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- 27 Jul 2017
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Seeing a Way Forward
are enormous obstacles, with cataract surgery costing between 18,000 to 30,000 pesos (about $1,000–$1,500 USD) in private institutions. Founded in 2011 by engineers Javier Okhuysen and Carlos Orellana, salauno helped more than 150,000...
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Jennifer Myers
- 20 Dec 2022
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Singing to the Corn
Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Hi, my name is Julia Hanna. I'm a writer for the HBS Alumni Bulletin, and in July I flew from Boston to Omaha to spend a day with Taylor Keen (MPA 1996/ MBA 1997), a professor of entrepreneurship at...
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- 01 Sep 2018
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September 2018 Alumni and Faculty Books
(MBA 1984) and Dan Olmsted Skyhorse Publishing Even as the autism rate soars and the cost to our nation climbs into the billions, a dangerous new idea is taking hold: There simply is no autism epidemic. The authors believe autism is new,...
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- 01 Mar 2011
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Making Their Way
medical industry; shelving units for retail consumer products; and high-tolerance firing pins for military applications. When it comes to per-piece cost for metal stampings, the United States is very competitive with China because labor...
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- 01 Mar 2005
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Campaign Passes Goal, Continues
each recipient. This amount is a small fraction of the overall cost associated with attending HBS, which is $125,000 for a single student. “Decreasing our students’ debt load will open up more career choices in both the public and the...
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- 19 Jun 2019
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Connecting Patients and Providers
facilitates digital consultations, reducing the cost and travel demands on ill patients. And it allows doctors and other medical experts to collaborate on complex cases in a virtual clinical environment. Jarzabek had seen the value of...
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April White
- 01 Sep 2012
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What’s the Big Idea?
happiness and altruism, the psychology of cheating, and our amazing ability to rationalize our questionable behavior. Almost all have implications for business as well as public policy. He plans further equality-focused research in the areas of View Details
- 07 Sep 2021
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Increasing Access and Expanding Opportunity
educating great people who are concerned about the world and who understand that the way they manage a business will affect their employees, customers, and their communities. It would be hard to do that if we didn’t have diversity in all these dimensions in our...
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Jennifer Gillespie
- 11 May 2020
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Better Than Cash
in sanitation or health or education, it starts with a payment system everyone can use.” Goodwin-Groen offers the example of a mother who has to pay for her children’s schooling once each semester. She needs to save money for several...
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- 07 Sep 2021
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September 2021 Alumni Books
These micro-entrepreneurs desire to have the economic and social benefits of managing their own business but do not want the startup costs or demands associated with traditional business planning. As such, becoming a direct-selling...
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Margie Kelley
- 06 Dec 2021
- News
What's the Word?
relatively high costs for labor and energy as well as the investment and time required to build factories in a country that has much more stringent environmental standards. “COVID-19 has changed only a few of the variables across...
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- 01 Feb 2000
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No Place Like Home
Illustration by Mercedes McDonald. Orchard Gardens photo by Ed Quinn/Saba In many parts of the country, housing costs and shortages have begun to show signs of adversely affecting corporations, workers, and local economies. Affordable...
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Garry Emmons
- 01 Jun 1997
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Blockbuster Deals
industries - aerospace, banking, communications, entertainment, manufacturing, railroads, retailing, and health care - opting to join forces with their former competitors? Is this a repeat of the Eighties or something altogether...
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Garry Emmons and Nancy O. Perry
- 01 Mar 2005
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Venture Capital’s Comeback
venture-backed start-ups. (See sidebar, page 28.) Their concern extends beyond clients to the overall health of the U.S. economy. While the venture-capital community itself is small, numbering several thousand professionals...
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- 01 Sep 2009
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Noted & Quoted
“Some Democrats view Medicare as a successful cost controller, pointing to its low administrative overhead, which they peg at 3 percent. But that figure ignores an inconvenient truth: Medicare’s unfunded liabilities, estimated at about...
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- 21 Oct 2010
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Hell? Maybe Not.
companies expect only one or two hires to come out of the process. “Our team works hard to provide a seamless experience, and we manage all the logistics and details at no cost to the employer,” Fitzpatrick points out. On the student...
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- 01 Jun 2006
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A Capital Asset
five-year stint managing the multibillion dollar United Mine Workers of America Health and Retirement Funds, Cohen was tapped by National Trust for Historic Preservation head Michael Ainslie (MBA ’68) to be the nonprofit’s senior...
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- 21 Jun 2020
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Rooting out Racism
elevate the cost of all other types of racist behavior, in policing, criminal justice, housing, K–12 education, and health care—systems that for decades have been putting knees on the necks of our most...
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- 01 Mar 2023
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Enabling Students to Pursue Their Passions
David Velasquez (MBA/MPP 2023, MD 2024), right, at the GOTVax mobile clinic in greater Boston he helped to cofound. Photos courtesy David Valesquez David Velasquez (MBA/MPP 2023, MD 2024), right, at the GOTVax mobile clinic in greater Boston he helped to cofound....
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April White
- 08 Sep 2016
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How We Make It Work
The choice is that we live in the Marina in San Francisco and we have health insurance and I work for Goldman Sachs—and people would give their left arm in this economy to have this job.” And she said, “Oh, just leave that job.” You could...
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