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- 09 Feb 2017
- News
Turning Disorder into Opportunity
prepared by PricewaterhouseCoopers for HPE compared the lives of two people with autism living on their own—one in Dandelion, one not. The person not in the program collects $16,838 a year in government welfare benefits, while the one in... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Myers
- 01 Dec 1999
- News
Q & A: Herb Kohl
see me as somebody who's a little different. How do your business activities compare with being a senator? In business, things have a beginning, a middle, and an end. In the Senate, there is always another chance and another time and... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 03 Oct 2019
- News
Clubs Convene to Focus on Health Care
Clubs News Clubs News Toronto Alumni Compare Canadian and US Health Care Systems In partnership with the Cleveland Clinic Canada, the HBS Club of Toronto hosted 40 alumni on September 12 for a lively panel discussion exploring the future... View Details
- 01 Jun 2015
- News
Ask the Expert: The Kids Are All Right
the most interesting findings from our survey is that, unlike any generation before them, millennials are comparing consumer experience across categories. They’re not comparing brands in retail, for example,... View Details
- 24 Apr 2014
- News
Leading a battle against corruption, a force that slows economic development
corporate anti-corruption efforts on business performance, determining that high anti-corruption efforts pay off. Healy compares the world’s largest companies to each other on self-reported attempts to combat corruption (with collaborator... View Details
- 01 Dec 2010
- News
Make or Break
design will over time erode as well.” Bloom acknowledged that initial efforts will be modest but “huge” compared with previous administrations that viewed the decline of manufacturing as the inevitable result of globalization and a shift... View Details
Keywords: Manufacturing
- 31 Jan 2023
- News
Female Founders' Dilemmas; UK Tech Startups
founder that I ever felt there was a big difference between men and women. I was asked for more due diligence, for more numbers, and for so much more research on competitors.” Saigal, whose brother launched his own company, was able to View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 01 Dec 2010
- News
Ilene Lang
issue? A Catalyst survey of over 4,100 full-time employed men and women who graduated from 26 top MBA programs worldwide (12 in the United States) from 1996 to 2007 showed that the women just out of business school started in lower-level positions as View Details
- 02 Mar 2023
- News
Carbon's Second Act
1.5 degrees Celsius. Which, you might remember from Episode 1, is the amount of global temperature rise, compared to pre-industrial times, after which scientists say serious climate catastrophes are likely. So, yes, progress is positive.... View Details
- 01 Oct 2002
- News
What's Cookin'
hectic private lives. In the upper ranks, Mack notes that typical managers in other restaurants work seventy to eighty hours each week, inspiring the grim phrase “burn 'em and turn 'em.” By offering managers a forty-hour week at View Details
Keywords: Hanna, Julia
- 01 Jun 2024
- News
Conducting Business
count up my profits every day, and there’s always cash in the cigar box.” The owner’s loan application was attached to the case as Exhibit 1. Some other financial data showed what rents cost for comparable shop fronts and typical hourly... View Details
- 01 Jun 2010
- News
M.I.A. Boards
they are. Their names appear on the generic, straight-to-the-wastebasket proxy forms that shareholders receive. But despite recent improvements that have increased shareholders’ voices in governance, a levelheaded observer like former SEC chairman William Donaldson... View Details
- 25 Aug 2022
- News
Research Brief: Paying the Price for Remote Work
Alberto Cavallo’s paper, “The International Price of Remote Work.” Using a data set from 2019 to 2021 from one of the largest web platforms, Cavallo and coauthors Agostina Brinatti, Javier Cravino, and Andres Drenik found that a country’s gross domestic product largely... View Details
- 06 Nov 2014
- News
Building a Startup Community Beyond Commencement
The rent is relatively cheap ($200/month per person) compared to start-up sites in Kendall Square and South Boston’s Innovation District, its dedicated desks offer more permanence than most co-working spaces, and the access to the i-lab’s... View Details
- 01 Dec 2022
- News
Research Brief: Pocket Change
Julia Cagé, and Edgard Dewitte found that women comprise 54.1 percent of small donors (or those who give less than $200 in an election cycle) compared to only 35.5 percent of large donors. And while minorities are underrepresented in both... View Details
Keywords: Jill Radsken
- 01 Mar 2017
- News
Research Brief: Lost in Translation
intraday trading volumes and more modest price movements in stocks compared with calls led by more fluent speakers. “Executives typically speak English quite well when they’ve had time to prepare and rehearse,” says Yu. “But when they... View Details
Keywords: Erin Peterson
- 01 Sep 2011
- News
The Spangler Effect
service. One alum from the Class of 2001, a group that bridged the old and the new, compared the food in Kresge Hall to “a bad airport lounge.” By contrast, the Spangler Food Court fare was “amazing,” an assessment that holds true a... View Details
- 04 May 2018
- News
How to Win the Kentucky Derby
way our business has evolved and our industry has progressed, there are very few people who are not in a position to invest in a horse. You can get into a piece of a horse for a couple thousand dollars. Hanna: Oh, that was one of my questions. OK. Finley: So, you View Details
Keywords: horse racing
- 01 Jun 2014
- News
What’s Next
virtually every leading business school in the United States (and, increasingly, in the world), the impact of this effort can't be overestimated. As in business, we have to look for opportunities where we have a comparative advantage in... View Details
- 01 Mar 2013
- News
Making Change
much a start-up has to fail in order to be successful. It took us several iterations to get there. I was also surprised at the degree to which the private sector accepts or even values start-up failure compared with the nonprofit sector,... View Details