Profit - Publications - Faculty & Research

10 Mar 2011
News

Warren Adams: Searching for profits and saving Patagonia

12 Oct 2020
News

CEOs Increasingly See Sustainability as Path to Profitability

01 Sep 2017
News

Read All About It: Journalism Can Be Profitable

(above: photo by Mary Rajkumar/Mint/Getty Images) When the New York Times introduced its paywall in 2011, few people believed that readers would pay for the news online. Today, the newspaper has more than 1.6 million digital subscribers—a number that is growing rapidly... View Details

Keywords: April White; New York Times; newspapers; Google; Wirecutter; social media; Facebook; News, Library, Internet, and Other Services; Information

Oct 2012
Lecture

Modularize—Allocate—Protect: How Firms Profit from Open Modular Systems

By: Carliss Y. Baldwin

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27 Jan 2015
News

Airline profits soar yet no relief for passengers

21 Feb 2014
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For Facebook, It’s Users First and Profits Later

20 Sep 2022
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Larry Fink at BlackRock: Linking Purpose to Profit

10 Oct 2017
News

Rules of Business: The Health Care Profit Cycle

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Profitable Souls: Foreign Investment and the Fate of Human Rights

By: Debora L. Spar

This is a project about foreign investment, about what happens when big multinational firms invest in small, poor, and often nasty places. Typically, most observers assume that this is a largely negative relationship: that multinationals exploit the local population,... View Details

January–February 2018
Article

Inclusive Growth: Profitable Strategies for Tackling Poverty and Inequality

By: Robert S. Kaplan, George Serafeim and Eduardo Tugendhat

More than a billion people in the developing world remain in extreme poverty and outside the formal economy. Traditional CSR programs have done little to alleviate the situation and rarely produce transformative change.
Instead of trying to fix local problems,... View Details

Keywords: Inclusive Growth; Sustainability; Social Impact; Business Strategy; Shared Value; Impact Investing; Inequality; Corporate Governance; Balanced Scorecard; Strategy Execution; Economic Growth; Developing Countries and Economies; Poverty; Equality and Inequality; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Strategy; Investment

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24 Apr 2014
News

Ensuring a business’s profitability enables it to serve society

During the 2009 global recession, Mark Fields (MBA 1989) helped Ford Motor Company avoid government-financed bankruptcy. Now, as president and CEO, he is focused on serving customers around the globe with great products while building a strong, View Details