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- 01 Jun 2015
- News
Case Study: Sneak Peak
would cost less and would be a faster, healthier way to get to the $1 million mark. —Karen Barth (MBA 1986) They should grow the old-fashioned way: hold back enough cash to grow in a controlled manner. Borrowing money to double in size... View Details
- 01 Mar 2014
- News
Case Study: Gazelle's New Predators
initial revenue push, but the critical move might be to redefine Gazelle around a model of exchanging a product for cash and then extending more product lines. That could lead to relationships with vendors, retailers, and manufacturers... View Details
- 01 Sep 2015
- News
Research Brief: Bankruptcy as a Better—Not Bitter—End
lenders and liquidating otherwise viable companies. As the theory goes, the deep-pocketed secured lenders at the front of the line have a bias toward shutting down viable operations, selling off the assets, and collecting the cash they’re... View Details
Keywords: Erin Peterson
- 20 Sep 2011
- News
A Taxing Question
The Obama administration reportedly is considering big changes in the broken system for taxing the foreign income of US corporations. US multinationals have piled up overseas cash holdings in excess of $1 trillion, according to some... View Details
- 22 Sep 2017
- News
The Epicenter of Miami’s Vice
everything was being paid for in cash, the fact that you had all these banks popping up on Brickell Avenue, which is known as kind of the Wall Street of Miami, that were just there to take dirty money. You would pay people before money laundering statutes to just cart... View Details
- 15 Nov 2016
- News
Enabling the Dream of Building A Healthy Future for India
working toward being a health care entrepreneur, instead of taking a job with immediate cash rewards,” she says. “The fellowship enables me to move a step closer to having a very real impact on people back in India.” View Details
- 01 Jun 2014
- News
Start Me Up
media attention, and more than $10 million of in-kind support. At the conclusion of each program, a panel of startup CEO judges awards $1 million in cash prizes to as many as 20 startups selected for their global-impact potential. To... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 01 Jun 2017
- News
The Exchange: Venture Forth
courses, I’ve spent so much time teaching the tools that are based on theory. What is really interesting is that professionals in lots of industries, in particular the VC industry, totally disregard them. Using derived cost of capital and discounted View Details
Keywords: April White
- 01 Jun 2011
- News
Latin Flair
Already, the founders say, Vostu is turning a profit, though it is holding onto recently raised VC cash while it solidifies its position in the market. Suddenly, the slow-to-start Vostu is on the fast track. Kafie, who went straight to... View Details
- 01 Aug 2002
- News
HBS Business Plan Contest Keeps Entrepreneurial Spirit Alive
track, defined as any organization whose core activities address social issues. Each winning team received $10,000 in cash as well as $10,000 in in-kind accounting and legal services to get its venture up and running. For the fourth year,... View Details
- 20 Feb 2014
- News
Managing the World’s Trouble Spots
the US, has already collected 70 million bottles. Ramase Lajan currently provides jobs and income for more than 1,500 people daily and has generated more than $460,000 in the local communities. “One of the first days, I saw a guy bring 40 pounds of plastic, and he got... View Details
Keywords: Jill Radsken
- 01 Sep 2004
- News
American Dream
turn this business into a real cash cow.” “By going to HBS, I developed the skills, confidence, and knowledge to be a good steward of this family business. I don’t know if my sons will want to work here, but I do want to provide them with... View Details
- 01 Oct 1997
- News
Class of 1997 Graduates with Distinction
van der Boor (all MBA '97). Their group developed a plan to launch Omnicom Technologies, an enhanced fax management system. A total of $50,000 in cash and in-kind services (accounting assistance from Arthur Andersen LLP and legal advice... View Details
- 01 Apr 2001
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Jimmy Lai Chee-ying: Rags, Riches, and Risk
his way up the job ladder at a garment factory, in due course becoming plant manager. By speculating in the stock market, he turned bonus money into enough cash to start his own clothes-making operation, which eventually became Giordano,... View Details
- 01 Dec 2014
- News
Instilling Production with Principles
clean out their closets and earn some cash or score discounted used clothing and lighten fashion’s carbon footprint. Revitalizing Bricks and Mortar Under the guidance of product manager Soufi Esmaeilzadeh (MBA 2010), Google Maps comes... View Details
- 01 Mar 2006
- News
The Little Ice-Cream Company That Could
restaurateur, broke, and with a wife and four young children at home, Rogers converted his aging Porsche into desperately needed cash to cinch the best deal he ever made — ownership of Dreyer’s Grand Ice Cream. It’s one of the stories... View Details
- 11 May 2017
- News
Going with the Flow
cash flow. “My father had a CPA firm and occasionally acted as an angel investor,” she says. “In all, he helped start 30 different businesses in our area. He occasionally brought my sisters and me into the businesses as a learning... View Details
Keywords: Robert S. Benchley
- 01 Dec 2019
- News
Case Study: Farming It Out
are hard to solve and take a lot of resources,” he says. The Answers: I have a classmate who had an incredible idea and could’ve started a platform to create cash flow. But the bigger he thought, the more monstrous the idea became, and... View Details
- 01 Mar 2018
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Can a Digital Platform Open Up the Opaque Metals Industry?
Chernilovskiy and Eykher, Kazzinc’s CFO, were suddenly facing an urgent need to reduce costs and improve cash flows. At the same time, they were growing acutely aware of the industry’s inequity: Miners (who produce raw materials) and... View Details
Keywords: Nicole Torres