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Statement of Activity & Cash Flows | Annual Report 2024

Statement of Activity & Cash Flows All figures shown in millions of dollars for the fiscal year ending June 30. Revenues 2024 2023 2022 MBA Tuition & Fees $ 150 $ 152 $ 137 Executive View Details

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HBS - Financials | Statement of Activity & Cash Flows

Consolidated Balance Sheet Supplemental Financial Information Statement of Activity & Cash Flows 1 (all in millions of dollars for the fiscal year ending June 30) Revenues 2023 2022 2021 MBA Tuition & Fees... View Details

26 Jan 2017
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The Challenges and Rewards of Teaching by the Case Method

Susan Harmeling (MBA 1991) is founder and president of the International Case Method Institute, a consulting firm whose mission is to develop international business curricula based on the case study method View Details

25 Mar 2021
Research & Ideas

Steer Clear of the Blind Spots That Derail Experiments

Diego, also found that how employers frame bonuses played a big role in their effectiveness. In the study, teachers who received bonuses at the beginning of the school year—money they had to return if they didn’t meet achievement... View Details

Keywords: by Danielle Kost

04 Aug 2023
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Four Remarkable Stories of HBS MBA Students Tackling Climate Change

This article was originally published by MBAGRADSCHOOLS, a leading source of information for prospective MBA students. Climate change is not a problem for the future generation, it’s here and now. As the clock keeps ticking, HBS MBA... View Details

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Corporate Governance and Boards of Directors - Course Catalog

guests in a number of sessions. What are the course requirements? The basic learning for the course takes place through preparation and participation in class discussion. Thus class participation quality as... View Details

28 May 2014
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Building Histories of Emerging Economies One Interview at a Time

The corporate histories of Apple, Coca-Cola, and Honda are well-documented stories that offer a window into the nuances of business in a particular place, at a particular time. As such, they're invaluable... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna

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Buy Now, Pay Later: A History of Personal Credit

HBS Quick Links MBA Executive Education Doctoral Programs Faculty and Research Alumni HBS Publishing Site Index HBS Home Contact Us Map/Directions Introduction Credit in Pre-Industrial Society Credit and the Market Economy: The Rise View Details

2010
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The Economics of Crime: Lessons for and from Latin America

By: Rafael Di Tella, Sebastian Edwards and Ernesto Schargrodsky

Keywords: Economics; Crime and Corruption; Learning; Latin America

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April 2014
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Who Donates Their Bodies to Science? The Combined Role of Gender and Migration Status Among California Whole-body Donors

By: Asad L. Asad, Michel Anteby and Filiz Garip

The number of human cadavers available for medical research and training, as well as organ transplantation, is limited. Researchers disagree about how to increase the number of whole-body bequeathals, citing a shortage of donations from the one group perceived as most... View Details

Keywords: Altruism; Donations; Body; Whole-body; Clinical Anatomy; Medical Specialties; California

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14 Mar 2019

Peek Program Chat at the University College of London

Please join us for an informal discussion with a Peek Ambassador. Peek Weekend is a residential educational experience designed for college students to gain knowledge and insight into the MBA degree. View Details

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Polaroid: At The Intersection of Science & Art: Edwin H. Land and the Polaroid Corporation

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2020
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The Effects of Hierarchy on Learning and Performance in Business Experimentation

By: Sourobh Ghosh, Stefan Thomke and Hazjier Pourkhalkhali

Do senior managers help or hurt business experiments? Despite the widespread adoption of business experiments to guide strategic decision-making, we lack a scholarly understanding of what role senior managers play in firm experimentation. Using proprietary data of live... View Details

Keywords: Experimentation; Innovation; Search; New Product Development; Innovation and Invention; Organizational Design; Learning; Performance

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03 Jun 2002
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Are We Entering an Era of European Management Leadership?

highly unionized, highly paid work force puts in an average workweek of 28.8 hours. To this we could add a second and related practice: Balance work and personal life. Many would claim that the quality View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

January 2013
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The Fog of Negotiation: What Negotiators Can Learn from Military Doctrine

By: Michael A. Wheeler

On the surface, warfare and negotiation may seem to be polar opposites. The objective in war is to defeat the enemy. In negotiation, the goal is to find a solution that satisfies all the parties. Not surprisingly, little cross-learning and exchange has occurred across... View Details

Keywords: Strategy; Leadership; War; Negotiation; Learning

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27 Nov 2000
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The Dynamics of Standing Still: Firestone Tire & Rubber and the Radial Revolution

rest of the tire.18 Although other companies also experienced quality problems with their radials, Firestones' were the most severe, and the company came under heavy pressure from consumer groups and the... View Details

Keywords: by Donald N. Sull; Manufacturing; Transportation

2011
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The Importance of Work Context in Organizational Learning from Error

By: Lucy H. MacPhail and Amy C. Edmondson

This paper examines the implications of work context for learning from errors in organizations. Prior research has shown that attitudes and behaviors related to error vary between groups within organizations but has not investigated or theorized the ways in which... View Details

Keywords: Judgments; Learning; Business Processes; Organizational Culture; Failure; Performance Improvement; Opportunities; Complexity

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14 Dec 2015
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Building Platforms of Life for the World’s Poorest Children

and we have impact in thousands of communities with millions of children around the world who are largely vulnerable and left out of key health and View Details

24 Apr 2014
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Teaching and studying the role of entrepreneurs in business and society

HBS Professor, Emeritus Howard Stevenson (MBA 1965, DBA 1969) talks about his role in launching the study and teaching of entrepreneurship at Harvard Business School. (Published April 2014) View Details