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- 01 Sep 2004
- News
Promise & Perils
the local level, and typically filled rural niches for consumer goods. At their peak in the early 1990s, an estimated 19 million TVEs operated across the country. By contrast, the SOEs were controlled by various government ministries at... View Details
- 01 Jun 2006
- News
India Arrives
relatively pro-business government and an energetic young population and growing middle class that make no secret of aspiring to a better quality of life, complete with all the consumer goods such an existence entails. The downside, however, is just as apparent, with... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 01 Jun 2013
- News
Five Bright Ideas
(Maryland). REVENUE SHARING: 80 percent to school districts; 20 percent to EFP. FAST FACT: 85 percent of parents support sponsorships; 75 percent approve of naming rights. Illustration by Peter Hoey Bright Idea #4 Your Personal Learning... View Details
- 01 Sep 2017
- News
The Biggest Industry You’ve Never Heard Of
a link on the right offers Team SoloMid gear. A constant stream of fan comments races alongside the game, and on archived videos, flashy Budweiser ads periodically interrupt the action. Each month, Twitch says, more than 100 million people will log in to watch an View Details
- 28 May 2019
- News
What I Do: Gordon Medenica (MBA 1979)
lottery and gaming for the State of Maryland. A media executive earlier in his career, including 16 years at the New York Times Company, Medenica was drawn by the scale of an industry with estimated annual View Details
- 01 Mar 2017
- News
Starting Lineup: No Reservations
around the world. Blue Apron Cofounder and CEO Matt Salzberg (MBA 2010) Founded 2012 This meal-kit company delivers all the ingredients you need to make a home-cooked dinner. Reports say that the company is on track to surpass $1 billion in View Details
- 01 Sep 2016
- News
The Big Business of Little Loans
peer-to-peer (P2P) organizations—are redefining the market: In the United States, 22 percent of businesses with revenues between $100,000 and $1 million turn to online lenders for loans, and 30 percent of even smaller businesses go online... View Details
Keywords: Nancy Miller
- 01 Jun 2005
- News
New Magazine Makes Its Mark
successful to date has been the effort to sign up public libraries, with roughly 20 percent of the nation’s 9,000 libraries carrying Bookmarks. Still on the horizon is the tantalizing prospect of marketing directly to members of an View Details
- 25 Aug 2022
- News
Full Stream Ahead
high-water mark for the valuation of an individual artist’s catalog: more than $500 million, according to the New York Times. Estimates by Music Business Worldwide suggest that investors, including many of the biggest players in private... View Details
- 02 Sep 2018
- News
Havana Rising
as hard as it can be to overcome infrastructure issues, Gordon’s challenges go well beyond lemon shortages and umbrella access: She’s a first-time entrepreneur trying to build a family business in a country with an ever-shifting stance toward business—and with View Details
Keywords: Dan Morrell; photographed by Eve North
- 01 Dec 2017
- News
The Future of VR is Animated Bunnies
forecasts: According to the research firm SuperData, the sector, driven by early adopters, is on track to make $3.7 billion in revenue this year, and the firm estimates it could swell to more than $28... View Details
Keywords: Janelle Nanos
- 01 Mar 2006
- News
The Real Conflict
prices are significantly lower than its competitors. Assuming the company’s prices are 8 percent lower — at the low end of the estimates from various studies summarized in a recent report by Global Insight — and applying that to... View Details
- 17 Nov 2015
- News
Carbon Neutral
revenue for economic assistance and conversion to cleaner energy. While the group hasn’t attached an exact figure to the amount of the tax, they estimate that it should start between $30 and $40 per ton, an... View Details
Keywords: Michael Blanding
- 01 Dec 2011
- News
Knowing the Score
the ESPN galaxy. Likewise with many other behind-the-scenes stories. Since the book was to be a comprehensive history of one of the greatest media successes of all time, it required a thorough examination of the business story behind it. How did it all happen? ESPN,... View Details
- 26 May 2022
- News
Bidding Up
Paul Milgrom and Robert Wilson is key for understanding how these objectives can be reached. JH: This is how the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences introduced Bob Wilson and Paul Milgrom’s work on auction theory when it was announced they’d won the Nobel—work that has... View Details
- 01 Jun 2014
- News
Ready for Takeoff
Popular estimates that 9.5 million Brazilians took their first-ever flight between July 2011 and July 2012 alone. TAM estimates that 10.7 million flew for the first time in 2011. (It seems fitting that all... View Details
- 01 Jun 1997
- News
A Better Way to Go on Strike
W hen President Clinton imposed a cooling-down period in the American Airlines pilots' strike, he recognized that a strike would impose huge costs on those not involved in the labor dispute - from travelers and airfreight shippers to resorts in Florida and the... View Details
- 01 Mar 2016
- News
Measuring Impact
Nearly 40 percent of Harvard alumni from across all schools have founded for-profit and nonprofit organizations—launching more than 146,000 active ventures with an estimated $3.9 trillion in annual revenues... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 10 Mar 2021
- News
Action Plan: Brewing Awareness
Mumbai, Pune, Goa, and Bangalore. When the pandemic hit, White Owl went from monthly revenues of over 50 million INR to zero overnight as bars and stores shut down. In the first week, Murad estimates he... View Details
- 01 Feb 2000
- News
No Place Like Home
two-bedroom apartment rents for $1,400, considerably more than 30 percent of an average South End family's income. In Massachusetts as a whole, one recent study estimates that between 1990 and 1997, two hundred thousand more people moved... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons