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Hollywood Reporter
Includes film, television, cable, music, interactive media, and home video. Delivers breaking news and solid in-depth stories plus box office grosses, TV ratings, video and music charts, and film and TV production charts. Variety View Details

01 Jun 2011
News

Faculty Books

Economics of Crime: Lessons for and from Latin America edited by Rafael Di Tella, Sebastian Edwards, and Ernesto Schargrodsky (University of Chicago Press) Although crime rates in Latin America are among the highest in the world,... View Details

Keywords: Credit Intermediation and Related Activities; Finance; Funds, Trusts, and Other Financial Vehicles; Finance

01 Mar 2012
News

How to Close the Health Gap

higher rates in poor countries. You’ve heard of the wealth gap. Welcome to the health gap. The people who need the medicines most in the world are the least likely to receive them. “Now that we have such extraordinary capabilities, what... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne; Ambulatory Health Care Services; Health, Social Assistance; Publishing Industries (except Internet); Information

01 Mar 2008
News

HBS Records an “Excellent” Year

$2.8 billion on June 30, 2007, contributed $7 million to revenue growth. The market value of the HBS endowment and current use funds has grown at a compound annual rate of 16.1 percent for the past five years. For the first time in the... View Details

Keywords: Business Schools & Computer & Management Training; Educational Services

01 Dec 2016
News

How DC is Taxing the Country

startup formation has been on the decline since the early 1980s; and real median household income is well below its peak in 1999. Most economic gains have gone instead to the wealthy and big businesses. Today’s 5.1 percent unemployment View Details

Keywords: Francis Storrs

01 Oct 2000
News

Raymond A. Baxter: Sweet Smell of Success

operational systems has resulted in a 99.9 percent compliance rate in order fulfillment; it is also the only baking company in North America to be registered ISO 9001, the highest standard for quality systems in food processing. Cookies,... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna

01 Jun 2011
News

Racial Bias Pervades Health Care

kidney and liver transplants, and less pain medication when they are operated on. Furthermore, women with heart disease receive less angioplasty than men; Hispanics have a lower rate of recommended health-care services such as... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne; Health, Social Assistance

01 Mar 2018
What Do You Think?

Two Decades Later, is the 'New Economy' Finally Here?

potential for ecommerce growth in the country which relies (on) a lot of machine learning and AI the growth rate through the new economy prospects is just starting to take off here in Bangladesh.” Jacob Navon added, “Is the New Economy... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

01 Mar 2016
News

Case Study: Paper Chase

operates four sales kiosks in the Boston area, with mobile retail teams that visit local fairs and markets. The kiosks offer a valuable in-person experience with a high conversion rate for the $8–$13 cards. The split between in-person and... View Details

20 Nov 2018
First Look

New Research and Ideas, November 20, 2018

https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=55281 Fall 2018 Eighteenth-Century Studies Cosmopoleis: Empire and Capitalism By: Reinert, Sophus A. Abstract—No abstract available. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=55279 Issuer Default... View Details

Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

14 May 2013
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First Look: May 14

preference for academic quality. Furthermore, the decay rate of athletics goodwill is significant only for students with lower SAT scores, suggesting that the goodwill created by intercollegiate athletics resides more extensively with... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

02 Feb 2010
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First Look: Feb. 2

Ernesto SchargrodskyNBER Working Paper Series, No. 15602, December 2009 Abstract We study the re-arrest rates for two groups: individuals formerly in prison and individuals formerly under electronic monitoring (EM). We find that the... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

15 Sep 2009
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First Look: September 15

innovations that can be freely adopted by many firms. Firm-level volatility is affected primarily by the Schumpeterian dynamics associated with the development of R&D innovations. On the other hand, the variance of aggregate productivity growth is determined mainly... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

24 Jul 2018
Blog Post

The Global Classroom: From Boston to Jakarta

to a global partner. So what did my FGI look like? I went to Jakarta, Indonesia, was partnered with a great group of people, and assigned to an interesting problem for a non-profit called the Tanoto Foundation. We were given the task to increase the exclusive... View Details

01 Mar 2007
News

Courting the Poor

procedure for credit approval, using nontraditional metrics to enable customers with lower, less easily established incomes (a pushcart vendor, for example) to make purchases. “Their loan repayment rates are the envy of the world, and the... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; department stores; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services; Management of Companies and Enterprises; Management; Miscellaneous Store Retailers; Retail Trade

01 Mar 2010
News

Slum for Sale

a potential rate of return as high as 40 percent, but there are significant hurdles to clear, too. For one, private investors could find themselves at the whim of the Maha-rashtra state government, which is itself often swayed by powerful... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services; Administration of Housing Programs, Urban Planning, and Community Development; Government

29 Feb 2000
Research & Ideas

Whence IT Value?

storage capacity, bandwidth and memory — especially on a per-dollar basis — are driving the observed business benefits. However, all of these have been getting better, faster and cheaper at about the same rate throughout the history of... View Details

Keywords: by Andrew McAfee

Web

Professor Robin Ely on Challenging Conventional Wisdom - Blog: RGE Report

state of working women today. One of 2024’s most captivating headlines came from McKinsey’s Women in the Workplace Report , which reported a statistic that, at our current rate of progress, it would take at least 50 years for all... View Details

01 Dec 2020
News

In the Zone

field.” Metrics have always grounded HCZ’s operations; the organization gathers data across 600 areas to track annual results, from participation rates to academic performance to risky behaviors. In 2017, 97 percent of HCZ seniors went on... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; nonprofit management; urban development; leadership; public education; Educational Services

05 Aug 2015
News

Mobilizing the Public to Fight Bribery

Very consumer focused,” says Motte-Munoz. “Say you need a driver’s license; the app will tell you where all the DMV offices are and tell you their rating on a corruption basis.” “People know there’s corruption,” Motte-Munoz adds. “We’re... View Details

Keywords: Constantine von Hoffman; Executive, Legislative, and Other General Government Support; Government

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