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- 01 Mar 2010
- News
Eric Schiffer
have to be able to deal with that. At a retailer like Gap, where the average price per item might be around $20, the number of items we sell would generate $30 billion in annual revenues. Every penny counts for us. If I add a penny of... View Details
- 01 Jun 2007
- News
Up from the Ashes
industrial capitalism has produced the greatest per capita output of goods ever recorded. And, in direct contravention of the Marxian forecast that workers’ share of income will steadily fall, Schumpeter repeats that “relative shares have... View Details
- 01 Sep 2008
- News
Totting Up the Bill for the Iraq War
They posit, for example, that the war, by creating uncertainty in oil futures markets, has added $35 per barrel to the price of oil, an assertion they made long before the recent run-up in oil prices. Finances aside, the United States has... View Details
- 01 Oct 1998
- News
A Community Investment
volunteer projects, a school partnership program that allows employees to take off up to eight hours per month to volunteer, and frequent food and clothing collection drives. John Ince: One World, my company, is a nonprofit devoted to... View Details
- 01 Oct 2002
- News
The Class of 1977
Macquarie into his native Australia's premier merchant bank and in June won wide acclaim for leading the winning consortium to privatize Sydney's airport. Still other classmates have created value in ways not measured in earnings per... View Details
Keywords: Desmond Wong
- 01 Jun 1999
- News
Sheila Lirio Marcelo
also heaped another thirty hours per week onto her schedule working in community activities. At HBS, for example, she was a representative and chair of the Education Committee, helping classmates and faculty maintain communication on a... View Details
Keywords: Marguerite Rigoglioso
- 25 Aug 2010
- News
Games, Parties, Pranks, and Celebrations
champagne in Aldrich 109, our faculty almost getting fired, and the section almost getting expelled en masse. We brought the champagne in by the case. We wanted a bottle per sectionmate (80-ish) plus one per... View Details
- 04 Sep 2019
- News
Advanced Statistics Are the New Foam Fingers
Just try to convert someone weaned on ERA—earned run average, a calculation of how many runs a pitcher allows per nine innings, and a long-favored way to evaluate efficacy—to FIP (fielding independent pitching), which helps evaluate a... View Details
- 01 Sep 2010
- News
Reinventing the Annual Report
recognizing this, BMW Group several years ago began issuing a Sustainable Value Report detailing the energy and water consumed, waste removed, and volatile organic compounds per vehicle produced. BMW believes that its reputation as the... View Details
Keywords: Robert G. Eccles
- 02 Mar 2016
- News
On Credit
salary of $800 per annum) & making a little money, has always been prompt, is worth about $300 & is in good credit for about $500 to $800. The husband makes sufficient by his practice as a doctor to support the family.”[2] In 1841, Lewis... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 01 Mar 2006
- News
The Little Ice-Cream Company That Could
percent stake to the company in 1994 with the agreement that it would not attempt to acquire more than a 25 percent stake for a decade. As that agreement neared its end, Nestlé surprised Rogers by making an offer to buy the Dreyer’s shares it didn’t already own for... View Details
- 01 Jun 2024
- News
Conducting Business
occasional havoc he was creating. Even now, decades later, I’m still in awe of the exquisite performances that Dick Vancil brought to the classroom three times per week. We were richer for having worked so hard for him, and we were... View Details
- 06 Mar 2019
- News
Making Sabbaticals Mainstream
people who are going to take a sabbatical, especially if they're feeling burnt out, they're going to go from a really high level of intensity of your life and your job to something different than that. I think it's dangerous to go from 100 miles View Details
- 01 Dec 1999
- News
A Class Act
resulted over time in one of the most vibrant and highly regarded alumni networks anywhere. Aside from their sheer volume (at present, a total of 300 pages per issue) and scope (current copy provided by 853 class and section... View Details
Keywords: Nancy O. Perry
- 01 Jun 2010
- News
M.I.A. Boards
accounting developments, as well as techniques for improving group process — like a Six Sigma Black Belt for directors. A fee of one one-hundredth of one cent per share on the current volume of the U.S. stock exchanges would yield about... View Details
- 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 Feb 1999
- News
Entrepreneurs Speak at HBS
commerce came from consumers and small businesses; nine months later, 80 percent of that business was from large to midsized companies and from the federal government. "We now have about 100 million visitors a year to our Web site and we do about $10 million View Details
- 01 Oct 2002
- News
Jeremiah P. Murphy, Jr.
merchandise while sharing in the store's profits through an annually distributed rebate. Membership dues today are $1.00 per year, actually half of what they were in 1882. Despite an abiding respect for the Coop's storied past, Murphy... View Details
- 01 Mar 2013
- News
Making Change
10,000 patients at less than 50 cents per patient. The experience convinced me that the future of cost-effective health-care delivery in developing countries, especially for chronic diseases, is through the mobile phone. My cofounder,... View Details
- 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