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- 01 Jun 2011
- News
All in Good Time
percentage of revenues as well. Potential employees can post their résumé and use the Mom Corps job bank at no charge; they can also pay a fee to have their résumé revamped. The challenge of maintaining Mom Corps’ sense of identity and... View Details
- 01 Sep 2013
- News
Who Are We?
says of conventional farming. Instead, he rebalances the soil's content naturally, adding crushed rock that includes calcium, magnesium, and other essential minerals while letting cow manure, and Mother Nature, do the rest. "When people ask me how many View Details
- 19 Dec 2016
- News
Harvard Students Help Mom-and-Pop Shops Get off the Ground
situation when you’re sitting and meeting with a small business owner and an employee walks out of the door and the owner has to go into the kitchen and work the grill.” Students from the class have worked with about a dozen small... View Details
Keywords: retail
- 01 Sep 2011
- News
Capitalism’s False Mantra
Related Links Martin discussing his book One of the most influential papers defining the role of business, “Theory of the Firm: Managerial Behavior, Agency Costs and Ownership Structure,” was coauthored in 1976 by Michael Jensen, the... View Details
- 01 Mar 2009
- News
More Alumni Books
Biography of William Treat (MBA ’47 Feb.) by Merle Drown (Hobblebush Books) Local Heroes: How Loch Fyne Oysters Embraced Employee Ownership and Business Success by David Erdal (MBA ’81) (Viking) High-Powered... View Details
- 01 Aug 2001
- News
William F. Connell (MBA '63)
group, Connell gained 85 percent ownership of the industrial companies with a leveraged buyout that created the Connell Limited Partnership. Last year, the four firms remaining in the Partnership accounted for revenues of more than $1... View Details
- 07 Aug 2019
- News
“The Star of the North”
closely held businesses. And they want to grow them right where they are. The firm was founded by a group of 12 family business owners who were interested in creating a local ownership vehicle for retiring business owners. Generally,... View Details
Keywords: Maureen Harmon
- 01 Jun 2006
- News
India Arrives
growth — exceeding 9 percent for the past three years — China sends a clear message to the world of progress and power. The country’s singular focus on economic development has been shaped by top-down government control that extends into View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 01 Sep 2008
- News
Alumni Books
demonstrates the benefits of affiliating a business with charities and nonprofits. They include an increase in the bottom line and employee morale as well as a boost to the company’s brand and reputation. Plugged In: The Generation Y... View Details
- 01 Dec 2006
- News
Enron’s Legacy
If Enron had been owned and controlled by a small group of private-equity investors, could the monitoring and control practices of a professionally run buyout shop have protected Enron’s shareholders and employees from the problems that... View Details
- 01 Dec 2014
- News
Case Study: Growing the Family Business
centers profitable more quickly. — Bob Poulin (MBA 1985) The premium in the hourly rates is well deserved, but you are giving too much value away by not covering fixed/setup costs. I believe the source of funds to finance the expansion is in your pricing model. Using... View Details
- 01 Mar 2009
- News
Model Patient
Individuals who fail to purchase coverage are penalized up to $912 on their taxes; companies with more than eleven employees must pay the state $295 per year per employee if they don’t offer their workers a... View Details
- 01 Feb 2000
- News
Executives Convene to Discuss Consumer-Driven Health Care
employees, rapidly rising health-care costs, and the likely loss of existing protection against lawsuits for pain and suffering from medical events. She then disclosed the results of a 1999 KPMG survey of CEOs and consumers about consumer-driven health care. The firm... 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
- 01 Sep 2010
- News
Letters to the Editor
business administration cannot change the world. The recourse I see is to establish a level of supervision above the corporate world, either private sector or government. Of the two, only government is susceptible to opinion of mere citizens. The SEC could require that... View Details
- 09 Sep 2024
- News
Basket Chase
the way, you’ll have a significant piece of ownership, and that group of search investors will be your partners. That’s the funded search. RR: And the downside of that is that they take a lot of the ownership for themselves. The... View Details
- 01 Sep 2016
- News
The Taxi Wars of Jakarta
on-demand business model. Its success was linked to the proliferation of smartphones in the United States, which made quickly ordering a car to the user’s location possible. A similar trend was emerging in Jakarta. That rapid growth of internet- ready cell phone View Details
- 01 Dec 2015
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for December 2015
ultracompetitive business world, the difference between success and failure lies in the ability to get every employee to think and behave like a strategist. This book helps business leaders expand strategic thinking from the purview of... View Details
- 13 Sep 2019
- News
Hollywood Ending
least for very long. For the last 14 months she has been running circles around Hollywood, since signing on as employee number one of a startup called Quibi. After devoting the previous two decades to Silicon Valley’s Fortune 500... View Details
- 15 Dec 2024
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books
three-part framework, employees at all levels can embed fairness into their everyday practices. Believing in equal opportunity is essential—but it isn’t enough. Offering an evidence-based blueprint, Make Work Fair shows you how to make it... View Details