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- 01 Jun 2012
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Straight to the Heart
first-time marriages among people over 30 (to which my clients skew) have a lower divorce rate nationally than those who marry under 30. The love business is not quantitative at all, actually. I don’t even have written contracts with... View Details
- 01 Oct 2000
- News
The Entrepreneurial Venture
contractions could be more severe since there are fewer governmental controls and safety nets than in other countries. The second quarter of this year provided a "correction" in U.S. equity markets, and a lot of dot-coms have become... View Details
- 01 Mar 2006
- News
Drive-In Nation
automakers, but a psychological one,” Salter observes. “It required altering long-established methods, traditions, and ways of thinking. It comes down to this: How do you rewrite all the implicit, explicit, and inefficient contracts and... View Details
- 01 Mar 2009
- News
Buddy, Can You Spare a Trillion
more Americans were willing to borrow. Chimerica, in other words, was the underlying cause of the surge in bank lending, bond issuance, and new derivative contracts that “Planet Finance” witnessed after 2000. It was the underlying cause... View Details
- 15 Dec 2015
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The Year in Ideas 2015
everything from cleaning to prescription pickup. But one of the biggest innovations was behind the scenes: Beck and Sapone eschewed the independent contract workers driving the on-demand economy in favor of hiring employees—full-time... View Details
- 02 Oct 2017
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Radical Generosity for the Real World
just have automatic deductions from their paychecks, and it either goes directly to an organization they care about it, or it goes directly into a separate account that they then use and that account is specifically for giving related. It has, you know—and they've made... View Details
- 01 Dec 2008
- News
Back to the Future
contract the demand for goods and services. In short, the economic consequences would likely be a major recession, or possibly even a depression.” Drilling Down Now a resident of Houston, where he moved after retiring from HBS in 1996,... View Details
- 01 Mar 2011
- News
James McNerney Jr.
Boeing, one of your first decisions was to pay a $615 million penalty to the Justice Department for illegal actions Boeing took to win contract work from the government. How would you distill your philosophy on the subject of leadership?... View Details
- 13 Jan 2021
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Silicon Valley’s “Detroit Moment”
fundraise, honestly. So we raised a bit of money in 2015, just a friends-and-family round. We raised from an angel in 2016, and we closed a seed round in 2020, after a pretty long slog of raising money. Morrell: Without an influx of VC money, Energicity grew... View Details
- 01 Dec 2015
- News
Golden State of Mind
company. “They shifted their model in the middle of our contract negotiation and told me, ‘We’re going after the phone companies, are you still in?’ Absolutely. I knew that was an example of an interesting market and technology coming... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 01 Mar 2010
- News
Sole Mates
economy to a market economy. Many foreign investors have expressed renewed interest in Mongolia due to its rich natural resources (e.g., copper, gold, coal, uranium) and its strategic geographic location relative to its neighbors, China and Russia. Last year, the... View Details
- 01 Mar 2023
- News
Clearing the Air
actually containing the CO2 molecules, then the economic mechanisms and the contracts about carbon trading won’t work. “We are at a tipping point.” “We are at a tipping point.” What makes Project Bison different from other DAC projects?... View Details
- 24 Sep 2020
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The Race for a Vaccine
process that will take months, even years. The young and healthy may never receive one, Bingham says, since the benefit may never outweigh the risk for those least likely to contract the disease, even though they may be the source of... View Details
- 20 Dec 2022
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Singing to the Corn
contract to publish a book, Rediscovering America, and advises local institutions including the Josyln Art Museum, the Omaha Children's Museum, and the Kiewit Luminarium on depictions of indigenous culture. Omaha translates to "against... View Details
- 01 Mar 2018
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‘We were just doing what needed to be done’
male-dominated building services contracting industry, running her own company for 25 years in six states and employing more than 1,200 people. Now an author and public speaker, Lambert received HBS’s Alumni Achievement Award in 2003. Ted... View Details
- 01 Jun 2019
- News
City on a Hill
did, launching a general contracting business after upgrading his carpentry and masonry skills through a historical conservation workshop that Marietta hosted at the school. At that point, Falce—a native of the region with a dry... View Details
- 01 Dec 1997
- News
Growing Together
sites and perform other labor-intensive high-tech work. A year later, that company is up and running. CitySoft (www.citysoft.com), which harnesses the computer skills of young adults from low-income Boston neighborhoods, has just completed its eleventh View Details
Keywords: Marguerite Rigoglioso and Nancy O. Perry
- 10 Dec 2014
- News
Front-Row Seat
frenzy of Manhattan: “You have a three-hour shot; there’s a table by the fireplace. We talked.” Unfortunately, it came out that Smith had all but signed a contract to become publisher of BusinessWeek. “I asked if he would mind if I wrote... View Details
- 01 Mar 2019
- News
The One That Got Away
capital management company and the first software-as-a-service application for enterprises to manage contract workers. It had $2 million in revenues at the time of investment. After a few fits and starts with the business model,... View Details
- 06 Dec 2018
- News
Source Code
companies. And indeed, this SDR theory-turned-to-code has shown the ability to aid in natural language processing, with one of Numenta’s partners, Cortical.io, using it to help machines read lengthy, complex contracts to make sure they... View Details