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- 01 Mar 2009
- News
The Ascent of Money
their support and concerns. Your Taxi Is Waiting Will a new category of “very light jets” shake up the business of flying? Three HBS entrepreneurs hope so. A look at the ups and downs of building the air-taxi industry in a turbulent economy. Web Exclusives Alumni Book... View Details
- 03 Dec 2024
- News
Magic Numbers
Courtesy Shalinee Sharma Courtesy Shalinee Sharma As a sixth grader in Buffalo, New York, Shalinee Sharma (MBA 2005) believed math just wasn’t her thing. There were only a few girls in the honors class at her new school, and Sharma soon realized that she was far behind... View Details
Keywords: Amy Crawford
- 01 Mar 2005
- News
Robert Buzzell Remembered
wholesale distribution; strategic planning; and the application of mathematical and statistical methods to marketing issues. A member of the HBS faculty from 1961 to 1993 and chair of the Marketing faculty from 1972 to 1977, he taught... View Details
- 01 Dec 2007
- News
Rediscovering America
Because it’s a problem that we could actually solve right now! A statistic from a Washington, D.C., hospital network highlights the seriousness of the situation: Sixty percent of physicians’ time at that hospital system was spent... View Details
- 01 Mar 2006
- News
Academic Cross-Pollination
faculty in 1998. “It took me a while to find my niche.” His on-going research at HBS synthesizes elements of history, sociology, business, and statistics (see sidebar). In the classroom, Fleming has carved out a place for himself helping... View Details
- 01 Dec 2014
- News
Living Social
average entrepreneur is becoming much more civically engaged and socially minded. They are creating businesses that are deeply invested in the community and are thinking responsibly about how they are making a profit. What role do HBS graduates play in the field of... View Details
- 01 Jun 2004
- News
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
- 21 Nov 2024
- News
Mother Nurture
strength we hope to bring to our community—a constant reminder that, together with our flock, we can achieve a vision far greater than ourselves.” As the classmates explored potential startup concepts, they discovered some troubling View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 01 Jun 2001
- News
Teaching for the Ages: the MBA Classroom in the 21st Century
IBM PCs in advance of their market introduction. We used Lotus 1-2-3 for spreadsheets, and we proudly whipped out our HP 12C calculators with their vast array of financial and statistical functions (which we mostly didn’t need but still... View Details
- 10 Mar 2015
- News
Women in Tech: Breaking the Digital Ceiling
gamer, the coder, the hacker—all stereotypically male. Recent statistics give some truth to that image. In 2014, Google reported that 7 out of every 10 of its then 48,600 employees were men. The number was even higher among its engineers... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 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
- News
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
- 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
- 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
- 15 Nov 2024
- News
Driving Change
Speaking to nearly 700 alumni at the Women’s Leadership Summit last week, HBS Professor Robin Ely addressed both current and emerging challenges facing women in leadership roles, while emphasizing the critical importance of continued progress. “Today, we face a fresh... View Details
- 24 Aug 2017
- News
Unlocking Potential
prison. Studies by the US Bureau of Justice Statistics show that nearly seven out of 10 former inmates reoffend and return to prison within three years. The Reset Foundation tries to break that cycle by diverting people from the penal... View Details
- 01 Jun 2007
- News
Steve Schwarzman
trigger government regulators to tighten the screws on the private-equity industry? It’s inevitable that one deal will get in trouble, just purely from a statistical point of view. A lot of negative comments are being made from an odd... View Details
- 04 Sep 2019
- News
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
- 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
- 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