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- 09 Jan 2014
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Tapping into Opportunity
small—it is estimated today at about $400 billion per year worldwide—because of the constant need for technological innovation, Shenkar sees huge opportunities for startups. In 2009 she started the Artemis Top 50 competition, which brings... View Details
- 01 Mar 2015
- News
Ask the Expert: Inside the Fed
(MBA 1981) I wouldn’t say there’s a big focus on “media speculation” per se, but Fed officials have to be attuned to market sentiment, and they consume a great deal of information. Fed policies work through financial markets. Sometimes it... View Details
- 01 Sep 2024
- News
The Road Less Traveled
Most cars in the United States weigh more than 4,000 pounds, and new models are trending larger, even in countries where people drive less. And the larger the vehicle, the more fuel required to power it, which means more greenhouse-gas emissions that contribute to... View Details
- 01 Oct 1998
- News
Value Added
advantage in the host country." The soft-spoken Gupta, a native of India and a 25-year veteran of McKinsey, reveals that the firm supports a research agenda worthy of the top tiers of academia, allocating some $200 million per year to... View Details
Keywords: James E. Aisner
- 01 Mar 2009
- News
Just Keep Our Money
ask for IOUs in the form of savings bonds instead. In 2007, the federal government distributed tax refunds exceeding $248 billion to more than 114 million filers. Businesses have long capitalized on these refund dollars, which average $2,345 View Details
- 01 Mar 2012
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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... View Details
- 03 Oct 2019
- News
Skydeck Live: Galactic Returns
and a half. Think aircraft-like operation on earth via space. Perhaps even more importantly, the model would allow to bring the costs down to hundreds of dollars per kilogram. And while it has come down from $25,000 to $5,000 View Details
- 01 Sep 2017
- News
A Jolt for the African Coffee Industry
Horn of Africa.) “Kenya” adorns bags of single-origin beans shipped around the world, but that country’s residents drink less than 1 percent as much coffee per capita as world-leading Finland’s, according to statistics collected by the... View Details
- 01 Dec 2016
- News
Ask the Expert: Energy’s Next Era
electricity grid are associated with carbon emissions. But an electric vehicle is less carbon intense (in terms of pounds of CO2 per mile) than a 25-mile-per-gallon internal combustion engine vehicle—even if the electricity grid that... View Details
- 01 Jun 2014
- News
The Digital Deck
staffed studio that allows participants to interact in real time with one another and with a faculty member, much as they would in a physical classroom. Up to 60 participants per session download software that provides a perspective view... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 01 Jan 2011
- News
Peter Harf, MBA 1974
detergent part of Benckiser public. Subsequently, in 1999, this company merged with Reckitt & Colman, forming Reckitt Benckiser. The new firm thrived, reaching a total shareholder return of 16.5 percent per year over a period of 10 years.... View Details
- 01 Apr 2000
- News
Q & A: A Conversation with IRS Chief Charles Rossotti
opportunity for improvement. The average taxpayer has one interaction per year with us, but a small businessperson with a few employees may have to deal with us fifty times a year. If you fall behind, you can get in all sorts of tangles.... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 01 Mar 2005
- News
A Dog’s Best Friend: Jim Hawes’s Charles River Rescue
receive a plaque from the Humane Society, and to tell me that Harvard paid out quite a lot, at 25 cents per clipping from around the world, to its clipping services. Dean Fouraker was funny and very nice. The most interesting piece of... View Details
- 01 Apr 2002
- News
John Mulroney: Center Stage at the Opera
are serious about what they're doing," he notes. Since Mulroney assumed the role of executive director, the number of operas performed per season has more than doubled, from 16 to 35. He expects a $2 to $3 million budget increase over the... View Details
- 01 Mar 2004
- News
Kilimanjaro
final climb in a misty rain. The temperature was 5 degrees; the winds were blowing at 30 miles per hour. By this point they all knew each other quite well. Most of the chocolate had already been consumed. Canadian Graeme Johnson (MBA ’95)... View Details
- 01 Sep 2020
- News
Road Work
space at the i-Lab, where classmates Wombi Rose and John Wise of LovePop and Michael Martin of RapidSOS were neighbors. To date, Camino’s loans have totaled about $70 million, with average amounts of $16,000 per member (Camino’s term for... View Details
- 11 Mar 2020
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Making It Rain
business dashboards, and other tools for clients. The end results are “microweather” forecasts for clients ranging from major airlines to roofing companies to individual users through a smartphone app. “We’re the only private weather company that is capable of running... View Details
Keywords: Lisa Scanlon Mogolov
- 01 Apr 2008
- News
“Let Us Now Praise Famous Women”
precomputer times: on 8x5-inch alphabetized cards, one per alum, filling buckets set in five-foot-long deep trays placed on four revolving shelves, like cars on a very wide, miniature (about 4 ½ feet tall), electrically operated Ferris... View Details
- 01 Jun 2015
- News
Screen Grab
that many never sign up for pay TV at all. “I suspect that what is happening is much more profound, and that revolution will come from individuals and companies creating content at a fraction of the cost per hour of traditional pay-TV... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna; HBO; Netflix; Hulu; Vimeo; YouTube; Telecommunications; Information; Arts, Entertainment
- 18 Mar 2014
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The Oz of Data Opens the Curtain
crunching. Acxiom, say analysts, has constructed the world's largest consumer database. Nearly 25,000 servers track data on 700 million consumers worldwide, including most US consumers, assembling approximately 1,500 data points per... View Details