Numbers - Publications - Faculty & Research

01 Oct 2002
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Ann M. Fudge

F. Cronin: A Focus on the Fundamentals Ann M. Fudge: Enhanced Perspective Steven C. Watson: Course Change Karen Gordon Mills: Her Excellent Adventures Amy S. Langer: Fighting the Good Fight Jeremiah P. Murphy, Jr.: Improving the Coop's View Details

15 Jun 2021
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Turning Point: Tell Me More

voters were inaccurate in so many areas. After the election, I wrote an opinion piece for the Boston Globe about what I had learned and what I thought it meant. The column focused on the moment when large numbers of my undecided voters... View Details

Keywords: politics; communication; voting; demographics

19 Feb 2020
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Capitol Ideas to Combat Climate Change

companies,” he said. “The number of CEOs who want to be at the table for the conversation has grown. It’s because the stakeholders that matter to them are all saying to them ‘What are you doing about this?’” Anne Kelly (HKS 1996), VP of... View Details

Keywords: April White; photos by Jack Conroy

04 Sep 2019
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A Measured Approach

the Free Senior High School (FSHS) program, which made tuition-free high school available to all students. Before that, even government-run schools were cost-prohibitive for many families. So students enrolled in significant numbers when... View Details

Keywords: Lisa Scanlon Mogolov

01 Mar 2018
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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,... View Details

Keywords: Sasha Issenberg

01 Oct 1999
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A Message from Dean Clark

in our classrooms. We are excited by the possibilities generated by our research offices in California and Hong Kong and our planned center in Latin America. The California Research Center (CRC) has far exceeded expectations in terms of the View Details

18 May 2015
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The First Five Years: Rena Xu (MBA 2014, MD 2014)

took Bob Higgins’s class on Entrepreneurship in Healthcare IT and got to learn about (and in many cases meet the case protagonists of) a number of companies in the area— Kyruus, Steward Health Care, athenahealth, and more. It made me... View Details

Keywords: Ambulatory Health Care Services; Health, Social Assistance

18 Aug 2014
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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,... View Details

Keywords: Jill Radsken

01 Jan 2008
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Anand G. Mahindra, MBA 1981

numbering 98) grouped in “sectors” (now eight) headed by presidents with general management responsibilities. Unlike a conglomerate, each sector has one flagship company with its own listing on the Bombay Stock Exchange. “The model... View Details

07 Sep 2021
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Skydeck Voices: For My Next Act

Teeling, DBA 1979, who has started a number of Irish whiskey distilleries, hadn’t intended to sit and offer his advice, but his companion had other ideas. Teeling: The reason you have me here is because my wife was listening to the... View Details

01 Jun 2000
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The Business of Biotech

is not a postdoc lab, this is a business. It's not enough just to do the experiment; somebody's got to take the ball and run with it." Lately, competition in the biotech industry has become more heated than ever, as a steadily increasing View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna

22 Aug 2019
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Catalyzing Africa’s Tech Sector

training program, and now just became employee number one at Microsoft's development center in Nigeria. And he's an amazing person, I mean with or without Andela, he would have been fine. When you meet him, you'll know, he's on a mission.... View Details

01 Sep 2017
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History’s Lessons

men applied to join the venture; another source put the number of candidates at five thousand. Bridges Adams, an acquaintance who directed an acting company, remembered a conversation in which Shackleton explained his views on hiring. The... View Details

Keywords: Abraham Lincoln; Ernest Shackelford; Rachel Carson

15 Jan 2020
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The Business of Access

services, on the other hand, were delivered at no cost to clients; consequently, the organization was always at capacity and often had to turn people away. “We needed capacity (beds) and had strong financials, InnVision had empty beds, and there was a growing View Details

Keywords: Maureen Harmon

01 Mar 2017
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HBX: Reimagining HBS for the Digital Age

Analytics course for those students without a background in business and economics; more than half of the MBA Class of 2018 completed the program, including a significant number who took it voluntarily. HBX Certificate Programs include... View Details

01 Jun 2016
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Ask the Expert: Barreling Ahead

the number of acres they cultivate continues to grow. We’ve also created relationships with our malt, glass, can, keg, and packaging suppliers (some of which have only become stronger as a result of our relationship with Constellation... View Details

01 Sep 2004
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Richard J. Stillman (MBA 1940)

to General George S. Patton. Stillman is professor emeritus of management at the University of New Orleans College of Business Administration, where he taught from 1967 until 1982. He has written a total of eighteen books, a number of... View Details

01 Mar 2012
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Shop Talk, Different Avenues

flatten out pricing as the number of people shopping on international sites grows. Gilt shipping to over 90 countries can certainly change the character and potential of the business. I think it’s interesting that Gilt created a new form... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; shopping; e-commerce; Clothing and Clothing Accessories Stores; Retail Trade

13 Nov 2020
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Student Startups Help Fight COVID-19

business and pursue their own ventures—whether they are just starting out with a great idea or are ready to go to market. In response to the global coronavirus pandemic, a number of current and former teams in the Venture Program doubled... View Details

01 Jun 2020
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Lesson Plans

Patrick Mullane (MBA 1999) Patrick Mullane (MBA 1999) The COVID-19 pandemic has necessarily thrust online learning to the forefront. As executive director of HBS Online—which has reached more than 70,000 learners in 170 countries since 2015—Patrick Mullane (MBA 1999)... View Details

Keywords: Jen Mele

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