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- 24 Apr 2014
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Fueling a sustainable enterprise in Brazil
grass native to Africa generates 25 times as much energy as fossil fuel, thanks in part to a remarkable annual average yield of 30 to 40 tons of biomass per hectare. By comparison, the energy balance ratio of corn ethanol is around 1 to...
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Mervyn E. Griffin, Jr.
Griffin co-produced and owned his own talk show - “The Merv Griffin Show,” which during the early 1980s was aired on 115 stations in the U.S. and Canada. “Wheel of Fortune,” Griffin’s most successful show, was by 1984 appearing on 181 stations and earning $92,000 View Details
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- 11 Apr 2007
- Research & Ideas
Adding Time to Activity-Based Costing
cost systems with only two parameters. One is the cost rate of supplying resource capacity (such as cost per minute for people and machine-driven processes, or cost per cubic meter View Details
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by Sarah Jane Gilbert
- 15 Sep 2003
- Research & Ideas
The Lessons of New-Market Disruption
and set the next industry standard. While a 1.3" disk drive would be the smallest drive in the world (about the size of two postage stamps), it would drastically underperform the 2.5" drives in terms of cost per megabyte and...
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Jeremy Lipstein
how collegial and open-minded people are with each other here. The case method is highly conducive to people sharing their experiences. In fact, when I think about what stands out from my classes, it's not the material per se, but what...
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- 15 Sep 2009
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First Look: September 15
implications for the path of observable measures of technology adoption. We estimate our model using data on the diffusion of 15 technologies in 166 countries over the last two centuries. We evaluate the implications of our estimates for aggregate TFP and View Details
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Martha Lagace
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5-Year Data Summary - Annual Report 2014
Per Student $ 31,710 $ 30,725 $ 29,843 $ 26,745 $ 23,989 Doctoral Doctoral Programs graduates go on to fill faculty positions at leading global universities and business schools—including HBS. In the last five years alone, approximately...
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- 01 Jun 1999
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Sheila Lirio Marcelo
also heaped another thirty hours per week onto her schedule working in community activities. At HBS, for example, she was a representative and chair of the Education Committee, helping classmates and faculty maintain communication on a...
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Marguerite Rigoglioso
- 14 Dec 2009
- Research & Ideas
Can Entrepreneurs Drive People Movers to Success?
How did you first become interested in PRT systems? Ben Edelman: As a longtime user of public transportation, I often wish for more widespread transit links, more frequent services, and faster journeys. Yet I'm shocked by the costs of existing transit systems. At $200...
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David Askaryan
A few times every year in elementary school, a bunch of students would get suckered into selling candy for a school fundraiser. Each kid was aggressively encouraged to sell a minimum number of candies at fifty cents per piece. If students...
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- 01 Oct 2000
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Internet Tsunami
service. As for customers, in addition to making purchases, they use Rakuten for online auctions and chats about the site's vendors. According to Business Week (July 7, 2000), Rakuten, founded in 1997, has 3,100 vendors, attracts some 70 million page views View Details
- 14 Oct 2014
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Sailing lessons give disabled children and adults greater life skills
of the Newport, Rhode Island–based organization. “It’s like living in two different worlds. I run a nonprofit, but I apply all for-profit principles to it. Consequently, we achieve great outcomes with very low cost, per participant,” he...
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- 07 Jun 2004
- Research & Ideas
The Competition of Countries
rising real per capita income). Capital formation (investment) and the development of human resources are key to this process. Q: Were you surprised by anything you've discovered? A: I am constantly surprised—surprised about corruption...
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by Cynthia Churchwell
- 30 Apr 2001
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Why Evolutionary Software Development Works
ratings were gathered using a two-round Delphi (in which information from the first round is given to all experts to help them make their final assessment). To assess the resource productivity of each project, the researchers calculated a measure of the lines of new...
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Matthew Mariner
Negotiation has always been a part of Matthew Mariner's life — including his home life. "Growing up, my dad and I always made deals," Matthew says. "If I got good grades, I could get rewards." Ultimately, many of these agreements had long-term...
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Inside the Learning: Sustainability—on Campus and Beyond
76% reduction in waste disposed per person and a 36% reduction in water. We also have 17 LEED-certified buildings. A Sustainable Stay on Campus From your living quarters to the classrooms to the dining halls, we strive to make your stay...
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- 01 Mar 2016
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Off Script
(Thinkstock) Prescription drug spending increased by more than 13 percent in the United States in 2014, raising health insurance premiums and the ire of consumers and politicians. The reasons behind the rise are many, including the high cost of drug development—as much...
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- 02 Sep 2014
- Research & Ideas
Food Stamp Entrepreneurs: How Public Assistance Enables Business Bootstrapping
that the share of total household income from self-employment versus outside wages increased 16 percent. That is, these new businesses were successful enough to contribute significantly to household income. "The newly self-employed are working longer hours View Details
- 27 Jan 2014
- Blog Post
Opportunity Abounds
U.S. has more small businesses per capita, but that metric is skewed because working age India’s population is not much larger than America’s.) And more than 50% of 1.2 billion are below the age of 25. The potential for India is exciting...
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Employer Reimbursement Options | HBS Online
of employment or hours worked per week to qualify? Step 2: Gather the Appropriate Documents If you want to request reimbursement from your employer for an HBS Online course, there are a few documents that will help make this process...
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