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- 01 Sep 2011
- News
The Business and Environment Initiative at HBS
Henderson notes that there are about 200 HBS-authored cases on the environment extant, with more to come at the rate of about 30 to 40 a year. “We’ve launched several new MBA courses and are looking at how we can get more involved in the...
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- 07 May 2019
- News
How Sonja Hoel Perkins Saved John McAfee from an Especially Bad Deal
Its forecasted revenue growth rate is more than 90 percent, and its pre-tax margins run between 80 and 90 percent of sales. The problem is that John is seriously considering selling McAfee to Symantec.” That didn’t happen, according to...
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- 20 Feb 2007
- First Look
First Look: February 20, 2007
Working PapersNone this week. Cases & Course MaterialsFemale Entrepreneurship in Developing Countries Harvard Business School Note 807-018 Examines the extent of and challenges facing female entrepreneurs in developing countries. There are higher View Details
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Martha Lagace
- 01 May 2007
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First Look: May 1, 2007
income of the importing country. Because most low-income countries import the bulk of capital goods, our results provide suggestive evidence that capital goods are more expensive in poor countries, consistent with the conventional explanation regarding the low real...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 12 Apr 2011
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First Look: April 12
assignment of students into business school sections that have varying numbers of classmates with prior entrepreneurial experience. We find that the presence of entrepreneurial peers strongly predicts subsequent entrepreneurship rates of...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 22 May 2007
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First Look: May 22, 2007
other distortions measured in the literature. The second uncertain policy we consider concerns marginal tax rates. We obtain similar results once we adjust for the impact of tax rates on income. Download the paper:...
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Martha Lagace
Donald C. McGraw
McGraw initiated a period of diversification and expansion for McGraw-Hill, moving beyond book and magazine publishing. He orchestrated the successful acquisition of three industry reference sources: Standard & Poor’s Corporation, F. W. Dodge Corporation, and...
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Publishing & Print Media
- 26 Feb 2021
- News
Latinx on Boards; High-Tech Reforestation
hand—using people who are dispatched to these areas to plant one tree at a time—is inefficient,” Maudous says. “At best, one person can plant 800 seedlings a day, but yields are only estimated at 30 to 40 percent.” With drone technology, Maudous hopes to replant trees...
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Margie Kelley
- Portrait Project
Austin Dirks
My gaze fixed upon the exposed beating heart. There was an infant lying in front of me. Its heart rate 150 beats per minute. The monitor next to me beeping faintly with each twitch of the revealed organ. The skin, the muscle, the ribs,...
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- 28 Jun 2016
- Blog Post
Leverage Baker Library to Inform Your Job Search Every Step of the Way
search. eBaker provides free access to a curated selection of licensed databases and deeply discounted subscription rates to others. Your LEFA (Lifetime Email Forwarding Address) is required. On-site Access to Baker Library for Life Visit...
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- 29 Sep 2009
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First Look: September 29
retention rates over one-, two-, and three-year horizons. The documented relationship between the use of online banking and customer retention remains positive even after controlling for self-selection into the online channel. We also...
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Martha Lagace
- 18 May 2010
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First Look: May 18
I. Norton Abstract Three studies demonstrate how culture shapes the contents of gender stereotypes, such that men are perceived as possessing more of whatever traits are culturally valued. In Study 1, Americans rated men as less...
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Martha Lagace
- Fast Answer
Buildings: performance data
background information on benchmarking (select benchmarking as a topic in your search). Green building information gateway (gbig.org) - (U.S. Green Building Council) Provides data about building energy, waste and water use. Data is collected under the popular LEED...
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- 07 Oct 2019
- Sharpening Your Skills
How Companies Can Make Up with (Very) Unhappy Customers
JetBlue today is considered one of the top airlines in the world, and its customer ratings are as high as its airplanes. But not that long ago JetBlue was a prime business school example of a nightmare scenario displacing 130,000...
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- 25 Jul 2012
- News
Movie Magic
rate than the 300 percent annual growth it saw from 2002 to 2007. (Redbox lets would-be renters search locations and reserve titles online.) With a background in high-growth start-ups, Kaplan is already involved in a number of new...
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Hila Lifshitz-Assaf
Growing up in Israel, a country which has one of the highest rates of patents, scientific publications and start-ups per capita, I could not help but be intrigued and fascinated by the phenomena of innovation. In my career as a corporate...
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- 01 Apr 1996
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New Releases
addition to product information such as price, running time, and year of release, reviewers provide a concise discussion of each program and offer recommendations for its appropriate audience and most effective usage. Easy-to-read sidebars accompany each review, View Details
- 01 Jun 1997
- News
HBS Cyberposium Brings Online Future into Focus
"The Internet is an explosion like nothing we've ever seen before," declared Bob Davis, CEO of Lycos, the Internet search engine company, to an overflow crowd at the fourth annual Harvard Business School Cyberposium held last February at HBS. "In terms of the View Details
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Meg Gardner
- 01 Apr 2001
- News
Making A Difference: HBS Club of Puget Sound Reaches Out to Young Alumni
serves as the epicenter of all contacts and communications between the club and local alumni. Today, with 275 members — its highest membership rate ever — the HBS Club of Puget Sound is flourishing. One of its most popular events, the...
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- 08 May 2014
- News
The Sky's the Limit
several years later, she negotiated in helicopter training. She now holds a dual commercial rating for both fixed wing and rotary wing aircraft. Eaton took command of Bell's sales in the US's Northeast and Mid-Atlantic regions, but always...
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