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Supplemental Financial Information - Annual Report 2020
donors’ intentions and the terms of each gift. Harvard is obligated to preserve the purchasing power of the endowment by spending only a small fraction of its value each year. Spending more than that over time, View Details
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HBS - Financials | Supplemental Financial Information
FY19 174 FY20 211 FY21 227 FY22 247 FY23 Harvard is obligated to preserve the endowment’s purchasing power by spending only a small fraction of its value each year. Spending more than that over time, for...
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Supplemental Financial Information II - Annual Report 2020
support keeps pace with tuition and fees. Extending a long-term record of annual increases in financial aid, total Fellowships expense for fiscal 2020, including assistance for...
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- 02 Oct 2008
- What Do You Think?
Workout vs. Bailout: Should Government Take Advantage of the Buffett Effect?
be to investors, but the long-term effect, it is assumed, would be to reverse the "doom loop" described above. For better or worse, it would be much more straightforward than the proposal on which more than...
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by Jim Heskett
- 01 Dec 2007
- News
How Business Schools Lost Their Way
will recognize their obligations to society.” As in the 1920s, however, the strongest public advocate for professionalization in the most comprehensive sense of the term was HBS Dean Wallace B. Donham, who...
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- 01 Sep 2005
- News
Predictable Surprises
and Gore heroes for solving a problem that, at the time, very few knew existed. Shouldn’t we be able to look to our political and business leaders to make decisions that are in our long-term best interest,...
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Supplemental Financial Information - Annual Report 2016
assist students in minimizing their debt at graduation by ensuring that fellowship support keeps pace with tuition and fees. Extending a long-term record of annual increases in financial aid, total fellowship expense View Details
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Supplemental Financial Information - Financial Report 2015
2015, an increase of $1 million from the prior year. As a result, the School’s year-end fiscal 2015 building debt-to-asset ratio decreased to 1.8 percent, from 2 percent in the prior year. Other University debt—mainly consisting of repayment View Details
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Supplemental Financial Information - Annual Report 2017
debt in fiscal 2017, compared with $7 million a year earlier. As a result, the School’s year-end fiscal 2017 building debt-to-asset ratio decreased to 1.4 percent, from 1.7 percent in the prior year. Other university debt—mainly consisting of repayment View Details
- 01 May 2006
- Research & Ideas
What Companies Lose from Forced Disclosure
Increased financial disclosure standards on such issues as executive compensation should provide more useful information for investors, policy makers, and regulators. But do the companies themselves benefit? What researchers are now...
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- 10 Mar 2009
- First Look
First Look: March 10, 2009
institutions and concepts by showing where they came from. What is money? What do banks do? What's the difference between a stock and a bond? Why buy insurance or real estate? And how exactly do hedge funds make (and lose) money? This is history View Details
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Martha Lagace
- 31 Mar 2009
- First Look
First Look: March 31, 2009
Japanese Slowdown during the 1990s Author:Diego A. Comin Publication:In Japan's Bubble, Deflation and Long-term Stagnation, edited by Koichi Hamada, Anil Kashyap, and Davis Weisntein. MIT Press, forthcoming Abstract Why was the 1990s a...
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Martha Lagace
- 01 Sep 2009
- News
Over the Top
students. ‘Shareholder value’ was of utmost importance. Notions of obligation to the society in which the corporation is embedded have been set aside, even mocked. CEOs loved this model, as it provided cover View Details
- 01 Dec 2004
- News
One-on-One with William H. Donaldson
industry’s problems surprise you? What we found was absolutely shocking. First, we uncovered the so-called late-trading and market-timing issues. Beyond that, we have moved on a whole series of other issues, producing the greatest rule-making period View Details
- 09 Jan 2007
- First Look
First Look: January 9, 2007
standard. We also develop and test two extensions of the earlier model: the presence of provisions mandating royalty-free licensing is negatively associated with disclosure requirements, and when there are only a limited number of SSOs,...
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Martha Lagace
- 01 May 2019
- What Do You Think?
What Should the Leadership of YouTube Do?
ground and long-term viewership. As realJoannLyles put it, “YouTube t-h-i-n-k-s it has a suppression problem. Instead, YouTube has a moral problem ” David Wittenberg added, “There's no ‘right answer’ here. No matter what YouTube does or...
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- 21 Jul 2003
- Research & Ideas
Don’t Get Buried in Customer DataUse It
more elusive than ever. A recent McKinsey study reveals that the annual churn in the wireless industry increased from 17 percent in 1995 to 32 percent in 2000. This trend holds true even in industries less susceptible to turnover. In core retail categories such as...
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by Jean Ayers
- 16 Mar 2003
- Research & Ideas
At the Center of Corporate Scandal Where Do We Go From Here?
In the world I see ahead, a world of turbulence and uncertainty where there are opportunities fraught with risk and reward, we need leaders with strong values. We need leaders who place a high value on excellence, on building organizations where people thrive, on...
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by Kim B. Clark
- 28 May 2019
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A More Perfect Union
business, but there is a real opportunity for a switch in the way that business views government: In a long-term view, business would benefit from a strong democracy because it would yield better economic...
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- 01 Dec 2012
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From Where We Stand
All other obligations flow from these primary responsibilities. Sue Schooner (MBA 1983), executive director, Girls Group, Ann Arbor, Michigan Take a serious interest in the people who work for you. Mentor,...
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