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- 25 Aug 2022
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Up on the Corner
economically stressed areas where property values remain low, preferring instead to wait until someone else has taken the first-mover risk and values have begun to rise. These... View Details
- 01 Mar 2006
- News
Presidential Adviser
When President George W. Bush (MBA ’75) went on the road in early January to promote his stalled economic policies, he was accompanied by his top economic adviser, Allan Hubbard (MBA ’72). It’s Hubbard’s job... View Details
- 01 Feb 2002
- News
It's academic. (Not!)
dollars in lost sales and customer goodwill. Ton is currently working with a nationwide chain to estimate the magnitude of this problem and identify its drivers. "We have found large and systematic variation in performance in 250 stores... View Details
- 01 Sep 2016
- News
Pricing Paradise
study that estimates a total economic value for the parks, including the annual amount a participant was willing to pay to prevent the loss of 20 percent of US National Parks... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 01 Mar 2014
- News
Generation Next
being groomed to replace Adi, 71, the eighth richest Indian with a fortune estimated at $8.3 billion, according to Forbes. In a 2012 Economic Times interview, Adi said of Nisa, "She could head the business.... View Details
- 01 Aug 1998
- News
High Honors
announced it had agreed to sell Tropicana to Pepsico, Inc. for over $3 billion. Asked by Pepsico to stay on, Marram had not yet made her plans public.) One of Business Week's "Top 25 Managers" of 1998, Marram graduated from Wellesley College in 1968 with a degree in... View Details
- 26 May 2022
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Bidding Up
what that value is. And so looking inside that decision process, I realized that I’m estimating how much oil is under the ground using, say, seismic data that’s very noisy. And the person I’m bidding... View Details
- 01 Oct 1997
- News
High Fives
chairman of Lehman Brothers Kuhn Loeb. In recent years Blackstone has invested in about seventy corporate and real-estate transactions with a total value of more than $20 billion. Most important thing learned at HBS: “The integration of... View Details
- 01 Sep 2016
- News
Why We Do—or Don’t—Donate Time and Money
What is the role of volunteerism and other charitable giving in the United States? About one in four adults volunteer every year. About one in two adults give more than $25 to charity every year. The estimated combined View Details
Keywords: April White
- 19 Jan 2024
- News
Blockchain for Good
After immigrating to the United Kingdom in the late 1960s to escape the Nigeria-Biafra civil war, Stella Dyer (MBA 1994) and her family lived in public housing and had very little money. “But we still had more than our friends and relatives back home,” she recalls. “My... View Details
- 10 Aug 2015
- News
Seeding a Better Future for Colombia
Part architectural spectacle, part tourist attraction, and part government-sponsored stage for forums and meetings that seed progress on key economic and diplomatic fronts, World Expos have been taking place since the 1850s. Colombia... View Details
- 19 Jun 2019
- News
Connecting Patients and Providers
tried to contact medical specialists on his mother’s behalf. Trustedoctor estimates that only 2 percent of emails to doctors are returned and a full 46 percent of inquiries to United States hospitals via any method are lost. And even if... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 20 Nov 2015
- News
Room to Grow
Despite New England’s long traditions of farming and fishing, only an estimated 5–10 percent of the food consumed in the region is actually produced there. That’s a fact Andrew Kendall (MBA 1988) is working hard to change. “At least 50... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 01 Sep 2005
- News
WATER Ltd.
special public protections and oversight. Because it’s scarce, it has an economic value, but that value must be affordable to the communities we serve.” Based in New Jersey, American Water is part of the... View Details
- 01 Mar 2023
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Clearing the Air
estimated ability to remove 40 million metric tons of CO2 from the atmosphere each year. Meanwhile, human activity adds about 51 billion tons of carbon dioxide to the atmosphere every year. The UN’s climate change commission, the... View Details
- 01 Mar 2019
- News
The HBS Fund
operators in the United States were only able to glean a general estimate of location from mobile calls, thus hampering response times. Now, thanks to technology developed by RapidSOS, calls received from most Android phones automatically... View Details
- 01 Dec 2022
- News
The State of Play
If the category of offerings known as “immersive experiences” were a soup, it would probably have to be a gumbo—a saucy and colorful assemblage of potentially disparate things. And while it’s rooted in familiar traditions, it’s also open to whatever bright new ideas or... View Details
- 01 Dec 2013
- News
A Safer, Smarter Future for Tech Trash
BioMine (now BlueOak), which won the 2011 HBS Alumni New Venture Competition. The competition's judges were struck by the company's smart business plan and how it addressed a very great need. According to the EPA, in 2007 an estimated... View Details
- 24 Apr 2014
- News
Recasting environmentalism as a smart financial investment
Conservancy (TNC), the world’s largest environmental organization. He is leading TNC as it changes society’s mindset around the importance of healthy natural systems and demonstrates nature’s value as the foundation of our well-being and... View Details
- 01 Jun 2014
- News
Ready for Takeoff
Popular estimates that 9.5 million Brazilians took their first-ever flight between July 2011 and July 2012 alone. TAM estimates that 10.7 million flew for the first time in 2011. (It seems fitting that all... View Details