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- 09 Dec 2021
- News
Higher Returns
consumers? RS: It's important to drive home the optimistic side of all this. I think that, you know, profit margins and revenue predictions aside, we are engaged in this really thrilling age for business. And that doesn't mean just...
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- 03 Oct 2019
- News
Skydeck Live: Galactic Returns
aside from the financial returns when it comes to investing in space? Garriott de Cayeux: Humanity is at stake. Without trying to make it bigger than it is, we can start right there with all the extinction events that may happen. I think...
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- 26 Nov 2019
- News
Predicting Financial Market Bubbles and Crises in Real-time
turnover, age of the firm, and the percentage of firms that issued stock during a run-up, among other factors. Greenwood found that, while Fama was correct in asserting that sharp price increases do not predict lower View Details
- 29 Mar 2020
- News
Why picking a winning bold business is so risky
- 01 Dec 2023
- News
Thinking Ahead
Lab at the Digital Data Design Institute at Harvard; his research develops tools for machine learning that mitigate bias and enhance privacy. Generative AI poses a greater risk to privacy by its nature, Neel explains. A traditional machine-learning algorithm spits out...
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- 01 Sep 2023
- News
Money Does Grow on (Family) Trees
1930s data on 2,667 reels of microfilm. Representatives from the company were waiting to ferry a full set of reels back to Salt Lake City, where each page would be scanned. Ancestry.com promised users that the first pages would be on the internet within 18 hours. The...
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- 01 Mar 2024
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books and Podcasts
pervasive and least-understood fail point that threatens to kneecap even the best-laid scaling plan: organizational friction. Bier reveals why organizational frictions take hold as you grow and how they slow your company down. These growth pains are both View Details
- 01 Feb 1999
- News
Too Much of a Good Thing?
recurring and predictable (however imprecisely) constant of capitalism - a sometime skunk at the market economy's otherwise celebratory garden party. But several modern-day developments, including the primacy of rapidly evolving, widely...
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Garry Emmons
- 16 May 2024
- News
On the Job
inventory was because it was just stuffed in all kinds of closets. So it was an amazing experience, but I probably wouldn’t have done that if HBS hadn’t had funds to support me so that I could earn money. I couldn’t have predicted that...
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first job;
leadership;
life experience;
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Finance;
Oil and Gas Extraction;
Mining;
Retail Trade
- 01 Oct 2000
- News
The Class of 1975 in Review
think I would have predicted that Ken would rise to managing director of Goldman Sachs and that Giff would become a widely respected CEO before his tragic death in 1990. We all have similar stories of friendships begun or sealed at HBS --...
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J. Hans Stumm
- 01 Oct 1998
- News
Dinh Thi Hoa: Up from the Ashes of War
Dinh Thi Hoa (MBA '92) was a young girl when relatives and friends who feared for her safety spirited her out of Hanoi in the summer of 1972 to escape the fury of U.S. bombing attacks against North Vietnam. She still remembers returning...
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Dun Gifford, Jr. (MBA 1992)
- 25 Aug 2022
- News
Up on the Corner
center—moms who will no longer have to spend hours commuting each day, and who will return home in the evening to find their kids crafting projects using the 3D printer in the building’s Teen Shack. Despite the stop-work order, Dlodlo is...
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- 13 Apr 2022
- News
New School
Within a month, Waldron’s far-reaching predictions proved accurate. And Curriculum Associates was ready, not just for the new world of remote work but also with respect to the increased demand for remote learning. The company committed to...
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- 01 Oct 1997
- News
High Fives
many stocks in a lot of countries and weighting the countries more or less equally. It's simply too difficult to predict which market's going to be down 67 percent and which one's going to be up 102 percent in any given year.” Biggest...
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- 01 Mar 2018
- News
Every Trick in the Book
’80s—moving it from the city streets to the suburban shopping center, standardizing the book-buying experience, and starting the familiar race to big, bigger, and biggest, and cheap, cheaper, and cheapest. By 1980, analysts were View Details
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April White
- 01 Dec 2014
- News
Making Big Data Fashionable
jeans, for instance, will get more eyes on social media. For brands like red-carpet favorite Marchesa, it’s a useful new tool in that never-ending quest to predict what consumers want next week, next month, next season. It turns out...
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- 01 Apr 1996
- News
Stasis and Turmoil: HBS Research for the Real World
The second in a series of occasional reports on current research from some of the many faculty members whose classroom presentations to alumni have been a cornerstone of recent HBS reunions, this month we report on Professor Howard H. Stevenson's examination of View Details
- 01 Dec 1997
- News
Fall Reunions Stimulate and Revitalize
set the stage for a reunion gathering that was informative and lively, with some 1,265 alumni and guests returning to HBS on a sunny weekend for classes, panel discussions, and social activities. HBSAA president Charles F. "Monty" Milner,...
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- 25 Aug 2022
- News
Ready for Departure
As millions of passengers return to the skies for long-delayed plans, they’ll be returning to an airport that’s likely a little different. The lockdowns of 2020 hit aviation harder than almost any other industry. Airports, as a subsector, lost 98 percent of their...
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