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- 01 Jun 2005
- News
New Magazine Makes Its Mark
magazine in the summer of 2002. Each issue provides brief excerpts of reviews from more than fifty publications and rates books on a one- to five-star system. In addition, the magazine features best books in a particular genre and... View Details
- 04 Sep 2019
- News
Advanced Statistics Are the New Foam Fingers
package it in a way that’s consumable?” One easy way to do this: Measure the flashy stuff. A program called Statcast calculates hitters’ launch angles and exit velocities on batted balls, while capturing spin rates for pitchers. Those... View Details
- 01 Jun 2009
- News
Author Charley Ellis on Goldman Sachs
company. Most people think that will change the firm, but it won’t. It gives Goldman access to the Fed window which is very useful for liquidity management and, on the other hand, it reduces the amount of leverage they can use in trading operations, which reduces the... View Details
Keywords: Finance
- 01 Mar 2017
- News
HBX: Reimagining HBS for the Digital Age
multi week program has a remarkable 85 percent completion rate across cohorts. CORe is now offered at educational institutions in the United States and to students around the world. At HBS, CORe is playing an important role in... View Details
- 01 Jun 2013
- News
Five Bright Ideas
University, withdrawal rates dropped by 56 percent, pass rates rose 11 percent, and 45 percent of the class finished four weeks early. RANGE: Virtually any subject (e.g., Biology, Chemistry, Economics,... View Details
- 01 Dec 1998
- News
Africa's Way
well: the small, dynamic, stable economies of Mauritius, Tunisia, and Botswana were recently lauded in the Africa Competitiveness Report compiled by the World Economic Forum and the Harvard Institute for International Development. The leading countries in Africa now... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young and Garry Emmons
- 27 Mar 2019
- News
Life Is a Startup
this is something tough to go and do, that there’s a high rate of failure, they’re not willing to go and dive into there. If we can have the passionate founders be able to have the analytic, be able to realize when to pull back on the... View Details
- 11 Feb 2021
- News
Retraining for a Post-COVID Workforce
getting rich, Palandjian said. Investors face a risk if students don’t find jobs and are unable to pay what they owe, but they also get the reward of seeing the good their money is doing, via a quarterly report detailing job-placement View Details
- 01 Dec 2011
- News
Faculty Books
Accelerating Energy Innovation: Insights from Multiple Sectors edited by Rebecca M. Henderson and Richard G. Newell (University of Chicago Press for the National Bureau of Economic Research) Studies have suggested that significantly increasing the View Details
Keywords: Utilities
- 01 Oct 2021
- News
Tulsa Massacre Case Fosters Timely Conversations
better educational foundation. . . . So, unless the literacy rates increase overnight, providing a financial scholarship. . . [won’t override] years of systematic oppression.” Desai, the Mizuho Financial Group Professor of Finance, was... View Details
- 01 Jun 2016
- News
Taking Care of Business
wick away moisture and odor; it has since expanded into sleepwear, shapewear, plus-sizes, and men’s underwear, with an annual growth rate of more than 20 percent. “Stay focused and listen to customers—that’s who opens their pocketbooks,”... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 01 Jun 2000
- News
Flexibility Is Key to Product Development in Internet Time
functionality contained in a search engine. Instead, each project was assessed by a panel of industry experts, who rated the performance of the resulting product relative to others that targeted similar customer needs at the same time.... View Details
Keywords: Judith A. Ross
- 01 Sep 2014
- News
Faculty Q&A: Cents and Sensibilities
rates or the minimum wage, reflect the public’s efforts to find the right balance between these competing arguments. That may not be pretty, but it makes me hopeful. How do people make decisions about these big economic questions?... View Details
- 01 Jun 2014
- News
FIELD 2 in Accra
global business environment. Among this year's FIELD 2 countries, Ghana has both the lowest GDP per capita and the highest rate of GDP growth. "The country has a large and growing wealth divide," notes Leach, who said the team was struck... View Details
- 01 Sep 2003
- News
The Kids Are Alright: Alumni Children Crack Case
part, found himself fielding some unexpected questions. “What’s a soap opera?” one boy asked during a discussion of ad rates for different kinds of TV programming. Mention of a $1.3 million cost provoked the query, “How much money is... View Details
- 01 Mar 2023
- News
The Exchange: Micro Management
Image by John Ritter In the 50 years since modern microfinance was introduced as a tool to fight poverty, institutions have distributed hundreds of millions of loans to people in developing countries. Such loans are repaid at rates often as high as 98 percent. Those... View Details
- 17 Dec 2024
- News
Solving the Underemployment Crisis
Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Hi, it’s Dan. Today, we are sharing a brief excerpt from Managing the Future of Work, the critically-acclaimed podcast from my colleagues at Harvard Business School. Each episode, HBS professors Bill Kerr... View Details
- 01 Apr 1996
- News
New Releases
addition to product information such as price, running time, and year of release, reviewers provide a concise discussion of each program and offer recommendations for its appropriate audience and most effective usage. Easy-to-read sidebars accompany each review, View Details
- 01 Jun 1997
- News
HBS Cyberposium Brings Online Future into Focus
"The Internet is an explosion like nothing we've ever seen before," declared Bob Davis, CEO of Lycos, the Internet search engine company, to an overflow crowd at the fourth annual Harvard Business School Cyberposium held last February at HBS. "In terms of the View Details
Keywords: Meg Gardner
- 01 Apr 2001
- News
Making A Difference: HBS Club of Puget Sound Reaches Out to Young Alumni
serves as the epicenter of all contacts and communications between the club and local alumni. Today, with 275 members — its highest membership rate ever — the HBS Club of Puget Sound is flourishing. One of its most popular events, the... View Details