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- 01 Dec 1998
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Year 2000 Computer Problem and You: Disaster for Some, Lessons for All
will be the reverse. Some companies, governments, and agencies here and abroad will be forced into a second triage, allocating scarce resources on a makeshift basis. For even more vulnerable organizations, the effects of the Y2K problem... View Details
- 01 Nov 2012
- News
First and Goal
beaten play for the championship. In effect, an adults-only paperwork controversy cost the kids a championship of their own. Fortunately, Swearengin noted, “The team all told me they felt like champions, which, for a coach, is a great... View Details
- 01 Jun 2011
- News
The Best-Laid Plans
model,” adds Weng. (Battery Ventures and a few private investors bought into FashionStake’s vision early on.) FashionStake and other consumer Internet companies have benefited from a decrease in the cost of buying and maintaining... View Details
- 09 Mar 2021
- News
Community Colleges as Engines of Economic Opportunity
enrollment hits related to the pandemic, including a 7-percent decline here at CCRI. Community college students are more likely to come from low-income communities and communities of color, precisely the groups that have been disproportionately impacted by both the... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie
- 01 Feb 1997
- News
Made, Not Born: HBS Courses and Entrepreneurial Management
need to cut the cost of a building by 10 percent in order to make the numbers work, they need to understand what has been given up. I'd like them to be better at visualizing the impact of what is being created and its View Details
- 01 Jun 2006
- News
A Capital Asset
innovation was the introduction of user fees, an idea sparked in part by a spate of climbing mishaps on Mount McKinley in Alaska’s Denali National Park that had sent rescue and recovery costs soaring. (Recalls Cohen: “Hard-core climbers... View Details
- 01 Mar 2025
- News
Forward Thinking
There was a time when human activity in outer space was a highly centralized, government-led endeavor, says Professor and Senior Associate Dean Matthew Weinzierl. But that era has passed: Over the past two decades, a calcified space bureaucracy has given way to a... View Details
- 01 Mar 2015
- News
A Boomtown's Echo
in the oil patch during that boom—that’s how I put myself through college. But once the price of oil dropped in 1982 and 1983, then that boom went bust because it was no longer cost effective to extract the... View Details
- 01 Dec 2018
- News
Trade Off
local politicians went all the way up to Washington, which imposed a series of trade barriers. The costs are borne by diffuse interests, including the consumer, who ends up paying higher prices. Illustrations by John Ritter How are trade... View Details
- 01 Mar 2007
- News
The Plight of the Global Poor
part of the problem, is increasingly being called on to be part of the solution. How business can do this most effectively is the focus of the GPP’s research and scholarly activity. While GPP faculty note that it is too early to declare... View Details
- 17 Oct 2019
- News
Venturing Away from Venture Capital
startup financing. To be sure, venture capital offers many benefits, including the networks and insights that experienced investors bring to the table. But all of that comes at a price. Most obviously, a founder who takes venture capital gives up equity, View Details
Keywords: Alexander Gelfand
- 01 Jun 2011
- News
Alumni Books
tools learned building CFK to become a more effective counterinsurgent and peacekeeper. The Custom-Fit Workplace: Choose When, Where, and How to Work and Boost Your Bottom Line by Joan Blades and Nanette Fondas (DBA ’87) (Jossey-Bass)... View Details
- 01 Dec 1997
- News
Growing Together
and what was once considered the province of nonprofit organizations are becoming increasingly blurred." Businesses, says Austin, are finding they can benefit in many ways by working to strengthen the communities in which they operate. And nonprofits are learning they... View Details
Keywords: Marguerite Rigoglioso and Nancy O. Perry
- 01 Jun 2020
- News
Post-Office
cost of living is much cheaper. I think from both the company’s perspective and the workers’ perspective, this could be a win-win. Some CFOs and workers will see that and that will make this a more permanent phenomenon or a trend. The... View Details
- 01 Sep 2009
- News
E Ink’s Wild Ride
lot of young people experience between a very exciting digital reality and the dead world of the textbook.” Olson adds that most publishers are overpricing e-books, effectively subsidizing the declining business of print publishing. “The... View Details
- 01 Mar 2013
- News
Making Change
avoided because of cultural norms. I founded SHE in 2008, and its first initiative, SHE28, was created to stem the significant costs to the health, education, productivity, and dignity of women and girls in the developing world caused by... View Details
- 01 Jun 2014
- News
Ready for Takeoff
politics. "It had extremely high inflation rates and extremely low economic growth rates." But then two things happened, says Domínguez: First, the government began enacting serious reforms—the kind of fiscal and public policy changes that made for more View Details
- 24 Mar 2023
- News
Exploring Talent Markets; Aid for Turkey
reach out to him to see if he was okay," she says. Relieved that he was, Hammerman then asked if he knew what organization was most effectively delivering aid to survivors. Atabek gave her a name: the Bridge to Turkey Fund. "I donated... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 01 Sep 2011
- News
Water for Life
is perfor-mance-based and guarantees the reimbursement of our expenditures and cost of capital as long as these are prudent and efficient. The model requires us to accelerate and even advance our capital investments, roll out the network... View Details
- 01 Jun 1997
- News
Blockbuster Deals
and in a few cases by economies of scale. The Chemical/Chase merger is an example of the latter; there was so much overlap in back office costs and overhead that the new entity will save hundreds of millions in those outlays alone." The... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons and Nancy O. Perry