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- 01 Apr 1997
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Facing the Music
record industry, 1996 was a bluesy kind of year. As revenues increased less than 1 percent and consumers bought 8 percent fewer CDs and cassettes compared to the previous year, the pause button, it seems, was hit on a decade of... View Details
Keywords: Marguerite Rigoglioso
- 01 Feb 1997
- News
Doing It Your Way
employment growth. From 1987 to 1992, the number of women-owned businesses grew by 43 percent, almost double the rate of growth for all firms during that same period.* During that time, employment by women-owned firms rose by 100 percent, View Details
- 02 Mar 2023
- News
Carbon's Second Act
1.5 degrees Celsius. Which, you might remember from Episode 1, is the amount of global temperature rise, compared to pre-industrial times, after which scientists say serious climate catastrophes are likely. So, yes, progress is positive.... View Details
- 01 Oct 2002
- News
What's Cookin'
hectic private lives. In the upper ranks, Mack notes that typical managers in other restaurants work seventy to eighty hours each week, inspiring the grim phrase “burn 'em and turn 'em.” By offering managers a forty-hour week at View Details
Keywords: Hanna, Julia
- 01 Jun 2016
- News
How Do We Win the Cyberwar?
users control of other computers remotely is priced as low as $20. And business is booming. A PricewaterhouseCoopers survey found that global security incidents rose 38 percent in 2015—the biggest jump in the survey’s 12-year history. View Details
Keywords: Dan Morrell; illustrations by Victo Ngai
- 01 Jun 2009
- News
Dispatches from the Global Classroom
response: By providing preventive care and earlier intervention, Primedic’s network will lower costs compared with a public health system notable for its long lines and months-long wait for referrals. Rodríguez, cofounder of the IGNIA... View Details
- 01 Mar 2014
- News
The Solution to the Global Food Crisis Just Might Come from Nigeria
Monument Bank, which loans against measures like warehouse receipts. At the height of the growing season, First City has 9 percent of its $2.7 billion loan book invested in agriculture, compared to a national bank average of 3 percent.... View Details
- 01 Jun 2010
- News
M.I.A. Boards
they are. Their names appear on the generic, straight-to-the-wastebasket proxy forms that shareholders receive. But despite recent improvements that have increased shareholders’ voices in governance, a levelheaded observer like former SEC chairman William Donaldson... View Details
- 01 Sep 2011
- News
The Spangler Effect
service. One alum from the Class of 2001, a group that bridged the old and the new, compared the food in Kresge Hall to “a bad airport lounge.” By contrast, the Spangler Food Court fare was “amazing,” an assessment that holds true a... View Details
- 04 May 2018
- News
How to Win the Kentucky Derby
way our business has evolved and our industry has progressed, there are very few people who are not in a position to invest in a horse. You can get into a piece of a horse for a couple thousand dollars. Hanna: Oh, that was one of my questions. OK. Finley: So, you View Details
Keywords: horse racing
- 01 Jun 2014
- News
What’s Next
virtually every leading business school in the United States (and, increasingly, in the world), the impact of this effort can't be overestimated. As in business, we have to look for opportunities where we have a comparative advantage in... View Details
- 01 Mar 2013
- News
Making Change
much a start-up has to fail in order to be successful. It took us several iterations to get there. I was also surprised at the degree to which the private sector accepts or even values start-up failure compared with the nonprofit sector,... View Details
- 01 Sep 2018
- News
September 2018 Alumni and Faculty Books
question of how the inflow of foreign workers affects native employment and earnings; they also explore effects on innovation and productivity, wage inequality across skill groups, the behavior of multinational firms, firm-level dynamics of entry and exit, and the... View Details
- 15 Nov 2018
- News
Don’t Be Afraid of AI
figuring out how to commercialize that and how to apply it in a way that can benefit humanity. But the two missions sit side by side in some sense. Morrell: So, compare what you do to the rest of the AI sector. How is what you do... View Details
- 06 Dec 2021
- News
New Wave
fuels such as oil and gas, but also with wind and solar, whose costs have plummeted over the past decade. Competing power sources are often compared using levelized cost of energy, or LCOE, which is calculated by dividing the lifetime... View Details
- 21 Dec 2022
- News
HBS Community Comes Together in Wake of Ukraine Invasion
Ukraine will likely intensify, roiling energy markets further and raising questions about the future of globalization, says HBS Professor Rawi Abdelal. Putin’s iron fist vs. Zelensky’s moral clarity Historian and HBS professor Nancy Koehn, author of ‘Forged in Crisis,’... View Details
- 01 Dec 2008
- News
Business at the Summit
to another level, Ferguson compared evolutionary developments in the natural world with recent developments in the global economic system. Over the past two decades, he explained, there has been an “incredible financial evolution,” from... View Details
- 01 Apr 1996
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Technology for Learning's Sake
findings to Quelch. Comparing notes after the exercise, most found they had reached similar conclusions. As an added bonus, the class also learned what ads Intel ultimately chose - and why - directly from Linda Clark, Intel's director of... View Details
Keywords: by Deborah Blagg; photo by David Zadig
- 10 Aug 2017
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Skydeck Live: The Happiness Equation
But the interesting thing about the model, if you compare your happiness with the person you're closest with, is that a middle third for us is actually one of us is happy and one of us isn't. And in those moments, which is a very large... View Details
- 01 Feb 2002
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Redefining Success: Women & Work.
"Then we asked if there was anything else she wanted to tell us, and she said that he was one of the nicest, kindest, most empathetic little boys she'd ever known. If you try to compare that with the biggest deal I ever did, you just... View Details