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- 09 Mar 2021
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Bridging the Gap
Illustration by Chris Gash Long before “COVID-19” became a household word with grave implications, the education sector faced enormous challenges. Opportunity and achievement gaps marginalizing students of color and those from low-income... View Details
- 08 May 2015
- News
Ubiquitous digital connectivity is now essential to competitiveness
rethink their business models to identify new opportunities for creating and capturing value. The fundamental properties of digital technology (exact replication infinite times at zero marginal costs), along with cloud computing, have... View Details
- 01 Apr 1999
- News
Q & A: Confronting New Technologies: When Doing Right Is Wrong
financial world demands steady if not increasing margins. Disruptive innovations often promise lower margins than sustaining innovations. It is extraordinarily difficult for good managers to pursue worse View Details
- 01 Jun 2007
- News
KPMG for Mayor!
government as well as embezzlement. They might very well be willing to pay the same, or higher, taxes to finance good government, which would include a profit margin to the elected firm. Corporations might find that some parts of running... View Details
- 12 Jul 2022
- News
Expanding the Power to Prosper
Grant, Millicent is designed to make it easier for the world’s 1.7 billion marginalized and unbanked people to access financial services, according to a recent article in Forbes. Dyer moved to the United Kingdom as a refugee from Nigeria.... View Details
- 01 Dec 2008
- News
Summit Sound Bites
too.” —Yong Tao, Chairman, Strategic Decision Resources Group “Executives who now make 350 times what the lowest worker in their firms make are behaving in an especially unbecoming way when they seek to explain that raising the top View Details
- 01 Apr 1998
- News
Microfinance's Big Payoff: Michael Chu and ACCION International
safety nets, it has marginalized pockets of poverty that will seriously threaten the future of the larger society if we don't unlock their potential for sustainable development. What gives you the most satisfaction in your job? In 1994,... View Details
- 01 Dec 2013
- News
Case Study: Citizen Buffett
price. Included is a summary of US newspapers' diminished circulation and advertising revenues over the past decade, as readers turned from print to more immediate sources of news. Coupled with rising printing, paper, and labor costs, the decreasing revenues created... View Details
- 01 Feb 2002
- News
If You're #1, Watch Out
such parts presents only marginal profit opportunity. Staying in the innovative segment of an industry may mean, in fact, manufacturing a key subsystem and even becoming a provider to competitors. The willingness to make such shifts and... View Details
- 01 Oct 2001
- News
The Eyes Have It: Business Plan Winners Pursue Global Vision
margin of about one dollar to repay the loan and earn a profit. The LCAE team is in the process of selecting countries in which to operate, examining factors such as market size, regulation, and access to suitable microfinance... View Details
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- 27 Apr 2017
- News
Enabling a Transformational Educational Experience
India that provided supplementary education, support for marginalized farmers, and vocational training. He earned an engineering and economics degree in 2011, was a consultant at McKinsey & Company in India, and led commercial operations... View Details
- 19 Sep 2016
- News
A Fresh Approach to Urban Farming
marginalized spaces in Singapore—rooftops—rather than farmland, which wasn’t available in the city. “The kind of technology we use—using hydroponics, but also stacking the pipes—means we’re getting around 20 to 30 times what a... View Details
- 01 Jun 2012
- News
What Industrial Policy?
generously subsidized (largely through the tax deductibility of mortgage interest, which stimulates demand for homes as well as loans from banks). Private equity, which enjoys a 15 percent tax rate on carried interest. (If the tax rate on profits in manufacturing were... View Details
- 01 Mar 2023
- News
Case Study: Power Nappy
Illustration by Alvaro Dominguez Before she had a baby of her own, Amrita Saigal (MBA 2014) kept hearing from friends that the “natural” diapers on the market didn’t hold up as well as the old standards, like Pampers. Trained as a mechanical engineer, Saigal knew her... View Details
- 29 Jun 2016
- News
Women of Wall Street Tell Their Story
Monica Mandelli (MBA 1998) There’s no shortage of movies about Wall Street—Trading Places, The Big Short, Wall Street, Boiler Room, Margin Call, Bonfire of the Vanities, Wolf of Wall Street—to name but a few. Of course they portray... View Details
- 07 May 2019
- News
How Sonja Hoel Perkins Saved John McAfee from an Especially Bad Deal
Its forecasted revenue growth rate is more than 90 percent, and its pre-tax margins run between 80 and 90 percent of sales. The problem is that John is seriously considering selling McAfee to Symantec.” That didn’t happen, according to... View Details
- 01 Mar 2017
- News
Students Forecast Climate Change’s Impact
in the reduction of greenhouse gases, customers need to play a more significant role.” — Piersten Gaines (MBA 2018) Vail Ski Resort Data point: “The typical ski resort needs 100–105 days of skiing to secure the average industry profit View Details
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- 01 Mar 2006
- News
Entrepreneur's Notebook with Paul Conforti and Kim Moore (both MBA '97)
managing call centers for insurance companies but wanted to switch from telephonic to face-to-face service, so I decided to focus on restaurants. I spent the first year at HBS researching the industry and settled on desserts. They are the highest View Details
- 01 Mar 2014
- News
Ask the Expert: Taxing Questions
1960), former chief economist, Royal Bank of Canada, Canada The United States has the worst of all worlds: a relatively high marginal tax rate that influences behavior negatively, but a considerably lower average tax rate that precludes... View Details
- 01 Feb 2001
- News
High Stakes: Springboard 2000 Comes to HBS
presentations to a group of some three hundred top investment professionals. Presenters spoke of markets with multibillion-dollar potential, margins over 70 percent, eighteen-month paths to profitability, and, of course, products... View Details