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- 09 Apr 2025
- News
The Working Parent Revolution
Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Dan Morrell: Hi, this is Dan Morell, host of Skydeck. In 2023, the Bureau of Labor Statistics reported that in 67% of two-parent families with children, both parents worked, which was up from 59% in 2013.... View Details
- 01 Sep 2011
- News
Green Day
best locations to generate it are far from the densely populated areas that need it. Wind-generated electricity traveling from western Kansas to St. Louis, for example, loses up to 15 percent of its energy en route. The Grain Belt... View Details
- 05 Dec 2016
- News
The Dragon’s Tale
places over the past several years. The fact that so many factory workers had to leave their families for extended periods was untenable in the long run. There were the terrible Foxconn suicides. The one-child-per-family policy was beginning to create a View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg
- 01 Sep 2015
- News
The Business of Love
re-create the transparency and social accountability that would come if a couple met offline through a mutual friend. The app populates a user’s dating profile with information and current photos from Facebook; recently Hinge added... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 15 Sep 2020
- News
How To Make Diversity a Reality
deal sources, right? The people, the investment banks, the middle market investment banks who provide deals—and underlying all of that is two critical problems, right? One is there's just pervasive, unconscious bias. It's not intentional. It's just that the industry... View Details
- 01 Mar 2012
- News
Putting Ghosts to Rest
two programs in particular: The “one cow per poor family” program intended to get every poor family in Rwanda a cow—thereby increasing the amount of milk, protein, and fertilizer available to the average family, which sounded good on paper. But this was in the most... View Details
- 01 Apr 2002
- News
Back in Business
by minute. Take the matter of the city's schools, for example. "The initial reaction was to close them, but what's really best?" asks Lhota. "What do parents do if school is closed? Do we really want a million kids - the school population... View Details
- 01 Sep 2016
- News
The Taxi Wars of Jakarta
percent of the population has credit cards. Go-Jek drivers offered their customers rain gear and surgical masks as protection against the streets’ noxious fumes. And all Go-Jek drivers received road safety training; gone were the... View Details
- 11 Sep 2018
- News
Bringing Government Up to Code
jobs, and justice. All of our focus areas are looking at vulnerable populations and helping people find a path out of poverty. And the initiative that you saw was GetCalFresh, which is one of our big food initiatives in California, to... View Details
- 28 Feb 2025
- News
Joy to the World
at a population level, exercise can actually make a bigger difference than antidepressants. That's kind of the reduction of negative mood, but it also boosts positive well-being. DM: This is what I've been trying to tell my wife for... View Details
- 10 Mar 2015
- News
Women in Tech: Breaking the Digital Ceiling
Still, women entrepreneurs—11 percent of the US working population in 2013, according to a report by Global Entrepreneurship Monitor—receive significantly less venture capital money than their male counterparts. HBS Assistant Professor... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 04 May 2018
- News
How to Win the Kentucky Derby
legislatures and the politicians. But it's a huge engine that I believe is just getting bigger and bigger. But a big part of that are the people that are on the ground. You look at a place like Saratoga where I'm from, every summer the View Details
Keywords: horse racing
- 01 Mar 2009
- News
Model Patient
world in life expectancy, at 77.9 years. Half the U.S. population does not receive standard preventive care such as cancer screening, blood pressure checks, or vaccinations. A 2007 McKinsey study found that compared with the average for... View Details
- 21 Dec 2018
- News
Bridging the Gap
perspectives that can co-exist. Fundamentally, it’s about building empathy. The fact that two-thirds of study abroad is still in western Europe—while 80% of the world’s population is living in Asia, Africa, and Latin America—doesn’t make... View Details
- 06 Dec 2021
- News
New Wave
40 percent of the world’s population lives within 60 miles of a coastline, putting wave and tidal power conveniently close to “demand loads” (aka customers). The US Department of Energy’s Water Power Technologies Office (WPTO) estimates... View Details
- 01 Jun 2018
- News
Up by the Roots
that Ant Financial, the fintech arm of the Alibaba Group, has approximately 1.5 billion users across its various platforms—a number that exceeds the combined populations of North America and Western Europe. (With a valuation of $60... View Details
- 01 Jun 2018
- News
June 2018 Alumni and Faculty Books
population of poor, underserved people and a severe shortage of skills and capacity, some resourceful private enterprises have found a way to deliver high-quality health care, at ultra-low prices, to all patients who need it. This book... View Details
- 01 Apr 1998
- News
World Class Learning
students in the MBA Program. In 1988, 16 percent of the HBS student population was international, a figure that had grown to 26 percent by 1997. "This year, by country count, we have the most diverse class in the School's history," Fadule... View Details
Keywords: Eileen K. McCluskey
- 10 Aug 2017
- News
Skydeck Live: The Happiness Equation
longest longitudinal study on happiness ever done. And although our wealth has tripled, although our safety has increased, murder rates at an all-time low, people can go further and faster, more educated, happiness has been flat. It's about 20% of the population. It... View Details
- 12 Dec 2018
- News
Lesson Plan
dedication to a sense of what is just and fair that explains why she now finds herself in the trenches of local politics, fighting to shift a culture of patronage and mismanagement that has been decades in the making. Located in Lackawanna County, Scranton, with a... View Details