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Supporting Careers | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School

roles or regions where compensation is generally lower than the traditional MBA level. Summer Fellowship Enables Student Entrepreneur to Launch Startup Tess Brooks Starting a For Profit Social Enterprise at HBS Philip Blackett MBA 2016... View Details

01 Jun 2011
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Four-Letter Word

lot of sound and fury that, it turns out, really doesn’t signify much at all. That’s because David Miller (MBA ’03), the Treasury Department’s former chief investment officer for TARP, helped preside over “a steady and, so far, profitable... View Details

Keywords: Finance; Administration of Economic Programs; Government

David M. Ogilvy

Though he founded the advertising giant that is best known for its hard-sell approach, Ogilvy himself is known for his creativity and for championing the softer side of advertising. Despite the minimal profits earned by such an approach,... View Details

Keywords: Services

Leon Hess

Starting with his father’s little, struggling fuel firm, Hess created a $10 billion oil refinery company, the worlds 13th largest, Amerada Hess. During the Arab oil embargo in 1973, with 68 million barrels of mainland storage capacity, Hess was among the few operators... View Details

Keywords: Utilities & Energy

01 Jan 2002
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Raymond V. Gilmartin (MBA '68)

not for profits. He also said that if we remember this ethic, profits will never fail to appear." A life-size sculpture in the lobby of Merck's headquarters in Whitehouse Station, New Jersey, of two figures-a boy leading a blind man with... View Details

Charles R. Shoemate

any U.S.-based operation. Shoemate presided over the successful spin-off of BestFoods and orchestrated its eventual, highly profitable acquisition by Unilever. View Details

Keywords: Food & Tobacco

Thomas B. Pickens

Starting his career with only a small drilling, exploration and production firm, Pickens developed a knack for acquiring oil-rich properties. His luck afforded him the wealth he used to begin his famous string of attempted hostile takeovers of other oil industry... View Details

Keywords: Utilities & Energy

Raymond A. Kroc

Kroc capitalized on America’s “eat on the run” society. Believing in the real profits of fast food, he bought out the McDonald brothers and developed a restaurant empire. By the 1960s, he had 228 restaurants with annual sales totaling $37... View Details

Keywords: Restaurants & Lodging

01 Oct 1998
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Beyond the Numbers

one moderately successful product — Stove Top stuffing mix. " Armed with this information, he quickly advised the firm to refocus its efforts on acquiring established but undermarketed concerns, which eventually led to GF's profitable... View Details

Keywords: Eileen K. McCluskey

01 Jun 2007
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KPMG for Mayor!

or nonprofit must demonstrate to its shareholders or donors that it can perform efficiently. To state the obvious, companies must make money. How could running a local government be a profitable enterprise? In a word: taxes. Voters in... View Details

Keywords: Eric Werker; Executive, Legislative, and Other General Government Support; Government

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Rob Zeaske Archives | Social Enterprise

Impact Measurement Inclusive Finance International Development K-12 Education Leadership Fellows Leadership in Challenging Times MBA Programs Microfinance New Venture Competition Non Profit Management Nonprofit Supportive Services Public... View Details

24 Apr 2014
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Leading a battle against corruption, a force that slows economic development

efforts are having a real impact, with fewer allegations of corruption appearing in the media. Companies with low anti-corruption efforts, while enjoying faster sales growth in corrupt markets, have lower profit margins and return on... View Details

Adolph S. Ochs

A consummate newspaperman, Ochs reported the news without sensationalism in his first paper, the Chattanooga Daily Times and then in his second, The New York Times. He swiftly turned The New York Times around. When he bought it in 1896, it only had a circulation of... View Details

Keywords: Publishing & Print Media

Charles W. Moritz

Moritz took the helm of D&B just after it had acquired the major market research firm, A. C. Nielsen. Moritz led the successful integration of D&B’s largest acquisition and established a pattern of smooth and profitable mergers.... View Details

Keywords: Services

Camille Dreyfus

Celanese Corporation showed a profit every year after 1925 with its breakthrough year coming in 1939. The company grew by 700% from 1929-1939. By 1940, Dreyfus held 233 patents in the U.S., most of which were concerned with the production... View Details

Keywords: Chemicals & Industrial

29 Apr 2013
Research & Ideas

Diagnosing the ‘Flutie Effect’ on College Marketing

so—intercollegiate sporting events generated an estimated $2 billion in revenue and $1 billion in profit in 2010. Winning programs prosper in diverse ways including ticket and product sales, alumni donations, and TV contracts. Chung is... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Education; Advertising; Sports

09 Feb 2012
Sharpening Your Skills

Sharpening Your Skills: Online Marketing

Groupon Effective? Is Groupon Good for Retailers? For retailers offering deals through the wildly popular online start-up Groupon, does the one-day publicity compensate for the deep hit to profit margins? A new working paper, "To Groupon... View Details

Keywords: Re: Multiple Faculty; Technology

02 Apr 2008
Research & Ideas

Four Companies that Conquered America

will be appreciated by enough consumers fast enough for weekly store sales to reach profitable levels. Stay tuned. Join the discussion on Harvard Business Online. View Details

Keywords: by John Quelch

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Elsa Sze

“But I also see that the business community has so much potential to do good while achieving business objectives.” With a will to reconcile business and government, and profit motives with social ones, Elsa is pursuing the joint MBA/MPP... View Details

18 Apr 2023
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HBS Students and Alumni Fostering a Supportive Community

access to finances, although, ironically, students talk about money and profit and revenues in the classroom all the time.” Holly Fetter (MBA 2020) The Socioeconomic Inclusion Task Force, which comprised students, faculty, and staff from... View Details

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