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- 01 Mar 2014
- News
The Solution to the Global Food Crisis Just Might Come from Nigeria
roughly the size of a rugby field. The 50-year-old has been farming this small-scale way all his life, and he's been taken advantage of just about as long. The Nigerian government, long considered one of the most corrupt on the African...
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- 01 Sep 2018
- News
September 2018 Alumni and Faculty Books
question of how the inflow of foreign workers affects native employment and earnings; they also explore effects on innovation and productivity, wage inequality across skill groups, the behavior of multinational firms, firm-level dynamics of entry and exit, and the...
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- 01 Apr 1996
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Stewards of the Seventh Generation
million on energy conservation projects, cutting generation demand by 116 megawatts and saving 194,300 megawatt-hours of electricity, compared with the forecasts. The net value of the energy saved was $90 million, of which New England...
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- 01 Dec 1999
- News
Q & A: Herb Kohl
see me as somebody who's a little different. How do your business activities compare with being a senator? In business, things have a beginning, a middle, and an end. In the Senate, there is always another chance and another time and...
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Susan Young
- 01 Dec 2007
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The Wise Men
advantage shrinks as a result. Fortunately, I don’t think that will happen. There’s been an increased emphasis on individual research projects built into the MBA curriculum, and that offers a healthy antidote to just reading printouts. —...
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Garry Emmons;Julia Hanna
- 01 Sep 2004
- News
Promise & Perils
reforms that began in 1978 have stoked annual growth in excess of 9 percent, three times that of the United States. Per capita income among the nation’s 1.3 billion inhabitants has more than quadrupled, surpassing $1,000 last year. Multinationals have rushed to take...
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- 01 Jun 2024
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Quantum Leap
one knows which flavor of qubit will prevail, so coordinating technology development—and figuring out where to invest—is tricky. Fu compares the situation to the early days of the semiconductor industry, when companies competed to see how...
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- 01 Jun 2014
- News
What’s Next
virtually every leading business school in the United States (and, increasingly, in the world), the impact of this effort can't be overestimated. As in business, we have to look for opportunities where we have a comparative View Details
- 01 Jun 1996
- News
1996 Global Alumni Conference Probes "Information Revolution"
leading Bay Area companies. It also offered plenty of opportunities for alumni to network, compare notes, and catch up with friends and classmates. As Harvard University President Neil L. Rudenstine - the first Harvard president to attend...
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Daniel Penrice
- 06 Dec 2021
- News
New Wave
fuels such as oil and gas, but also with wind and solar, whose costs have plummeted over the past decade. Competing power sources are often compared using levelized cost of energy, or LCOE, which is calculated by dividing the lifetime...
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- 19 Aug 2021
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A Letter to My White Friends and Colleagues
and we being the Black community, we being the American community in general, we need to make sure that we take advantage of these opportunities when people are prepared to help other people and help the Black community. DM: I know that...
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- 01 Sep 2013
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Who Are We?
now as broad in scope as the backgrounds of its practitioners. VanAuken is a case in point: He's the president of BrandForward, a consulting shop he founded in 1999 in upstate Honeoye Falls, New York, after years in the corporate world, including at Hallmark. View Details
- 01 Dec 2009
- News
The Fab Four
of three young children, Bussgang also writes a blog, Seeing Both Sides, that offers venture capital perspectives from a former entrepreneur. When I graduated from HBS in 1995, the market was pretty desolate. There wasn’t a lot of start-up activity. Shortly after that,...
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- 01 Apr 2000
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Getting the Message
state-of-the-art graphics, to target the right audience, and to measure responses instantly. But many experts contend that Internet advertising is still in its infancy. There is a widely held belief that in the future we will compare...
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Susan Young
- 01 Dec 2008
- News
Business at the Summit
that the pursuit of energy independence was the “moon shot” of the next decade, with government and the private sector acting as partners. The American people, she added, are “dying to be asked to help solve this problem.” “Forty or fifty years ago, the great View Details
- 01 Apr 1996
- News
Technology for Learning's Sake
School's education and research mission. "Today's general manager is operating in an information-inundated world," Clark elaborated recently. "We need to prepare our students to meet that challenge. We also need to take full advantage of...
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by Deborah Blagg; photo by David Zadig
- 30 Nov 2017
- News
Happy Meals (Are Here Again)
the fast-casuals—the bulk of those losses were to competitors like Wendy’s, Burger King, and Taco Bell. Value was key, too. McDonald’s had dropped its Dollar Menu in 2013, and the rest of the market jumped. “Just as competitors were upping their game on convenience,...
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- 01 Dec 2016
- News
Alumni Books of 2016
pour Entrepreneurs by Fabrice Cavarretta (MBA 1996) Plon Yes, France is a paradise for entrepreneurs, Cavarretta writes. The country has one of the best opportunity ecosystems in the world and the drawbacks—for instance, the cost of labor or taxes—are relatively minor...
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