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Charting Tariff Pain: Small Businesses Brace for Job Cuts, Falling Sales | Working Knowledge

could immediately switch to domestic suppliers, and 35 percent estimated that reshoring would raise costs by no more than 20 percent. Another 20 percent of owners said that shifting would be impossible or prohibitively expensive. While... View Details

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Blog | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School

difference? An estimated $390 billion was donated to charitable cause... HBS’s Pursuit Of Public Service Is On The Rise Matt Segneri 15 Feb 2018 Scrolling through my newsfeed this week, I can’t help but marvel at how many HBS alumni are... View Details

05 Jun 2019
Research & Ideas

If Your Customers Don't Care What You Charge, What Should You Charge?

An estimated 60 percent of retail gasoline customers return to the same gas station to refuel, without comparison shopping, according to a recent study. Driven by factors such as habit, brand loyalty, switching costs, and search (which... View Details

Keywords: by Kristen Senz; Energy

01 Apr 2000
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A "Growing" Online Community

(MBA '99), aims to help farmers pool their orders so they can make bulk purchases at lower costs. "Everyone thinks that farmers are unsophisticated and have no ideas," Grippo said in the January 5 article "Online Agricultural Sites Sprouting Up around Argentina." He... View Details

01 Sep 2009
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Noted & Quoted

“Some Democrats view Medicare as a successful cost controller, pointing to its low administrative overhead, which they peg at 3 percent. But that figure ignores an inconvenient truth: Medicare’s unfunded liabilities, estimated at about... View Details

Keywords: Business Schools & Computer & Management Training; Educational Services; Management

12 Jan 2016
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January 12, 2016

exposure to workplace attributes that contribute to poor health. We used General Social Survey data to estimate differential exposures to workplace conditions, results from a meta-analysis that estimated the... View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

01 Sep 2020
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Comeback Trail

economy are rebounding in fits and starts, the Congressional Budget Office estimated in July that the pandemic’s impact would last a decade and cost the US economy $16 trillion. To better understand how to approach an economic recovery of... View Details

04 Apr 2000
Research & Ideas

The Right Way to Restructure Conglomerates in Emerging Markets

handle. It also poses practical problems. For instance, how easy is it to estimate a reliable breakup value for a business group in the middle of a fire sale and in the absence of a well-developed market for asset sales? But if... View Details

Keywords: by Tarun Khanna & Krishna Palepu

13 May 2020
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Crisis Leadership with Nikhil Patel: The Critical Importance of Trust

immediately ahead. “I had to figure out how to set up isolation and quarantine sites for two to three thousand homeless people, sheltered and unsheltered,” he says. “I made epidemiological models to estimate the number of rooms we needed,... View Details

Keywords: Nonprofit / Government; Social Enterprise

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Field Course: Investing for Impact

company data, including pre and post-money valuations for startups. Market size estimates by topic area or industry, market maps by industry vertical, and comparable companies screening for competitor analysis. Meet with us: Set up group... View Details

01 Jun 2009
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Entrepreneur’s Rwandan Start-Up Gets HBS Support

miss school each year for this reason, estimates UNICEF. “Our goal is to turn what has been an obstacle into a business opportunity and vehicle for economic growth in Africa, Asia, and Central America,” says Scharpf. The Rwandan venture... View Details

Keywords: Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services; Social Assistance; Health, Social Assistance

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Statistical Resources - Research Computing Services

binary models and count data models An introduction to Arellano-Bond model An introduction to Heteroskedasticity and Autocorrelation Consistent estimators An introduction to mixed model An introduction to regressions when dependent... View Details

21 Nov 2008
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No More Squawking about the Campus Turkey

Summit, when the press took notice and filed stories, went to her head. If anything, she became more aggressive and finally crossed the line separating irksome from menacing, whereupon her campus privileges were officially — and terminally — revoked. It remains to be... View Details

Keywords: Centennial; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

01 Jun 2011
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America the Unequal

Percent of Wealth Owned: Actual U.S. wealth distribution compared with Estimated and Ideal distributions reported by respondents in a national survey. The “4th” and “Bottom” groups are so small that they are not visible in the Actual... View Details

Keywords: income disparity; class mobility

15 Oct 2019
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Advancing China’s Impact Investing Ecosystem

responsibility to do something in this sector,” says Chen. “Impact investing is still in the very early stages in China and lacks human capital, government support, and high-quality investees. There is a clear need to build a platform for Chinese investors.” Chen View Details

01 Mar 2019
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In Character: A Case Discussion Drama

Danijela Surgeon & Unofficial Family Mediator “Why are we not selling? I’m confused.” “This family would fall apart without me here.” From Baker Library | Bloomberg Center: The World Economic Forum estimates that family businesses account... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna

19 Feb 2008
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The Scoop Behind the Silver Screen

estimated in advance by companies who specialize in this sort of analysis. Bonds can be purchased to cover cost overrun risks, too. And it doesn’t hurt to have the reality check of a bonding agent looking over the movie’s projected... View Details

Keywords: Arts, Entertainment; Business Schools & Computer & Management Training; Educational Services; Real Estate

04 Feb 2008
Research & Ideas

Podcast: The Potential Partnership of India and China

Podcast with: Tarun Khanna Interviewer: Sean Silverthorne Running Time: 14 min., 33 sec. The world has an estimated population of 6.6 billion people. One-third of that total resides in just 2 nations: China (1.3 billion) and India (1.1... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

01 Mar 2025
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Assets: These Little Piggies

Not long after Joseph Fuller (MBA 1981) cofounded the consultancy Monitor Group in 1983, a competitor made it known that pigs would fly before the firm succeeded. “That became our rallying cry,” Fuller says. He hung a terra-cotta flying pig from the ceiling of one of... View Details