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- 01 May 2007
- First Look
First Look: May 1, 2007
subjective preferences expressed by the receiving countries themselves. Finally, we use a two-stage least squares methodology to control for measurement error and endogeneity. Exploiting a new comprehensive...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 03 Feb 2009
- First Look
First Look: February 3, 2009
500 index in the same year. We investigate the underlying drivers of these high returns and show that performance is related to the size of endowment, the quality of the student body, and the use of alternative investments. We caution View Details
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Martha Lagace
- Web
Supplemental Financial Information - Annual Report 2014
States, and students whose early career paths have not enabled them to reduce their undergraduate loans. Consequently, the School assists students in minimizing their debt at graduation by ensuring that fellowship support at least keeps...
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- 03 Jun 2016
- News
Again in a Great City
block, is clad in marble, some 325,000 square feet of it. More than 40 types of the stone were imported from around the world for the facade and the building’s vaulted three-story lobby. The windows—1,800 of them—are rimmed in bronze. Its...
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April White; photographed by Brian Kelly
- 22 Nov 2017
- News
How to Build a Winning Culture on a Losing Team
had a long career in sports management, including an earlier stint running the business side of the Knicks, the WNBA's Liberty and the NHL's Rangers as the president of Madison Square Garden sports. But as inherent as competition is to...
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Podcast - Managing the Future of Work
Bill—employers are going to be having to deal with a pool of workers that are accessible now. That means they’re going to have to confront the fact that we’ve got many more job openings than we have unemployed, at least as classically...
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- 01 Dec 2008
- News
Business at the Summit
governance models, and their integrity.” Immelt, CEO of GE, described his outlook as generally optimistic. Once the crisis is resolved (and, he remarked, “the government always wins” in these situations), the United States can expect at View Details
- 01 Apr 2002
- News
Back in Business
all the involved constituencies, with victims' families first and foremost, Whitehead says. "We will try to meld all those views together into a plan for the memorial site," he explains. "Some of the 25 million square feet of office space...
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- 06 Mar 2007
- First Look
First Look: March 6, 2007
as to why people accept cheating by others. Our results indicate that the effect is due at least in part to the failure to notice that unethical behavior is occurring when the change is gradual rather than abrupt. Download the paper:...
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Martha Lagace
- 01 Oct 1996
- News
Lasting Impressions
15 moratorium that shut down universities across the country to protest the Vietnam War. That demonstration brought Harvard University economist John Kenneth Galbraith to the HBS campus for a speech against the war, followed by a three-hundred-person march to Harvard...
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Deborah E. Blagg
- 01 Mar 2004
- Lessons from the Classroom
Mission to Mars: It Really Is Rocket Science
robustness, and flexibility. A "natural experiment" if you like. In 1999, however, the failures of two successive missions aimed at Mars brought the initiative to a halt. In the aftermath, the finger was pointed squarely at FBC...
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by Sean Silverthorne
- 25 Aug 2010
- News
Games, Parties, Pranks, and Celebrations
Bingo, using cards with each square filled out with a sectionmate's name. When that person spoke in class, the square was checked off. Once someone got “bingo,” they had to be called on by the professor and,...
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- 26 Apr 2011
- Op-Ed
HBS Faculty Comment on Environmental Issues for Earth Day
Earth Day focuses the world's attention on the both the dangers and opportunities facing the planet. But sustainability and the intersection between business and the environment are issues that need to be addressed all the time, as cities grow, resources diminish, and...
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- 01 Dec 2006
- News
Inside Intel
the Intel 8086 to the world’s largest and most sophisticated information processing organization, the International Business Machines Corporation. IBM epitomized the computer industry as it had been for at least two decades: vertically...
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- 20 Jan 2017
- Research & Ideas
Here’s How Businessman Trump Is Likely to Approach the Presidency
marketing in the world of commerce. In politics, you need majority support or at least a plurality to be successful. In commerce, you can be highly profitable as a niche brand appealing to a narrow segment of the population. In fact,...
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by Christina Pazzanese
- 15 Oct 2008
- First Look
First Look: October 15, 2008
free entry of rating agencies, the provision of quality ratings is at least partially sustained by the reputational concerns of the rating agencies. The economically significant entry of a third agency into a market that was previously...
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Martha Lagace
- 19 May 2022
- News
Leading to Salvation
their meeting and they tell me, we’ve all talked and we think you should help her figure out what to do with this business. I was close to coming off of my last board, so at least that freed up some time, and it was in north Minneapolis,...
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- 04 Sep 2019
- News
Deep Dive
lose their lives in their quest to reach the world’s pinnacle. Inside the compact submersible, Vescovo was as comfortable as anyone on a long-haul flight in coach. But he knew that just 90 millimeters of titanium protected him from 12,000 pounds per View Details
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Podcast - Managing the Future of Work
the New Blue, which was much more growth oriented, much more purposeful, 2016 to 2019, 2020, and then which was going to be the next iteration. And so I felt this may be the time. And we were fortunate. We had invested significantly in the development of our...
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- 01 Apr 1996
- News
Stewards of the Seventh Generation
only ended up with a greener product, we also had one that was cheaper and performed better." He notes that in Europe his company now markets an aerosol product propelled by ordinary compressed air. Johnson's environmental activism...
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