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- 01 Dec 2013
- News
Case Study: Citizen Buffett
long been a focus of my own research." The case outlines the events that led to Morton's consideration of Buffett's offer to buy 63 newspapers from his highly leveraged company, which had experienced a 31 percent decline in revenues over... View Details
- 01 Jun 2010
- News
Cardiac Kid
has more than 1,000 workers and expects revenues of about $280 million this year. “The company was founded basically to prevent heart attacks,” Huennekens told the San Diego Union-Tribune (January 25, 2010). To that end, Volcano makes... View Details
- 01 Dec 2012
- News
Wang Papers to HBS
nascent days in the 1970s. At its peak in the 1980s, Massachusetts-based Wang Laboratories had 23,000 employees and earned annual revenues of $2 billion. Dr. Wang died in 1990 at the age of 70. View Details
- 01 Dec 2011
- News
What Keeps HBS Ahead? You Do!
rely on revenue from Executive Education, Publishing, and our endowment to supplement the cost of delivering the program. This revenue covers the basics, but in many cases, the work that ensures the School’s... View Details
- 01 Dec 2002
- News
Extra! Extra! Newspapers Miss the Story
Newspapers are missing an opportunity to boost revenues by barely tapping the online market, according to a new study by Assistant Professor Clark Gilbert and Borrell Associates Inc. In “Newspapers Miss Out on $300 Million in Online... View Details
- 01 Dec 2003
- News
An Authentic Leader
revenues were less than $750 million. In short order, he became CEO and chairman. When he retired at age 59 in 2001, the company employed 28,000 and revenues exceeded $6.7 billion. George attributes the... View Details
- 01 Sep 2006
- News
The “A” List
consumers’ evaluations, include some 425,000 homeowners. Company revenues should hit $14 million this year. “Companies don’t pay to be on the list,” Hicks told the Washington Post (July 13, 2006). “You can only give one report on a given... View Details
- 01 Apr 2000
- News
Q & A: A Conversation with IRS Chief Charles Rossotti
Named the 45th Commissioner of Internal Revenue in 1997, Charles O. Rossotti (MBA '64) heads the Internal Revenue Service, which has 102,000 employees, a $7.8 billion budget, and annual View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 01 Dec 2011
- News
A Modest Tax Proposal
in the United States. Those profits are now subject to a 35 percent corporate tax rate, but the tax can be totally avoided as long as American corporations hold the profits in their accounts at foreign banks. The current system needs reform: it generates minimal tax... View Details
- 01 Mar 2017
- News
Starting Lineup: No Reservations
around the world. Blue Apron Cofounder and CEO Matt Salzberg (MBA 2010) Founded 2012 This meal-kit company delivers all the ingredients you need to make a home-cooked dinner. Reports say that the company is on track to surpass $1 billion in View Details
- 01 Jun 2000
- News
A Canadian Hero
revenues of $15 billion, ONEX is involved with over one hundred companies spanning two dozen industries on six continents. In addition to his success in business, Schwartz was praised for his work as a philanthropist and a Canadian... View Details
- 01 Dec 2003
- News
Meg's World
full-fledged powerhouse, with revenue on track to top $2 billion this year. With more than 28 million active users, eBay dominates the online auction marketplace. Whitman came straight to HBS after graduating from Princeton with a degree... View Details
- 25 Feb 2020
- News
Case Study: The Credit Bureau
There’s no need to give these firms a share of the revenue because there are many ways to reach the end customer. —Sergio Rattner (MBA 2001) I believe the solution is to pursue the hybrid option. My reasoning is that D2C is working and... View Details
- 01 Mar 2014
- News
Insight: Yenball
geographic: Japanese stars who come to US cities with a large Japanese population—Los Angeles and New York, for example—can convert those populations into increased ticket and merchandise sales. (All major league teams share national TV View Details
- 01 Jun 2001
- News
Point, Click, Give: Internet Fuels Philanthropic Fundraising Revolution
the entire IRS database of almost 700,000 nonprofits. Its leaders believe this strategy helps “democratize” the giving process. Others, such as Working Assets, include a much smaller number of organizations. How to capture revenue is the... View Details
- 01 Mar 2008
- News
HBS Records an “Excellent” Year
the primary factors driving the School’s success. Consolidated revenue for the fiscal year — which ended June 30, 2007 — grew by $37 million, or 10.1 percent, to $405 million, while expenses increased by $30 million, or 8.7 percent, to... View Details
- 01 Mar 2019
- News
Case Study: Off to a Fine Art
platters in counts of 30 each. “But for me to have 100 original pieces to offer a catering company, that’s a relatively big investment for a small and young business,” she says. Rentals accounted for a third of Clay’s revenue in the first... View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint
- 01 Sep 2017
- News
Case Study: Confidence Builder
will have a better chance of trying to partner with them to capture as much of that revenue as possible. However, if Confi can work with students, it may be able to indirectly influence the schools to increase their annual budgets to... View Details
- 01 Sep 2005
- News
Upstart Startup
specializes in sophisticated financial analyses, and expects revenues of $100 million this year, according to Business Week (July 11, 2005). In the beginning, “No one thought it was a viable idea, but we decided to do it ourselves... View Details
- 01 Sep 2024
- News
Advancing the Mission
Fund advance the School's mission to educate leaders who make a difference in the world. Other examples include a professor's exploration of a tech giant's new revenue market for an existing product, and the opportunity HBS gives to... View Details