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- 09 Apr 2019
- News
Ray Dalio: Why and How Capitalism Needs to Be Reformed
“pose an existential risk for the US.” Addressing why capitalism isn’t working, Dalio notes that the system now operates “in a way in which people and companies find it profitable to have policies and make technologies that lessen their... View Details
Keywords: capitalism
- 01 Dec 2018
- News
In My Humble Opinion: Growth Investor
students then receive 20 percent of the profits over five years in the form of scholarship funds. Late last year PD got a celebrity boost when Bobo met former Yankees star Alex Rodriguez at a Jennifer Lopez concert in Las Vegas. A-Rod and... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 01 Sep 2023
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books
Edited by Margie Kelley The Happiness Handbook By Landon Carter (MBA 1967) Marshall and McClintic Publishing Have you ever wished you had the instruction manual for being a happy human on planet Earth? This book will answer some of life’s fundamental questions: Who am... 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
- 24 May 2017
- News
David G. Bradley, MBA 1977
“The irony was that the thing ruining journalism—the Internet— came to our rescue,” says Bradley, who built an online presence that was profitable and complemented the print version, without sacrificing the quality and relevance that... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 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
- 12 Nov 2021
- News
Alumni Business Leaders on Confronting the Climate Change Challenge
margin provides cash for more R&D, and profits for market reception and possible capital market access. In essence, this is a competitive response to the market and demand for more climate-friendly products. Consumers will drive this, of... View Details
- 16 Aug 2018
- News
Working with a Giver’s Spirit
re-investment has been the hallmark of his entire career. “When I applied to HBS, I was a TV reporter,” Ayala says. “I wanted to figure out how media can generate more profit and then therefore plow more money back into really useful... View Details
Keywords: Constantine von Hoffman
- 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
- 23 Jun 2023
- News
Highlights from the Spring 2023 Alumni Board Meeting
Harvard Climate Action Week. During this past year, HBS has also hosted virtual programs on timely topics, including: Balancing Profitability and Social Accountability, with Deborah L. Spar, Jaime and Josefina Chua Tiampo Professor of... View Details
- 01 Sep 2023
- News
End Game
Illustration by James Steinberg In the 1960s and 1970s, as the environmental movement dawned in the United States, a new generation of activist-minded entrepreneurs appeared. Among them were companies like Body Shop, Aveda, Tom’s of Maine, and Whole Foods—all founded... View Details
- 04 Feb 2021
- News
Andy Jassy Named Amazon’s New CEO
Amazon announced this week that Andy Jassy (MBA 1997) will take over the role of CEO from founder Jeff Bezos later this year. Jassy has been with Amazon since 1997 and currently runs Amazon Web Services, which the Wall Street Journal notes is one of the company’s... View Details
- 01 Sep 2023
- News
The Exchange: Where Ethics Meet Economics
Max Bazerman and Mike Luca (Image by John Ritter) What makes people behave the way they do—and to what degree are design choices influencing that? Associate Professor Mike Luca studies the design of online platforms, while Professor Max Bazerman’s work focuses on... View Details
- 01 Aug 1998
- News
High Honors
America, Boys and Girls Clubs of America, and the United Way. She has also encouraged good citizenship at Maxwell House, initiating its community home-building effort last year in partnership with Habitat for Humanity. Not only have Maxwell House's View Details
- 01 Mar 2023
- News
Step Change
more work to be done. He also notes that Thndr’s valuation was 5.7 times higher in the round following Enan’s investment (one made as managing director at Global Ventures), demonstrating that impact and profit aren’t mutually exclusive.... View Details
- 01 Dec 2009
- News
One Man Crime Wave
development backed by the rich villain. Indeed, in many of the McGee books, Travis acts as a righter of financial wrongs, achieving justice and repayment (or payback) in often unorthodox ways. MacDonald always understood that America’s driving force, the View Details
- 25 Aug 2022
- News
Up on the Corner
that her example will encourage other developers to see communities like Southwest Baltimore as places where they can generate profits while making change. “Sometimes,” she observes, “it’s about taking the risk of coming in and building... View Details
- 12 Feb 2021
- News
How Dunkin’ Donuts Took Over the World
300 shops. Earnings had grown from $100,000 pretax profits to $800,000 pre-tax profits. And in order to satisfy my dad, decided to have a public offering in 1968, which was quite successful. We were the third company to go public in the... View Details
Keywords: brands; leadership; management; strategy; operations; career; Food and Beverage Stores; Retail Trade
- 01 Mar 2018
- News
Every Trick in the Book
with some as large as 9,000 square feet, each stocking as many as 25,000 titles. BookHampton owner Carolyn Brody offers just a small selection of games and knickknacks—which offer higher profit margins than books do. “I want this to be a... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 01 Mar 2014
- News
Generation Next
not exist previously—a year after the project ended. Today, he is CEO and managing director of Godrej Consumer Products, the group's largest and most profitable company. Godrej consultant Nathani-Menzies calls the hire "revolutionary for... View Details