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- 28 May 2019
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Research Brief: Field Research
their yields. The findings were promising, Cole says: Those who received a weekly call about weather forecasts or pest strategies, for example, saw their yields increase by 8.6 percent for cotton and 28 percent for cumin. As a result,... View Details
- 01 Jun 2016
- News
Case Study: On the Table
logistics can be outsourced to a global company like DHL. Mexico has a cost advantage, so it can naturally be a production center. —Ali al Shihabi (MBA 1985) Consider researching how Indian furniture startups View Details
- 01 Dec 2009
- News
Alumni Books
times. Rigby ex-plains how to craft an action plan tailored to the specific situation, providing tools for cutting costs intelligently, sustaining margins and the brand, boosting revenue by refocusing the... View Details
- 07 Sep 2021
- News
Skydeck Voices: For My Next Act
always worse than you think they are and take longer to fix and cost more. But the goal of what I do is like building community. I've been a real estate developer since the... View Details
- 01 Sep 2011
- News
The City Solution
when energy is relatively cheap — or mispriced, critics would say, as happens when the deleterious environmental and other costs of energy are excluded. Macomber estimates that in the developed world, at any... View Details
- 14 Nov 2024
- News
How the Insurance Industry Can Weather the Storms
risk and if folks are then forced to bear the full cost of their decisions, that will help us build in the right places, right? So not just build in a safe way but decide where to build. View Details
- 01 Oct 2002
- News
John Batcha: Sowing the Seeds to Fight Hunger
vegetable and flower seed, which Batcha sources, packages, and labels in a dozen languages, working out of his home in Charlotte, North Carolina. In the past four years, SPI has shipped nearly six million... View Details
- 18 Feb 2014
- News
Stick with Plan A
money. Seek investors who bring more than just money and are as complementary as possible. Listen to different points of view. Keep costs low for as long as possible, but not to the extent that you... View Details
- 19 Feb 2008
- News
The Scoop Behind the Silver Screen
estimated in advance by companies who specialize in this sort of analysis. Bonds can be purchased to cover cost overrun risks, too. And it doesn’t hurt to have the reality check of a bonding agent looking... View Details
- 10 Mar 2021
- News
Next Normal
deeply grateful the world got comfortable with remote fundraising. Having to travel 3,000 miles to get a ‘no’ in New York would suck; getting a ‘no’ with 30 minutes’ committed time and zero marginal cost is... View Details
- 24 Sep 2020
- News
The Race for a Vaccine
control healthcare costs through better prevention. For instance, in 2014 the United States’ Centers for Disease Control and Prevention recommended that all adults over 65 receive a dose of Prevnar 13, a... View Details
- 19 Jan 2017
- News
Finding Purpose in Profit
Photos by Scott Clark Kim Riether Coupounas (MBA/MPA 1995) has an easy laugh. It erupts when the opera-trained singer and accomplished martial artist is asked whether hitting a high C helps power her fist through a stack of boards. “I... View Details
- 01 Feb 2000
- News
Financial Services 24/7
Administration at HBS, likes to look at this complicated new world in terms of what is changing and what is staying the same. A longtime observer of technology's impact on business, McFarlan has been in-trigued by recent developments in... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 24 Apr 2014
- News
Saving lives through new vaccine technology
Michael Schrader (MBA 2012) is on a mission to help keep millions of people around the world from dying needlessly. “Right now, 2.4 million people die every year from vaccine-preventable diseases,” says Schrader, cofounder and CEO of... View Details
- 01 Mar 2023
- News
Fostering a Supportive Community
After graduating from Cornell University, where he majored in policy analysis, Joshua Mbanusi (MBA 2021) spent seven years working in education and for a nonprofit that advances equity and economic mobility in the southern United States. That experience challenged his... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Mele
- 22 Mar 2023
- News
Dean Datar Meets with Alumni in Los Angeles
Starting this past fall and continuing through the coming year, Dean Srikant Datar is traveling to meet with alumni around the world. On Tuesday, March 21, more than 100 alumni in Southern California gathered to celebrate and connect with each other at "HBS in Los... View Details
- 01 Dec 2001
- News
Speaking for the Airlines
are absolutely essential, will substantially increase the cost of doing business." Mullin came to Delta in 1997 after a two-year stint as vice chairman of Unicom Corporation and Commonwealth Edison. His... View Details
- 01 Feb 1997
- News
Merton Discusses Risk Management at Dean's Seminar
increasingly must make sophisticated financial decisions. Last November, Robert C. Merton, the George Fisher Baker Professor of Business Administration at HBS, discussed this problem and elaborated on the importance of risk management in... View Details
Keywords: Elizabeth McNair
- 30 Jan 2012
- News
Shopping Around
Calabrese: "Never mistake motion for action." Courtesy Julia Calabrese A commercial real-estate mogul who quotes Hemingway? That would be Julia Calabrese (OPM 22, 1995), CEO at London-based McArthurGlen Group UK Ltd., a leading owner, manager, View Details
- 16 Dec 2016
- News
An Environmental Epiphany
resilient, more competitive energy system in the future is something we should pursue. And you look at the speeds at which the new technologies of our energy system are now becoming a reality, it is nothing short of the next Industrial... View Details