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- 01 Dec 2023
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Venturing Forth
as good as we think they are. They’re never as bad as we think they are.” Now people still in the game are dealing with the ripple effects. “Deal flow has really slowed down,” says Kerry Rupp (MBA 1999). Rupp has seen as much at her... View Details
- 22 Feb 2022
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New Urban Order
trucking-tech company, has a simple goal: Get goods where they need to go as efficiently as possible with a limited labor force. For TuSimple, that means a focus not on the cities themselves, but rather on the long stretches of highway... View Details
Keywords: Kathleen Fu, Deborah Blagg, Julia Hanna, and Maureen Harmon; illustrations by; energy; environment; sustainability; entrepreneurship; Transit and Ground Passenger Transportation; Transportation; Water, Sewage and Supply Systems; Utilities; Construction of Buildings; Construction; Waste Management and Remediation Services; Corporate Services
- 01 Aug 1998
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High Honors
billion; and reducing employee turnover to 7 percent. Fortune magazine consistently ranked USAA first among the country's most admired insurers. Upon retirement, McDermott, summarizing his philosophy, asserted that success had flowed from... View Details
- 01 Mar 2011
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Faculty Research Online
general idea that less was always more when it came to regulation, which, in part, contributed to the crisis. To that end, he calls for a fundamental shift in academic research on the government’s role in the economy. See http://hbswk.hbs.edu/item/6575.html. Valuation... View Details
- 01 Dec 2005
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Trillion-Dollar Fixer-Upper
in the high single digits, so money started flowing in.” (By law, REITs must annually pay out 90 percent of their net revenues, generated largely by rents and leases that make them — in good times — cash conveyor belts for their... View Details
- 01 Dec 2017
- News
2017 in Real Estate: A Local Business Goes Global
Real estate has traditionally been a local business, but more and more, it’s becoming global, the same way so many other businesses have. On a year-to-year basis, we’ve been seeing global cross-border flows into real estate increase by 10... View Details
Keywords: Real Estate
- 01 Mar 2015
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Ask the Expert: Inside the Fed
and wages low, US companies won’t be able to raise prices and wages, so inflation will be limited. What’s the Fed’s view on this issue? —Gordon E. Olson (MBA 1975) I think you see a mixture of views among Fed policymakers, but I know that the Boston Fed has studied the... View Details
- 01 Dec 2009
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Document Assesses Impact of Financial Crisis, Looks Ahead
Annual Report The economic crisis was a catalyst for radical shifts in budget management at HBS, which enabled the School to remain cash flow positive and conclude the year ended June 30, 2009, with a strong reserves balance. The HBS... View Details
- 01 Dec 2006
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Faculty Research Online From HBS Working Knowledge
roles of Europe and the United States in promoting the flow of capital across national borders. Investor Protection: The Czech Experience When TV Nova launched as the first privately owned TV channel in post-Communist Czechoslovakia, few... View Details
- 01 Dec 2018
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Trade Off
trade and capital flows created a world that looked in many ways like ours. Yet even in the early 20th century, there remained tensions of increasing inequality and wage competition in a context of ruthless international rivalry.... View Details
- 01 Mar 2009
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Buddy, Can You Spare a Trillion
proportion of their rising incomes, in marked contrast to Americans, who in recent years have saved almost none at all. Chinese corporations save an even larger proportion of their soaring profits. So plentiful are savings that, for the first time in centuries, the... View Details
- 01 Sep 2004
- News
Home Sweet (Modular) Home
the initial workflow issues have been resolved. On-site finish work turned out to be a major problem. It’s the general contractor’s job to hook up the utilities and finish interior details once Greentech assembles its modular structures. But a shortage of skilled View Details
- 01 Dec 2005
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The Deleterious Effects of Dirty Money
Baker: Chronicler of dirty money. In his new book, Capitalism’s Achilles Heel: Dirty Money and How to Renew the Free-Market System (John Wiley & Sons, 2005), Raymond W. Baker (MBA ’60) chronicles the widespread illegal flow of money... View Details
- 01 Sep 2008
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Farming for Fuel
Education programs. “One objective of the case is a greater understanding of the way materials and energy flow in the modern American agricultural system. As our economy becomes more information-driven, it’s good to remind ourselves that... View Details
- 01 Dec 2010
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Additional alumni books for your consideration.
where the nature of work is more virtual, collaborative, and transparent, information flows every which way, careers zig and zag, and work is what you do, not where you go. A Call for Judgment: Sensible Finance for a Dynamic Economy by... View Details
- 01 Mar 2023
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The Exchange: Micro Management
match the cash flows of their business with their repayment obligations. If you are a tailor and you’re switching from sewing by hand to using a sewing machine, you have to learn how to use the machine and make sure your customers are... View Details
- 29 Apr 2022
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Clean Slate
measurement of what is green needs to be much broader and the finance flow into these sort of projects and proposals should go beyond just looking at the traditional sort of solar energy, wind energy, type of equations. So, a lot to be... View Details
- 13 Dec 2022
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The First Five Years: Christine Keung and Reggie Smith
from scratch. I built a TOM workflow that incorporated continuous flow and batch processing that enabled us to cook over 1,000 dumplings on one stovetop." Reggie: "I loved to go to speaker events on campus, club events, and events at the... View Details
- 01 Feb 2001
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Drilling Down
past. Now the big strikes lie elsewhere. The wildcatters of today travel the globe from Angola to Kazakhstan to the deep waters off the coast of Brazil in search of "elephant fields" with flow rates measuring in the thousands of barrels... View Details
- 01 Dec 2012
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Shareholders' Value?
Regulation FD, which impairs the free flow of information between companies and their owners. Discipline. Selling can be said to discipline managers by driving the stock price down, but it's hard for one shareholder to have a discernible... View Details