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- 01 Sep 2004
- News
Survey Spotlights HBS Experience
marking a reunion year in 2003 plus graduates of the Class of 2001. The overall response rate was 31 percent. The results of the survey will help the School shape a wide range of programs and activities targeted toward prospective and... View Details
- 16 Oct 2014
- News
Innovating for International Aid
of San Francisco. Wu is currently chairman of the US Committee for Refugees and Immigrants as well as a Presidential Innovation Fellow working on the Development Innovation Ventures project at the United States Agency for International... View Details
Keywords: Constantine von Hoffman
- 01 Sep 2016
- News
The Big Business of Little Loans
Funding Circle, among others. It was a wide circle. These startups are part of a new ecosystem filling the void left by traditional banks that don’t want to lend to small businesses because they are too risky or because interest rates are... View Details
Keywords: Nancy Miller
- 01 Apr 1998
- News
Emerging Information
offices in 18 countries. The firm's main product, ISI Emerging Markets, is a continually evolving resource of information covering emerging markets in Europe, Latin America, and Asia. Contracting with local information providers - from newspapers and stock exchanges to... View Details
Keywords: Paul Michelman
- 05 Aug 2015
- News
Mobilizing the Public to Fight Bribery
local universities to teach students and others how to identify and fight corruption, to know their rights and get involved, and to use government hotlines to lodge complaints about bribery. The third program, Grassroots Governance, works with the second-largest... View Details
- 01 Dec 2003
- News
Selling Digital Privacy
marketing companies to sell it. Consumers, he asserts, have much to gain — be it money, price discounts, better customer service, or products tailored specifically to their needs. In the current system, information that is gathered about individuals by stores,... View Details
- 01 Sep 2015
- News
Research Brief: Bankruptcy as a Better—Not Bitter—End
some have suggested. “For one out of five of these sales, the process is really just about transferring ownership of an ongoing, operating enterprise to another owner,” says Gilson. “That’s exactly what happens in the market for mergers and acquisitions.” Furthermore,... View Details
Keywords: Erin Peterson
- 01 Dec 2005
- News
Trillion-Dollar Fixer-Upper
well-heeled clients. Savings and loans, desperate for high returns, made risky loans a business staple. And the Japanese, buoyed by a strong economy and low interest rates at home, swept in to buy up trophy properties at almost any asking... View Details
- 01 Jun 2024
- News
Crash Pad
Proposed legislation known as the Revitalizing Downtowns Act would establish a new tax credit for office conversions, and the General Services Administration, the agency in charge of federal property, is... View Details
- 11 May 2020
- News
Better Than Cash
partnership is funded by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, BMZ, Flourish, Mastercard, Norad/Vipps, the Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency, the US Agency for International Development, and Visa, and hosted by the... View Details
- 01 Dec 1998
- News
Year 2000 Computer Problem and You: Disaster for Some, Lessons for All
phone bills at home. Major organizations will be essentially ready. I do expect a period of transition and inconvenience such as we are now experiencing at times with credit cards. And government agencies... View Details
- 01 Jun 2016
- News
How Do We Win the Cyberwar?
Your credit card has already been stolen. You just don’t know it yet. Thomas knows it, though. (A 12-year IT security veteran, Thomas requested anonymity to protect the reputation of his employers, which have included Fortune 100... View Details
Keywords: Dan Morrell; illustrations by Victo Ngai
- 01 Jun 2017
- News
Supercharged
contends, these low-end manufacturers could grow under the radar of more established automakers until they become “too big to fight—or too big to beat.” But the Chinese market—like its European and American counterparts—is being sustained in large part by government... View Details
- 01 Apr 2000
- News
Q & A: A Conversation with IRS Chief Charles Rossotti
possible turnaround of this huge institution, one that affects everybody in the country. I saw it as an opportunity to bring about fundamental change at an agency that really needed it, to have an impact on a key function of government,... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 09 Mar 2021
- News
A For-Profit Business That Makes Education Accessible
of other free products. About 30 percent of students who spend more than 10 minutes in an Alison course complete the course. In some offerings, that number is as high as 60 percent, a nearly unheard of level of engagement for the sector. Feerick View Details
Keywords: April White
- 01 Oct 1998
- News
New Loan Program Signals Breakthrough in MBA Financial Aid
fifteen years; and prepayment option without penalty. Previously, access to private loan programs was generally limited to U.S. citizens and permanent residents with a strong credit history. These loan programs typically required either a... View Details
- 01 Mar 2009
- News
Just Keep Our Money
preparers at H&R Block, banks, and credit unions has worked to determine the appeal when people are offered the opportunity to instantly direct a portion of their tax refund to savings. We have found, after working with about 25,000... View Details
- 01 Mar 2009
- News
Buddy, Can You Spare a Trillion
seize up, and that the interest rates charged to issuers of short-term commercial paper and corporate bonds would leap upwards, leading to a painful squeeze for all kinds of private-sector borrowers. Not many people foresaw that this... View Details
- 01 Jun 2011
- News
Alumni Books
of how the historic merger between the Chicago Mercantile Exchange and CBOT almost didn’t happen. She details the reasons behind the derivatives market’s spectacular growth and explains how derivatives affect the lives of average consumers worldwide by influencing... View Details
- 01 Dec 2011
- News
A Modest Tax Proposal
corporations from using their foreign profits to build facilities in the United States. Business interests are calling for a so-called tax holiday, in which American corporations would be allowed to transfer their foreign profits to their American bank accounts at a... View Details