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- 06 Feb 2007
- First Look
First Look: February 6, 2007
Working PapersThe Rise of Business Forecasting Agencies in the United States Author:Walter A. Friedman Abstract This paper analyzes the rise of business and economic forecasting agencies in the View Details
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Martha Lagace
- Student-Profile
Evan DeFilippis
for Poverty Action in Nairobi, Kenya. Convinced that public policy was the clear path toward making real, impactful change, he returned to the United States and completed a Master in Public Affairs at...
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- 01 Apr 2001
- News
Edwin Yu: Bidding on the Future
Raised in Seoul, Yu came to the United States when he was 13. After majoring in computer science in college and following a stint as an engineer, he returned home and reclaimed his Korean nationality....
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- 25 May 2010
- News
Commencement and the Winds of Change
most of his young life working to close the divide that separates Israelis and Palestinians. After a career in finance, he left the United States in 2009 to accept a new position overseas. And here’s the...
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- Portrait Project
Scott Quigley
to making an impact, led me to a simple answer. I would serve as an officer in the U.S. Army. As a 23-year-old Army platoon leader in Iraq, my unit was sent into the heart of the Iraqi insurgency. Our mission was to clear the area of...
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- 13 Dec 2016
- First Look
December 13, 2016
connection between the labor and civil rights movements. Purchase this case: https://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cbmp/product/317004-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 717-422 Bally Total Fitness (B): The Fall, 2005–2016 By many measures the largest health-club chain in the...
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Carmen Nobel
- 02 Jan 2020
- Op-Ed
Medicare for All or Public Option: Can Either Heal Health Care?
The United States has serious health care problems: More than 27 million uninsured people, costs that are growing faster than income, and a staggering $37 trillion of unfunded liabilities in the Medicare...
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Faculty Focus Their Research on COVID-19 Issues - HBS Fund Investors Society 2020 Report
means to be a “health care provider” needs to expand to include caregivers without advanced clinical degrees; and the United States needs a new health insurance model. Huckman concludes, “It is critical to...
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- 01 Mar 2013
- News
Bringing It Back Home
Chicago, the British Library, Catholic Charities USA, Fundación Paraguaya, Goodwill Industries International, the Humane Society of the United States, and Musica Viva Australia. In any given year, about half of SPNM participants represent...
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- 26 Aug 2009
- Op-Ed
Where Cash for Clunkers Ran Off the Road
new cars. The program proved so popular that inventories of the qualifying cars soon dwindled, further boosting the dealers' negotiating leverage and unit profit margin. “Why did taxpayers, having already bailed out GM and Chrysler once,...
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Climate Fellows | Institute for Business in Global Society
HBS and leverages the expertise of our faculty. Current Climate Fellows Omar Asensio Associate professor in the School of Public Policy; director of the Data Science and Policy Lab, Georgia Institute of Technology Using AI to ensure an equitable distribution of EV...
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- 25 Feb 2020
- News
In My Humble Opinion: Mr. Coffee
enjoying incredible coffee in the cafés of Milan, I came back to the United States and began looking around, trying to figure out what I was going to drink,” he says. “And a friend of mine told me about...
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Julia Hanna
- 01 Jun 1996
- News
New Initiatives in MBA Recruiting
also provides students with two additional weeks to pursue off-campus opportunities throughout the United States and abroad." MBA Career Services continues to work with students and companies to enhance...
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- 01 Sep 2010
- News
Alumni Books
Greatness by Mitt Romney (MBA ’74/JD ’75) (St. Martin’s Press) Romney asserts that America’s strength is essential for its own well-being and the world’s, but its national advantages have eroded. The United View Details
- 04 Oct 2004
- Research & Ideas
Start to Measure Your E-commerce Success
whether the e-commerce initiative is achieving its stated objectives (outputs) and thus contributing to the long-term success of the corporation (outcomes). Companies often waste resources on e-commerce initiatives or do not invest when...
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by Marc J. Epstein
- 03 Apr 2019
- News
Finding Common Ground
over the last decade, both within the company he started and more broadly in city and state initiatives. In 2016, when Cicero needed to expand its office space, he chose a site in an underdeveloped neighborhood on Salt Lake City’s west...
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Deborah Blagg
- 12 Dec 2018
- News
Lesson Plan
parents are all engaged in debating both sides of the issue. What would be the fairest solution? Or in Yokohama, Japan. In March 2003, a 22-year-old teaching English at a local junior high school is watching television with other staff members when news breaks that the...
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- 01 Sep 2012
- News
On a Sound Track
that is relevant in Shanghai, Panama, South Africa, Europe, or wherever. The United States is one big market. Contrast that with Europe, where we have a central office, but where there are lots of different...
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- 03 Mar 2014
- HBS Case
Decommoditizing the Canned Tomato
Consumers in the United States are so increasingly into fresh, local, and carbon neutral that if someone figured out how to grow a tomato that could walk itself to the grocery store, they'd be a millionaire....
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- 30 Oct 2007
- First Look
First Look: October 30, 2007
multiple research projects and field observations to analyze problems facing the United States in recent years and to create an agenda for renewing American strengths through returning to core American...
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Sean Silverthorne