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- 01 Sep 2017
- News
City of Dreams
time to avoid the unfolding civil conflict. Clashes between Sri Lanka’s Sinhalese majority and Tamil minority ran from 1983 to 2009, closing down areas of the country for extended periods of time and costing an estimated 100,000 lives. By... View Details
- 01 Dec 2007
- News
Mead Treadwell
President Bush himself has now urged ratification of the UNCLOS. Please delineate the Arctic’s economic and strategic importance. We produce 20 percent of America’s oil out of the Arctic today, and the U.S. Geological Survey estimate is... View Details
- 01 Sep 2015
- News
The Business of Love
judgment—and further removed the risk from dating with a double opt-in. A couple matches only if both parties swipe right. If only one person expresses interest, the other person never knows about it. Last year Tinder reported an View Details
Keywords: April White
- 01 Dec 2012
- News
The Accidental Pioneers
Groysberg. Still deep in the research phase, he estimates that close to 70 people (including men) will be interviewed for the case by its completion. Those very personal experiences will be framed in the context of what was happening in... View Details
Keywords: Hanna, Julia
- 05 Jan 2022
- News
Untapped Potential
Courtesy Tom Ferguson “Climate change is really water change,” says Tom Ferguson (MBA 2014). From the deadly floods that deluged western Europe in the summer of 2021, to the once-in-a-century drought conditions that have ravaged Brazil for three years, to the View Details
- 01 Dec 2017
- News
The Future of VR is Animated Bunnies
forecasts: According to the research firm SuperData, the sector, driven by early adopters, is on track to make $3.7 billion in revenue this year, and the firm estimates it could swell to more than $28 billion by 2020. But Maureen Fan (MBA... View Details
Keywords: Janelle Nanos
- 01 Mar 2006
- News
The Real Conflict
prices are significantly lower than its competitors. Assuming the company’s prices are 8 percent lower — at the low end of the estimates from various studies summarized in a recent report by Global Insight — and applying that to... View Details
- 01 Jun 2007
- News
Steve Schwarzman
business, politics, media, and the arts. With a personal fortune estimated by Forbes to surpass $3.5 billion, Schwarzman has come a long way since leaving Lehman Brothers in 1985 to cofound Blackstone with start-up capital of $400,000.... View Details
- 01 Dec 2017
- News
Yoga Inc.
an estimated 36.7 million US practitioners purchasing classes, gear, and accessories—an increase of 80 percent in four years. It has also spawned a number of lucrative business models: Vancouver-based apparel company Lululemon Athletica... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Halber
- 02 Mar 2016
- News
The New Space Race
This entrepreneurial energy is following a decidedly terrestrial opportunity. The nonprofit advocacy group Space Foundation estimated that the global size of the industry reached $330 billion in 2014, with an annual growth rate of 9... View Details
Keywords: Robert S. Benchley
- 01 Dec 2008
- News
Alumni Books
Fortune magazine estimates that 75 percent of all strategies and projects fail; this book offers a proven system to ensure being among the 25 percent that succeed. It provides interactive analytical tools and a step-by-step process to... View Details
- 11 Dec 2019
- News
A Righteous Path
Leimsider has helped Safe Passage clarify its strategic goals. “We have a very specific understanding of what our job is. Our mission here is not simply to do as much good as we can, but to completely eliminate the problem in our area.” He View Details
- 01 Sep 2016
- News
The Big Business of Little Loans
money? That weighed on them. So far, so good. This year Able is on pace to lend $100 million, with zero defaults in its nearly two years of operation. Baehr and Davis estimate that Able has saved borrowers $31,000 per loan on average as a... View Details
Keywords: Nancy Miller
- 01 Oct 2001
- News
HBS Press Books in Brief
offers a powerful alternative for identifying value-price gaps. The authors provide everything the reader needs to utilize the discounted cash flow model successfully. And they add an important twist: They suggest that rather than forecasting cash flows, investors... View Details
- 01 Dec 2011
- News
Knowing the Score
widely considered “easy,” even though it was our section’s good fortune to have the estimable Linda Hill teaching it. The valuable, practical wisdom she imparted provided a working framework for understanding the behavior (and... View Details
- 01 Apr 1996
- News
Stewards of the Seventh Generation
was a timber conservation program that NEES conducted in Malaysia in 1992. By helping local harvesters to develop tree-felling techniques that left more of the flora intact, NEES was able to offset an estimated 580,000 tons of carbon... View Details
- 01 Sep 2017
- News
The Biggest Industry You’ve Never Heard Of
a link on the right offers Team SoloMid gear. A constant stream of fan comments races alongside the game, and on archived videos, flashy Budweiser ads periodically interrupt the action. Each month, Twitch says, more than 100 million people will log in to watch an View Details
- 01 Jun 2018
- News
Up by the Roots
services and products. The resulting fintech activity has been nothing short of spectacular. CB Insights reports that 3 out of the top 10 global fintech deals in 2017 involved Chinese companies, while the 5 largest investor-backed fintech IPOs that year were driven by... View Details
- 01 Sep 2009
- News
Read All About It!
and other forms of amusement and recreation, no matter how much leisure we may have. After men and women have spent respectively an estimated five and eight hours a week on the care of the body and personal appearance, after routine... View Details
- 01 Feb 1998
- News
Running Up the Score
Business of Sports (see sidebar), demurs. "I'm not sure there's any reliable estimate as to how big the sports business is," he says. "Suffice it to say, it's huge and much more encompassing than most people would think. Often defined as... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons