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- 12 Mar 2007
- Research & Ideas
The New Real Estate
per year for heating and transport versus 143 BTUs for the average U.S. city dweller. If the city dweller lived in a green multifamily building and drove an energy-efficient Prius, his average use would drop to 62 BTUs, a savings of 75... View Details
- 28 Apr 2010
- Research & Ideas
Earth Day Reflections
company's commitment to sustainability mean that firms that ignore this do so at their own risk. BMW Group has been a leader in recognizing this. Several years ago, it issued a Sustainable Value Report detailing energy consumed, water consumed, waste removed, and... View Details
Keywords: by Staff
- 14 Nov 2019
- Book
Lifting the Lid on Turkey's Hidden Business History
corruption per se does not prevent rapid economic development, although it does distort it. Modern Turkey has achieved great economic progress whatever the prevalence of corruption. World Bank data shows that Turkey’s View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Mar 2012
- News
Putting Ghosts to Rest
two programs in particular: The “one cow per poor family” program intended to get every poor family in Rwanda a cow—thereby increasing the amount of milk, protein, and fertilizer available to the average family, which sounded good on... View Details
- 03 Oct 2019
- News
Skydeck Live: Galactic Returns
and a half. Think aircraft-like operation on earth via space. Perhaps even more importantly, the model would allow to bring the costs down to hundreds of dollars per kilogram. And while it has come down from $25,000 to $5,000 View Details
- 01 Jun 2014
- News
FIELD 2 in Accra
global business environment. Among this year's FIELD 2 countries, Ghana has both the lowest GDP per capita and the highest rate of GDP growth. "The country has a large and growing wealth divide," notes Leach, who said the team was struck... View Details
- 16 Sep 2013
- News
Canada’s Native Son
smarter about how we produce and distribute food globally." It's one of the issues that Favel has made a priority for his new position. The other is the education of the First Nations people. "Saskatchewan has a higher per capita... View Details
- 27 May 2020
- Research & Ideas
What South Korea Teaches the World About Fighting COVID
world (South Korea: 2 percent vs. world: 7 percent). Even taking into account the country’s population, South Korea’s number of cases per capita is substantially lower than those of other countries. The United States (with more than 1.7... View Details
- 01 Sep 2011
- News
Green Day
30 to 40 tons of dry biomass per hectare (just under 2.5 acres). (The energy balance ratio of corn ethanol is around 1 to 1, while sugarcane ethanol stands at about 8 to 1.) None of this was lost on Brazilian native Ana Maria Diniz (OPM... View Details
- 01 Mar 2009
- News
Model Patient
Individuals who fail to purchase coverage are penalized up to $912 on their taxes; companies with more than eleven employees must pay the state $295 per year per employee if they don’t offer their workers a... View Details
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Class Profile | MBA
select more than one race and/or ethnicity. The racial and ethnic categories listed here reflect those included in our application process, per federal guidelines. *US race / ethnicity enrollment shown as a percent of US citizens and... View Details
- 03 Oct 2023
- Blog Post
Hire an MBA: The Benefits and Misconceptions for Startups
without breaking the bank. The median base salary for an HBS summer intern at a startup was $7,000 per month in 2023. Startups need a recruiting budget and must go through a formal recruiting process All of HBS's recruiting resources are... View Details
- 23 Nov 1999
- Research & Ideas
The Future of the Venture Capital Cycle
annually over the first eighty-five years of this century, have surged over the past decade to over 120 thousand per year. This does not appear to reflect the impact of changes in domestic patent policy, shifts in the success rate of... View Details
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Manuscript Collections - Bubbles, Panics & Crashes – Historical Collections – Harvard Business School
Massachusetts, until the 1950s. The collection includes treasurers’, directors’ and stockholders’ records; employee records include wage books, payrolls, and time books documenting productivity per worker. Collection Guide Copyright ©... View Details
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FAQ - U.S. Competitiveness
and guide the Project’s research. This definition makes clear that neither lower American wages, nor a cheaper dollar, nor job creation per se can lead to true competitiveness. Why is the Project’s research focused on PK-12 education,... View Details
- 01 Apr 2000
- News
Q & A: A Conversation with IRS Chief Charles Rossotti
opportunity for improvement. The average taxpayer has one interaction per year with us, but a small businessperson with a few employees may have to deal with us fifty times a year. If you fall behind, you can get in all sorts of tangles.... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 01 Mar 2005
- News
A Dog’s Best Friend: Jim Hawes’s Charles River Rescue
receive a plaque from the Humane Society, and to tell me that Harvard paid out quite a lot, at 25 cents per clipping from around the world, to its clipping services. Dean Fouraker was funny and very nice. The most interesting piece of... View Details
Frank A. Seiberling
a profit, but after Seiberling hired an astute MIT engineer and poured money into product development, Goodyear was producing about 40,000 tires per day and had revenues of $205 million. View Details
Keywords: Automotive & Aerospace
Stanley C. Gault
generated a 4-fold increase in revenues and a 6-fold increase in profitability. While he stripped weak product lines and slashed excess cost, he invested in new product development – generating over 100 new items per year. View Details
Keywords: Fabricated Goods
- 05 Jun 2013
- Op-Ed
Corporate Leaders Need to Step Up on Climate Change
reduction—and declares victory. But these measures fail to even dent the climate problem. And the proof is easy: Greenhouse gas emissions continue to rise. Last month, we hit 400 parts per million atmospheric CO2 for the first time in 3... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Toffel & Auden Schendler