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- 01 Sep 2014
- News
Research Brief: A $1.6 Trillion Rainy-Day Fund?
firms hold twice as much cash in reserve, on average, as large, privately held firms. To come to his counterintuitive conclusion, Farre-Mensa analyzed 4,259 public firms and 25,477 private ones—the latter through a new collection of View Details
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Francis Storrs
- 28 Oct 2014
- News
The First Five Years: Nick Soman (MBA 2010)
you instantly to an anonymous chat with someone new, and you can choose to share your name or photo if you become comfortable. We think the best way to cure loneliness is to give you someone relevant to talk to at any time. And we’ve...
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- 24 Apr 2014
- News
Leading a battle against corruption, a force that slows economic development
fight corruption. “These citizen-driven initiatives are raising public awareness as never before and demand that CEOs pay attention,” he says. In Russia, thousands of anonymous contributors identify corrupt government procurement...
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- 01 Jun 2010
- News
Devilish Plot
Devilish plot: This year’s HBS Show, The Devil Wears Crimson (here in rehearsal), centered on an anonymous gossip blogger who wreaks havoc at HBS as she tries to uncover who caused the financial crisis. When she learns that her...
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- 01 Oct 2002
- News
HBS Association of Ireland: Connecting at Home and Abroad
population of only 3.8 million, Ireland, Barry acknowledges, can't always provide enough career opportunities to attract HBS graduates — but the country, particularly Dublin (population 985,000), feels more like a supportive community than an View Details
- 11 Jan 2019
- News
Case Study: Beating Bias
to the cesspool of anonymous comments. With 70 million millennials in the US, Patel is optimistic about the market. “Even if we were able to capture interest in 1 percent of that, we’re conservatively looking at a million potential...
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Jen McFarland Flint
- 01 Sep 2008
- News
Negative Ad Power
positively gentlemanly by comparison with political marketing. Many ads are devoted solely to attacking the opponent, third-party surrogates shield a candidate from taking responsibility for unverified “Swiftboating” accusations, and View Details
- 01 Mar 2011
- News
Decision Points
do, and I have zero desire to try to battle for reputation. One of the sacrifices one makes when you run and win the presidency is you lose your anonymity forever. I’m trying to regain my anonymity.”
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- 01 Jun 2016
- News
How Do We Win the Cyberwar?
Your credit card has already been stolen. You just don’t know it yet. Thomas knows it, though. (A 12-year IT security veteran, Thomas requested anonymity to protect the reputation of his employers, which have included Fortune 100...
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Dan Morrell; illustrations by Victo Ngai
- 22 Sep 2016
- News
Words and Pictures
armor. The Portrait Project shows their human side.” Deifell’s 15-year (and counting) commitment to the project involves working with a team of student volunteers who solicit essays (selecting 32 from an anonymous pool of approximately...
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Susan Young
- 01 Mar 2016
- News
Delivering Trust
out a comprehensive survey of their clinic experience in exchange for access to a complete database of anonymous reviews. (The information is verified by the patient, who submits a scan of a clinic document, and will also be available for...
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Julia Hanna
- 14 Jan 2014
- News
Spreading the Seeds of Entrepreneurship
more than $1,000 from local citizens and businesses; it is taught only in and by local business venues; and it requires that each student start a business. The program also features a $100,000 venture fund, established by an anonymous...
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- 20 Jun 2019
- News
Reframing Modern Art
curators. When the exhibition opened in March, officials announced that some of the paintings portraying supposedly anonymous figures had been retitled with the names of their models. The French artist, Marie-Guillemine Benoist's Portrait...
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- 24 Apr 2014
- News
Creating connections among consumers
allow anonymous reviews, and we invest significant resources, both human and technological, in our accountability process.” Hicks enjoys helping consumers take care of business by being able to connect not only to the best-reviewed local...
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- 11 Jun 2016
- News
Navigating Fertility Clinics with a Click
anonymous user reviews to make information more accessible in a small, specialized, personal corner of the medical world. Despite offers of investment, Anderson and Bialis have continued to self-fund the site. “Communities and networks...
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- 01 Jun 2012
- News
Alumni Book Briefs
been held in makeshift storefronts in anonymous locations. In 2007 the authors took sample sales to the Internet with a members-only website for a select national group of 13,000 young, high-end shoppers. They provide straight talk on how...
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- 01 Sep 2015
- News
The Business of Love
to design women-friendly online dating options: not a larger dating pool but a smaller, curated one; not anonymity but transparency—real names, attached to real Facebook profiles; and, most vitally, control of a streamlined online dating...
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April White
- 01 Jun 2018
- News
Disrupting India’s Dental Market
management” system to other chains. About one-third of Clove’s procedures are audited by colleagues who examine anonymized X-rays as a form of what Singh calls peer review, a process that he says can be useful anywhere. “It becomes a...
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Sasha Issenberg
- 01 Mar 2023
- News
March 2023 Alumni and Faculty Books
Edited by Margie Kelley Alumni Books Invisible Trillions: How Financial Secrecy Is Imperiling Capitalism and Democracy—and the Way to Renew Our Broken System By Raymond W. Baker (MBA 1960) Berrett-Koehler Publishers Over the last half century, capitalism has created...
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- 28 May 2019
- News
Case Study: Building the Base
thinking reader’s alternative to the cesspool of anonymous comments at the bottom of a news story. With at least 70 million millennials in the United States, Patel is optimistic about the market. “Even if we were able to capture interest...
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