Estimation - Publications - Faculty & Research

10 Aug 2015
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Seeding a Better Future for Colombia

forward-looking investment is just what the country’s presence in Milan is designed to elicit. “The perception has been that Colombia is a dangerous country,” he notes, “but we are turning the page. We’re getting ready to play a huge role in feeding the View Details

27 Apr 2023
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Life Preserver

experiment at Harvard Medical School/Massachusetts General Hospital as part of a Sylvatica-funded project. (Photo: Jeffrey Andree, Reinier de Vries and Korkut Uygun.) The need was obvious, Giwa says. In the United States alone, scientists View Details

Keywords: April White

30 Nov 2021
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Cold Calculations

Arctic Ice Project is ready to scale. “It’s time for us to put our foot on the accelerator,” Payne observes. The Arctic Ice Project recently hired a new executive director and is in the process of expanding its board. Fundraising is key now. Payne View Details

01 Sep 2005
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Last Look

together, or what have you. I remember one zealot even floating down the river lashed to a cross. The river wasn’t so clean in those days. I estimate from the hair that this is the late 1970s. I still have in my possession a T-shirt from... View Details

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

01 Dec 2015
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Snapping Up Voters

in the contrasts he draws with the medium that still commands the bulk of campaign budgets—which, in the case of the upcoming presidential election, are estimated to swell to a combined $5 billion. Unlike on YouTube, where ads run before... View Details

Keywords: Sasha Issenberg

31 Jul 2014
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Making Private Equity Public Knowledge

says Sheyner. And Sheyner estimates that the industry counts only about 20,000 strong nationwide and hires just a couple thousand annually from a pool of tens of thousands, meaning that firms don't need to do much recruiting outside of... View Details

Keywords: Dan Morrell

01 Jun 2004
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Cyberposium: Pros and Cons of Outsourcing

said. The outsourcing market is estimated at 11 percent of IT — or about $150 billion globally. India is acknowledged to be the largest offshore destination, but a great deal of IT business is outsourced to off-site domestic workers as... View Details

Keywords: cyberposium; cost; Corporate Services

06 Oct 2022
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Untapped Potential

Courtesy Tom Ferguson “Climate change is really water change,” says Tom Ferguson (MBA 2014). From the deadly floods that deluged western Europe in the summer of 2021, to the once-in-a-century drought conditions that have ravaged Brazil for three years, and the View Details

01 Dec 2006
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Green as Gold

hardwood. A computerized building management system continuously tracks temperature and air quality, decreasing energy use when students leave their rooms. The new efficiencies will generate an estimated $35,000 in yearly savings.... View Details

Keywords: Paul Massari; Specialty Trade Contractors; Construction

01 Jun 2014
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A Look at Olook

partnerships with everyone from fashion designer André Lima to Princess Paola d'Orléans-Bragança, a descendant of Brazil's colonial royal family. Online retail has proved to be a healthy market. Brazilian research firm e-bit estimates... View Details

Keywords: Dan Morrell; fashion; Clothing and Clothing Accessories Stores; Retail Trade

01 Mar 2006
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Using IT to Heal U.S. Health Care

health information network are expected to be substantial. A RAND Corporation study estimates savings to the U.S. health-care system of up to $162 billion a year by improving medical-care delivery, reducing medical errors and adverse drug... View Details

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

01 Mar 2025
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Editor's Letter

Management Practice Joseph Fuller’s (MBA 1981) extensive collection of flying pigs (yes, there’s a good story there). He estimates it at 50 items, but I think that might be a bit low. We call this department “Assets.” It’s one of quite a... View Details

28 May 2019
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What I Do: Gordon Medenica (MBA 1979)

lottery and gaming for the State of Maryland. A media executive earlier in his career, including 16 years at the New York Times Company, Medenica was drawn by the scale of an industry with estimated annual revenues of over $80 billion, in... View Details

Keywords: Ryan Jones; Amusement, Gambling, and Recreation Industries; Arts, Entertainment

01 Mar 2018
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Action Plan: Happy Honey

natural] order is for us, then live in harmony with it.” Accept that bee stings come with the territory. Price estimates that the highest number of stings he’s endured at one time is six. Nevertheless, he sometimes works with the hives in... View Details

Keywords: Amy Rogers Nazarov

01 Jun 2007
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A Roadmap for Moms

to the workplace. As it turned out, many other HBS alumnae who left careers to raise children felt the same way. Now Rabin and another HBS graduate who relaunched her career, Carol Fishman Cohen (MBA ’85), have coauthored a guidebook for like-minded women (who they... View Details

Keywords: Lewis I. Rice; Business Schools & Computer & Management Training; Educational Services

01 Dec 2005
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The Deleterious Effects of Dirty Money

D.C., soon before traveling to Cambridge for his 45th HBS reunion. How has dirty money contributed to world poverty? My estimate is that some $500 billion a year has moved out of developing and transitional economies. I’m not talking... View Details

Keywords: Lewis I. Rice; Finance

07 Sep 2021
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Green House

annual energy demand. The Passive House movement got its start in Germany in the early 1990s; by the mid-2010s, there were an estimated 60,000 Passive House buildings in the world. But many of those are boxy, modern structures. An... View Details

01 Dec 2019
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Capitalizing the Corner Shop

more product and move to the next level? There are very few places to turn.’ ” The data backed up Kehinde’s experiences: Last year, the International Finance Corporation estimated the credit gap for small businesses in Nigeria to be at... View Details