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- 15 Dec 2023
- News
Exploring Business Opportunities in Africa; Alumni Grapple with Plastic Waste Problem
Clubs News Clubs News Webinar illuminates broad array of business opportunities across Africa On December 5th, the HBS African-American Alumni Association (HBSAAA) hosted ‘Doing Business in Africa: From Opportunity to Action’, a webinar panel of HBS alumni who shared...
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Margie Kelley
- 26 Nov 2001
- Op-Ed
Why Corporate Budgeting Needs To Be Fixed
expressed as profits, sales, output, or any number of things; for our purposes, it doesn't matter what's being measured.) When the manager exceeds that hurdle, she receives a bonus, often a substantial one. The bonus then increases as performance mounts above the...
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by Michael C. Jensen
- 23 Aug 2006
- Op-Ed
The Real Wal-Mart Effect
retailer destroyed more jobs in 2005 than it created. Indeed, from low wages to limited healthcare coverage, the company has a number of employee-related issues to tackle, as well as many nonmarket ones. (Wal-Mart announced August 8 an increase in starting wages at a...
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- 19 Apr 2024
- News
Alumni Host Energy CEO Summit in Houston; Austin Club Co-Hosts SXSW Reception
Clubs News Clubs News Houston Alumni Host Annual Energy CEO Summit The HBS Club of Houston presented its fourth annual Energy CEO Summit on April 3, which featured four of the industry’s top CEOs discussing trends and challenges around the theme of “Energy Security and...
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Margie Kelley
- 22 Feb 2022
- News
Breaking News
this platform so that other papers can come in? Maybe that means bringing in local investors and building a cap pooled fund at the state level so we can make other acquisitions. Maybe that means transitioning to a nonprofit, or spinning...
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U.S. Business Immigration Overview - Alumni
20,000 for advanced degree holders from U.S. universities Other Information Although there is an annual quota on H-1Bs, someone who held H-1B status within the last 6 years is cap exempt. Dependents of H-1B visa holders, classified as...
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- 18 Jun 2018
- Research & Ideas
Warning: Scary Warning Labels Work!
in the nation. Some communities have attempted other measures to reduce the public’s soda consumption, including New York City’s proposed cap on portion sizes and Berkeley’s one-cent-per-ounce tax on sugary drinks. Donnelly hopes these...
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- 29 Aug 2023
- News
Helping Consumers Decarbonize their Purchases
Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Hi, this is Dan Morrell, host of Skydeck. In this episode, we’re going to be highlighting an episode of another HBS podcast: Climate Rising, which focuses on what businesses are doing, can do, and should do...
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- 08 Mar 2004
- Research & Ideas
Secret to Success: Go for “Just Enough”
It's also true for some of the most admired in business. Here's a familiar success pattern that should give pause, but instead seems to shed all possibility of providing "sticky" lessons: After a meteoric rise in his company's earnings during the boom, a...
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by Laura Nash & Howard Stevenson
- Web
Guidelines for Choosing Resources - Research Computing Services
at a time. For batch jobs, there is no hard limit on the number jobs that can run at once. Instead, the scheduler will dynamically limit the number of jobs dispatched to run based on past usage. This is an upper limit of 16 cores/job, and we also View Details
- 16 Jan 2019
- Research & Ideas
What Football Firings Teach Managers About Staying Relevant
league’s salary cap is meant to create an equal playing field. Some teams, including the Patriots, have been able to use the salary cap’s restrictive nature as a source of competitive advantage. According to SB Nation, the Patriots “kept...
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- 25 Jan 2012
- Research & Ideas
A Few Firms Have Outsized Influence in D.C.
they found further evidence to bear out those general findings. For the past two decades, firms have lobbied to raise the cap on so-called H-1B visas, which allow companies to offer jobs to skilled foreign workers. Back in the late 1990s,...
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by Michael Blanding
- 01 Sep 2009
- News
Executive Pay: Onward & Upward
1984 To discourage “golden parachutes,” a controversial pay innovation at the time, Congress imposes a special tax on such payments valued at more than three times an executive’s average pay. Rather than curb golden parachutes, the tax View Details
- 01 Dec 2005
- News
Trillion-Dollar Fixer-Upper
bust, people wanted real assets they could see and touch and real dividends,” adds Stephen Lebovitz (MBA ’88), president of CBL & Associates Properties based in Chattanooga, Tennessee, the fourth-largest mall REIT in North America with a market View Details
- 24 May 2021
- Blog Post
Graduating During a Pandemic
for our HBS on-campus community. Planning for Class Day 2021 started in October 2020 and quickly evolved into a series of experiences that would provide students the opportunity to say goodbye to their sections, wear a cap and gown for...
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Wayne Hicklin
Hicklin played a critical role in the international expansion of Avon and its diversification into new product lines, most notably apparel for men and women. Capping off his 43-year career, Hicklin doubled Avon’s sales and earnings...
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Personal Care & Home Products
- 09 Jan 2006
- Research & Ideas
Rebuilding Commercial Real Estate
Chattanooga, Tennessee, the fourth-largest mall REIT in North America with a market cap of $8 billion. "REITs at the time were paying dividends in the high single digits, so money started flowing in." (By law, REITs must...
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John W. Culligan
Culligan capped off a 49-year career with American Home Products as its CEO from 1981 to 1986. During his tenure he doubled AHP’s research & development budget, building a pipeline of 24 new drugs and 48 new drug applications. Despite...
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Ryan Kim
independent sponsor private equity firm and completed a self-funded search to buy a regional automotive installation services business which he operated as President. Prior to that, Ryan worked in large and mid cap private equity, led...
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Global Understanding - HBS Fund Investors Society 2020 Report
Global Understanding HBS provides opportunities for students to develop global understanding and for faculty members to study and shape global business practices. Exploring China’s Belt & Road Initiative Capping off an intensive field...
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