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- 15 Nov 2024
- News
Driving Change
observation that sparked discussions about financial literacy and empowerment among female leaders. Mary Erdoes (MBA 1993), CEO of J.P. Morgan Asset & Wealth Management, brought stark statistics to the conversation, noting that while 85... View Details
- 24 Aug 2017
- News
Unlocking Potential
prison. Studies by the US Bureau of Justice Statistics show that nearly seven out of 10 former inmates reoffend and return to prison within three years. The Reset Foundation tries to break that cycle by diverting people from the penal... View Details
- 01 Jun 2007
- News
Steve Schwarzman
trigger government regulators to tighten the screws on the private-equity industry? It’s inevitable that one deal will get in trouble, just purely from a statistical point of view. A lot of negative comments are being made from an odd... View Details
- 01 Jan 2002
- News
Marjorie M.T. Yang (MBA '76)
To accomplish that, Margie Yang has focused her efforts on building an operation that relies on best practices and the latest technology for its competitive advantage. One recent HBS grad who works for her, she points out, is using probability and View Details
- 01 Jun 1997
- News
Competition and Strategy Unit at HBS Sets Pace In Its Field
competitive strategy over the past fifteen years. Last fall, Kohlberg taught Analytical Reasoning, a new elective he developed around his research. Associate Professor Anita M. McGahan, with Michael Porter, is working on a series of View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 01 Jan 2006
- News
William H. Donaldson, MBA 1958
from something more thorough than the brief statistical reports that were then the typical product available. “We wanted to do research that added value by analyzing a company’s strengths and weaknesses in long reports that provided an... View Details
- 01 Sep 2009
- News
Read All About It!
his analysis of our low-mindedness is right — and right it seems to be in the light of such statistics as he can muster — our craving for entertainment is so insatiable that most of us give ourselves up wholeheartedly to joy-riding,... View Details
- 01 Oct 2002
- News
Books
CEO successions from 1978 to 1996 at 850 of the largest U.S. companies. He expected to identify typical economic principles at work in the CEO labor market, but as anomalies in his statistics multiplied, he dug deeper, spending dozens of... View Details
- 01 Mar 2008
- News
Where Have All the Leaders Gone?
over a quarter of adults — 27 percent — have a very close family member or friend who has served in the current military effort in Iraq or Afghanistan. And it is not only in combat that so little is being asked of America as a whole. View Details
Keywords: Government
- 05 Dec 2016
- News
The Dragon’s Tale
with the country’s recent economic slowdown, China has more billionaires than the United States. Behind that fairly startling statistic are troubling related issues such as corruption among China’s elite and very wide variance in income,... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg
- 26 May 2022
- News
Bidding Up
focus.” Wilson switched his course of study from physics to philosophy to math. But he found some direction through Howard Raiffa, a statistics professor who was moving over to HBS to develop a program in what would come to be known as... View Details
- 20 Dec 2019
- News
The 19 Musts of 2019
does Charles Darwin, who wrote that cooperative social behavior was a trait of survival and prosperity. Pearlstein ends with a beautiful quote from Robert Kennedy from 1968, that the GNP statistic our country so relies on captures... View Details
- 01 Dec 2018
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for December 2018
do and what not to do) so that the analytics actually makes a difference. Books on customer analytics exist mainly in two categories: academic texts, which discuss theoretical approaches to data analysis problems, and technical texts, which teach the View Details
- 01 Mar 2009
- News
Model Patient
costs are incurred are more than repaid by the ability of people like myself to regain their health and step back into the role of contributing citizens.” View sources of statistics cited in this article. Related Links Health Care a Top... View Details
- 01 Jun 2013
- News
Minding The Gap
Professor Allen Grossman and Senior Lecturer John Kim with HGSE professor Susan Moore Johnson Searching for System-Wide Solutions Baltimore City College's stellar education outcomes stand in sharp contrast to those of schools with similar racial and economic profiles.... View Details
- 01 Dec 2016
- News
Alumni Books of 2016
explains aspects of the scientific method, including experimental design, verification, uncertainty, and statistics and also includes sections on planning research, presenting one’s findings in writing, ethics, and the responsibilities of... View Details
- 29 Apr 2022
- News
Clean Slate
use. NLK: We come at it from a health angle because we know that kids in India are suffering from malnutrition because they get diarrhea, and they get diarrhea because of poor sanitation, and that leads to poor nutrition and they grow stunted. I mean, the View Details
- 12 Jan 2015
- News
Good Investments
hundred or so funds investing in these “base-of-the-pyramid” markets, she believes only a handful can show investors a real return on investment. “That is not a sufficient data set for a mainstream institutional investor. It’s not View Details
- 01 Sep 2014
- News
Afghanistan’s Hope and Light
wasn’t true—there were land mines, left over from years of conflict. Those had to be cleared before cell phone towers and the maintenance roads leading to them could be built. Available maps and government statistics were often... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 01 Jun 2022
- News
Blissful Thinking
science. It’s the same tools as social science—the experiment, treatment, control, human subjects, statistical inference, using the scientific method. Outside of academia, the happiness field has become fairly polarized. You have the... View Details
Keywords: Dan Morrell; illustration by Dan Winters