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- 19 Feb 2020
- News
Breaking the Salary Sharing Taboo
- 06 Jun 2017
- News
Three Key Considerations for TSR Awards
- 18 Jul 2023
- News
The First Five Years: Brooke Biederman (MBA 2019)
social needs in a profitable way. While corporate social responsibility is often written off as a cost center, shared value instead creates new business opportunities by improving profitability and... View Details
Keywords: Robert Bochnak
- 01 Dec 2023
- News
Wide Horizon
There were three critical events that led John Rodakis (MBA 1997) to form the nonprofit N of One in 2014 and ultimately dedicate his life to surfacing breakthrough autism research. The first occurred on Thanksgiving of 2012. He had driven about four hours with his wife... View Details
Keywords: Dan Morrell; Photos by Sarah Wilson
- 01 Sep 2023
- News
Money Does Grow on (Family) Trees
For 17 years, Andre Kearns (MBA 1999) has been tracing his family tree. One by one, he has added branches, grounding himself in a long and sometimes complicated lineage. Through family stories, forgotten heirlooms, and vital records, Kearns has traveled back through... View Details
- 28 Mar 2024
- News
Rooms with a View
Alexander Mirza (MBA 1997) has spent two decades in the hospitality industry, opening and growing major hotel brands, including Hilton, Starwood, and Caesars, with locations around the world. And with each new project, Mirza faced the same primary challenge. “It didn’t... View Details
- 01 Dec 2023
- News
A More Accommodating Approach
comprehensive leadership programs offered by Executive Education at HBS, is designed to enhance one’s business perspective, management expertise, and leadership skills. “As a woman in construction, I wanted to elevate myself more around View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie
- 01 Jun 2024
- News
Quantum Leap
is about what enterprise-grade quantum computing will be able to do for business, the more everyone stands to profit when it finally arrives. “We’re interested in the community as a whole being able to solve real problems, because that... View Details
- 01 Jun 2023
- News
Pet Project
optimized for DTC? Even if retail is where most consumer packaged goods are sold, it will mean lower margins and lower LTV. “So why should we launch a less profitable channel? Is retail critical for an exit or to become a household brand?... View Details
- 01 Dec 2023
- News
Engaging Students More Deeply
Students at Success Academy stay more focused on the dot rug. Photo courtesy HBS Multimedia Development To tell the compelling stories of a developer working to revitalize Miami Beach, a Maine lobsterman confronting the economic risks of climate change, and a charter... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 04 Aug 2010
- News
A Lonely Crusader
We’ve all read stories about those rare individuals who saw the financial crisis coming and profited handsomely from their contrarian insights. Add to that list of contrarians hedge fund manager Bill Ackman (MBA ’92), whose six-year... View Details
- 01 Dec 2023
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books and Podcasts
where venture capitalists, angel investors, and other funders of early stage businesses can and must step up to make a difference. Higher Purpose Venture Capital dives into 50 business ventures that serve the “double bottom line” of View Details
Keywords: podcasts
- 01 Oct 1997
- News
W. Hall Wendel, Jr.
years of 35 percent compounded increases in sales and earnings. Now on the New York Stock Exchange, with revenues of $1.2 billion, profits of $62 million, and a return on equity of 43 percent, the diversified company is the world's... View Details
- 01 Mar 2004
- News
Derek Ferguson
Music, a retailer based in the Midwest. “Its biggest profit drivers were rap and hip-hop,” he remarks. “I remember thinking that there was a real opportunity to cater more directly to that customer base.” To learn more about the business,... View Details
- 01 Mar 2024
- News
Giving All Stakeholders a Voice
Facebook and Google, for example, own user data and keep 100 percent of profits with advertisers. In Web3, companies share revenue with users. “This is a new way to organize economic activity and incentivize humans,” Wu says about the... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 01 Jun 2023
- News
Buy Big, Sell Small
If you live in a rural village or small city in India and run low on toothpaste, rice, or cooking oil, you’ll likely visit your local kirana, the equivalent of a US neighborhood variety store and a mainstay of the country’s $932 billion retail economy. The shops are... View Details
- 15 Jun 2021
- News
Keeping Hourly Workers Focused on the Stock, Not the Clock
constant tension between employees and management. “We lived through a lot of strikes,” Stavros says. One of the changes the union was advocating for was profit sharing with hourly employees. “Can you believe I have no incentive to care... View Details
- 23 Jun 2023
- News
Highlights from the Spring 2023 Alumni Board Meeting
Alumni Board members on campus for their annual spring meeting // Credit: Panfoto Hard work, with humility for humanity, is the spirit that animates Harvard Business School's MBA program today, Matt Weinzierl, Senior Associate Dean and Chair of the MBA Program, told... View Details
- 01 Dec 2019
- News
Bridging the Gap
being improved student outcomes and profits the company could reinvest in students. At a Gestamp automotive manufacturing plant 20 minutes east of downtown Chattanooga, high school students wearing shirts emblazoned with “WBL” (work-based... View Details