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Scott Wu
businessperson, or academic trying to address the developing world’s greatest challenges.” He believes this is the perfect opportunity to bring all his skills together in one project. “USAID itself has, at a high level, a mission to end extreme poverty, to potentially... View Details
- 01 Dec 2008
- News
A U.S. Turnaround?
services do not export well. During the past twenty years our balance of payments deficit has expanded to 6 percent of our gross domestic product, putting our currency in peril because our low savings rate requires us to finance our... View Details
- 01 Sep 2008
- News
Alumni Books
OnRamp: A Woman’s Guide to Re-Entering the Workforce by Catherine Clifford and Millie Froeb (MBA ’00) (YOR Media) A Time to Vote: Is It Too Late to Save America? by Jim Moyer (MBA ’70) (Tate Publishing) Free and Laughing: Spiritual... View Details
- 16 Oct 2012
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First Look: October 16
Pressure as a Savings Commitment Device Authors:Felipe Kast, Stephan Meier, and Dina Pomeranz Abstract We test the effectiveness of self-help peer groups as a commitment device for precautionary savings, through two randomized field... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
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Nexis Uni Nexis Uni features more than 15,000 news, business and legal sources from LexisNexis. Read More Includes U.S. Supreme Court decisions dating back to 1790—with an interface that offers quick discovery across all content types, personalization features such as... View Details
- 27 Sep 2024
- Research & Ideas
Charting 'Cheapflation': How Budget Brands Got So Pricey
Surging inflation drove many consumers to cheaper brands or lower-quality products, but new data suggests that switching might not have saved them as much as they might have expected. During the most recent period of high inflation,... View Details
Keywords: by Ana Elena Azpúrua
- 01 Dec 2020
- News
Take Time to Transition (If it’s Time)
Edited by Julia Hanna and Jen McFarland Flint; illustrations by Rose Wong When Mary Lindley Burton (MBA 1976) came to HBS in the mid-1970s, the Smith College religion major “felt like a fish out of water.” What saved her, she says, was a... View Details
- 01 Dec 2014
- News
Five Degrees of Doriot
LIFE VEST: A soldier displays a piece of shrapnel that lodged in his armored vest during frontline action in Korea on March 30, 1952. The impact knocked him to the ground, but the vest, reinforced with Doriot’s “Doron,” was credited with View Details
- 18 May 2011
- News
Man with a Plan
News (February, 13, 2011). Therein lies the broad impact of his “Yella Fella” TV ads, in which Rane stars as the yellow-clad cowboy who saves the West from rotting wood with his pressure-treated pine, known as YellaWood. “They'll probably... View Details
- 20 Apr 2016
- News
Steps to Success
this epiphany that this is where I belong.” For five years, Ruhr helped women in three different camps, teaching basic technical skills (how to make soap) and, more importantly, how to save money, as part of ARC’s Income Generation... View Details
Keywords: Jill Radsken
- 23 Nov 1999
- Research & Ideas
What’s Your Strategy for Managing Knowledge?
previously developed solutions — as well as value propositions that helped him estimate how much money the client would save by implementing the system. Because Love reused this material, Ernst & Young won the project and closed the... View Details
- 04 Oct 2016
- First Look
October 4, 2016
Implications of the Society for Assisted Reproductive Technology Embryo Transfer Guidelines: Healthcare Dollars Saved by Reducing Iatrogenic Triplets By: Lee, Malinda S., Brady T. Evans, Ariel Dora Stern, and Mark D. Hornstein... View Details
- 11 Mar 2020
- News
Making It Rain
customer request, instead of what the rest of the industry is doing, which is just looking at the outputs of the governmental models,” says Elkabetz. For airlines, access to more accurate weather forecasts—both short and long term—enables decisions that improve safety... View Details
Keywords: Lisa Scanlon Mogolov
- 01 Sep 2015
- News
Greater Than the Sum of its Parts
teaching and research institution poised to address society’s most intractable challenges. "The idea of One Harvard is so natural. There are so many opportunities. Whether you are talking about curing cancer, educating a skilled workforce, or View Details
- 16 May 2016
- HBS Case
Food Safety Economics: The Cost of a Sick Customer
in some cases, less finished-product testing. Outsourcing food safety testing A growing number of food manufacturers, grocery stores, and restaurants are choosing to outsource some or all of their food testing—and in many cases, they are View Details
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Rob Casper
Shanghai, helping a client with women’s facial cream. “I had no idea what I was doing. None of us knew what we were doing. We were constantly on the phone with our sisters, friends, girlfriends, trying to understand what customers thought.” In the end, humility may... View Details
- 01 Feb 1999
- News
Social Enterprise Forum Discusses Strategy
empirical studies and was facilitated by an HBS faculty member. The first session, for instance, facilitated by Social Enterprise faculty chair Professor James E. Austin, focused on what drives strategy in nonprofit and nongovernmental organizations. One case in this... View Details
- 01 Jun 2005
- News
When No News Isn’t Good News
make midcourse corrections that might save your job or enhance your organization’s success.” McKay notes that regular performance check-ins are particularly important when embarking on a new job or tackling more challenging projects.... View Details
- 18 Jul 2012
- Research & Ideas
Penn State Lesson: Today’s Cover-Up was Yesterday’s Opportunity
while allowing Sandusky free reign to destroy lives. Sadly, the Penn State situation is not unique. Consider these other cases: Had President Richard Nixon acknowledged his role in the Watergate scandals, he could have saved his... View Details
- 04 Mar 2009
- Op-Ed
Credit is Not the Bogey
down; savings are up. Yet a simplistic credit-as-bogey outlook masks a more nuanced picture. From a different vantage, credit was an economic white knight. Easy credit fueled the prosperity of the past decade. American statesman Daniel... View Details