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Russell Simmons
Simmons was principally responsible for bringing rap and hip hop music into the cultural mainstream of America. His formation of Def Jam Records in the early eighties marked the beginning of rap as a dominant music form. By the end of the century, rap music had... View Details
Keywords: Entertainment & Broadcast Media
- 04 Sep 2019
- News
Case Study: Up in the Air
on IT services in 2018, and the direction of global tech trends, the shortage isn’t going away quickly. Berendt cofounded Talent Alpha in 2018 to fill that gap. The Kraków-based startup is building a marketplace to link central and eastern Europe’s software houses with... View Details
Roberto C. Goizueta
In a shrewd acquisition, Goizueta purchased Columbia Pictures for $750 million in 1982. Three years later, Columbia was Coca-Cola’s second most successful enterprise bringing in 14% of the operating income. In his first five years as CEO,... View Details
Keywords: Food & Tobacco
H. Wayne Huizenga
marketing and acquisition efforts enabled the business to become one of the fastest growing enterprises in the United States. In 1994, Huizenga arranged the sale of the company to Viacom, creating a natural... View Details
Keywords: Retail
Samuel M. Walton
1987, Wal-Marts numbered over 1,000 and had sales of $14 billion. Gaining momentum from the success of Wal-Mart, Walton created the highly successful bulk food store chain, Sam’s Wholesale Club, which also earned revenues in the billions.... View Details
Keywords: Retail
- 01 Oct 2014
- Blog Post
A Summer Internship: Sparking Curiosity
and sales operations. I plan to audit Business Marketing & Sales, one of the classes that focus on exactly that. In the Winter term, I will be taking Building and Sustaining a Successful Enterprise... View Details
- 01 Jun 2019
- News
Case Study: Mind the Gap
the shortage of skills isn’t going away quickly. Berendt cofounded Talent Alpha in 2018 to fill that gap. The Kraków-based startup is building a marketplace to link Central and Eastern Europe’s software houses with global enterprises in... View Details
- 30 Mar 2015
- Research & Ideas
Managing the Family Business: Preparing to Sell
well, the family has a higher risk of losing its wealth through bad investment decisions and overconsumption. Starting now, before your sale and liquidity event, you need to adopt the attitudes of those families that endure as... View Details
- 10 Jan 2005
- Research & Ideas
Motivation and the Cross-Sector Alliance
not doing this to increase our sales ... or our profits." Our sample cases have exhibited remarkable correlation between altruistic drives and family companies. From an ethical point of view, it is to be expected that individuals... View Details
- 01 Sep 2005
- News
Business Plan Contest Has Many Winners
fashionable and custom-fitted bras to fuller-sized customers and the 85 percent of women who wear the wrong size. In the social enterprise track, the winner was India Info Village, a team featuring Rita Singh (MBA ’05) and several other... View Details
- 01 Sep 2014
- News
Book Review: Getting Beyond Yes
The Choices, Systems, and Behaviors that Drive Effective Selling, Frank V. Cespedes laments the fact that sales and strategy rarely make a joint and complementary appearance in MBA classrooms or academic journals. Professors stick safely... View Details
- 24 Apr 2006
- Research & Ideas
Managing Alignment as a Process
process: the creation of the enterprise scorecard, which describes how synergy will be created. Financial synergy at SMI will be achieved by using the surplus cash flow from the mature businesses to invest in the growth of the new... View Details
Brandon Farwell
Gusto, Patreon, Boom Supersonic, Andela, Bustle, Customer.io, VRChat, and others. This portfolio was awarded #1 in VR /AR and frontier technology by Goldman Sachs, CB Insights, and Pitchbook. Brandon spent time in sales operations and... View Details
Keywords: Business Products and Services (B2B)
- 16 Aug 2013
- News
Women's Business Leader
Vice Chairman of Wealth Management and Senior Client Advisor at Morgan Stanley where she is responsible for increasing revenue generation and client connectivity and penetration across the Wealth Management, Investment Banking and Sales... View Details
- 18 Mar 2020
- News
Leading Change
Feldman (MBA 1967), and Club President Higor Sales (MBA 2011). “Each event has been tailored to the specific focus of the alumni in each club. In D.C., policy is a central focus of the discussion around climate change.” Guided by Toffel,... View Details
- 01 Jun 2012
- News
A Better World, One Idea at a Time
A dozen budding social entrepreneurs pitched their ideas for innovative products and services during the annual Social Enterprise Conference in February, and four came away with top honors. The sold-out event marked the 13th year of the... View Details
- 01 Dec 2018
- News
Ask the Expert: Gimme Shelter
crafting innovative ways to make that happen in the Bay Area, where median home prices sail north of $1 million. In Oakland, for example, the nonprofit used a little-known tool called the Chapter 8 Tax Sale to acquire 24 blighted,... View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint
- 23 Aug 2011
- First Look
First Look: August 23
Levy Publication:American Journal of Public Health (forthcoming) Abstract Objectives: We assessed whether a 2-phase labeling and choice architecture intervention increased sales of healthy food and beverages in a large hospital cafeteria.... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Sep 2015
- News
Research Brief: Bankruptcy as a Better—Not Bitter—End
Are big banks using bankruptcy as a bullying tactic? A recent report by the American Bankruptcy Institute suggested that a longtime—and increasingly popular—mechanism in the US code that allows for expedited, less-democratic asset sales... View Details
Keywords: Erin Peterson
- 01 Sep 2011
- News
Entrepreneur Named Director of Harvard i-lab
marketing and sales experience with Fortune 500, midsized, and start-up companies, Jones also has a background in education, having taught marketing as an adjunct lecturer at Bentley University outside Boston. Most recently, he worked... View Details