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- 01 Apr 1998
- News
Emerging Information
firms - ISI Emerging Markets integrates an impressive database of news, financial statements, industry analyses, equity quotes, and macroeconomic statistics that appear on the Web in both English and the information's original language.... View Details
Keywords: Paul Michelman
- 01 Dec 2007
- News
From A to Z
Major 4% As in Septembers past, first-year students arrived at Soldiers Field with great expectations and a broad diversity of experiences. To put a face on the statistics that follow, we cold called two members of the Class of 2009 to... View Details
- 01 Dec 1997
- News
1997 Placement Data Reflect January Cohort's Success
and September cohorts would fare differently in the job market after graduation, since the January cohort proceeded straight through the MBA Program without the traditional summer work experience. Placement statistics for the Class of... View Details
- 01 Oct 2002
- News
Pearson Hunt Remembered
1942 to 1946). He was appointed the Edmund Cogswell Converse Professor of Finance and Banking in 1967 and took on the title emeritus in 1975. During World War II, he served as an instructor in the Army Air Forces Statistical School on the... View Details
- 18 Sep 2019
- News
Level Up
through these early indicators, these cracks in the surface, we can see that the fan is fundamentally changing.” Here, we offer four ways that Ruggiero and the Sports Innovation Lab say this new era is redefining the business of sports—and highlight four alumni who are... View Details
- 01 Oct 1999
- News
Finance Conference Explores Research Methodologies
used traditional methods of inquiry - mathematical theory or statistical analysis, for instance - while others employed interviews, primary company materials, surveys, and close examination of the trading of individual securities. A... View Details
- 01 Sep 2015
- News
State of the Unions
succumbed to ongoing protests, announcing in February that it would up the base salary of its employees to at least $9 an hour. Despite statistics that show that unions are in decline throughout the country—the US Department of Labor... View Details
- 28 May 2019
- News
Ask the Expert: In Security
common than ever? —John Lacey (MBA 1981) YOUNG: Bulletproof security is not statistically possible, but we can minimize risk by developing layers of protection and proactive approaches that increase those layers. Adversarial machine... View Details
- 01 Mar 2018
- News
Turning Point: One Step at a Time
met several hundred of my classmates and discovered something unexpected: The proportion that had run marathons or climbed Kilimanjaro was statistically improbable within a random sampling of people. These Herculean feats of endurance... View Details
Keywords: Christina Wallace (MBA 2010)
- 01 Jun 1997
- News
Short Takes
statistical data from five hundred business groups in India and spoke to dozens of managers in Malaysia, Indonesia, and Chile. The pair found that companies outside the United States perform better when they replicate the quality... View Details
Keywords: Judith A. Ross
- 25 Feb 2020
- News
How Artificial Intelligence is Changing Business
possibilities. In 2018, HBS led the development of the online Harvard Business Analytics Program. The certificate program—taught by business, engineering, and statistics faculty from across the University—trains mid-career professionals... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 01 Mar 2011
- News
On the Outside at HBS
third are international, and roughly a quarter are ethnic minorities — the School can be a difficult place for these groups to thrive. To its credit, HBS understands that the real value of diversity is not in the statistical percentage of... View Details
- 29 Jun 2019
- News
Building an Entrepreneurial Ecosystem in Africa
employment, to create wealth for themselves, and for their communities, and their families. When a woman makes $1, about 90% of their income is spent on health, education and nutrition. And that same statistic for a man is only about 35%.... View Details
- 01 Jun 2012
- News
Good as Our Word
And finally, how would the firm acquire status as a Nationally Recognized Statistical Rating Organization, an SEC designation that is considered a key “must-have” by many credit ratings customers? In the classroom, Becker says, students... View Details
- 24 Apr 2014
- News
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
- 20 Dec 2018
- News
Baker Library Webinar Features Resources for Alumni
ahead of time by participants, Haley said the pair was able to run live searches based on their immediate research needs to demonstrate research tools. Alumni asked about specific topics, such as wanting to find statistics on the... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 13 Nov 2018
- News
Building a New Real Estate Investment Model
by-the-numbers guy. He rattles off the statistics effortlessly: There are about 133 million housing units in the United States, about 84 million of which are single-family homes. Of those 84 million, about 22 million are available for... View Details
- 03 Dec 2024
- News
Magic Numbers
math achievement worldwide. The country’s performance at the elementary, middle, and high school levels cratered during the recent pandemic, and it has yet to recover. The grim statistics have experts worried about the competitiveness of... View Details
Keywords: Amy Crawford
- 19 Nov 2014
- News
The Power of Yes
him an early awareness of the stark economic discrepancies between residents living in luxury high-rises just a few hundred feet from those surviving in slums. “The statistical unlikelihood of my parents meeting, along with those visits... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 01 Jan 2002
- News
Orin C. Smith (MBA '67)
President & Chief Executive Officer Starbucks Coffee Company Return to Alumni Achievement Awards main page Earlier Education University of Washington, 1965 B.A., Finance, Economics, Accounting, and Statistics Other Jobs Touche Ross & Co.,... View Details