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- 05 May 2020
- News
“Walking a Tightrope”
Recovery, WIR. It's in Tulsa, Oklahoma. And it's a brilliant program. It's very costly. But in comparison to the alternative, it actually saves a lot of money. So what WIR does—what WIR does—is that they look at women who are about to be... View Details
- 01 Dec 1999
- News
A Class Act
sideburns, but alumnae photos were few and far between. August 1979 Notes published on newsprint to save on paper and postage. Late 1980s Bulletin consistently publishes 150 to 200 pages of notes. Alumni begin to send in more lively... View Details
Keywords: Nancy O. Perry
- 13 Dec 2016
- First Look
December 13, 2016
North-South freight transport suggest that if the cartel were broken, railroads would have passed through 50% of their cost savings from standardization, generating a 10% increase in trade on the sampled routes. The results demonstrate... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 30 Jul 2013
- First Look
First Look: July 30
labor force attachment than accepted applicants. These findings are consistent with the theoretical prediction that disability insurance may encourage individuals to save more in the present and plan to apply for disability benefits in... View Details
Keywords: Anna Secino
- 26 Jun 2025
- News
The Vinyl Revival
starting to see the services really have the same functions. You can make a playlist, you can save it, you can share it with a friend, and so it makes the services really difficult to differentiate, and the competition in streaming is... View Details
- 24 Sep 2020
- News
The Race for a Vaccine
to run the regulatory process in parallel with research. To save time and labor, the task force has developed turn-key trial protocols and invested in consistent assays for analyzing vaccine effectiveness, and the UK’s centralized health... View Details
- 01 Sep 2017
- News
History’s Lessons
said I would risk that....After this he put out his hand and said, ‘Very well, I’ll take you.’” When Shackleton reviewed the qualifications of applicants who had previously been to the Antarctic, he looked for perseverance and stamina. For example, he hired Tom Crean,... View Details
- 26 Sep 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, September 26, 2017
promising source of potential savings for other segments of the commercial insurance market. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=53250 September 14, 2017 Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin From... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 06 Dec 2021
- News
What's the Word?
Post·cook·ie (adj.) Cookies—those bits of data that track online browsing history and save your passwords—aren’t going anywhere. But third-party cookies that allow a shoe advertisement to follow you from page to page will become a thing... View Details
- 01 Jun 2017
- News
Supercharged
purchasing and infrastructure management makes it easier to manage costs efficiently. Moreover, while electric buses can carry heftier price tags than gas-guzzlers, their lower operating costs pay off in the long term: Proterra estimates that one of its battery-powered... View Details
- 01 Mar 2017
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for March 2017
techniques presented in them. Fifty-Five, Unemployed, and Faking Normal: Your Guide to a Better Retirement Life by Elizabeth White (MBA 1988) (EDWhite) You’re in your fifties and sixties and haven’t saved nearly enough to retire. You want... View Details
- 19 Mar 2015
- News
Walter Salmon Remembered
1967) You might say Walt saved my career. Much in ego-building demand, I accelerated out of the Harvard Economics PhD program, where I had loaded my brain with monetary policy, Keynes versus Friedman, mathematical macro-modeling and lots... View Details
- 22 May 2020
- Blog Post
Reflections on Service - Armed Forces Alumni Association Student Profiles
did my best every day to bring all the good guys home, keep the civilians safe, and stop the terrorists and criminal organizations from hurting anyone. I was successful for a short time. In June of 2013, I was in Eastern Afghanistan when my Attack Weapons Team was... View Details
- 19 Apr 2011
- First Look
First Look: April 19
saved customers money and their strong brands generated more traffic and sales but that most retailers, looking only at gross margins, missed this added value. Pepsi managers struggled to craft a strategy that would convince retailers to... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 24 Feb 2009
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First Look: February 24, 2009
conditions in which an advertising principal can set its payment delay to deter rogue agents and to attract solely or primarily good-type agents. Through the savings from excluding rogue agents, the principal can increase its profits... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 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
- 16 Dec 2020
- Blog Post
Alumni on the Black Lives Matter Movement
raised more than $300,000 in donations to support organizations fighting racism. JUNE 30 Cedric Bobo (MBA 2004) recently led an effort to save summer internships for Black and Hispanic youth. Bobo is CEO of Project Destined, a nonprofit... View Details
- 10 Mar 2015
- Research & Ideas
The Surprising Winners and Losers in the Retail Revolution
for Walmart or migrates to higher-end retailers like Whole Foods. Supermarkets have already reduced costs dramatically in order to compete with much more efficient competitors, and they can no longer generate price savings by cutting... View Details
- 29 Mar 2010
- Research & Ideas
Ruthlessly Realistic: How CEOs Must Overcome Denial
trouble. Not only will that news go unheard but potential truth-tellers will quickly learn to keep quiet. Or get out. Q: What is it about IBM and Intel that saved them from the fate of other companies that fell victim to denial? A: One... View Details
- 15 Jun 2021
- News
Alumni Achievement Awards 2021
Founder, Co-CIO, and Chairman, Bridgewater Associates I always had little jobs. I had a paper route. I would shovel driveways. And then I started caddying. This was the 1960s, when everyone was talking about the stock market, and the market was hot. I got $6 for every... View Details