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- 01 Jun 1999
- News
Short Takes
familiar business imperative of creating value. "A firm that delivers cash to shareholders only by selling off assets is not sustainable," he says, "and neither is a firm that creates accounting profits only by liquidating natural capital... View Details
Keywords: Judith A. Ross
- 01 Sep 2009
- News
Ready for Launch
that provides incentives to employees while generating profits and growth.” The plan: Rechargeable batteries are a safe, clean, affordable energy source. Each battery has the size and weight of a brick and can be delivered directly to... View Details
- 01 Jun 2007
- News
Delta’s Flight from Bankruptcy
aspiration has been very clear: We will be the most profitable airline in the United States,” said Whitehurst, who media reports speculate is one of the senior Delta executives currently under consideration to be its next CEO. View Details
- 01 Dec 2005
- News
Faculty Books
bare compliance with regulations, do firms have additional social responsibilities to commit resources to environmental protection? Should firms sacrifice profits in the social interest, given their fiduciary responsibilities to... View Details
- 01 Sep 2008
- News
Faculty Books
Service Profit Chain to Work for Unbeatable Competitive Advantage by James L. Heskett, W. Earl Sasser, and Joe Wheeler (Harvard Business Press) The authors extend their earlier idea of a service-profit chain improving performance to... View Details
- 01 Apr 2001
- News
Books: A Nation Transformed by Information
open systems or licensing agreements. Their actions stimulated entire industries and innumerable start-ups that would further facilitate and propagate the flow of information. Americans, the editors conclude, “have demonstrated a clear penchant to develop, exploit,... View Details
Keywords: Information
- 26 Oct 2017
- News
Can Farming Save the Planet?
who have decades of experience in both organic and conventional farming, directly manage the farmland they convert. The organization uses a profit-sharing model, giving all participants––partners, operators, and management alike––a stake in the View Details
- 01 Jun 2014
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for June 2014
and finding practical ways to improve the coordination between sales and other functions required for profitable growth. Teaming to Innovate by Amy C. Edmondson (Jossey-Bass) This book brings together insights on teaming in innovation.... View Details
- 01 Dec 2011
- News
Li & Fung's Global Footprint
and our profit centers to be as flexible as the small companies they’re competing against. So that led to a system where we operate more like a partnership than a very structured, bureaucratic company. It’s a very flat organization where... View Details
- 01 Jun 1997
- News
Taylor R. M. Keen
environmental improvement efforts. Encouraged by Mankiller, he applied to Harvard as a joint degree candidate at both HBS and the Kennedy School of Government, but deferred admission for a year to help the Omahas reinvest profits from the... View Details
Keywords: Marguerite Rigoglioso
- 01 Sep 2007
- News
How to Take a Stand On UBS and Climate Change
if an NGO or activist organization like Greenpeace wants to reward the companies that contribute to the greater good, it won’t know how to ‘read’ this company,” he observes. “To send credible signals to the public, you need to do things that are about more than simple... View Details
- 15 Oct 2024
- News
Ratan Tata, Visionary Business Leader, Dies at 86
Ratan Tata (AMP 71, 1975), who was one of India’s most admired leaders, died on October 9, in Mumbai. The Tata Group announced his death in a statement. He served as chairman and chief executive of the Tata Group from 1991 to 2012, during which time profits multiplied... View Details
- 11 Dec 2017
- News
Growing from Within
locations in the US, and counts consumer experience, increased sales, and sustainable profits among his charges. We asked him about the pros of corporate ownership, the data that drives his strategy, and—naturally—his regular order.... View Details
- 01 Dec 2009
- News
Taking the Plunge
“It took around fifteen years for the Washlet to take off in Japan, so you can argue that the same will be true in the United States, where it was introduced about ten years ago. On the one hand, it makes sense to persevere. On the other hand, why bother? TOTO is... View Details
- 01 Jun 2008
- News
The $4 Billion Question
It’s no secret that private equity firms have enjoyed massive profits in recent years. In Private Equity Finance, a course in the second-year MBA elective curriculum, students follow the life cycle of a deal in order to learn more about... View Details
- 01 Oct 2001
- News
HBS Press Books in Brief
what loyalty means or how to build it. Reichheld, author of the 1996 bestseller The Loyalty Effect, outlines six principles of loyalty that can make the Internet a hospitable and highly profitable place for businesses to succeed. 20/20... View Details
- 01 Jun 2002
- News
Steven Murch: Philanthropist-in-Training
and recently created PocketShop, a grocery shopping list program for the Pocket PC. Available at www.sdmventures.com, Murch notes that all profits will go to Habitat and the World Wildlife Fund. Working with Habitat, observes Murch, “has... View Details
- 01 Jun 2010
- News
Green Dreams: Eco-Friendly Countertops
recession as feeling “like someone turned off the faucet” in construction. Still, Magagnini hopes IceStone can break even this year and turn a profit next year. The green building market is with her: McGraw-Hill Construction projects it... View Details
- 06 Dec 2021
- News
Monaco's Digital Transformation
a whole. “When a company invests 1 in digital, it brings 10 to 12 in value, so in terms of taxes, it’s extremely profitable for the government to have companies transform themselves,” notes Genta. His ministry is drawing new enterprises... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie
- 01 Jun 2012
- News
What Industrial Policy?
generously subsidized (largely through the tax deductibility of mortgage interest, which stimulates demand for homes as well as loans from banks). Private equity, which enjoys a 15 percent tax rate on carried interest. (If the tax rate on View Details