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- 30 Jun 2019
- News
Alumni in France honor self-made entrepreneurs; Shih talks trade in Buffalo
employs more than 140 people and revenues have gone from 100k to 65M in 10 years,” says Mannai. “Further growth is expected, as they open brick and mortar stores and launch their own clothing brand.” View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 01 Mar 2018
- News
Can a Digital Platform Open Up the Opaque Metals Industry?
revenues compared to third-party traders who orchestrated sales between the two. “It felt fundamentally unfair to us,” Eykher says. “We figured there had to be a better way to do things.” In September 2017, they launched Open Mineral, a... View Details
Keywords: Nicole Torres
- 08 Dec 2015
- News
Living the Legacy
them individually, telling them why I thought CORe would be good.” And he’s noticed changes since his children completed the course. “Their vocabulary is more business-oriented. Now they talk about economic trade-offs, balance sheets, and View Details
- 01 Dec 1996
- News
An Entrepreneurial Journey
store grew, the space became so crowded that at times the copier was rolled out onto the sidewalk and used for self-service customers. Today, some analysts estimate annual revenues from the privately held chain's 850 business services and... View Details
- 25 Oct 2019
- News
Jane Fraser Named President of Citigroup
faces—the Wall Street Journal notes that Fraser “takes over a unit that accounts for roughly half of the bank’s total revenue but whose profit lags behind its investment-banking arm.” READ MORE View Details
- 01 Sep 2008
- News
Say “Green Cheese”
Housenbold told Newsweek (June 2, 2008). Taking over as CEO in 2005, Housenbold has expanded the company’s product line and boosted revenues to $187 million last year. Next up for Shutterfly is entering the social-networking realm, as it... View Details
- 01 Feb 1998
- News
Kicking Off a Startup: Jennifer Rottenberg (MBA '96)
secured and the league is fully capitalized, and with additional revenues derived from television contracts and ticket sales, the NSA, Rottenberg believes, will be on sound financial footing from the outset, unlike most fledgling leagues.... View Details
Keywords: Nancy O. Perry
- 10 Aug 2022
- News
Skydeck Live: Stage Not Age
or grandchildren. But it just happened to have the progressive lenses that they needed at a lower cost and an easy accessibility. And now, over 50% of their revenue derives from progressive lenses. [music] DM: You also talk about the... View Details
- 01 Jun 2022
- News
Ink: Start Small, Rise Above
other, more appropriate things, like to finance equipment and tooling. That way, they can use revenue as a key source of capital to strengthen their balance sheet and get through the initial scale phase. As the company has moved forward,... View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint
- 19 May 2020
- News
Exploring the Economics of a Pandemic; Alumni Forums Draw Closer Online
$140 million. Rogers offered three other specific tips for keeping a business afloat at this time. “Focus on generating new revenue through new products or services, get expenses under control, and load your balance sheet with cash so... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 17 Oct 2019
- News
Venturing Away from Venture Capital
profitable since 2016 and grew nearly 70 percent in 2018, with revenues of $100 million. As a result, she sees no reason to take on more funding. “We have a really sustainable business at this point,” Lin says. “We’re growing at a nice... View Details
Keywords: Alexander Gelfand
- 01 Mar 2018
- News
Case Study: On the Record
“completely revolutionized our business in terms of operations and streamlining,” Cleary says. With a relatively small $20 million in robo-advised accounts, “the effect on the revenue side was minimal, but the positive effect on the cost... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 01 Jan 2002
- News
Orin C. Smith (MBA '67)
Wall Street has left the caffeinated powerhouse virtually untouched. The price of Starbucks stock has climbed steadily over the past ten years, gaining approximately 2,200 percent on the ten-year anniversary of the company's 1992 IPO. Net View Details
- 01 Jan 2003
- News
Lillian Lincoln Lambert, MBA 1969
Lambert sold Centennial One, the building services company she started in her Maryland garage 25 years earlier had twelve hundred employees and annual revenues of $20 million. Although her family and friends had initially been surprised... View Details
- 02 Aug 2021
- News
Cracking the Code
the pandemic. The company’s revenues tripled and headcount doubled in the last year. With this latest round of funding, the company is focused on expanding its functionality, enhancing educational instruction to make its offerings even... View Details
- 24 Apr 2014
- News
Necessity became the mother of invention for staffing-firm founder
and flexible full-time positions is good business (the company has franchises nationwide and saw revenues of $16.2 million in 2012). O’Kelly has declined venture capital funding to maintain more control over growth, believing that... View Details
- 01 Jun 2003
- News
HBS Releases First-Ever Financial Report
“Our intention with this report is to increase transparency and respond to any questions our alumni may have.” Highlights from the report include: HBS operates year to year on a relatively narrow operating margin — 2.5 percent of revenues... View Details
- 01 Mar 2004
- News
The Weather Channel Forecast: Challenges Ahead
for example, snowblowers for blizzards or air conditioners for heat waves. If it proves successful, company officials forecast sunny revenue growth ahead. View Details
- 19 May 2015
- News
Getting Ready for Success
Francisco for a European consulting group, then to work in Los Angeles at pre-IPO GeoCities. In 1999, Yahoo bought the company, and Huebner stayed there closing technology and revenue deals until she was pregnant with her first child.... View Details
- 01 Jan 2006
- News
Ann S. Moore, MBA 1978
Illustrated to break even. The leading magazine publisher in the world, Time Inc. accounts for nearly a quarter of the total advertising revenues of U.S. consumer magazines. Two out of three adults in this country read one of its... View Details