Billion Prices Project - Publications - Faculty & Research

25 Aug 2014
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Wendell P. Weeks, MBA 1987

appealed to Weeks when he arrived at Corning as a Price Waterhouse consultant after graduating from Lehigh University. “I was impressed with the people and what the company stood for,” he recalls. The feeling was mutual: Corning asked him... View Details

Keywords: Susan Young

15 Oct 2024
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Ratan Tata, Visionary Business Leader, Dies at 86

health and agricultural projects for poorer Indians. In the United States, he and Tata Trusts contributed millions of dollars to several universities—including his alma maters Cornell and the Harvard Business School—for research... View Details

01 Dec 2018
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Case Study: Your Data, Your Health

challenge to bulletin@hbs.edu From Baker Library | Bloomberg Center: According to Forbes, the healthcare industry is “increasingly recognizing the need to better serve women,” with digital women’s health plays (Femtech) receiving over $1 View Details

Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint

01 Oct 2002
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Ann M. Fudge

from corporations and boardrooms to national magazines to a project to elect a woman President of the United States. Upon graduation, Fudge went to work for General Mills and advanced from marketing assistant to marketing director in six... View Details

01 Mar 2012
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Putting Ghosts to Rest

markets in bulk and get better prices for everyone. But such entrepreneurs seemed to figure only vaguely in the Rwandan government’s plans, and I couldn’t figure out why. Why take the riskier co-op approach? My mind started to wander. As... View Details

Keywords: Chris Maloney; Animal Production and Aquaculture; Agriculture; Social Assistance; Health, Social Assistance

04 Sep 2019
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Case Study: Up in the Air

in central and eastern Europe, each employing five to 500 software engineers, are often locked out of larger enterprise deals. What’s more, their target clients and projects are relatively small, which means valuable resources are left on... View Details

Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint; Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services; Professional Services

15 Nov 2020
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Exploring China’s Belt & Road Initiative

projects. By the time this eight-year, $20 billion feat of engineering was completed, the needs of the regional economy had changed. Myanmar Thilawa Special Economic Zone and New Yangon City development View Details

01 Jun 2015
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The End of Cows?

Price is a market barrier for lab-grown beef, with production costs currently exceeding 250,000 euros per burger. (Photo courtesy of Cultured Beef) Price is a market barrier for lab-grown beef, with... View Details

Keywords: Jason Feifer; Food and Beverage Stores; Retail Trade; Scientific Research and Development Services

01 Oct 1996
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Leading In a New Era

became robust again during the '80s — reported losses approaching half a billion dollars between 1990 and 1994. But that tide is changing, says BC's amiable chairman George Harad, who became CEO in 1994 and chairman in 1995. Harad has... View Details

Keywords: Nancy O. Perry

24 Apr 2014
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From observers to active participants in the global economy

reduce poverty through economic growth, and it’s been very effective,” says Bloom. The US agency, now with an annual budget of about $900 million, has committed more than $10 billion to projects in... View Details

01 Dec 2007
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Baker Bell Dedication Rings in HBS Centennial

antireligious Stalinist regime. The Moscow City Council priced them as scrap metal, and Crane donated the set to Harvard University. Seventeen were hung in the tower of Lowell House, a Harvard undergraduate residence. One came to HBS,... View Details

15 Dec 2024
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Alumni and Faculty Books

Edited by Margie Kelley Alumni Books The Power of Imperfect Eating By Kavita Bhatnagar (SELP 11, 2022) Penguin Enterprise Rather than dictating which foods are good or bad, this book weaves together stories that mirror the intricate, emotional, and often imperfect... View Details

Keywords: Publishing Industries (except Internet); Information

01 Dec 1997
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Banking on HBS

for projects in areas such as agriculture, public works, and social programs. Loans total some $17 billion annually. Using capital donated by wealthy countries, the International Development Association,... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons

01 Jun 2011
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Where Conservation Means Business

collections and for exhibits linking the past and present, such as the recent “Buy Now, Pay Later: A History of Personal Credit”. Conservation work performed by Anderson and Clark is slow, tedious, precise, and absolutely essential to preserve documents for future use.... View Details

Keywords: Roger thompson

01 Mar 2018
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‘We were just doing what needed to be done’

Lewis Jr. (MBA 1969), George R. “Bob” Price (MBA 1970), and A. Leroy “Roy” Willis (MBA 1969). In commemoration of this milestone, four of AASU’s founders (Price died in 2012) reflect on their time at the School, the creation of the... View Details

01 Mar 2010
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Eric Schiffer

time. Yes, that’s right — we have to sell a huge number of items to generate that figure. Our average price works out to be about 80 cents because we also price many items at well under a buck, so we sell... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; Miscellaneous Store Retailers; Retail Trade

01 Dec 1997
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The World's Banker

One day in July 1995, shortly after his appointment to head the World Bank, Jim Wolfensohn took time out from a project visit in the African bush for an impromptu chat with a village official. For those present, it was a memorable sight:... View Details

07 Sep 2021
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Funding His Purpose

discussion back then.” He thought about his work, about the projects he had undertaken around the world that had left him satisfied and about those that made him proud; and, finally, he thought about a meeting with Vera Cordeiro, a... View Details

01 Dec 2018
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Ask the Expert: Gimme Shelter

crafting innovative ways to make that happen in the Bay Area, where median home prices sail north of $1 million. In Oakland, for example, the nonprofit used a little-known tool called the Chapter 8 Tax Sale to acquire 24 blighted,... View Details