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- 01 Oct 2001
- News
Q&A: Orin Smith
already of very high quality. We offer a much different experience from a European café, however, and our specialty beverages will attract the younger crowd. The older generations may be reluctant participants, but other American concepts... View Details
- 01 Feb 1999
- News
Q&A: Camille Tang Yeh of the Asia-Pacific Research Office
significantly by country within Asia. How has the business climate in Hong Kong changed since the switch to Chinese rule? I don't perceive any change in the business climate as a specific result of Hong Kong's reversion to a Special... View Details
- 01 Jun 2017
- News
Case Study: Something New
sold for $5,000 in a boutique might cost as little as $200 in labor and supplies. By working directly with the factories, Anomalie can produce a custom gown for about $1,200. In the first two months that it was open for business, Anomalie... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 01 Mar 2019
- News
A Wider Net
candidates for president—including former national team stars like Hope Solo and Eric Wynalda—making it the first contested election for the position in 20 years, a sign of how high emotions were running at the time. In a three-month... View Details
- 01 Jan 2002
- News
Marjorie M.T. Yang (MBA '76)
we could send machinery to the Chinese factories we managed. In return, we received shipments of apparel that we then sold to discount retailers in the United States." With an initial focus on high quantity and low prices, Esquel was just... View Details
- 11 May 2020
- News
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 months to do so; in low-income... View Details
- 01 Oct 1998
- News
Short Takes
advertise in magazines with a high percentage of youth readers. In contrast, adult brands are less likely to advertise in magazines with higher youth readerships. Debunking the cigarette industry's long-held claim that the primary targets... View Details
Keywords: Eileen K. McCluskey
- 01 Mar 2010
- News
Slum for Sale
Hollen, is at a critical juncture: Weighing the cost of capital, construction, and expected market prices for developed units, should Hollen meet the government’s minimum bid for one of five development contracts, submit a proposal well... View Details
- 12 Dec 2018
- News
Lesson Plan
College is launching Level Up, a program that will partner with Scranton and other local high schools to enable juniors and seniors to work toward an associate’s degree at the cost of $100 per credit.... View Details
- 25 Feb 2020
- News
Action Plan: Just Breathe
suffering—from chronic back pain, insomnia, and asthma. “My body was failing in response to the way I was approaching life,” he says now. “It was the cumulative impact of a long career of high expectations, View Details
Keywords: April White
- 01 Mar 2015
- News
Feedback
lecture was to read the New York Times obituaries every day to see who had been successful, and then learn what made them successful. No case method for the General. We listened and learned. —Bill MacDowell (MBA 1955) via alumni.hbs.edu December to Remember Re: View Details
- 16 Sep 2015
- News
Built for Speed
dropping as fuel costs were rising, pulling down SUV sales. Korean automakers were taking more and more market share, buoyed by government investment. Structural costs—US labor high among them—remained a... View Details
- 20 Jan 2015
- News
Patient Medical Records, Pocket-sized
the cost of care. The records are secure—encrypted, password-protected, HIPAA-compliant, and not stored on a server. In the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, Bushkin read of displaced New Orleanians whose paper medical records had been... View Details
- 01 Jun 2020
- News
Inside Out
restaurants, stores, gyms, and airplanes. For kids, this looks very different. By the time they graduate from high school, they will have spent 15,600 hours inside a school. (Incidentally, as Harvard professor Jack Spengler likes to point... View Details
- 01 Mar 2010
- News
Eric Schiffer
have to be able to deal with that. At a retailer like Gap, where the average price per item might be around $20, the number of items we sell would generate $30 billion in annual revenues. Every penny counts for us. If I add a penny of View Details
- 01 Mar 2010
- News
Sole Mates
disgusted by corruption. They worry about school fees, the price of rice, the cost of fuel, and the crime rate. For me personally, Liberia is an enjoyable place. Health care is a little scary: The X-ray machine at the major hospital... View Details
- 21 May 2019
- News
Confronting the Future of Climate Change in the Midwest
disease are likely to multiply. If the Midwest is able to maintain its high standards for agriculture, it has an opportunity to supply the needs of growing populations in other parts of the world. The U.S. “needs a long strategy” around... View Details
Keywords: Agriculture
- 01 Feb 2000
- News
Youth Movement: HBS Clubs Make Students a Top Priority
and general manager of the East Coast Division of Nordstrom, Inc.; and Ralph C. Thomas III, associate administrator of NASA. "We negotiate with the companies to sponsor the cost of the dinner meeting for the MBA students, and then we have... View Details
Keywords: Amy E. Dean
- 13 Nov 2018
- News
Building a New Real Estate Investment Model
working to solve that problem by investing in single-family homes in gentrifying communities, renovating them to high standards, and then offering them as rental units to working-class residents at rent-reasonable prices. It is an... View Details
- 01 Sep 2024
- News
The Road Less Traveled
Most cars in the United States weigh more than 4,000 pounds, and new models are trending larger, even in countries where people drive less. And the larger the vehicle, the more fuel required to power it, which means more greenhouse-gas emissions that contribute to... View Details