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- 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
- 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 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 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
- News
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
- 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 2020
- News
In My Humble Opinion: Screen Tested
“My first entrepreneurial venture was around age 10, catching fish off a jetty near my house and selling them to fishermen as live bait. They paid 20 cents per fish, and for a dollar I could buy my own game of mini golf.” First order:... View Details
- 25 Feb 2020
- News
Beyond the Plastisphere
consumer behavior and replacing petroleum-based plastics altogether. At S’well, Kauss estimates that each bottle she sells can replace at least 167 single-use plastic ones per year—enough to put her Million Bottle Project, which aims to... View Details
- 01 Sep 2016
- News
Case Study: Alumni Advice for a Health Care Startup
this mission, Wellthy should also change the basis of competition with its pricing model. Fortunately for Wellthy, C-suite decision makers are of the right demographic to personally appreciate the problem Wellthy solves. Pricing per... View Details