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- 02 Mar 2016
- News
The New Space Race
leader in technology,” he says. “Somehow, over the years, we had become the nation’s technology broker to outside companies.” The 2011 shuttering of the shuttle program—and its $600 million per launch costs—left them without a...
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Robert S. Benchley
- 06 Sep 2022
- Research & Ideas
Curbing an Unlikely Culprit of Rising Drug Prices: Pharmaceutical Donations
the “breakeven inducement percentage,” noting that “inducement” refers to use that would not occur in the absence of assistance, even if it is medically appropriate. Among the 10 conditions with the highest drug spending per patient, the...
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Hiroshi Mikitani
hyper-efficient supermarket with standardized offerings,” Rakuten is more like a bazaar “where the owners of many small shops curate the merchandise and interact personally with customers.” Starting out, Rakuten charged its merchants $650 View Details
- 06 Sep 2004
- What Do You Think?
How Do We Prepare for a World Without Cheap Oil?
recently a mere price "spike" in oil, we may be entering an era in which we have to adjust our thinking to prices that fluctuate around, say, $40 per barrel, a level long thought to be unsustainable even by OPEC, the...
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by James Heskett
- 01 Dec 2020
- News
Two Truths and a Lie About 5G
will see vast increases in reliability and the number of devices connected to one antenna as well as reductions in the cost of data per gigabyte, Menard says. Beyond that, fixed wireless access could enable fiber-like speeds to homes or...
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Jen McFarland Flint
- 16 Mar 2010
- First Look
First Look: March 16
spite of the fact that the Constitution of 1891 included a literacy requirement to vote and gave states the responsibility to spend on education. That is to say, Brazilian states had a significant improvement in education levels and a significant increase in...
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Martha Lagace
- 03 Oct 2006
- First Look
First Look: October 3, 2006
proposal involved changing a basic design feature of LinkedIn by allowing members to contact each other without intermediaries for a fee. Fewer members would avail themselves of this feature, but those who did would be willing to pay as much as $5-$15 View Details
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Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Jun 2015
- News
Case Study: Sneak Peak
50s for product margins. Assuming they have gotten this right, they have a marketing/distribution problem. They need to prove that they can grow either in product per location or in total number of locations. The product sounds like it...
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Motorized Bicycle Policy | About
Bicycle A pedal bicycle which has a helper motor, or a non-pedal bicycle which has a motor, with a cylinder capacity not exceeding fifty (50) cubic centimeters, an automatic transmission, and which is capable of a maximum speed of no more than thirty (30) miles View Details
- 25 Feb 2020
- News
Why Layoffs are a Losing Strategy
off 2,300 employees and costing the jobs of another 2,000 temporary, contract suppliers’ workers. That action cost the company 700 million euros in sales and 100 million euros in profit in the German market—and at 80,000 euros per...
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- 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...
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April White
- 01 Sep 2006
- News
Innovative Loan Fund Yields Big Returns
by over 2.7 million pounds per year. That’s equivalent to taking 265 cars off the road for one year, saving 139,000 gallons of gasoline or 2,848 barrels of oil. For Harvard as a whole, loan-fund projects have yielded an average 25 percent...
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- 31 Mar 2011
- News
Building an Online Swap Shop
reported (December 18, 2010), prompting thredUP to launch the new exchange. thredUP’s 50,000 registered users swap more than 1,000 boxes of clothes a week. Buyers pay $5 plus shipping per box. Since it’s a swap service, users must send as...
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- 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. ...
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- 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...
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- 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...
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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...
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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...
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- 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."
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- 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...
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