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- 21 Mar 2016
- Blog Post
MBA/MPA-ID: The Intersection of Policy and Business
actually politically and administratively palatable and therefore implementable? How do you ensure that the benefits of high growth rates (like those we are currently seeing in the East African region) truly trickle down, creating a... View Details
- 15 Aug 2024
- Blog Post
Navigating the Future of Renewable Energy at Port Esbjerg
electricity to operate their sea-water heat pump when power is cheaper, then storing heat as hot water and sending it to customers when electricity prices are higher, thus lowering heating rates and helping to balance the grid. Din... View Details
- 01 Mar 2017
- News
HBX: Reimagining HBS for the Digital Age
multi week program has a remarkable 85 percent completion rate across cohorts. CORe is now offered at educational institutions in the United States and to students around the world. At HBS, CORe is playing an important role in... View Details
- 12 Jan 2004
- What Do You Think?
How Should We Think About the Exportation of Jobs?
increase. Growth without a change in productivity ought to lead to more jobs, but jobs of about the same quality as before. Growth with a loss in productivity is likely to lead to more but poorer-paying jobs. Only when the growth rate... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 12 Feb 2013
- First Look
First Look: Feb. 12
study the dynamics of multi-round position auctions, considering both the case of exogenous click-through rates and the case in which click-through rates are determined by an endogenous consumer search... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- Profile
Monica Dodi
decade. Even though women start businesses at twice the rate of men, their access to capital has been limited, says Dodi, who launched WVCF with fellow HBS alumna Edith Pripas Dorsen (MBA/MPA 1985) and with the support of female HBS... View Details
- 24 Apr 2014
- News
In the business of empowering women entrepreneurs
decade. Even though women start businesses at twice the rate of men, their access to capital has been limited, says Dodi, who launched WVCF with fellow HBS alumna Edith Pripas Dorsen (MBA/MPA 1985) and with the support of female HBS... View Details
- 15 Apr 2002
- Research & Ideas
In the Virtual Dressing Room Returns Are A Real Problem
Most compelling is the high return rate for apparel products purchased online, which mirrors the rate for catalog apparel purchases: By one estimate, returns for apparel bought from catalogs ranged from 12... View Details
- 12 Feb 2016
- Op-Ed
The Real Jobs Tragedy in the US: We've Lost the Skills
States economy maintained a steady pace in job growth of about 2 percent a year. The US labor force participation rate reflected that, growing robustly for the four decades from 1947 to 1997. Around 2001, both those indicators of the... View Details
- 30 Apr 2014
- Research & Ideas
Venture Investors Prefer Funding Handsome Men
unattractive, and we also ran our own pilot study to ensure that the faces uniquely manipulated attractiveness." Each participant rated the investment potential of the venture on a scale of one to seven. As with the previous studies,... View Details
- 23 Nov 1999
- Research & Ideas
The Future of the Venture Capital Cycle
annually over the first eighty-five years of this century, have surged over the past decade to over 120 thousand per year. This does not appear to reflect the impact of changes in domestic patent policy, shifts in the success rate of... View Details
- 03 Apr 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, April 3, 2018
was already close to the margin of exit. Restaurants with lower ratings are closer to the margin of exit at all observed minimum wage levels and are disproportionately driven out of business by increases to the minimum wage. Our point... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 06 Mar 2006
- Research & Ideas
Winners and Losers at the Olympics
of size and demographics. So, there's no question that these are special events that businesses want to be associated with. The Olympics is one of most powerful brands in the world. Q: That said, although the games drew an average of 21 million viewers each night on... View Details
- 01 Mar 2023
- News
The Exchange: Micro Management
Image by John Ritter In the 50 years since modern microfinance was introduced as a tool to fight poverty, institutions have distributed hundreds of millions of loans to people in developing countries. Such loans are repaid at rates often... View Details
- 01 Sep 2011
- News
The Business and Environment Initiative at HBS
Henderson notes that there are about 200 HBS-authored cases on the environment extant, with more to come at the rate of about 30 to 40 a year. “We’ve launched several new MBA courses and are looking at how we can get more involved in the... View Details
- 07 May 2019
- News
How Sonja Hoel Perkins Saved John McAfee from an Especially Bad Deal
Its forecasted revenue growth rate is more than 90 percent, and its pre-tax margins run between 80 and 90 percent of sales. The problem is that John is seriously considering selling McAfee to Symantec.” That didn’t happen, according to... View Details
- 23 Jul 2024
- Research & Ideas
Forgiving Medical Debt Won't Make Everyone Happier
assistance early boosts the chances patients will actually receive the care they need to detect and treat conditions, such as diabetes. Past research also shows large increases in health care use and reduced rates of depression when... View Details
- 13 Sep 2019
- Blog Post
An Uncommon Summer: Project Management at an Education Non-Profit
data-driven decision making I had practiced in the military. Using dozens of interviews inside and outside of the team, I synthesized the major issues they faced and collected their own ideas on how to fix them. I ran two surveys to collect usage View Details
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Diversity & Entrepreneurship: Race & Gender Gaps Persist - Race, Gender & Equity
female founders are married or partnered at rates similar to the overall alumni population. The proportion of female tech founders with children under 18 at home (55%) is slightly higher than that of male tech founders (48%) or working... View Details
- 01 Mar 2018
- News
Can a Digital Platform Open Up the Opaque Metals Industry?
payments; and they are introducing a rating tool for members. On top of that, they’re looking into integrating certain blockchain elements that would make it easier for transactions to happen between parties that might not trust each... View Details
Keywords: Nicole Torres