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- 09 Mar 2021
- News
Addressing Education Inequities Exacerbated by the Pandemic
terms of spending. When you get really gross spending disparities per capita for students, that shows up in everything from extracurriculars, to the depth of a curriculum, to the salaries paid to teachers. And those disparities also have... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie
- 01 Mar 2025
- News
Patch Work
‘cosponsor this’ or ‘please fight against this.’ ” Jameson now sells such services at about $18 per call to a lawmaker’s office. They keep the firm occupied in odd-numbered years, defying the traditional boom-and-bust cycle faced by... View Details
- 01 Jun 2020
- News
Check In
this. Our service model at Kimpton was not service per se, it was care. What does the guest on the other side of the desk need right now? How can we properly care for them? If people are traveling right now, what they’ll need more than... View Details
- 07 Sep 2021
- News
September 2021 Alumni Books
Victoria Crittenden (DBA 1989) and William Crittenden Business Expert Press Direct selling is not an industry, per se, nor is it merely a go-to-market business model or channel to reach consumers. It is bigger than any of that: Direct... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 08 Mar 2013
- News
The Accidental Innovator
spend per student, with the Khan Academy method, can you parlay that into a $150K or $200K salary for a teacher? If you could do that, it immediately professionalizes teaching to be on a par with medicine or law because in principle it’s... 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
- 01 Jun 2022
- News
Empowering Entrepreneurially Minded Students
they might have been interested in this kind of opportunity. About half said they would have done such a program, so we knew there would be enough interest. We’ve admitted about 30 students per cohort each year since the two-year program... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie
- 28 May 2019
- News
Research Brief: Field Research
intervention that amounted to less than $10 per person (but at no cost to the farmer). Even more encouraging to Cole was news that another colleague, Harvard economics professor Michael Kremer, had seen similar results in Kenya. “We were... View Details
- 01 Jun 2024
- News
Conducting Business
In 2015 I moved from New York City to Madison, Connecticut, where I met, quite by chance, Ginny Vancil and her brother, Richard. I thought, How many Vancils can there be in the world? I asked if they knew Richard “Dick” Vancil, who was my first professor for my first... View Details
- 01 Mar 2012
- News
The Accidental Innovator
why have teachers teaching individually in separate classrooms, why not teach together in large collaborative spaces? If $10K or $15K a year is about what school districts spend per student, with the Khan Academy method, can you parlay... View Details
- 01 Dec 2000
- News
Latin America's Decade
to PCs and hence to the Net." Thus, Azuela expects the bulk of Internet growth will occur in the B2B sector and wireless applications. Auction house DeRemate.com, currently a leader in the region's consumer Internet sector, has a growth rate of 10 to 20 percent View Details
- 20 Dec 2024
- News
Clubs Open HBS Doors for Local Leaders; Meet the Club Leaders: HBS PRIDE; Favorite Reads of 2024
To Boost Communities, Alumni Clubs Send Nonprofit Leaders to HBS For one week every summer, nonprofit leaders from across the globe convene on the HBS campus to sharpen their leadership skills and expand their impact through the Strategic Perspectives in Nonprofit... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 01 Sep 2009
- News
Professor, Historian, and Storyteller
nations such as China and India — have all accelerated what would have been an inevitable decline. I don’t think the decline will be as pronounced for American business in the next two decades as for the nation-state per se. That’s... View Details
- 01 Mar 2014
- News
The Solution to the Global Food Crisis Just Might Come from Nigeria
Mustapha would be lucky to harvest 1.4 metric tons of maize—one-fifth the yield farmers in Brazil and China can expect. To match their production, he'd need to invest about $500 per hectare. But Mustapha earned only around $600 a year—and... View Details
- 01 Mar 2010
- News
Sole Mates
DOWNING: In one of the world’s poorest countries, the rain forest is key. At A Glance Total Area: 111,369 sq. km. Population: 3,441,790 Per Capita GDP: $500 All maps by Robert Littleford; Country Data: Cia World Factbook Thomas Downing... View Details
- 25 Feb 2020
- News
Why Layoffs are a Losing Strategy
off 2,300 employees and costing the jobs of another 2,000 temporary, contract suppliers’ workers. That action cost the company 700 million euros in sales and 100 million euros in profit in the German market—and at 80,000 euros per... View Details
- 01 Sep 2008
- News
In Africa, Porter Sees Lessons for Health Care
treatments and toward value for patients; he defined “value” as “health outcomes per dollar spent.” Instead of the current system of disjointed, episodic medical interventions, Porter argued for an integrated model that addresses the... View Details
- 25 Aug 2022
- News
The Exchange: The Road Ahead for Crypto
want to sell you. Cryptocurrencies have not yet reached that state. Digital financial transactions are commonplace now, but cryptocurrency, per se, is not something very large numbers of individuals or businesses are willing to trade for... View Details
- 07 Apr 2021
- News
Road Work
you're displacing per square inch could cause that bike to sink. And I would be riding along at times, and then half the bike would sink into the snow without any warning. So I was riding in these areas that were untouched, visually... View Details
- 01 Sep 2015
- News
The Business of Love
the potential to grow 5 percent per year. When Coffee Meets Bagel appeared before the “Sharks,” they had already raised $2.8 million from investors, including Match.com cofounder Peng Ong. After their appearance, the company raised... View Details
Keywords: April White