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  • 13 Feb 2015
  • News

Lessons in Perseverance

business skills, but the profits go to underwrite scholarships at Deza’s high school in a poor, mountainous region in Peru. “I have such a passion for being a catalyst so others can flourish,” she said. A glimpse of Deza’s style could be... View Details
Keywords: Tyler Bridges; Elementary and Secondary Schools; Educational Services
  • 01 Mar 2014
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Cutting Edge

the original recipe, and shunned artificial colors and flavors to appeal to an increasingly health-conscious public. A new ad campaign touting all this won a Clio Award. The result? Those $6 million of losses became $25 million in profits... View Details
Keywords: Manufacturing; Food and Beverage Stores; Retail Trade
  • 19 May 2023
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Quiet Acceleration

Tesla introduced manufacturing efficiencies that helped deliver 15 consecutive profitable quarters and generated $22 billion in available capital. Last year, the company’s operating margin was 16.8 percent, substantially higher than its... View Details
Keywords: financial management; auto manufacturing; supply chairn management; leadership; Tesla; Transportation Equipment Manufacturing; Manufacturing
  • 02 May 2016
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Building Startup Skills for Business and Life

Bill Daugherty (MBA 1991) believes in the power of entrepreneurship—not just to launch successful businesses, but also to jump-start successful lives. After selling his profitable Internet search company in 2004, Daugherty created a... View Details
  • 01 Dec 2020
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Steady as She Goes

for the community was a profitable strategy: The company saw a 7.1 percent year-over-year increase in retail profits for the fiscal year that ended in June. Weckert isn’t going to predict that the coming... View Details
Keywords: April White; COVID-19; change management; leadership; women; grocery stores; Food and Beverage Stores; Retail Trade
  • 01 Oct 1996
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"Service-Profit Chain" Links Members of Service Management Unit

The following article is the sixth in a series on the activities and research taking place in each academic unit at HBS. Why was Southwest Airlines the only U.S. airline to realize a profit in 1992? What has made crime in New York City... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
  • 08 May 2015
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An alternative view of the role of the corporation in society

“In addition, corporations are not a homogenous group, as the theories of profit maximization assume; not all corporations have the same role in society, and many of the largest corporations have more of their activities put to the test... View Details
  • 01 Jan 2002
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Raymond V. Gilmartin (MBA '68)

not for profits. He also said that if we remember this ethic, profits will never fail to appear." A life-size sculpture in the lobby of Merck's headquarters in Whitehouse Station, New Jersey, of two figures-a boy leading a blind man with... View Details
  • 01 Mar 2007
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Private Equity under Investigation

efficiency of capital markets, the opaqueness of the groups’ operations, and the abuse of inside information. It is hard not to feel that history is repeating itself. For not only is this investigation sure to fatten the profit pools of... View Details
Keywords: Josh Lerner; syndication; antitrust enforcement; Funds, Trusts, and Other Financial Vehicles; Finance
  • 02 Aug 2017
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The Atlantic Finds a New Home

encompasses websites (such as Quartz, which he will keep) and an events business, among other concerns. The process took years, and was not without its rough spots, although today the company reportedly generates profits well above $10... View Details
  • 01 Oct 1998
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Beyond the Numbers

one moderately successful product — Stove Top stuffing mix. " Armed with this information, he quickly advised the firm to refocus its efforts on acquiring established but undermarketed concerns, which eventually led to GF's profitable... View Details
Keywords: Eileen K. McCluskey
  • 01 Jun 2007
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KPMG for Mayor!

or nonprofit must demonstrate to its shareholders or donors that it can perform efficiently. To state the obvious, companies must make money. How could running a local government be a profitable enterprise? In a word: taxes. Voters in... View Details
Keywords: Eric Werker; Executive, Legislative, and Other General Government Support; Government
  • 12 May 2016
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What Ernest Shackleton has in common with Jeff Bezos and Elon Musk

world to move on from its modern energy sources the way that it once moved on from whale oil. Entrepreneurs like Bezos and Musk, whom I admire for their creativity and initiative, want to profit from launching satellites and providing... View Details
  • 18 Apr 2011
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Capitalism Meets Conservation

Adams: A market-based solution to conservation. Warren Adams (MBA ’95) is making conservation a profitable business in Patagonia. Adams, who sold his pioneering social networking startup PlanetAll to Amazon for $100 million in stock in... View Details
Keywords: Accommodation; Hospitality; Religious, Grantmaking, Civic, Professional, and Similar Organizations; Personal Services
  • 01 Jun 2008
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Alumni Books

knowledgeable ambassadors armed with cost-saving solutions customers will be happy to pay for. His method involves “value creation selling,” that is, reconfiguring a sales force’s orientation toward customers’ profitability before its own... View Details
Keywords: Management
  • 01 Jun 2010
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Alumni Books

designing a new model and developing it into a profitable and thriving enterprise. The Loudest Duck: Moving Beyond Diversity while Embracing Differences to Achieve Success at Work by Laura Liswood (MBA ’76) (Wiley) This book takes its... View Details
Keywords: mathematics; statistics; Finance
  • 01 Jan 2004
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Minoru Makihara, 75th AMP, 1977

question. Japan's reliance on industrial policy had already triggered a backlash in the United States with cries of unfair trade practices. With its emphasis on size and dominant market share, Mitsubishi Corporation may have topped the Fortune charts, but View Details
  • 24 Apr 2014
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Leading a battle against corruption, a force that slows economic development

efforts are having a real impact, with fewer allegations of corruption appearing in the media. Companies with low anti-corruption efforts, while enjoying faster sales growth in corrupt markets, have lower profit margins and return on... View Details
  • 01 Sep 2003
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Jackie Adams

competitors, and all three organizations saw news as a public trust. But by the mid-1980s, the networks had become divisions of large corporations, and profitability and entertainment value took center stage.” She notes that the advent of... View Details
Keywords: James E. Aisner; journalism; News, Library, Internet, and Other Services; Information
  • 07 Sep 2016
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Appreciating the Big Role of Small Business

and Royce Yudkoff are leading the course Financial Management of Smaller Firms, in which students learn how to identify, acquire, and run small firms. This popular class has led to a shift in mindset, helping HBS MBAs see new opportunities for innovation and growth,... View Details
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