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- 01 Jun 2011
- News
Racial Bias Pervades Health Care
kidney and liver transplants, and less pain medication when they are operated on. Furthermore, women with heart disease receive less angioplasty than men; Hispanics have a lower rate of recommended health-care services such as...
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- 01 Jun 2009
- News
Author Charley Ellis on Goldman Sachs
company. Most people think that will change the firm, but it won’t. It gives Goldman access to the Fed window which is very useful for liquidity management and, on the other hand, it reduces the amount of leverage they can use in trading operations, which reduces the...
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- 01 Jun 2020
- News
Check In
rates in some cases that are less than half of what they were a couple of months ago. The hope is that it won’t last long, but it’s going to take quite a long time to dig out of this hole. Tourists will...
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- 01 Nov 2019
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It’s a Small World
recognition that EF actually operates like a small company. But we are actually quite large, with 46,500 people around the world in 52 countries. And I think that, as a very entrepreneurial business, there was a recognition that we needed...
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- 01 Jun 2007
- News
Steve Schwarzman
still some of that today. A lot of investors were not as familiar with private equity, so we needed to basically spend time just trying to explain what was going on. Private-equity firms have borrowed billions at low interest rates to buy...
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- 04 Sep 2019
- News
Ask the Expert: Bounce Back
Illustration by Michael Sloan/The i Spot Illustration by Michael Sloan/The i Spot The rate at which people have been signing on to social media in the last decade had many marketers wondering if it might replace email altogether as a way...
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Jen McFarland Flint
- 01 Jun 2012
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What Industrial Policy?
"Taxation, meet Representation." Following up on his pledge to provide greater support for manufacturing, President Obama has announced a proposal to cut the effective tax rate for manufacturers to 25 percent. A number of economists...
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- 24 Oct 2013
- News
Engineering a More Secure World
governments. But Harris's satisfaction is as much personal as professional. "I come from inner-city Chicago, an area that was decimated by drugs," the 60 year old says. "To think we can do something to prevent some young people from following the wrong path is View Details
- 01 Dec 2018
- News
Ask the Expert: Gimme Shelter
affordable housing instead of allowing developers to build new higher-priced housing? If there was more high-priced housing in the market, wouldn’t other tiers become cheaper? —Gene Pao (MBA 1997) OAKES: We have to make it easier to build both market View Details
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Jen McFarland Flint
- 13 Dec 2017
- News
Skydeck Live: What Really Motivates American Voters?
from that rate hike and from just saying it again and again and again. And lots of people shifted and started feeling that Obamacare wasn't working as a result of that. And it came right around the same time as the Comey revelations....
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- 05 Aug 2015
- News
Mobilizing the Public to Fight Bribery
“Corruption is a great untapped market,” Henry Motte-Munoz (MBA 2013) says with a laugh. “Not many competitors and customer interest is quite high.” It’s a market he’s helping to disrupt using Bantay, an NGO he cofounded while at HBS,...
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- 25 Feb 2020
- News
Profits and Purpose
invited me in on an occasional guest-lecturer basis. When they first invited me five or six years ago, it was clear that I was the broccoli: Now here’s Rebecca, she’s going to talk about climate change and make you feel uncomfortable. In the past, I’ve always had...
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Jen McFarland Flint
- 01 Mar 2011
- News
The Path to Economic Revival
industrial commons, which represents the collective capability to sustain innovation. Pisano: Is there a future? Yes. It’s not too late. There’s still a manufacturing base in the United States, and it’s quite large even though it’s a...
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- 01 Jun 2011
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The Best-Laid Plans
experiences filter to the surface in conversations with past contest participants, whether their venture sells crème brûlée or online video advertising. Foremost is the fact that the business is often quite different from what was first...
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- 21 Nov 2017
- News
Alumni Peer into the Future of Energy
and costs. I don’t know what our energy system will look like in the future, but the future will be better than we can imagine because technology is going to improve, and the rate of improvement is going to be faster than anything we’ve...
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- 06 Sep 2012
- News
Fashion-Forward
PowerPoint looked. I thought there might be something more I could do by marrying my right-brain and left-brain abilities.” As he approached his 30th birthday, Amed knew he had to take a risk. He quit his job and began exploring the...
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- 01 Dec 2000
- News
Latin America's Decade
it, you would quit once a week." If the gypsies were to bring their road show to Macondo again, surely the Internet is the latest wonder they would be trumpeting. The conventional wisdom is that Internet development in the region is four...
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- 01 Dec 2013
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Batteries and Chocolates
striptease parties; male faculty would occasionally and good-naturedly attribute female faculty members' teaching ratings to their physical features. It didn't really bother me, to be honest, and I settled View Details
- 01 Apr 2002
- News
Back in Business
selfishness, and greed - and cause it to self-destruct. But to an extraordinary extent, the response of the city, and its financial and business community, was quite the opposite. In the months following September 11, compassion, not...
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- 01 Mar 2015
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A Boomtown's Echo
Beyond the Boom Senior Lecturer John Macomber The oil boom has lowered the unemployment rate in Williston, North Dakota, to less than 1 percent. “With respect to the city, if you want to diversify the economy and make it attractive to...
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