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- 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 Dec 2017
- News
Case Study: The Doctor Deficit
illustration by Pablo Amargo illustration by Pablo Amargo There is a doctor shortage in the United States, according to the Association of American Medical Colleges, which predicts that the deficit could increase to more than 90,000 doctors by 2025. Meanwhile, the... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 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 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
- 01 Oct 2000
- News
Faculty Retirements
focused on operational competitiveness, technological development, and the integration of design with manufacturing. Hayes received his BA from Wesleyan University (1958) before earning an MS (1962) in statistics and a Ph.D. (1966) in... View Details
- 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 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 Sep 2017
- News
@Soldiers Field
scuptures on loan to the School’s ongoing contemporary sculpture exhibition. The piece was inspired in part by an essay by Henry David Thoreau, who graduated from Harvard 180 summers ago. HBS will partner with Harvard’s SEAS and Department of View Details
- 24 Mar 2021
- News
Clubs Reaffirm Equity in Community Partners Work; Alumni Angels Invest in Member Education
statistics told the full story, so we formed a Diversity Task Force to explore how we can expand the range of nonprofits we serve and to attract more diverse alumni volunteers for our projects and board.” Phillips says that while alumni... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 01 Dec 2001
- News
Corporate Governance Conference Addresses Global Challenges
discussing their findings, Shleifer and Johnson combined business and economic statistics from these nations to illustrate the levels of investor protection achieved by the disparate models. Establishing appropriate legal support for... 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 Sep 2007
- News
To The Rescue
losses, at EMRI’s quarterly board meetings he focuses on the organization’s very human bottom line. “We track the number of lives saved. It’s like our earnings per share for the quarter,” Palepu explains. “It’s a very inspiring statistic... View Details
- 01 Jun 2012
- News
Straight to the Heart
growing numbers of people who live alone? There’s a big difference between living alone and choosing to live alone. The statistics are misleading because they imply that all of those people who live alone are actively choosing to do so.... View Details
- 17 Jun 2021
- News
Investing in a Post-COVID World; Exploring the Pandemic’s Impact on Gender Equity
longer—to reach gender equity.” That one, daunting statistic became the impetus for Stark and the HBS Club of Toronto to present a virtual panel discussion, “The Impact of the Pandemic on Gender Equity: Can We Regain the Lost Ground?”... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 09 Apr 2025
- News
The Working Parent Revolution
Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Dan Morrell: Hi, this is Dan Morell, host of Skydeck. In 2023, the Bureau of Labor Statistics reported that in 67% of two-parent families with children, both parents worked,... View Details
- 01 Sep 2013
- News
The First Scrum
mishaps. Ian Bund (MBA 1968): I was playing hooker in the middle of the scrum, and [two guys] landed on top of me. I got carted off to the hospital with badly bruised ribs. I needed something to pass the time, so a friend brought over the preparation we had for Monday... 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 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
- 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