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- 01 Oct 2001
- News
¡Vamos al Cine!
Fastlicht (MBA '93), Heyman launched his first theater in 1995. Today, with 317 screens, privately held Cinemex averages 90,000 viewers per screen, one of the highest levels in the Americas. Heyman, who is director general of Grupo...
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- 01 Mar 2006
- News
The Real Conflict
$18 billion per year. And because Wal-Mart forces its competitors to charge lower prices as well, this figure is a fraction of the company’s real impact. These kinds of savings to customers far exceed the costs that Wal-Mart allegedly...
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- 12 PM – 1 PM EDT, 16 Oct 2014
- Webinars: Trending@HBS
Can China Lead?
Can China sustain its remarkable emergence of the past 35 years? Surely No, for multiple reasons. China will be a leader, but not the leader. Professor McFarlan will talk about both the challenges and opportunities for those seeking to do business with and within China...
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- Portrait Project
Lisa Marrone
until I was ten. By that point, he had a wife and two kids. I began to spend five days per year visiting him in his life. Where was the rulebook for that? Even though visiting my father was awkward, I put his family on a pedestal. My...
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- Portrait Project
Austin Dirks
My gaze fixed upon the exposed beating heart. There was an infant lying in front of me. Its heart rate 150 beats per minute. The monitor next to me beeping faintly with each twitch of the revealed organ. The skin, the muscle, the ribs,...
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- 01 Mar 2010
- News
Sole Mates
DOWNING: In one of the world’s poorest countries, the rain forest is key. At A Glance Total Area: 111,369 sq. km. Population: 3,441,790 Per Capita GDP: $500 All maps by Robert Littleford; Country Data: Cia World Factbook Thomas Downing...
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- 24 Jun 2008
- First Look
First Look: June 24, 2008
plants are a significant determinant of cross-country differences in income per worker. For this purpose, we use a standard version of the neoclassical growth model augmented to incorporate monopolistic competition among heterogeneous...
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Martha Lagace
- 24 Sep 2024
- Blog Post
Climate Finance in Africa: Health, Self-Interest, Avoided Future Cost
needed. For example, a 2023 report from the Global Center for Adaptation suggests that over $100 billion per year is needed to invest in infrastructure, weather forecasting, and protecting agriculture in Africa to address both poverty and...
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- 01 Mar 2023
- News
Family Recipe
cheap. “Our sausage was 39 cents a pound in 1913,” notes Jones. “I believe that would make it about $8.50 per pound today.” (It runs more like $5.99 in most grocery stores.) With a continued focus on small-batch, high-quality products,...
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- 15 Apr 2020
- News
How Sarah Kauss Built S’well
single-use plastic ones per year—enough to put her Million Bottle Project, which aims to eliminate 100 million plastic bottles by 2020, well ahead of schedule. “We’re trying to get our customers to covet this product that will help change...
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- 01 Jun 2010
- News
Letters to the Editor
University engineering professor Andrew Schultz Jr. who had published an article on the experience curve (or learning curve) based on his research in the aircraft industry years before BCG’s founding. Henderson’s insight was not of the learning curve View Details
- 01 Sep 2008
- News
In Africa, Porter Sees Lessons for Health Care
treatments and toward value for patients; he defined “value” as “health outcomes per dollar spent.” Instead of the current system of disjointed, episodic medical interventions, Porter argued for an integrated model that addresses the...
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- 14 Oct 2009
- First Look
First Look: October 14
fiscal and risk premium data for Brazil states between 1891 and 1930 to show that Brazilian states with natural endowments that were allowed to export commodities high in demand (e.g., rubber and coffee) ended up having higher revenues View Details
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Martha Lagace
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5-Year Data Summary - Financial Report 2018
Enrollment 1,870 1,879 1,883 1,865 1,859 Tuition $ 72,000 $ 63,675 $ 61,225 $ 58,875 $ 56,175 Average Fellowship Aid Per Student $ 38,959 $ 37,312 $ 35,571 $ 32,919 $ 31,710 Doctoral Programs 2018 2017 2016 2015 2014 Applications 864 915...
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- 27 Jun 2005
- Research & Ideas
The Potential Downside of Win-Win
consideration for all managers. Value Creation—and Collusion Suppose that pharmaceutical firm A manufactures a new, beneficial drug and begins selling 100 million pills per year at $3.05 per pill. Each pill...
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by Max H. Bazerman
- 01 Dec 2000
- News
Core Values Keep Airline Flying High
handling and has the least number of consumer complaints per passenger filed with the U.S. Department of Transportation. It gets its planes in and out of the gate faster than other major U.S. airlines and serves more passengers View Details
- Portrait Project
Brian Elliot
rights, privileges, and protections my siblings and peers enjoy. I want to die an equal citizen of this country. "But if I am only for myself, then what am I?" Nearly three billion people live on less than $2 per day. I want to...
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Your Commitment | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School
hours per week Compensation (weekly) Compensation The expectation is that organizations will pay $650-$1,000 per week. In addition to this salary commitment from organizations, students may apply for...
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- 05 Jun 2000
- What Do You Think?
What’s Happening to Our Patience?
front of the pump instead of paying in slower, more conventional ways, did 2.7 million people sign up for the program and increase their loyalty to Mobil by one extra visit to the pump per month? The explanation was the saving of one to...
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by James Heskett