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- 01 Dec 2019
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What’s Behind the Explosive Growth of Sustainable Investing?
financial returns and impact in the business model of investee companies. Quite a few of the large, global PE firms have launched impact funds over the last year. On the public side, I think ESG will become core to any financial analysis,... View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint
- 01 Dec 2013
- News
Your Own Medicine
the industry. Because, Williams's thinking went, the next step for DART was to implement a whole new model for drug development—one where a biotech company is funded by investors but driven by the very people benefiting from the outcomes:... View Details
- 01 Sep 2006
- News
Redefining Health Care
PORTER: Health care's zero-sum competition model adds costs and results in severe quality problems. University professor Michael Porter never planned to write a book on health-care reform. In fact, he expected brickbats in response to a... View Details
- 01 Jan 2005
- News
Louis V. Gerstner, Jr., MBA 1965
influence has become increasingly international, with approximately 329,000 employees working in 75 countries. Now the world's largest information technology company, it recorded revenues of more than $96 billion in 2004. While IBM's... View Details
- 19 May 2015
- News
Getting Ready for Success
students annually and boasts a college-completion rate of more than 90 percent. “We’ve now proven our model replicates well and is quantitatively effective, so we are looking to aggressively expand.” Her time at HBS strengthened both her... View Details
- 01 Jan 2007
- News
Donna L. Dubinsky, MBA 1981
high impact." After a series of promotions, she became a member of the founding executive team of Apple software spin-off Claris, where, as VP international, she grew international revenue to 50 percent of the business. In 1992 she met... View Details
- 01 Dec 2014
- News
Case Study: Growing the Family Business
competition (i.e., whoever reaches the threshold first will get the next center). — Tom Leung (MBA 2003) Consider a subscription model for center usage. You have the variable time slot idea with the hourly, daily, part-time rate, and you... View Details
- 01 Sep 2012
- News
On a Sound Track
business at the intersection of consumer electronics, media, and lifestyle branding. Skullcandy, which Andrus helped build with founder and former CEO Rick Alden, is expecting between $280 and $300 million in revenues this year. The... View Details
- 01 Jun 2008
- News
Team MBA
Way too long. Peter Stone: Very, very detailed. I remember Andy got out a whiteboard, and we were going through revenue recognition in his living room. And we were all very intent, very serious about it. Tyler Koop: I remember thinking,... View Details
- 14 Apr 2021
- News
The First Five Years: Mike Gandy Auzenne (MBA 2016)
integrate business transactions to benefit the society around us. “I don’t think it is a surprise that, with three HBS alumni on our board [the third is Tom Avery (MBA 1977)], we’ve tried to incorporate this concept into PowerUP’s business View Details
- 01 Dec 2013
- News
14 for '14
and 13 drift leftward. We will see what works. A controlled experiment in governance." —Grover Norquist (MBA 1981), president, Americans for Tax Reform "TV networks and streaming providers will experiment more with 'weekly installments' versus 'available all at once'... View Details
- 01 Jun 2013
- News
Can Business Smarts Save the Charter School Revolution?
executive director of the DC Public Charter School Board (PCSB), practices a nationally renowned model of school account-ability. Pearson oversees a $600 million budget for 57 charter operators that serve almost half of DC's public school... View Details
- 01 Jan 2002
- News
Raymond V. Gilmartin (MBA '68)
ability to refocus the company on its primary mission-discovering breakthrough drugs-soon earned him the respect of Wall Street, too. Between 1994 and 2001, Merck launched an unprecedented seventeen new drugs and increased revenues from... View Details
- 01 Mar 2009
- News
A New Approach to Health-Care Reform
the fixed-fee system, filling cavities is a cost, not a revenue opportunity. So the financial incentive supports preventive care. So a system where health providers offer comprehensive care for a fixed fee is the disruptive innovation... View Details
- 04 May 2017
- News
Going the Distance
more value to Utah businesses and attract other CEOs to relocate to the state. Twelve of the last 14 people I hired were former CEOs. We turned key state programs—like incentives—into a P&L, meaning that if they added jobs and tax revenue... View Details
Keywords: Jill Radsken
- 01 Oct 2002
- News
The Class of 1977
commission rates. Strategic planning was the newest and the best management tool. A young HBS professor named Michael Porter was giving fascinating lectures on competitiveness. In those days before the kinder and gentler CEO came into fashion, the command-and-control... View Details
Keywords: Desmond Wong
- 16 Sep 2015
- News
Built for Speed
way it’s been for more than 100 years. Cars today, he says, are essentially produced the same way Ford made the Model T. “But what if we made cars differently?” Rogers gathers speed. What if we assumed that people didn’t care about steel?... View Details
- 01 Jun 2011
- News
The Best-Laid Plans
minutes the judges pepper them with questions about everything from the particulars of their target market, to their revenue model, to the name of the venture, before offering a five-minute summing-up. It’s a good morning for the team,... View Details
- 20 Oct 2016
- News
Smart Moves
contracts with more than 200 government agencies in 40 states in the US and 60 countries worldwide. Its overseas business includes offices in a dozen countries, mostly in Europe, as well as in Asia and the Middle East. More than half of INRIX’s 400 employees and its... View Details
- 01 Feb 2001
- News
Drilling Down
compete against Exxon Mobil, Royal Dutch/Shell Group, and BP Amoco. In fact, these three "supermajors," with 1999 revenues of approximately $161 billion, $105 billion, and $83 billion, respectively, are themselves the result of recent... View Details