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13 Nov 2018
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Building a New Real Estate Investment Model

small mom-and-pop operations, who often feel economic pressure themselves in rapidly gentrifying communities as taxes and other costs rise. Only 2 percent are owned by large institutional investors, View Details

Keywords: April White; Real Estate

01 Jan 2011
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Hüsnü Özyeğin, MBA 1969

immediately evident. Adding pizza to the menu, for example, was a smart move. "The pizza cost us 25 cents and we could sell it for over a dollar," he says. "It ended up being the most profitable product at... View Details

01 Jun 2009
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Dispatches from the Global Classroom

Q&A session is long and intense, despite the late hour. Shawn Anthony (HBS ’10), currently enrolled in the joint MD/MBA program with Harvard Medical School, asks how adverse selection and the higher View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools

01 Feb 2000
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Filling a Vacuum

firm (formerly MySoftware, Inc.). Since coming on board in 1997, Slayton has cut costs and sharpened strategy at the company. But perhaps his most significant impact has been rallying the firm's demoralized... View Details

01 Jun 2002
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In the Driver's Seat

NASCAR racing is one of the more popular spectator sports in the country, but it's a tight little fraternity that's tough to join and expensive to belong to — maintaining a competitive team costs about $15... View Details

06 Dec 2021
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Tipping Point

Kenyan coffee farm. The price of coffee beans on the global market is under $1 a pound, while the actual cost to produce that pound is between $1.62 and $2. The coffee farms are profitable only when they... View Details

Keywords: April White; Food Manufacturing; Manufacturing

01 Jun 2016
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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 View Details

Keywords: Jason Feifer; photography by Vance Jacobs

27 Jul 2017
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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,... View Details

Keywords: Jennifer Myers

01 Jun 2002
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Blue No Longer

(“Baby Blues”) and concentrated instead on cutting costs (by paring the workforce and closing plants) and expanding IBM's capability to help... View Details

13 Nov 2020
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Student Startups Help Fight COVID-19

Pictured at right: Sanchay Gupta (MD/MBA 2022) is cofounder of Umbulizer Gifts to the HBS Fund support a wide range of people and programs like this. Since its launch in 2012, the Venture Program at Harvard Innovation Labs has helped... View Details

01 Jun 2016
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How Do We Win the Cyberwar?

Prince. But when larger providers like Google or Microsoft began to use cloud services that could employ data from their millions of customers to help snuff out junk email, it made it hard to stay in the spam business. “The cost of... View Details

Keywords: Dan Morrell; illustrations by Victo Ngai

05 May 2020
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“Walking a Tightrope”

that look, they sell a lot of great drugs, but some of them happen to be selling opioids. April: I'm curious what you see as the long-term consequences of those changes in the job world and in the business... View Details

17 Oct 2019
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Venturing Away from Venture Capital

Fortunately, says Lerner, the opportunities for entrepreneurs have probably never been better, in part because the cost of starting a business has never been lower and in part because the mania for investing... View Details

Keywords: Alexander Gelfand

01 Mar 2018
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Case Study: On the Record

“completely revolutionized our business in terms of operations and streamlining,” Cleary says. With a relatively small $20 million in robo-advised accounts, “the effect on the revenue side was minimal, but the positive effect on the View Details

Keywords: April White

01 Jan 2003
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Lillian Lincoln Lambert, MBA 1969

of its contracts. "Suddenly, I was losing a lot of money," she says "It took us three years to be profitable again." Stringent cost controls and aggressive outreach to commercial clients made the difference.... View Details

01 Jun 2000
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Priceline's Jay Walker: The Future is Wow

convenient place to shop ("7-Eleven is more convenient, but it doesn't have the retail share Wal-Mart has"), the discount retailer gained market supremacy by proclaiming, and delivering, "always the lowest price" -- typically by wringing... View Details

01 Jun 2002
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Ads Improve Consumer Decisions

Advertising can be good for you! Sounds fishy to the average consumer, but it's implied by conclusions from research by HBS associate professor Bharat Anand and his colleague, Ron Shachar, of Tel Aviv University. The pair began by... View Details

Keywords: Laura Singleton (MBA 1988)

24 Mar 2022
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Well Said

coach but at a fraction of the price. We saw accent coaching as this really amazing, very specific service that helped people speak more confidently and get the career outcomes that they wanted if they were non-native speakers. But we... View Details

01 Jun 2010
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M.I.A. Boards

John Gillespie (right) and David Zweig (MBA ’83) are the authors of Money for Nothing: How the Failure of Corporate Boards Is Ruining American Business and Costing Us Trillions... View Details

Keywords: John Gillespie;David Zweig; Finance

01 Sep 2020
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We Rise

business: Venture Kits, an educational game that taught kids how to be entrepreneurs. A would-be bakery owner, for instance, could work through the necessary steps of calculating costs and doing market... View Details

Keywords: April White; Finance

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