and Kominers (2015) that every stable outcome in the setting of multilateral matching with contracts is efficient. We then show that the result can be recovered under a suitable differentiability condition. View Details

Keywords: Matching; Stability; Competitive Equilibrium; Networks; Joint Ventures; Balance and Stability

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2009
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Farsighted Stability for Roommate Markets

By: Bettina-Elisabeth Klaus, Flip Klijn and Markus Walzl

Using a bi-choice graph technique (Klaus and Klijn, 2009), we show that a matching for a roommate market indirectly dominates another matching if and only if no blocking pair of the former is matched in the latter (Proposition 1). Using this characterization of... View Details

Keywords: Two-Sided Platforms; Marketplace Matching; Mathematical Methods; Balance and Stability

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