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- 02 Mar 2016
- News
The New Space Race
leader in technology,” he says. “Somehow, over the years, we had become the nation’s technology broker to outside companies.” The 2011 shuttering of the shuttle program—and its $600 million per launch costs—left them without a...
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Robert S. Benchley
- 01 Jun 2015
- News
Case Study: Sneak Peak
50s for product margins. Assuming they have gotten this right, they have a marketing/distribution problem. They need to prove that they can grow either in product per location or in total number of locations. The product sounds like it...
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- 01 Sep 2006
- News
Innovative Loan Fund Yields Big Returns
by over 2.7 million pounds per year. That’s equivalent to taking 265 cars off the road for one year, saving 139,000 gallons of gasoline or 2,848 barrels of oil. For Harvard as a whole, loan-fund projects have yielded an average 25 percent...
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- 31 Mar 2011
- News
Building an Online Swap Shop
reported (December 18, 2010), prompting thredUP to launch the new exchange. thredUP’s 50,000 registered users swap more than 1,000 boxes of clothes a week. Buyers pay $5 plus shipping per box. Since it’s a swap service, users must send as...
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- 01 Mar 2009
- News
Letters to the Editor
word for it: Numerous sources over the past several years have documented the actual costs of the new generation of nuclear plants, including testimony to regulators by many of the utilities proposing to build them. According to these sources, nuclear power will cost...
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- 01 Jun 2020
- What Do You Think?
Will Challenged Amazon Tweak Its Retail Model Post-Pandemic?
(as of the end of 2019), pay $119 per year for Prime membership’s free and rapid delivery and then proceed to spend an estimated $1,400 per year for merchandise and services. (Think of it; that’s a locked-in...
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- 17 Sep 2024
- Research & Ideas
Advice for the New CEO: Talk to Your Employees Early and Often
transition. The researchers examined data during the months before and after the CEO change, including the average number of: Meetings employees attended Attendees per meeting Internal emails Recipients per...
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- 30 Jun 2014
- Blog Post
Cambridge to Nairobi
African innovation and tech startups. With so much economic growth in Africa, a rising Kenyan middle class, and staggering levels of internet and mobile phone penetration relative to GDP per person (this is after all, the country that...
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Entrepreneurial Finance - Course Catalog
deal structures, incentives, business models and valuation in much greater detail than TEM. Approximately one-third of the cases concern technology-based businesses, though the emphasis is on gaining insights into entrepreneurial management, not technology View Details
- 01 Feb 1999
- News
Entrepreneurs Speak at HBS
commerce came from consumers and small businesses; nine months later, 80 percent of that business was from large to midsized companies and from the federal government. "We now have about 100 million visitors a year to our Web site and we do about $10 million View Details
- 01 Oct 2002
- News
Jeremiah P. Murphy, Jr.
merchandise while sharing in the store's profits through an annually distributed rebate. Membership dues today are $1.00 per year, actually half of what they were in 1882. Despite an abiding respect for the Coop's storied past, Murphy...
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- 01 Mar 2007
- News
Letters to the Editor
there was a marsh being filled in. That was our ice-skating area. Units in the project rented for $35 a month and consisted of a combination kitchen-dining area, two little bedrooms, a separate living room, and a bath. There were six units View Details
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U.S. Healthcare Strategy - Course Catalog
cross-registrants. It is designed to accommodate and challenge students with a wide range of pre-existing exposure to U.S. healthcare, ranging from those who have worked in the sector for many years to those approaching it for the first time. View Details
- 01 Jun 2018
- News
Action Plan: Horse Sense
numbers game,” says Finley, who buys 30 to 40 horses annually at an average cost of $200,000 per animal. “Keep in mind that these horses are 18 months old or thereabouts. They’ve never had a saddle on their back, and all you get to do is...
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- 28 Apr 2022
- Blog Post
Climate Stories Episode #4: Erika Myers, World Resources Institute Ross Center for Sustainable Cities
less than $30,000. Wearing her global hat, Erika congratulated Europeans for their EV adoption and lamented that fewer than 2% of vehicles sold in the United States are electric vehicles. She noted that Norway ranks number 1 in per capita...
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- 05 Jan 2010
- First Look
First Look: January 5
become the hubs of the network. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/10-043.pdf Private Equity and Industry Performance Authors:Shai Bernstein, Josh Lerner, Morten Sørensen, and Per Strömberg Abstract The growth of the...
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Martha Lagace
- 03 Dec 2015
- Op-Ed
How "New Nuclear" Power Could Save the Planet—If Regulators Would Allow It
technology-ready by investors by 2023. “New nuclear” power must be cheaper than coal for the developing world’s national utilities (less than $0.05 per kilowatt hour) by 2025. ”New nuclear” must be as deployable at the same rate as coal...
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- 31 Aug 2011
- Research & Ideas
Improving Fairness in Flight Delays
Passengers benefit by flying airlines offering more flights to their destinations. Fearing and his coauthors find that the average delay to disrupted non-stop passengers on routes with at least 10 daily flights per carrier is 31.4 percent...
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- 02 Sep 2015
- Research & Ideas
Explaining China's Crash
30 years by growing consistently at 10 percent per year or more, lifting hundreds of millions out of poverty. It has gone from almost nowhere to being the second-biggest economy, contributing 15 percent to the global GDP and 25 percent to...
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- 31 Oct 2016
- Research & Ideas
Quantitative Easing Didn’t Ease the Housing Crisis for the Neediest
homes. Households refinancing in 2009 saved an average of $250 per month—or $3,000 per year—due to the lower interest rates afforded by quantitative easing, on average cashing out about $20,000 of home...
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by Carmen Nobel