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- 20 Feb 2013
- News
Thanking Veterans Online
surprised than I was when I got in," Hall said. HBS proved to be an ideal and welcoming setting for Hall as he dealt with the trauma of combat and began to decide what he would make of his life after the military. The demanding academic... View Details
- 01 Jun 2008
- News
Kash Rangan
estimated $6 trillion will flow directly to social enterprise organizations. Concurrently, a new generation of business leaders and philanthropists is experimenting with hybrid forms of social enterprises while View Details
- 01 Sep 2009
- News
Read All About It!
manufactured consumer goods first used the union label as a way to show solidarity through their purchases. One hundred years later, men and women, and even teenagers, organized to protest sweatshop production in various countries around the world and to View Details
- 01 Jun 2018
- News
The Long Run
estimated that price tag at a shocking $504 billion for 2015. Having parked, Langford is now maneuvering a cardboard box full of spiral-bound white papers through a series of doors leading to a Carter Center conference room. The... View Details
- 01 Dec 2007
- News
Mead Treadwell
President Bush himself has now urged ratification of the UNCLOS. Please delineate the Arctic’s economic and strategic importance. We produce 20 percent of America’s oil out of the Arctic today, and the U.S. Geological Survey estimate is... View Details
- 01 Jun 2006
- News
India Arrives
relatively pro-business government and an energetic young population and growing middle class that make no secret of aspiring to a better quality of life, complete with all the consumer goods such an existence entails. The downside, however, is just as apparent, with... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 01 Apr 1996
- News
Stewards of the Seventh Generation
because waste is lost money. By developing a reputation as a company that produces products that are as safe as possible for people and the environment, we also improve our market share. This is going to become increasingly important as people become more sophisticated... View Details
- 01 Feb 1998
- News
Running Up the Score
Business of Sports (see sidebar), demurs. "I'm not sure there's any reliable estimate as to how big the sports business is," he says. "Suffice it to say, it's huge and much more encompassing than most people would think. Often defined as... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 02 Sep 2018
- News
Havana Rising
advising US companies on ways to navigate the newly opened market. At the height of the thaw, demand for consulting had become so strong that the brothers were having to turn away potential clients. It felt a bit like a gold rush. This... View Details
Keywords: Dan Morrell; photographed by Eve North
- 01 Sep 2013
- News
Who Are We?
the yield and quality of various cuts of beef to determine if he wants to repeat prior cow-bull pairings or emphasize particular traits or grazing conditions. The physical demands of farming are on par with an endurance athlete's training... View Details
- 01 Sep 2011
- News
Making a Difference in the World
consider ancient Rome to be the largest city before 19th century London,14 George Modelski considers medieval Baghdad, with an estimated population of 1.2 million at its peak, to be the largest city before 19th century London.13 Others... View Details
- 05 Oct 2022
- News
Inside the Chip Shortage
says, adding that demand will continue to grow for applications in cars, robots, manufacturing, and health care. Semiconductors are the tools that make it possible to process data, which makes them foundational to modern technology. Most... View Details
- 01 Jun 2004
- News
Cyberposium: Pros and Cons of Outsourcing
said. The outsourcing market is estimated at 11 percent of IT — or about $150 billion globally. India is acknowledged to be the largest offshore destination, but a great deal of IT business is outsourced to off-site domestic workers as... View Details
- 07 Sep 2021
- News
Green House
achieve net-zero-energy demand by pairing ultra-low energy use with solar panels for energy production. But Harper’s home goes even further than that select group—achieving net-positive-energy production—because the house uses so little... View Details
- 01 Jun 2020
- News
Staying the Course
3 million students had benefited from DreamBox's adaptive learning technology and its colorful video-game-style math lessons. Five weeks later—with an estimated 124,000 of the country’s K–12 schools closed to prevent the spread of... View Details
- 19 Jun 2019
- News
Connecting Patients and Providers
tried to contact medical specialists on his mother’s behalf. Trustedoctor estimates that only 2 percent of emails to doctors are returned and a full 46 percent of inquiries to United States hospitals via any method are lost. And even if... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 09 May 2022
- News
Green House
spark a home-design revolution. A Passive House is designed to be ultra-energy efficient. Some, like Harper’s Victorian, achieve net-zero-energy demand by pairing low-energy use with solar panels for energy production. Harper’s home is... View Details
- 09 Jan 2014
- News
Tapping into Opportunity
the world: growing demand and limited supply. According to US research, the world's demand for fresh and pure water is forecast to exceed supply by 50 percent by 2025. Other studies have found that, within a... View Details
- 27 Apr 2023
- News
Life Preserver
because they lack access to an organ transplant. Worldwide, the World Health Organization estimates only 10 percent of the need for organ transplantation is being met. And the gap between the demand and... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 01 Oct 2000
- News
Q & A: Bain & Company's Thomas J. Tierney
that is to look at what has changed at Bain & Company in recent years. Increasingly, our clients are demanding strategic counsel in this critical area. At least two-thirds of them currently engage Bain's services on one or more Internet... View Details