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- 01 Feb 2000
- News
Executives Convene to Discuss Consumer-Driven Health Care
that angioplasties and bypass surgeries are funded. Despite compelling statistics that show preventive measures are far more effective and would cost much less than the $2 billion Medicare spends on those surgical procedures each year,... View Details
- 01 Mar 2009
- News
The Case for Studying Financial History
quantitative approach. There are many admirable things about the way in which finance became more statistically sophisticated over the past twenty or thirty years. But many of the assumptions on which the more elaborate mathematical... View Details
- 20 Dec 2019
- News
The 19 Musts of 2019
does Charles Darwin, who wrote that cooperative social behavior was a trait of survival and prosperity. Pearlstein ends with a beautiful quote from Robert Kennedy from 1968, that the GNP statistic our country so relies on captures... View Details
- 26 May 2022
- News
Bidding Up
focus.” Wilson switched his course of study from physics to philosophy to math. But he found some direction through Howard Raiffa, a statistics professor who was moving over to HBS to develop a program in what would come to be known as... View Details
- 01 Jun 2007
- News
Up from the Ashes
Regardless of subjective assessments by popular writers and literary intellectuals, statistics show that the average worker, under “an avalanche of consumers’ goods,” has a better material existence than ever before. In other words, “the... View Details
- 01 Dec 2010
- News
Ilene Lang
true that there are plenty of positive statistics out there. Women make up 46.4 percent of the Fortune 500 workforce and just over 50 percent of management, professional, and related occupations. Our research, however, shows that there’s... View Details
- 01 Jun 2013
- News
Minding The Gap
Professor Allen Grossman and Senior Lecturer John Kim with HGSE professor Susan Moore Johnson Searching for System-Wide Solutions Baltimore City College's stellar education outcomes stand in sharp contrast to those of schools with similar racial and economic profiles.... View Details
- 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, which was up from 59% in 2013.... View Details
- 05 Dec 2016
- News
The Dragon’s Tale
with the country’s recent economic slowdown, China has more billionaires than the United States. Behind that fairly startling statistic are troubling related issues such as corruption among China’s elite and very wide variance in income,... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg
- 01 Sep 2017
- News
A Jolt for the African Coffee Industry
Horn of Africa.) “Kenya” adorns bags of single-origin beans shipped around the world, but that country’s residents drink less than 1 percent as much coffee per capita as world-leading Finland’s, according to statistics collected by the... View Details
- 01 Feb 2000
- News
HBS Alumni Association Board of Directors: President's Report
Transformation." Nearly 25 faculty members have already committed to participate in Cleveland - not a bad statistic for this early in the game! In addition to shepherding along the conference organizers, the Global Alumni Conference... View Details
Keywords: Edmund A. Hajim (MBA '64)
- 04 Sep 2019
- News
3-Minute Briefing: Dhivya Suryadevara (MBA 2003)
incredibly fast and is at the forefront of technology. GM’s vision is zero crashes, zero emissions, and zero congestion. Close to 40,000 people die in US traffic accidents each year, and more than 94 percent of those crashes are caused by human error. Putting a... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 01 Dec 2006
- News
Faculty Books
this second book from the HBS Leadership Initiative’s Great American Business Leaders project, Professor Nohria and his coauthors, with a combination of statistical analysis of their large leadership database and in-depth biographical... View Details
- 01 Dec 2018
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for December 2018
do and what not to do) so that the analytics actually makes a difference. Books on customer analytics exist mainly in two categories: academic texts, which discuss theoretical approaches to data analysis problems, and technical texts, which teach the View Details
- 29 Apr 2022
- News
Clean Slate
use. NLK: We come at it from a health angle because we know that kids in India are suffering from malnutrition because they get diarrhea, and they get diarrhea because of poor sanitation, and that leads to poor nutrition and they grow stunted. I mean, the View Details
- 12 Jan 2015
- News
Good Investments
hundred or so funds investing in these “base-of-the-pyramid” markets, she believes only a handful can show investors a real return on investment. “That is not a sufficient data set for a mainstream institutional investor. It’s not View Details
- 01 Mar 2009
- News
Model Patient
costs are incurred are more than repaid by the ability of people like myself to regain their health and step back into the role of contributing citizens.” View sources of statistics cited in this article. Related Links Health Care a Top... View Details
- 01 Sep 2014
- News
Afghanistan’s Hope and Light
wasn’t true—there were land mines, left over from years of conflict. Those had to be cleared before cell phone towers and the maintenance roads leading to them could be built. Available maps and government statistics were often... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 01 Jun 2005
- News
Transforming the IRS
For decades, the IRS judged employees’ performance by using narrow, unbalanced, and frequently perverse — but easily gathered — statistics that focused almost entirely on revenue coming from audit assessments and property seizures.... View Details
- 01 Jun 2022
- News
Blissful Thinking
science. It’s the same tools as social science—the experiment, treatment, control, human subjects, statistical inference, using the scientific method. Outside of academia, the happiness field has become fairly polarized. You have the... View Details
Keywords: Dan Morrell; illustration by Dan Winters