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- 13 Jun 2017
- Blog Post
What is the MS/MBA: Engineering Sciences Program? A Q&A with Professor Tom Eisenmann
key indicators of entrepreneurship and innovation. Boston is second only to Silicon Valley in terms of venture capital invested per capita. Boston-area research universities spend $2.6 billion annually on R&D. No region surpasses...
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- 01 Jun 2022
- News
'Rooted' In Innovation
whom are women, who average under a dollar a day per capita income. Since cassava spoils within three days of harvesting, it is traditionally used in small-scale family cooking. Roughly 40 percent of the annual harvest is lost due to...
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Deborah Blagg
- 04 Dec 2020
- News
Hour by Hour
permanent and temporary “on-demand” positions—has helped businesses save more than $1,000 per permanent hire by bypassing recruitment, background checks, and training. It has also helped hourly employees pick up extra work. “You can...
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- 01 Mar 2018
- News
Democratizing Data to Favor Farmers
analytics model the ways that different variables interact: the number of seeds planted per acre, the amount of nitrogen added to the soil, the crop rotation, and rainfall and tillage practices, among others. With a large enough data set,...
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Sasha Issenberg
- 18 Aug 2014
- News
Closing the Education Gap
performance test scores. By June that number had jumped to 53 percent. “In nine months, we can effectively close the gap between poor and average performance on pre-K tests,” says Dias Griffin, “and we can do it for $6,000 per child,...
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Jill Radsken
- 29 Feb 2024
- Blog Post
IFC India: JSW Steel and Cement and the Quest to Capture Carbon in Hard to Abate Sectors
such as Cement and Steel, the hardest challenge is to balance the need for infrastructure and the need to build it sustainably, when it currently grows emissions at 1.5% per annum. Priority to Abate After an early ferry ride and bus...
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- 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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Advice on Switching Careers While at HBS - MBA
Blog Blog MBA Voices Filter Results Arrow Down Arrow Up Read posts from Author Alumni Author Career and Professional Development Staff Author HBS Community Author HBS Faculty Author MBA Admissions Author MBA Students Topics Topics 1st Year (RC) 2+2 Program 2nd Year...
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- 01 Dec 2018
- News
Preparing Our Students for a Changing World
second-year students traveled to Israel for a 10-day Immersive Field Course (IFC) that plunged them into the country’s thriving entrepreneurship ecosystem. Often referred to as the “Startup Nation,” Israel has more venture capital per...
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- 01 Sep 2018
- News
An SUV Built for African Roads—by African Workers
full-time employees, the new factory will add another 50 people per shift, doing everything from laser-cutting steel frames to inspection, painting, general assembly, and quality testing. The company worked with contract assembly to build...
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Amy Yee
- 01 Sep 2016
- News
The Big Business of Little Loans
money? That weighed on them. So far, so good. This year Able is on pace to lend $100 million, with zero defaults in its nearly two years of operation. Baehr and Davis estimate that Able has saved borrowers $31,000 per loan on average as a...
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Nancy Miller
- 01 Dec 1998
- News
Short Takes
almost perfect proportion to the amount of real consumer debt. "When consumer creditors lent more," explains Moss, "the number of filings quickly increased." After 1985, the number of bankruptcies per dollar lent increased significantly....
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Judith A. Ross
- 25 Aug 2014
- News
Wendell P. Weeks, MBA 1987
that brought the Internet into millions of homes in the 1990s. Like so many companies, Corning was caught by surprise when the telecommunications bubble burst. Its stock tumbled, from more than $100 to about a dollar per share. “That was...
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Susan Young
- 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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- 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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- 26 Sep 2024
- HBS Case
If a Car Can Drive Itself, Can It Make Life-or-Death Decisions?
0.18 accidents per million miles, compared to the US average of 1.53 accidents per million miles. The technology’s critics, though, home in on the 17 deaths involved with Autopilot since its 2019 rollout,...
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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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by Ami Albernaz
- 15 Oct 2019
- News
Fellowship Enables Opportunity in Africa
five years of completing their MBAs to pursue full-time jobs on the continent by supplementing their income when their total compensation is less than $100,000. The maximum award is $50,000 per year. The first four GO: Africa recipients...
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