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- 29 Aug 2023
- News
Helping Consumers Decarbonize their Purchases
you're subscribing. So you can say I'm willing to offset my footprint, but only up to 20 bucks a month. So whatever that means, I just want to cap it at 20 bucks a month. So when the user subscribes they let us know what their max...
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- 16 Jan 2019
- Research & Ideas
What Football Firings Teach Managers About Staying Relevant
unique to sports, of course. Based on our surveys with executives from a wide range of fields, the rate at which managers lose relevance has increased dramatically, even over just the last decade. The world is changing faster than ever...
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- 01 Dec 2005
- News
Trillion-Dollar Fixer-Upper
investments have fallen. Today, returns, expressed in real estate parlance as cap rates, have declined to levels last seen just before the 1989 crash. (A property’s cap rate is...
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- 09 Jan 2006
- Research & Ideas
Rebuilding Commercial Real Estate
investments have fallen. Today, returns, expressed in real estate parlance as cap rates, have declined to levels last seen just before the 1989 crash. (A property's cap rate is...
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- 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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- 11 Feb 2021
- News
Retraining for a Post-COVID Workforce
getting rich, Palandjian said. Investors face a risk if students don’t find jobs and are unable to pay what they owe, but they also get the reward of seeing the good their money is doing, via a quarterly report detailing job-placement View Details
- 01 Jun 2012
- News
What Industrial Policy?
generously subsidized (largely through the tax deductibility of mortgage interest, which stimulates demand for homes as well as loans from banks). Private equity, which enjoys a 15 percent tax rate on carried interest. (If the tax View Details
- 16 Jan 2014
- Research & Ideas
Resolving Patent Disputes that Impede Innovation
royalty rates would not be a cure-all. Not only would such discussions raise antitrust concerns about collusion, but as the authors explain in the paper, "price discussions within the standard setting process run the risk of...
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- 01 Jan 2020
- What Do You Think?
Why Not Open America's Doors to All the World’s Talent?
Laurence Dutton SUMMING UP How Should America Admit Talented Workers of the World? The notion of attracting talented workers to the United States deserves support, especially at times when the unemployment rate is low. But the H-1B...
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- 03 Jul 2012
- Research & Ideas
HBS Faculty on Supreme Court Health Care Ruling
of health care spending, we should launch a decade-long national "Healthy Living" campaign focusing on nutrition, diet, physical fitness, and stress reduction. We cannot continue to ignore the obesity epidemic sweeping the nation—a serious situation that is...
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- 21 May 2018
- Blog Post
Harnessing The Power of Collaboration to Create Opportunity in Chicago
donated to nonprofits, Accion Chicago is a nonprofit organization whose purpose is to build communities through entrepreneurship. We all know that small business is the growth engine of any economy. This is even more true for distressed communities where jobs are hard...
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- 01 Sep 2020
- News
Maintaining a Resilient Democracy
revise rules that make it possible today for rogue legislators to hold up bills that an overwhelming majority of citizens want. Term limits are Braun’s number one recommendation for constructive systemic change. Leading by example, he set a two-term View Details
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Deb Blagg
- 10 Jul 2000
- Research & Ideas
Cable TV: From Community Antennas to Wired Cities
formal permission—which almost never was granted—before importing distant signals. 8 The FCC's restrictions may have slowed cable's expansion into urban markets, but the overall rate of growth for the industry actually accelerated during...
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- 01 Dec 2000
- News
Vivek Ranadivé
a $15 billion market cap and a $300 million revenue run rate per year, TIBCO is one of the fastest-growing software companies ever. Like any corporate executive, Ranadivé is concerned with the...
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- 21 Mar 2024
- Blog Post
IFC India: Renewable Energy - CleanMax
factory of an automobile parts manufacturer. The manufacturing company is a customer of CleanMax and pays CleanMax a recurring fee for the solar energy generated on the roof of its factory. The solar system was separated into three sections on various rooftops of the...
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- 30 May 2000
- Research & Ideas
Market Makers Bid for Success
you look at FreeMarkets, we have over 400 people now. We've got 50 people in Europe, 325 people in Pittsburgh, and about 25 people strewn across America and the rest of the world. And today's market cap is over $6 billion. We finished the...
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- 06 Apr 2007
- What Do You Think?
Will Market Forces Stop Global Warming?
Summing Up Debate on this month's questions occurred on at least three levels. Is global warming occurring? Do humans (primarily through CO2 emissions) have much to do with it? Should we rely on market forces to provide appropriate responses, or will this require...
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CFO Letter - Annual Report 2016
initiatives and revenue-focused investments in HBP and Executive Education, our fiscal 2016 financial plan assumed a 9 percent increase in total operating expenses, year over year. Actual operating expense growth, however, came in at 6.7 percent. Fiscal 2016 View Details
- 28 Aug 2014
- Op-Ed
Government Can Do More to Unfreeze Small Business Credit
program of $100 million with a proven default rate of 5 percent will be "costed" at $5 million, but will deploy $100 million of new capital into the marketplace. A second important piece of SBJA was the effort to infuse capital into...
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- 26 Mar 2012
- Research & Ideas
What Neuroscience Tells Us About Consumer Desire
seatmate. Problem solved.) The campaign garnered Frito-Lay a 2009 Grand Ogilvy Award from the Advertising Research Foundation. EEG vs. fMRI Karmarkar notes that EEG and fMRI have different strengths and weaknesses, and that EEG has some limitations in its reach....
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