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Tathagata (TAT) Sarkar

different aspects of my life, I idolize different persons based solely on their influence on me in that aspect. My idols include: a homeless flutist, high-school statistics teacher, self-made billionaire, college senior who pursued his... View Details

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Commodities

of options going back 13 years. CRB Commodity Yearbook Features historical commodity prices and a brief analysis of various commodities. The Mergent Archive includes .pdf files of the print back to 1939. Agricultural: USDA National Agricultural View Details

01 Dec 2001
News

BOOK: Creating Value through Corporate Restructuring

specific financial data, flow charts, and statistics to illuminate each case. A portable version of Gilson's course, Creating Value through Corporate Restructuring gives readers the chance to learn the intricacies of this increasingly... View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley

01 Aug 2002
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Seventy Years Out: Class of 1932 Celebrates Reunions

career was with the Air Force, in and out of uniform. His active duty in World War II took him to New Guinea, the Philippines, and Japan, and he later served in Korea. A statistics major, in 1960 he published Sampling in a Nutshell, a... View Details

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FIELD Global Immersion Resources: Brazil

Use the tools on the right side of the results screen to refine your search Statista Digital Market Outlook: Brazil-specific statistics on ecommerce, digital... View Details

24 Apr 2014
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Mining precious metals through e-waste recycling

Every day, Americans throw away enough cell phones to cover a football field. That kind of disturbing statistic is what motivates Privahini Bradoo (MBA 2008) to extract precious metals from the 50 million tons of electronics discarded,... View Details

23 May 2011
Research & Ideas

Corporate Sustainability Reporting: It’s Effective

statistical and survey measures. Those measures include not only hard statistics but also indicators from anonymous surveys of executives, on issues such as the level of corruption in the country, the... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

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FIELD Global Immersion Resources: Morocco

results screen to refine your search Technology Markets and Demographics eMarketer - Global media intelligence report, data and statistics Country... View Details

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Black Business Leaders and Entrepreneurship

U.S. Census Bureau statistical survey of approximately 250,000 addresses seeking data on age, sex, race, family and relationships, disabilities, where residents work and how they get there, where residents live and how much they pay... View Details

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1.8 Academic Honors | MBA

Distinction and MBA with High Distinction are available on myHBS (login required) . Required Curriculum: Grade statistics for RC students are considered together at the summer APC meeting and are then voted by the Faculty. The list of... View Details

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FIELD Global Immersion Resources: Kenya

Group Country Reports Useful for: in-depth analysis of broad industry categories within each country (ICT, Retail, Transportation, etc). Kenya National Bureau of Statistics News Factiva Useful for: targeted news search... View Details

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Building and Sustaining a Successful Enterprise

aspects of business and management in emerging markets. Frost & Sullivan - reports on industry research, growing opportunities, market trends encompassing various tech related fields. Statista - quick statistics and analysis on... View Details

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Private companies: fast growing | Baker Library

to industry, geography, etc. Under Company Details > Company Statistics , you can add Year Founded (relatively recent) and Total Amount Raised (mm) to identify young companies who have received significant amounts of funding. Create a... View Details

04 Sep 2019
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3-Minute Briefing: Dhivya Suryadevara (MBA 2003)

incredibly fast and is at the forefront of technology. GM’s vision is zero crashes, zero emissions, and zero congestion. Close to 40,000 people die in US traffic accidents each year, and more than 94 percent of those crashes are caused by human error. Putting a... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna

08 Nov 2024
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What Wartime Service Taught These Historic Leaders

the numbers are accurate Widely criticized for his by-the-numbers approach to the Vietnam War as US Secretary of Defense, Bob McNamara’s pioneering use of statistics during World War II and leadership skills at Ford Motor left a mixed... View Details

Keywords: by Avery Forman; Entertainment & Recreation

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Managing Global Operations

Statista Quick statistics and analysis on various topics including data on the pandemic and its impact on countries, industries, as well as topics such as HR technologies. Worth notice: each record includes sources used. That is a... View Details

12 May 2016
Research & Ideas

When Mass Shootings Lead to Looser Gun Restrictions

the researchers employed a “difference-in-differences” statistical methodology. Their study examined how legislation changed in a state the year after a mass shooting; they used states that did not have shootings as a control group, and... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

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FIELD Global Immersion Resources: Ghana

Country Report Oxford Business Group Country Reports Useful for: in-depth analysis of broad industry categories within each country (ICT, Retail, Transportation, etc). Ghana Statistical Service News Factiva Useful... View Details

17 Nov 2022
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Creating Emerging Markets Sustainability Series - The Future of Green Building

as a pivotal point of discussion towards reducing global carbon emissions. The push to decarbonize the building sector stems from statistics compiled by sources such as Architecture 2030, which indicate that activities related to... View Details

01 Jun 2004
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Download This

no relationship between the number of downloads of a particular album and sales of the album. Even in our most pessimistic statistical model, it takes 5,000 downloads to reduce the sales of an album by a single copy. If this worst-case... View Details

Keywords: file sharing; Amusement, Gambling, and Recreation Industries; Arts, Entertainment

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