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    Jay Van Andel

    In 1959, with his partner Richard DeVos, Van Andel established one of the most profitable direct selling companies in the world. Van Andel and DeVos accomplished their success through the use of an elaborate pyramid-like distribution... View Details
    Keywords: Personal Care & Home Products
    • 18 Apr 2011
    • News

    Capitalism Meets Conservation

    Adams: A market-based solution to conservation. Warren Adams (MBA ’95) is making conservation a profitable business in Patagonia. Adams, who sold his pioneering social networking startup PlanetAll to Amazon for $100 million in stock in... View Details
    Keywords: Accommodation; Hospitality; Religious, Grantmaking, Civic, Professional, and Similar Organizations; Personal Services
    • 09 Jun 2015
    • First Look

    First Look: June 9, 2015

    the beneficial effect of cost transparency holds when firms spend more on "less desirable" costs relative to "more desirable" costs. Studies 5-6 show that the effect of cost transparency weakens when high profit... View Details
    Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
    • 05 Jun 2007
    • First Look

    First Look: June 5, 2007

    brand mix that would be carried. Results from the pilot store (a remodeled hypermarket in Beijing) were encouraging, with revenues and profits up and customers spending more on each visit. The company must decide how quickly to roll out... View Details
    Keywords: Martha Lagace
    • 07 Sep 2016
    • News

    Appreciating the Big Role of Small Business

    and Royce Yudkoff are leading the course Financial Management of Smaller Firms, in which students learn how to identify, acquire, and run small firms. This popular class has led to a shift in mindset, helping HBS MBAs see new opportunities for innovation and growth,... View Details

      Leslie Wexner

      Victoria’s Secret and turning them into profitable enterprises. In his companies, Wexner has created one of the leading specialty fashion enterprises, serving every market from contemporary women’s wear and plus size clothing to discount... View Details
      Keywords: Retail
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      Barbara D'Amato Archives | Social Enterprise

      Impact Measurement Inclusive Finance International Development K-12 Education Leadership Fellows Leadership in Challenging Times MBA Programs Microfinance Non Profit Management Nonprofit Supportive Services Public Sector Public-Private... View Details
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      Anand Shukla Archives | Social Enterprise

      Impact Measurement Inclusive Finance International Development K-12 Education Leadership Fellows Leadership in Challenging Times MBA Programs Microfinance Non Profit Management Nonprofit Supportive Services Public Sector Public-Private... View Details
      • 30 Jun 2020
      • Book

      Capitalism Is More at Risk Than Ever

      The book Capitalism at Risk first appeared in 2011. The problems it identified with social inequality, global trade strife, and environmental degradation have only accelerated by 2020. The new edition of Capitalism at Risk, subtitled How Business Can Lead, is expanded... View Details
      Keywords: by Martha Lagace
      • 04 Dec 2007
      • First Look

      First Look: December 4, 2007

      Pisano and David J. Teece Periodical:California Management Review 50, no. 1 (fall 2007): 278-296 Abstract Capturing value from innovation requires innovators to figure out how to blunt inroads into the profit stream by imitators,... View Details
      Keywords: Martha Lagace
      • 01 Jun 2010
      • News

      $how Me the Money

      any profit on the sale, no taxes are owed. The dummy corporation in the tax haven then sells the copiers to another subsidiary in country C, at a price of $2,000 each. Now the company in country A is making a View Details
      Keywords: Garry Emmons; Administration of Economic Programs; Government; Executive, Legislative, and Other General Government Support; Government; Legal Services; Professional Services; Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services; Professional Services

        Sidney W. Winslow

        With the insight he gained while working in his father’s shoe factory, Winslow started his first shoe machine company in 1893, producing leather-buffing machines. With the profits from this business, Winslow combined resources with Gordon... View Details
        Keywords: Fabric & Apparel

          Herbert A. Sklenar

          as crushed stone for concrete, where Vulcan is the nation’s largest and most profitable producer. Coupled with this investment and expansion, Sklenar also instituted an array of cost cutting measures, all of which allowed the firm to... View Details
          Keywords: Construction & Real Estate

            Elizabeth E. Boit

            specialized in the production of women’s undergarments that were eventually sold by Lord & Taylor department stores. Boit was considered a maverick in improving the working conditions for her mostly female employees. She even instituted a View Details
            Keywords: Fabric & Apparel

              Donald C. Burr

              early 1980s, allowing the company to profitably offer lower fares than its competitors. In 1983, People stock, issued at $8 dollars a share, rose to a high of $50 and split two for one. In 1985, Burr purchased Frontier Airlines, making... View Details
              Keywords: Transportation
              • 07 Sep 2020
              • Research & Ideas

              How to Help Small Businesses Survive COVID's Next Phase

              like this.” Concentrate on the best profit opportunities. Small-business owners must identify their most valuable products and services and eliminate everything else. If a restaurant’s tried-and-true burger has a stronger gross View Details
              Keywords: by Danielle Kost; Food & Beverage; Service
              • 12 Aug 2002
              • Op-Ed

              Using Big Business to Fight Poverty

              based in Asia, Europe, and North America. Assisted by rich governments and by loans from development banks, the WDC would bring to impoverished areas technology, credit, access to world markets, and management know-how. Its projects would need to be subsidized at first... View Details
              Keywords: by George C. Lodge
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              Drew Fink Archives | Social Enterprise

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              Christy Chin Archives | Social Enterprise

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