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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
- 20 Apr 2020
- Book
Why COVID-19 Raises the Stakes for Healthy Buildings
building systems are performing optimally every minute of every day. Our recommendations: Increase the ventilation rate to a minimum of 30 cubic feet per minute / person. Verify ventilation performance with real-time monitoring of CO2. ... View Details
- 09 Apr 2014
- Research & Ideas
A Playbook for Small-Business Job Creation
put up to $4 billion per year into high-growth companies. And it does so at no cost to taxpayers. "This public-private partnership is a good example of government and the private sector working together," Mills says. "This... View Details
- 16 Sep 2013
- Research & Ideas
Earnings Calls That Get Lost in Translation
complicated: the use of many words per sentence that featured a high percentage of complex, multisyllabic words, requiring a higher level of education to understand. These communications were then compared to capital market reaction... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 20 Mar 2007
- First Look
First Look: March 20, 2007
the impact of inventory on sales and the interrelationship between gross margin and inventory. We also estimate the effects of exogenous explanatory variables such as store growth, proportion of new inventory, capital investment per... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Mar 2024
- News
The Exchange: Takeaways from the Takedown
think an interesting question here is: At what point is an entrepreneur—particularly someone who doesn’t have experience in business, per se—supposed to grow up and design those systems? When you start a business in your garage, we don’t... View Details
- 23 Jan 2015
- Research & Ideas
Oil Price Fallout: What Happens Next?
the reality is that the world consumes more than 80 million barrels of oil per day. So if that spare capacity gets low suddenly, prices could go right back up. It doesn't take much." View Details
- 15 Jun 2021
- News
From Das’s Desk
forged ahead to create more virtual programs, at a pace of 5 to 10 per month, covering topics from leadership, civic entrepreneurship, happiness, and capitalism, to artificial intelligence, climate change, and much more. The clubs also... View Details
- 26 Feb 2021
- News
Latinx on Boards; High-Tech Reforestation
ecosystem, soils, and climate to build customized seed pods with multiple species of trees and plants and nutrients to support germination. After the drones plant the pods—at a rate of two pods per second—the trees will be monitored over... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
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Product Management - Course Catalog
exercises. Usually there are two classes per week, one that is case-based and the other that is exercise-based. Cases you are familiar with. Exercises are formatted in a similar way to cases except they require students to submit their... View Details
- 06 Oct 2022
- News
On the Road to Recovery
their skills has given nurses greater bargaining power to negotiate higher salaries and better working conditions. Prior to the pandemic, Nightingale Nurses charged about $85 an hour for its nurses (about 75% goes to the nurse, about 25% to the company). Today, the... View Details
- 11 Jul 2017
- News
The Right Thing to Do
$5 per viewer. However, Ackman’s ROI metric for this series is akin to that of Diogenes’ search for an honest man or Lot’s for righteous people in Sodom and Gomorrah. “It’s really expensive,” he admits, “but want to know something? If... 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... View Details
Keywords: Technology
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Field Course: Business of the Arts - Course Catalog
HBS Course Catalog Field Course: Business of the Arts Course Number 6913 Baker Foundation Professor Rohit Deshpande Senior Lecturer Henry McGee Spring; Q3Q4; 3.0 credits Ten afternoon class sessions plus 2-5 hours per week of team work.... View Details
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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... View Details
- 01 Oct 2001
- News
Philip L. Yeo: The Next Big Thing
To understand the remarkable success of the tiny island city-state of Singapore (250 square miles, 4.1 million people, annual per capita income $24,150), one really need look no farther than Philip Yeo, one of the republic's true... View Details
Keywords: Government
- 01 Mar 2023
- News
Enabling Students to Pursue Their Passions
per student per year— the loans he would need to take out to finance the rest of his education and living expenses would limit his future career choices. Nevertheless, he decided to pursue his MBA. Tristan... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 13 Mar 2018
- First Look
March 13, 2018
findings. First, people use emojis in text-based communication to convey emotional experience. Second, the amount and diversity of emojis causally increases happiness during social interactions. Third, across 122 countries, higher total amount and greater diversity of... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 12 Jul 2011
- First Look
First Look: July 12
derived predictions, does not confirm the private information hypothesis. Read the paper: http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1134943 Working PapersFiduciary Duties and Equity‐Debtholder Conflicts Authors:Bo Becker and View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 09 Jul 2001
- Research & Ideas
Does Misery Love Companies? How Social Performance Pays Off
Africa. Even more broadly, one is left with aggregate statistics that both inform and numb. . . . Living in the United States, we may be shocked to learn that so many people in the world live on less than $2.00 per day, or that a quarter... View Details
Keywords: by Joshua D. Margolis & James P. Walsh