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- 06 Sep 2016
- News
The Solution That Doesn’t Get Discussed About How to Get More Women On Corporate Boards
board search is a loss leader for building the connections and relationships needed to support the traditional search firm’s primary revenue stream. We designed Trewstar not to compete with or disrupt the search firm industry, but to fill... View Details
- 01 Dec 2014
- News
Case Study: Growing the Family Business
longer subscriptions to use the service. This becomes deferred revenue and gets recognized as it’s used, but the cash flow is up front. — Gary Ambrosino (MBA 1988) Got a case? To take part in a future "Case Study," send an outline of your... View Details
- 01 Jan 2011
- News
Robert Kraft, MBA 1965
Bowls 2010 Launches "Kick Cancer" season-long campaign In 1994, Robert Kraft paid a record amount — $172 million — for one of the worst football teams in the NFL. The New England Patriots had lost 36 of their last 50 games and had the lowest View Details
- 01 Dec 2005
- News
Style Check
1993, has seen the Benetton Group’s share price and revenues decline in recent years. (Only 4 percent of the company’s revenues come from the Americas, while 85 percent are from Europe.) “The company is my... View Details
- 15 Jan 2020
- News
The Business of Access
take Lisle’s business know-how—she had led revenue generation and growth opportunities in the private sector at companies like Oracle, Zefer, and Wellbourne International—and apply it to nonprofits rooted in the social services. The... View Details
Keywords: Maureen Harmon
- 12 Feb 2016
- News
Creating Common Ground in Communities of Conflict
helped create tens of thousands of products representing more than 150 countries. The designers share in the revenues and the company offers literacy programming to its manufacturers. “For me, what I wanted to do the most is question how... View Details
Keywords: Jill Radsken
- 01 Mar 2004
- News
The Weather Channel Forecast: Challenges Ahead
for example, snowblowers for blizzards or air conditioners for heat waves. If it proves successful, company officials forecast sunny revenue growth ahead. View Details
- 01 Apr 1997
- News
Facing the Music
record industry, 1996 was a bluesy kind of year. As revenues increased less than 1 percent and consumers bought 8 percent fewer CDs and cassettes compared to the previous year, the pause button, it seems, was hit on a decade of... View Details
Keywords: Marguerite Rigoglioso
- 03 Mar 2017
- News
Big Blue’s Big Bet
that will reimagine health and other fields for decades more. Revenues at IBM have been in the red since 2012, yet analysts have pointed to Watson as the engine that can revitalize the company—as the potential through-line that will touch... View Details
Keywords: Paul Kix; illustrations by Dan Page
- 01 Oct 2000
- News
Laura Scher of Working Assets
Laura S. Scher (MBA '85) is something of a modern-day Robin Hood, an entrepreneurial activist who redistributes the wealth of the marketplace to those in need. Through her company, San Francisco based Working Assets Funding Service, this CEO and crusader for social... View Details
Keywords: Marguerite Rigoglioso
- 01 Feb 2001
- News
The Doctor Is In
Dr. Peter L. Slavin (MBA '90) nods toward a long line stretching back from a gourmet coffee counter. "That's one of our most utilized facilities," he says with a smile. "The joke around here is that the hospital operation is a loss leader for the coffee shop and the... View Details
- 15 Dec 2024
- News
After Ozempic
annually by 2030, according to the Financial Times. As GLP-1 revenues have soared, the foundation has been able to direct millions toward efforts to improve the treatment of diabetes. It recently committed $4.7 billion to Alzheimer’s... View Details
- 01 Oct 2001
- News
Q&A: Orin Smith
in 2000, when Schultz positioned himself as the company's chief global strategist. Revenues for 2000 reached $2.2 billion, while quarterly reports for fiscal 2001 are already exceeding last year's record performance. Smith spoke to the... View Details
- 01 Sep 2007
- News
Riding It Out
the company’s revenues have increased by leaps and bounds. But the melamine pet food scare last spring could have ruined everything. The bad news came to a place it shouldn’t: Disney World. It was during one of the few vacations that Paal... View Details
- 01 Dec 2016
- News
Alumni Leading Change
earned approximately $1.5 billion in revenue in 2015 from serving top brands, including Hugo Boss, Nautica, and Ralph Lauren. Yang is a catalyst for change in a traditional industry. As wages rise in China, many textile companies are... View Details
- 01 Feb 1997
- News
Doing It Your Way
Women's Worth New U.S. Census data reveal that women entrepreneurs are changing the face of the economy. The performance of the women's business sector in recent years has surpassed that of U.S. business overall in several major areas, including rates of new-business... View Details
- 06 Dec 2021
- News
Wheels Up
immediate concerns: the safety and mental health of daa’s 8,000-odd employees and the organization’s liquidity. “We’re a very high fixed-cost industry, so when revenues tank, you run into issues quickly,” he notes. Philips credits the... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 03 Jul 2018
- News
How a Passion for Travel Built a $43 Million Fashion Brand
things out of my garage. Because all the moms were crazy for it,” she said. Today, Tea is even more familiar, bringing in over $43 million of revenue in 2017. And it continues to look for ways to build connections and benefit the... View Details
- 01 Mar 2005
- News
A Primer on Patents
center.” Instead of subsidizing this agency, Congress wanted the PTO to generate significant revenues for the government. As a result, starting salaries for examiners fell far behind the private sector, and it became difficult to recruit... View Details
- 01 Jan 2002
- News
Raymond V. Gilmartin (MBA '68)
ability to refocus the company on its primary mission-discovering breakthrough drugs-soon earned him the respect of Wall Street, too. Between 1994 and 2001, Merck launched an unprecedented seventeen new drugs and increased revenues from... View Details