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Will You Be Able to Repay That Student Loan?

Harvard Business Review

In a regression analysis that controlled for race, SAT score, and parental income, the researchers found that students whose moms didn’t go to college ended up borrowing about $1,500 more, and owed more on those loans 10 years out. Education Finance' For instance: Whether your mother went to college.

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Before You Link Pay to Customer Feedback: Five Essentials

Harvard Business Review

Your CFO and finance team can take a leadership role here. Unless line managers and finance really believe in the link between customer feedback and business outcomes, your incentive system won't last long. Truly reliable feedback and metrics. And if your metrics aren't trustworthy, then your compensation system won't be either.

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Ratings Agencies Are the Darnedest Things

Harvard Business Review

They were sharing their knowledge and opinions with the investors who paid for this analysis. They too are paid by issuers, but it doesn't appear to be as close, conflicted, or lucrative a relationship as that between, say, the structured-finance raters and the big investment banks.

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Four Risks to Avoid During B2B Web Development

Strategy Driven

Brendan Wilde of Discountdomains.co.nz ‘A contractor with limited experience can be a star in a specific field but cannot always see the system in a broader sense’, Wilde added. . The trick is to combine the financing model and the development calendar. Risk No 2: Shortcuts. Risk No 3: Length of the Project.

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Biometrics Won’t Solve Our Data-Security Crisis

Harvard Business Review

You can measure writing pressure using signature analysis technology or track “gaze based” behavior — passively but constantly analyzing the way your eyes track across your device’s screen. For instance, one could identity unique patterns in a typist’s keystroke dynamics or their mouse usage.

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Case Study: A Short-Seller Crashes the Party

Harvard Business Review

What’s your reaction to Terranola’s silence about your analysis?” So although the company makes almost no money on the machines, it earns a profit of about 15 cents on each pod, not to mention additional licensing fees from food brands, such as Kellogg’s and Nature’s Promise, that are keen to be associated with a wildly popular product.

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When Research Should Come with a Warning Label

Harvard Business Review

They had been included in at least one other systematic analysis of the systematic review literature. The New York Times also reported the study without any analysis. If the past few years have taught us anything, it is that academic publishing is what the Internet was once called — the Wild West. But what about peer review?