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- 01 Dec 2005
- News
Trillion-Dollar Fixer-Upper
well-heeled clients. Savings and loans, desperate for high returns, made risky loans a business staple. And the Japanese, buoyed by a strong economy and low interest rates at home, swept in to buy up trophy... View Details
- 01 Mar 2006
- News
Venture Capital, Post-Dot Bomb
At Cyberposium, a student-run technology conference held last November at the School, HBS professor Bill Sahlman sparked a frank discussion on the current climate for venture capital investing. “In the future, I see a median rate View Details
- 01 Jun 2013
- News
Brick by Brick
Meanwhile, birth rates declined, and children had less interest in toys that didn't offer instant gratification. Serious jolts were also taking place in the LEGO Group. Kjeld, out View Details
- 01 Apr 2002
- News
Back in Business
send e-mail to the author: Garry Emmons photos by AP/Wide World September 11, 2001, was a day that New Yorkers will never forget, particularly those who live and work in Lower Manhattan, the city’s business and financial center. With the... View Details
- 01 Mar 2015
- News
A Boomtown's Echo
Beyond the Boom Senior Lecturer John Macomber The oil boom has lowered the unemployment rate in Williston, North Dakota, to less than 1 percent. “With respect to the city, if you want to diversify the... View Details
- 13 May 2013
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Alex Popa, MBA 2007
long-held passion. “I was deeply involved in the sciences in high school and at Stanford, and I truly believe genomics is the business field that will lead to the fastest rate of innovation in my lifetime.... View Details
- 01 Jun 2020
- News
Post-Office
has been the inability for folks to be able to manage their personal family lives with kids studying at home. Not everybody has a setup where partners are able to split the work. But outside of that, there’s the benefits View Details
- 01 Jun 2011
- News
The Best-Laid Plans
round we finished with the highest score from a couple of judges and a dead zero from those who pointed out that they were asked to rate plans on financial return,” says... View Details
- 01 Sep 2006
- News
Strange Bedfellows
estimates are that a 15 percent tax on reported GAAP profits would be revenue-neutral for the government. A tax with a lower rate on a more sensible base is a central lesson of... View Details
- 22 Feb 2022
- News
Savings and Loam
interest rates and all the transactional features of a checking account, in addition to a compelling impact story. “The opportunity for you is to put your money where it’s... View Details
- 01 Dec 2018
- News
Competencies and Credentials
positions—the supervisors, sales representatives, data analysts, and production managers, for example—tend to be less engaged in their work, have higher rates of turnover, and have View Details
- 01 Dec 2006
- News
MBA vs. MBA
seat. Campaign spending on both sides has flowed freely. As of mid-October, Edwards had raised about $2.8 million to Taylor’s $1.9 million, according to the New York Times. About half of Edwards’s... View Details
- 01 Jun 2008
- News
The $4 Billion Question
clear you can raise $4 billion for your next fund instead of the planned $1 billion. Professor of Management Practice Nabil N. El-Hage coauthored the case with HBS professor and Finance unit head Richard... View Details
- 01 Mar 2016
- News
Case Study: Paper Chase
inscrutable that you can’t figure out what they’d like. This could be an interesting place to position the product. It’s more than a card (heck, it is $13), but it’s not yet another useless item that you’ll regift or send to Goodwill. You... View Details
- 13 Jul 2020
- News
Locally Grown
pharmaceutical machinery sector. With the natural beauty of the Rocky Mountains as a backdrop for his career decision, Fenwick-Smith became increasingly interested in climate change and what the business... View Details
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- 05 Aug 2015
- News
Mobilizing the Public to Fight Corruption
“It’s good governance in your pocket. Very consumer focused,” says Motte-Munoz. “Say you need a driver’s license; the app will tell you where all the DMV offices are and tell you their rating on a corruption basis. “People know there’s... View Details
- 02 Mar 2023
- News
Carbon's Second Act
Photo credits: Brenae Bowers Brix and Russ Campbell Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Dan Morrell: This story starts the way all classic stories of tech entrepreneurship do: In Todd Brix's garage. Brix (MBA 1997) started his career in the... View Details
- 01 Mar 2009
- News
Buddy, Can You Spare a Trillion
crucially, by selling billions of dollars of bonds to the People’s Bank of China, the United States has been able to enjoy significantly lower... View Details
- 01 Mar 2011
- News
The Path to Economic Revival
or intermediate term, to outsource production to an overseas supplier. The company can buy manufacturing services at a much lower rate if it goes to China or elsewhere, depending on the industry. But if... View Details
- 01 Mar 2014
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The Solution to the Global Food Crisis Just Might Come from Nigeria
trained in agronomy and business, dispenses advice on everything from best practices to business ethics, while keeping track of growth rates and other performance measures with a smartphone app. This process... View Details