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- 01 Sep 2020
- News
Road Work
Camino business is underbanked and informally run, lacking the data footprint that regular cash deposits and a digital bookkeeping system provide. Finally, some of Camino’s borrowers are undocumented immigrants to the United States....
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- 01 Jun 2010
- News
Get Well Soon
takeaway for students is the power of transparency as a mechanism for change,” says Tucker. “Another is the motivational value of benchmarking themselves to an internal standard of zero accidents instead of rationalizing poor perfor-mance...
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- 15 Sep 2020
- News
How To Make Diversity a Reality
And then would be responsible for executing, meeting and reporting out. There would be transparency in the company about what they were doing and how they were progressing along. The way I'm thinking about it, it's a completely different...
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- 01 Sep 2005
- News
London Forum Highlights the Best of HBS
of People magazine sales discovered that newsstand purchases jumped 20 percent every time a bride appeared on the cover. That nugget of information led to the launch of a brides’ magazine and development of a separate business unit...
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- 08 Aug 2018
- News
Getting Life Back in Balance
of networking and communicating with key stakeholders prior to any important decision being made is fundamentally the same,” he explains. “I have been pleasantly surprised at the maturity of the local-government governance processes and the level of View Details
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Jennifer Myers
- 12 Apr 2011
- News
Twelve Global Finalists Compete at HBS
information from VIN numbers collected by mobile car shoppers. AI Exchange is a Boston-based technology financial services company whose mission is to reinvent hedge fund investing through disruptive technology, View Details
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Multiple alumni
- 01 Dec 2013
- News
Curing Health Care
athenahealth "Patients' health information is either on paper and isolated or electronic and isolated," Bush tells the assembled crowd, his voice rising. That this little thing remains so difficult in the Internet age, often because many...
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- 01 Dec 2004
- News
The Future of Stem Cells
the research has been far slower than it should be.” Van Etten is committed to improving the process on the business and management side. He is promoting the concept of “team science” and trying to increase the sharing of data and resources among institutions and...
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Garry Emmons
- 01 Sep 2012
- News
High Honors
Anglo American in 2007, one of the world’s largest mining companies, Cynthia Carroll determined that increased transparency was important if the company—and the industry as a whole—was going to improve its safety record. “People responded...
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- 01 Dec 2012
- News
From Where We Stand
a beaten track, people often try to steer you toward seemingly easier alternatives "for your own good." But for those who would blaze a new trail, I suggest a three-pronged focus: Embrace self-empowerment. Knowledge is power, and preparation is key. Gather View Details
- 01 Sep 2017
- News
City of Dreams
initiative between MIT and the World Bank, he was sent to the Philippines to work with an informal settlement whose 12,000 residents were to be displaced for a resort. “It was a huge aha moment for me,” Mawilmada recalls. “This time, I...
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- 19 Feb 2020
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Capitol Ideas to Combat Climate Change
sticker shock would carbon prices trigger?). Elizabeth Lewis (MBA 2006), engagement officer for climate and impact investing at the International Finance Corporation, also responded that government policies needed to require more View Details
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April White; photos by Jack Conroy
- 12 May 2022
- News
Onboarding
to this trend are studies linking greater board diversity with higher levels of board performance. And last year, in a move that should at least bring greater transparency to corporate governance, the SEC approved Nasdaq’s new listing...
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- 01 Oct 2002
- News
Books
perceived to be of equal or higher status of the departed CEO. Without skill-based criteria, and with minimal information due to the cloak-and-dagger secrecy necessary when interviewing high-profile, employed candidates amid press...
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- 13 Dec 2017
- News
Skydeck Live: What Really Motivates American Voters?
that. I think people had issues with her transparency or whatever. But there were a significant number of people who had a huge distaste for Donald Trump, but who really believed that Hillary Clinton was the last person in the world you'd...
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- 14 Nov 2019
- News
Keeping Red Lobster Fresh
boss is in the room or things like that. So you get more accurate information if you're talking to the frontline employees constantly and if you're in the restaurants constantly. Then that lets you figure out, OK, what do I need to do?...
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- 01 Mar 2013
- News
Opening the Door
consumer-driven system would require transparency in health-care quality and costs. Can you imagine shopping in a supermarket where you don't know products' prices or ingredients? In the 1930s, President Roosevelt created the SEC to...
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- 01 Sep 2014
- News
Afghanistan’s Hope and Light
beginning. Before Roshan launched, demand for its service was so high that a prelaunch informational leaflet began selling in the Kabul bazaar for $1. Police were called in to control the crowds waiting outside Roshan’s flagship store in...
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Julia Hanna