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- 01 Mar 2012
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Health Care’s New Frontier
athenahealth was operating 13 practices and achieving 50 percent revenue growth. The only snag was cash flow. “It was almost impossible to get claims paid reliably or to keep track of the basic information flow among practitioners, labs,... View Details
- 01 Oct 1996
- News
Uhlmann Award Winners Focus on French Retailer
generating 60 percent of its revenues from international markets. In their report, Baeza, Lacson, and Stein make several strategic recommendations they feel would strengthen the company. Among their suggestions were proposals that the... View Details
- 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 Mar 2016
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for March 2016
success, a story that has seen revenues multiply, share prices jump many times, and customer satisfaction become an industry benchmark. The Happiness Equation: Want Nothing + Do Anything = Have Everything by Neil Pasricha (MBA 2007) (G.P.... 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
- 18 Sep 2019
- News
Level Up
immersive and interactive media, and new ways to bring in audiences with performance data. It requires a long-term view from the C-suite, says Ruggiero. “The old business model of sponsorship, broadcast, tickets, and merch? Those revenue... View Details
- 01 Jun 1997
- News
New Releases
whose revenues would eventually exceed the combined sales of Bethlehem Steel, Colgate-Palmolive, Gillette, B.F. Goodrich, Kellogg, Olivetti, Scott Paper, and Whirlpool. In his new book, Matsushita Leadership: Lessons from the 20th... View Details
- 01 Sep 2024
- News
Next Level
surpassed Windows to become the third-largest revenue earner of the company, according to reporting by technology website The Verge. While it may not seem to fit the bill of a company in need of turning around, Bond says there’s a lot of... 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 Oct 1998
- News
Supplying Demand
Leo Kahn, that thought became a bigger reality than Stemberg ever imagined. Today, throughout the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom, and Germany, Staples boasts stores that are filled with every conceivable office supply at the guaranteed lowest possible price.... View Details
Keywords: Paul Michelman
- 01 Oct 1998
- News
Value Added
percent of its revenues coming from abroad. In establishing its global presence, Gupta explains, McKinsey has adopted a modus operandi to ensure that the all-important values of the organization - "a meritocracy dedicated to the highest... View Details
Keywords: James E. Aisner
- 02 Sep 2018
- News
Havana Rising
as hard as it can be to overcome infrastructure issues, Gordon’s challenges go well beyond lemon shortages and umbrella access: She’s a first-time entrepreneur trying to build a family business in a country with an ever-shifting stance toward business—and with View Details
Keywords: Dan Morrell; photographed by Eve North
- 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
- 06 Dec 2021
- News
Rescue & Recovery
billion dollars in revenues and almost 6,000 people providing aid and economic opportunity in some of the toughest environments around the world. On top of these baseline operations, which have been expanding since its founding in 1979,... View Details
- 01 Oct 1998
- News
Tech Trekker
Symbolics, the supermom helped lift the firm's revenues from $1 million to $120 million. From there, Lang led a string of turnarounds and product launches with software companies. In 1993 she signed on with Lotus Development Corporation.... View Details
Keywords: Marguerite Rigoglioso
- 01 Dec 2013
- News
Alumni News | Book Briefs
than 25,000 companies over a period of 40-plus years to identify the core rules for sustained superior performance. They found three: better before cheaper (companies sustaining their performance do so by non-price benefits such as a great brand, style, functionality,... 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 Jun 2006
- News
HBS Annual Report Details Strong Financial Growth
HBS closed the books on fiscal 2005 with more revenue and lower expenses than expected. Total revenues reached a new high of $331 million, $9 million more than forecast, and operating expenses totaled $307... 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 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