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- 01 Mar 2015
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Ink
personalization, equity and access, and cost control. The goal of the book, however, is not to make a case for blended learning—rather, it’s to provide educators with a step-by-step road map for disrupting their classrooms. See Also... View Details
- 01 Dec 2013
- News
A Safer, Smarter Future for Tech Trash
being the cost of it. That was the inspiration." Since its founding, BlueOak has been developing plans for mini-refineries that use proven, capital-efficient refining processes to extract precious metals and rare earth elements from... View Details
- 13 Nov 2020
- News
Realizing a Dream
way.” A case in point, he offers, is the unexpected costs associated with the pandemic. “No one could have seen this coming. That’s why giving the administration flexibility is so important.” A regular reunion attendee, he describes his... View Details
- 28 May 2019
- News
Research Brief: Field Research
intervention that amounted to less than $10 per person (but at no cost to the farmer). Even more encouraging to Cole was news that another colleague, Harvard economics professor Michael Kremer, had seen similar results in Kenya. “We were... View Details
- 01 Dec 2009
- News
Back to School
sophomores, 100 juniors, and 80 seniors. A significant percentage of Spingarn students receive reduced-price lunches. Many of those same students eat their lunch while sporting iPods, iPhones, and watches bigger than Texas belt buckles, wearing tennis shoes that View Details
- 01 Jun 2016
- News
Ears to the Ground
a decade and was only active in about 30 cities. Clark saw the problem: “From a police department point of view, it was a significant and risky IT project,” he says. ShotSpotter systems cost about $250,000 per square mile to install;... View Details
- 01 Dec 1999
- News
The Message and the Media: Advertising's Brave New World
increases only modestly. The traditional face of the industry has changed, with "full-service" agency-client relationships giving way to cost cutting, streamlining, and consolidation. Outright alternatives to advertising - including... View Details
Keywords: Peter K. Jacobs
- 01 Jun 2000
- News
The Right Connections
an especially promising area for studying the effects of top executives' social capital on their ability to secure resources. "In biotech, it can take eight to ten years to developa product and cost hundreds of millions of dollars to... View Details
Keywords: Judith A. Ross
- 27 Jul 2017
- News
Seeing a Way Forward
are enormous obstacles, with cataract surgery costing between 18,000 to 30,000 pesos (about $1,000–$1,500 USD) in private institutions. Founded in 2011 by engineers Javier Okhuysen and Carlos Orellana, salauno helped more than 150,000... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Myers
- 01 Jun 2016
- News
How Do We Win the Cyberwar?
underground hacker marketplaces. Credit card numbers—from premium cards, some offered with money-back guarantees if they don’t work—go for as little as $9. That’s just one segment of a booming hacker market: Attempts to knock a particular website offline can View Details
Keywords: Dan Morrell; illustrations by Victo Ngai
- 01 Oct 1998
- News
Tech Trekker
products outside the United States, which amounted to 50 percent of its entire business. Again Lang made good - under her leadership Lotus's international products outpaced those of all competitors, including industry giant Microsoft, on View Details
Keywords: Marguerite Rigoglioso
- 01 Dec 2013
- News
Alumni News | Book Briefs
cost (sustaining performance involves capturing value in the form of profits); and finally, there are no other rules. Ride the Wave: How 12 Technologies Will Change the World and Make You Rich by Fred Rogers (MBA 1983) and Richard Lalich... View Details
- 01 Dec 2003
- News
The Next Big Thing
these ends. Massachusetts Governor W. Mitt Romney (MBA ’74, JD ’75) has also endorsed these goals. In a wide-ranging panel discussion, alongside Massachusetts’s strengths, it was noted that problems exist with the site-regulation process, the high View Details
- 12 Apr 2011
- News
Twelve Global Finalists Compete at HBS
insulated, eco-friendly composite tile, enabling electrical interconnection and assembly with other tiles via “plug & play” connectors. Crossover Energy is an energy services company, helping organizations reduce their energy costs and... View Details
Keywords: Multiple alumni
- 06 Sep 2012
- News
Fashion-Forward
to young designers. That didn’t pan out, but it did lead to consulting work for some luxury and fashion brands in Paris. At the same time, he began writing down his ideas on a blog. “It cost $100 to set up,” he recalls. “I posted once or... View Details
- 01 Mar 2006
- News
The Producers
vertically integrated,” he notes. “Studios used to be stand-alone companies that were run like fiefdoms. Now they’re run like major corporations answering to shareholders.” Skyrocketing fees for star actors coupled with the high marketing View Details
- 22 Mar 2023
- News
Dean Datar Meets with Alumni in Los Angeles
students without regard for their financial status. This includes the decision last summer to provide scholarships to cover the total cost of tuition and course fees for those with the greatest financial need—approximately 10 percent of... View Details
- 13 Nov 2020
- News
Student Startups Help Fight COVID-19
Labs. “A crisis like this illuminates the importance of innovation.” One example is Umbulizer, which offers a reliable, portable ventilator at 10 percent of the cost of a $40,000 hospital-grade machine. The device recently gained... View Details
- 01 Sep 2008
- News
Alumni Books
Smart and Randy Street (MBA ’97) (Random House) The authors provide a solution to what the Economist calls “the single biggest problem in business today”: unsuccessful hiring. The average hiring mistake costs a company $1.5 million or... View Details
- 01 Feb 1997
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Merton Discusses Risk Management at Dean's Seminar
education may be able to buy a "contract" with a financial institution that will lock in the cost of tuition at today's rates. By making payments to such a contract rather than investing in growth funds, they will be able to avoid the... View Details
Keywords: Elizabeth McNair