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- 01 Mar 2012
- News
Putting Ghosts to Rest
fractures in the community could grow. But the co-ops could avoid all of this, as they would first pull the community together, and maybe at a later point spur more individual entrepreneurship. Stepping back, I realized that the co-ops and cows were important in ways... View Details
- 01 Jun 2020
- News
Homeschooled
students, Khan wants parents to feel “Oh, I can do this. This isn’t impossible.” Today, Khan Academy usage is up about 250 percent, student and teacher registration rates are six times higher than normal, and parent registrations are 20... View Details
- 01 Dec 2003
- News
Can Manufacturing Keep Its Edge?
company, based in Fayetteville, North Carolina, has experienced a compound annual growth rate of over 19 percent, due in large part to strategies that have included redesigning and introducing new products, reexamining company management,... View Details
- 30 Sep 2024
- News
The Making of a Streaming Sensation
engineer is Craig McDonald. It is available on Apple, Spotify, and wherever you get your favorite podcasts. And if you could take a moment to rate and review us, we’d be grateful. For more information, or to find archived episodes, visit... View Details
- 31 Mar 2023
- News
How Can We Solve the Teacher Shortage Crisis?
interviews and insights from across the world of business. It’s produced by the External Relations Department at HBS. Our audio engineer is Craig McDonald. It’s available on Apple, Spotify, and wherever you get your favorite podcasts. And If you could take a moment to... View Details
- 01 Mar 2019
- News
The One That Got Away
percent or more. But VCs and entrepreneurs are human—and with the US startup failure rate hovering at around 60 percent (according to a 2015 Cambridge Associates study) those home runs are far from the norm. That makes it even more... View Details
- 01 Sep 2008
- News
Balanced Equation
husband and two children across the country for a job at a no-name Internet start-up. What changed your mind? I spent the day at eBay. I learned that users were deeply dedicated to the site, which had a compound monthly growth rate of 70... View Details
- 01 Dec 2015
- News
Golden State of Mind
other circumstances do you pay the most but get the least?” he asks, referencing California’s high tax rate and overloaded public services. “Any HBS student would tell you that’s a monopoly supplier. If we had six states, each would try... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 01 Sep 2006
- News
Down the Memory Chute
of ironclad deadlines and word length. The result was a classic love-hate relationship. “While in the MBA Program, students tend to dislike report writing,” the Bulletin noted in 1978. “As alumni five or more years out of the School, the same students tend to give... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 01 Dec 2011
- News
Li & Fung's Global Footprint
average compounded growth rate over that time has been about 22 percent. Acquisitions have been an important part of your growth strategy since the mid-1990s. How do you manage to fold an acquired firm into Li & Fung? To be bigger, we... View Details
- 01 Mar 2014
- News
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 also de-risks the loans in the... View Details
- 14 Nov 2024
- News
How the Insurance Industry Can Weather the Storms
get your favorite podcasts. And if you could take a moment to rate and review us, we’d be grateful. For more information, or to find archived episodes, visit alumni.hbs.edu/skydeck. 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 Fenton. “I didn’t think I’d be working on NLNS for more than three... View Details
- 01 Dec 2020
- News
New News
citizen, which equals about $490 billion in spending power. That’s an opportunity that many people don’t recognize. Our free-trial-to-conversion rate was above 80 percent for a long time; the industry average is about 33 percent. We think... View Details
- 28 May 2019
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for June 2019
traditional products are transforming into smart connected products and ecosystem platforms at a rate much faster than most organizations think. Schaeffer andSovie show how this reinvention is made possible: by AI and digital... View Details
- 01 Feb 1998
- News
Running Up the Score
are being met with resistance; attendance and TV ratings for many teams are disappointing; and competition from other sources for fans' attention and discretionary spending is steadily intensifying. Some of the customers upon whom the... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 19 Aug 2021
- News
A Letter to My White Friends and Colleagues
home, and they would sell it to Blacks for up to 30 times what they had paid for the home. And the interest rate that they were charging would be usury, but Blacks they had no other choice. They had to access this market. And what we know... View Details
- 01 Jun 2017
- News
Supercharged
station wagon and an SUV, to be released at the rate of one a year beginning in 2018. It’s an ambitious plan, but Shen is attracting plenty of support: WM, whose name derives from the German Weltmeister, for “world champion,” has already... View Details
- 01 Jun 1997
- News
Sorting Myth from Reality at Hong Kong Conference
dynamism. China's economy, he reported, has been growing at a rate of over 10 percent a year in this decade, on a scale the world has never known. China's chaos stems from the lack of preparation before reforms began - including a lack of... View Details
Keywords: Alejandro Reyes
- 01 Dec 1999
- News
Covering the Issues
support for technological innovation. A 1961 article covering a conference on "Technological Planning on the Corporate Level" asserted that "the accelerating rate of change - our expanding technology - is the single most important factor... View Details