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- 24 Sep 2018
- Research & Ideas
How Cost Accounting is Improving Healthcare in Rural Haiti
for an individual patient. Ideally, this will help ministries of health in impoverished countries decide how to allocate their limited resources to optimize the quantity, quality, and access to care. “In low-income resource countries,... View Details
- 16 Jul 2013
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First Look: July 16
investors and entrepreneurs need, optimize both technological sophistication and financial sophistication-approaches designed to attract capital by offering different levels of risk and return, different cash-flow priorities, and... View Details
Keywords: Anna Secino
- 01 Dec 2022
- News
Singing to the Corn
Corn likes people. It benefits from human contact, when it’s thinned out and hand-pollinated, explains Taylor Keen (MPA 1996/ MBA 1997). Corn thrives when sung to and spoken to—something Keen does in the language of his mother’s Omaha... View Details
- 07 Apr 2020
- Research & Ideas
What Customers Need to Hear from You During the COVID Crisis
story. Offer free or lower-priced products to help people meet the challenges the crisis presents, particularly those most in need, such as healthcare workers or those forced into unemployment due to the changing economic environment. For... View Details
Keywords: by Jill Avery and Richard Edelman
- 27 Nov 2000
- Research & Ideas
The Dynamics of Standing Still: Firestone Tire & Rubber and the Radial Revolution
the bias belted tire, claiming that it conferred significant performance improvements and launched an advertising campaign questioning the benefits of radials. Firestone, Uniroyal and General Tire quickly followed Goodyear's lead and... View Details
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Frequently Asked Questions | HBS Online
additional benefits for individuals who successfully complete HBS Online programs, including exclusive access to events and the HBS Online Community’s Official Networking Group, which enables you to connect and collaborate with... View Details
- 12 Nov 2021
- News
Alumni Business Leaders on Confronting the Climate Change Challenge
Women of Color Teaming Up to Lead, Empower and Thrive, paints a more optimistic picture, provided business leaders embrace our generational diversity findings. Our study confirms others that quantify the economic benefits of diverse... View Details
- 18 Jul 2019
- Lessons from the Classroom
The Internet of Things Needs a Business Model. Here It Is
sensors can be combined with weather forecasting to help energy companies figure out the optimal amount of electricity they should sell into the grid. “Very little human intervention is needed,” Lal says. Other companies have been... View Details
- 10 Sep 2020
- Research & Ideas
The COVID Two-Step for Leaders: Protect and Pivot
efficiency, as it will benefit your organization now and after the crisis has subsided. Pivot to new opportunities Some companies pivoted immediately to address the crisis, motivated by the need to generate new revenue streams as well as... View Details
- 01 Mar 2018
- News
Every Trick in the Book
Staples before coming to the bookseller, the future of Barnes & Noble lies in brick and mortar, an optimism that he has taken from the recent growth of independent bookstores. “That’s another sign that people do want places to go to buy... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 23 Apr 2020
- Research & Ideas
This Crisis Loan Program Preserved Jobs—and Made Money
As the US Congress prepares to replenish its Paycheck Protection Program for small businesses, questions still linger: Do guaranteed loans for small businesses work in the long term? Who wins? Employees? Businesses? Taxpayers? The answer appears to be yes for all... View Details
- 16 Sep 2013
- News
Canada’s Native Son
poverty." As the founder of One Earth Farms, Canada's largest farm, he partnered with First Nations in western Canada. When he created the Saskatchewan Indian Gaming Authority (SIGA), it was First Nations that benefitted with jobs at a... View Details
- Profile
Brighton Mudzingwa
reduced foreign investment. The unemployment rate rose to 70 percent; we had record levels of inflation, major shortages of petrol, long lines and empty shelves. Zimbabwe had become a basket case." Brighton left Zimbabwe for greater... View Details
Keywords: Financial Services
- 01 Dec 2017
- News
2017 in Education: Investing in the Next Generation of Workers
education reform in the past, but now, as the issue becomes more polarized, we need to engage in new ways. Take, for instance, the skills gap. In our current low- unemployment environment, businesses are having trouble filling... View Details
- 26 Nov 2012
- Research & Ideas
New Winners and Losers in the Internet Economy
publishers and retailers to social networks and gaming sites. Job growth on the Internet stands in sharp contrast to the US economy as a whole, which has suffered from high unemployment for years. The report found that the gross domestic... View Details
- 01 Jun 2009
- News
Big Bailouts, Little Debate
profound panic could change the attitudes and politics that caused this mess. And while things are bad, they are a far cry from the unemployment and despair of the Great Depression. As evidence, let me point to the question I get most... View Details
- 01 Jun 2022
- News
Making It Count
it, by establishing accounting methodologies for the valuation of impacts that a company has on society—e.g., carbon emissions generated, water withdrawal from water-scarce locations, employee wages, job creation in areas of high View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint
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Lucky Ones Coffee: Employing People with Disabilities | Information Technology
Higgins, authored this case study to better understand the pervasive issues of unemployment and underemployment among people with intellectual and developmental disabilities. The case study examines how social attitudes and public... View Details
- 01 Mar 2015
- News
Faculty Q&A: Less Risk, More Reward
Your research explores entrepreneurship and the social safety net. What is the connection between those two things? I look at whether stronger social safety net benefits make it more likely for people to start a business. For instance,... View Details
- 26 Apr 2011
- First Look
First Look: April 26
business manager. Publisher's Link: http://www.pearsonhighered.com/educator/product/Management-Accounting-Information-for-DecisionMaking-and-Strategy-Execution/9780137024971.page Who Benefits from Religion? Authors:Daniel Mochon, Michael... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne