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- 06 Dec 2021
- News
Tipping Point
Kenyan coffee farm. The price of coffee beans on the global market is under $1 a pound, while the actual cost to produce that pound is between $1.62 and $2. The coffee farms are profitable only when they rely on free labor, typically from... View Details
- 10 Dec 2014
- News
Front-Row Seat
battling it out over the issues of the day.” The Atlantic has been profitable for five years now, with advertising revenue up 40 percent over last year. For now, at least, all online content is free, including full articles from the print... View Details
- 01 Feb 2002
- News
Telling the Electronic Century's Unfinished Story
infrastructure for the Industrial Century did not compete, conquer, or die in the manner of the national industries that created the infrastructure for the Electronic Century. I wanted to find out why. Amid these complex shifts of... View Details
- 01 Sep 2015
- News
3-Minute Briefing: Fred Newman (MBA 1978)
audience shifted in their seats and went “Ooohhh!” Wails of laughter. It had hurt good. The best lesson I learned at HBS: The big progressive companies spent 20 percent of their profit on R&D. Twenty percent... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 10 Mar 2021
- News
New Releases: Alumni and Faculty Books, Podcasts
and CEO of Best Buy and HBS senior lecturer Hubert Joly shares leadership principles that underpinned the remarkable resurgence of Best Buy, which he believes are at the heart of business: pursue a noble purpose, put people at the center, embrace all stakeholders, and... View Details
- 01 Jun 2011
- News
An Economy Undermined
anger, and shifting ideologies. Then, in 1982, the bull market in stocks began. It changed the way companies were managed. CEOs focused on getting the stock price up. There was a takeover movement, then junk bonds, and then leveraged... View Details
- 01 Dec 2011
- News
Making the Case for Leadership
the workers’ allegiance. She does so in part by meeting one-on-one with every employee and introducing innovations such as pairing a shift worker with a manager in coleadership roles. “This is an unusual case because it’s about an MBA in... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons;Julia Hanna;Roger Thompson; Performing Arts, Spectator Sports, and Related Industries; Arts, Entertainment; National Security and International Affairs; Government; Health, Social Assistance; Data Processing, Hosting, and Related Services; Information; Electrical Equipment, Appliance, and Component Manufacturing; Manufacturing; Food Manufacturing; Manufacturing; Nonmetallic Mineral Product Manufacturing; Manufacturing; Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services; Professional Services
- 01 Mar 2014
- News
The Solution to the Global Food Crisis Just Might Come from Nigeria
Nancy Barry (MBA 1975), founder and president of Enterprise Solutions to Poverty, which mobilizes and supports leading companies and entrepreneurs in building profitable and inclusive businesses that incorporate millions of low-income... View Details
- 01 Dec 2000
- News
Opening Doors: Inside the World of Museum Management
will harness the great capability of the museum's curators and its collection while also maintaining an umbrella identity for what the museum is doing as a whole." Not for Profit While its IRS designation 501(c)(3) connotes a... View Details
- 01 Dec 2018
- News
Hard Choices
right to decide that their business exists solely to maximize profits. But let’s stop to examine what that even means. What are those things that cause profits to be maximized? And should we be aiming to maximize them this year, or next... View Details
Keywords: Seth Klarman (MBA 1982)
- 01 Aug 2001
- News
Cleveland Global Alumni Conference a Sold-Out Success
Potentia Pharmaceuticals, winner of this year's HBS Business Plan Contest (see pages 6-7). When creating a successful venture, said Hart, basics such as scalability, sustainability, adaptability, and profitability are key components of... View Details
- 13 Sep 2019
- News
Hollywood Ending
the dark of evening. “I got a package here; just need a signature,” he says, straining for a look inside the house. Whitman tilts her phone 90 degrees, switching from landscape to portrait mode, which triggers a shift in perspective: Now... View Details
- 12 Apr 2023
- News
Step Change
Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Hi, my name is Julia Hanna. I'm a writer and editor for the HBS Alumni Bulletin. In 2019, I met Egyptian alumna Amal Enan (MBA 2014) when she was on campus for her 5th reunion. Enan had already held a... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna; entrepreneurship; women; venture capital; Egypt; developing economies; Finance
- 01 Mar 2018
- News
Case Study: On the Record
to build capabilities that would be hard to replicate. Let’s build a plan here—not just to grow but to develop some long-term defensibility. Some record profits would be music to investors’ ears. —Jeffrey Glass (MBA 1994) Grow market... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 27 Jul 2017
- News
Seeing a Way Forward
opportunities,” Leger says. “I believe the idea that there is an inevitable tradeoff between profit and impact is fundamentally flawed and can be challenged through innovative social enterprises that will tackle markets and needs... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Myers
- 01 Jun 2010
- News
$how Me the Money
economy of an individual state, it can also threaten the stability of the global economy. “Over the last fifty years in the West,” declares Baker, “we’ve created a global shadow financial system of secrecy jurisdictions, entities, and mechanisms that has as its core... View Details
- 01 Mar 2007
- News
The Plight of the Global Poor
while BOP individuals may only have tens of dollars a year to spend, that disposable income, multiplied several billion times over, represents significant purchasing power. With this realization have come some dramatic shifts in business... View Details
- 01 Dec 2012
- News
From Where We Stand
expansion (President Johnson's Great Society); there were more opportunities for advancement. I soon became manager of the research department, then advertising manager of the book clubs division—Doubleday's largest and most profitable... View Details
- 12 Jul 2021
- News
Alumni Confront the COVID-19 Crisis
in need. Their website, face2face.org, allows visitor to order disposable medical masks, with all profits donated to the American Hospital Association's 100 Million Mask Challenge. For each mask ordered, face2face also donates a mask to... View Details
- 04 Sep 2019
- News
The School that Donham Built
then–Harvard President Drew Faust said Donham’s leadership was guided by his resolve that Harvard “would educate manager-statesmen motivated not by profit alone, but by the improvement of society.” A prolific author, Donham wrote... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg