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- 01 Dec 2022
- News
Road to Recovery
biggest barrier—and this sounds crazy—is the lack of a billing code for contingency management.” A participant who remains substance-free and follows a treatment plan can earn up to $100 a month (up to $599 per year) for making healthy... View Details
- 01 Dec 2016
- News
Alumni Leading Change
waste, and conserve natural resources. From 2005 to 2015, for instance, the company’s water and energy consumption per garment dropped by 60 percent and 40 percent respectively. Esquel also works to enhance the well-being of its... View Details
- 01 Dec 2018
- News
Preparing Our Students for a Changing World
second-year students traveled to Israel for a 10-day Immersive Field Course (IFC) that plunged them into the country’s thriving entrepreneurship ecosystem. Often referred to as the “Startup Nation,” Israel has more venture capital per... View Details
- 01 Sep 2018
- News
An SUV Built for African Roads—by African Workers
full-time employees, the new factory will add another 50 people per shift, doing everything from laser-cutting steel frames to inspection, painting, general assembly, and quality testing. The company worked with contract assembly to build... View Details
Keywords: Amy Yee
- 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 Dec 1998
- News
Short Takes
almost perfect proportion to the amount of real consumer debt. "When consumer creditors lent more," explains Moss, "the number of filings quickly increased." After 1985, the number of bankruptcies per dollar lent increased significantly.... View Details
Keywords: Judith A. Ross
- 25 Aug 2014
- News
Wendell P. Weeks, MBA 1987
that brought the Internet into millions of homes in the 1990s. Like so many companies, Corning was caught by surprise when the telecommunications bubble burst. Its stock tumbled, from more than $100 to about a dollar per share. “That was... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 15 Oct 2019
- News
Fellowship Enables Opportunity in Africa
five years of completing their MBAs to pursue full-time jobs on the continent by supplementing their income when their total compensation is less than $100,000. The maximum award is $50,000 per year. The first four GO: Africa recipients... View Details
- 01 Dec 2022
- News
Flying High
$3,800 per person, about twice the cost of a nonstop first-class ticket. Aero took off in the summer of 2020, when the pandemic had reduced expected global passenger airline traffic by some 60 percent. Subramanian thinks it was the... View Details
Keywords: April White; aviation; airlines; entrepreneurship; leadership; innovation; Air Transportation; Transportation
- 25 Apr 2016
- News
Trail Blazer
BC; Lucerne, Switzerland. It’s a way to see where we are. I couldn’t understand why we didn’t have a bike trail in Napa.” The push for a cycles-only pathway had been attempted before, in part because Napa has the ninth-highest bicycle accident rate View Details
- 01 Sep 2009
- News
Ready for Launch
lights and other electrical devices for three days before it’s swapped out for one that has been recharged. Customers pay a yearly subscription fee per battery and a small fee for each recharge. What comes next: On-the-ground research in... View Details
- 05 Nov 2013
- News
Start-Ups Get a Start in New Orleans
a per capita basis—and there's no indication that has stopped. What's attracted them? "It is a very easy city in which to adopt new approaches," says Wilkins. "It's a very open city in which to take a risk. That's not often the case. It's... View Details
- 05 Sep 2017
- News
Living the Quantitative Life
got older, he turned that hunt inward, started using a simple spreadsheet to manually track his behavior, keeping tabs on the amount of time spent exercising, sleeping, commuting, gradually expanding into include everything from his car's average miles View Details
- 01 Mar 2012
- News
Reinventing Radio Days
listening is done in the car. “Distribution ubiquity and that ease of use—what radio has always been—is what we’re after,” says Kennedy, who has inked deals with major automakers to integrate Pandora into their vehicles. To date, 125 million users—who listen an average... View Details
- 01 Dec 2001
- News
Teens and Magazines: Where There's Smoke, There's Advertising
authors noted, among other things, that last year, magazine advertising for the three cigarette brands most popular with young people on average reached more than 80 percent of American youth seventeen times per brand. King and Siegel... View Details
- 25 Mar 2016
- News
Putting Faith in a Good Education
working poor families a modest tuition of 50 cents to $1 per day. “Education is a human right, in my opinion,” says Crane. “The lack of access to good education in developing countries is one of the greatest problems in the world today.”... View Details
- 01 Apr 2002
- News
"Rising to the Challenge" Program Addresses Post-9/11 Issues
were holding, which could save many lives, cost just ten cents per package. In introducing the panelists, who represented a variety of nongovernmental organizations (NGOs), Levy said that "NGOs are critical sources of information and... View Details
- 01 Sep 2024
- News
Ink: Framing the Full Picture
Filipinos have been in the United States for longer than the country is old. As far back as 1763, sailors from the Philippines started arriving in the Gulf of Mexico as indentured servants on Spanish galleons. Life on board was so brutal that, at the sight of land,... View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint
- 08 Mar 2018
- News
HBSAAA Leads the Way in Celebrating African American Alumni Impact
doing this review with the HBS Club of Chicago for over a decade,” says Calkins. “It’s such a great opportunity to get business-minded people together and talk about these ads from a business perspective.” At $5 million per 30-second spot... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 01 Jun 2009
- News
Insights from the Post-Macho Workplace
(measured in number of barrels produced), efficiency (cost per barrel), and reliability (production “up” time) came to exceed the industry’s previous benchmark. What did the men think of the changes? Everyone we talked to preferred the... View Details