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- 01 Jun 2023
- News
Buy Big, Sell Small
least 75 percent of India’s consumer goods sales despite the significant inefficiencies of an outdated business model. “Kiranas are limited-inventory, 2,000- to 5,000-square-foot shops that don’t always get on-time deliveries or access to... View Details
- 02 Nov 2022
- News
Strong Finish
investment from Sontag’s firm, Prelude Growth Partners, Sol de Janeiro’s sales more than doubled. Yang credits Sontag’s investment—and well-timed advice to invest in talent acquisition and inventory, not... View Details
- 12 Mar 2021
- News
My Favorite Case
This was my favorite case in my favorite class, Entrepreneurial Management, taught by Professor Howard Stevenson. The protagonist learned the hard way that she had to plan to manage growth and, unfortunately, her operations infrastructure... View Details
- 01 Oct 1999
- News
Banking on Success
sales and earnings. Some of these businesses will have very interesting futures; as for others - I'm not so sure. What is the best business advice you've ever received? Before I started working as a runner on Wall Street, my dad told me... View Details
Keywords: Deborah E. Blagg
- 11 Mar 2024
- News
In Harmony
down.” [break] Kim moved to the United States in 1974, at age 11, and lived with his uncle in West Orange, New Jersey, until his parents and sister joined him a year later. South Korean president Park Chung Hee, elected in 1963, brought swift economic View Details
- 01 Mar 2004
- News
Derek Ferguson
structure in place so these ventures can be financed,” he explains. Sean John Clothing has quickly grown to sales of $200 million and one hundred employees since it was launched five years ago. “It’s our most profitable area,” says... View Details
- 01 Jan 2013
- News
Joanna M. Jacobson, MBA 1987
concept lines around comfort. Jacobson and her team reversed Keds' 25 percent annual sales declines with double-digit growth in sales and profits. After a few years, the parent... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 22 Feb 2022
- News
New Urban Order
expected to grow. Those combined forces present an existential challenge—and a megalopolis-sized opportunity—for entrepreneurs. “As population growth and weather-related pressures increase, the necessity of using our existing resources... View Details
Keywords: Kathleen Fu, Deborah Blagg, Julia Hanna, and Maureen Harmon; illustrations by; energy; environment; sustainability; entrepreneurship; Transit and Ground Passenger Transportation; Transportation; Water, Sewage and Supply Systems; Utilities; Construction of Buildings; Construction; Waste Management and Remediation Services; Corporate Services
- 20 Jan 2023
- News
Free Spirits
So here’s a consumer, and probably 70 to 80 percent of the beer that she drinks is NA at this point.” The growth in the segment is encouraging, and Anheuser-Busch will remain a big player, but it’s still a small base of business,... View Details
- 01 Aug 1998
- News
High Honors
expanded into other parts of the country, added four production facilities, and saw sales top $7 million. In 1960, Barford sold his share of the business to his partners and returned home with his family to Toronto. The following year, he... View Details
- 01 Mar 2006
- News
The Real Conflict
economic pie available to be divided among its various stakeholders, instead of just slicing up a fixed pie in a way that favors one group over another. Consider, for example, the conclusions of the McKinsey Global Institute’s study of U.S. labor productivity View Details
- 01 Mar 2008
- News
HBS Records an “Excellent” Year
$9 million on the strength of higher circulation and foreign edition royalties for Harvard Business Review; growth in sales of cases, teaching materials, and HBS Press books; and expansion of HBSP’s... View Details
- 06 Apr 2016
- News
Raising a Glass to Life-Long Entrepreneurship
make a sales call. I didn’t know how to negotiate a real estate lease. I didn’t know how to set up a payroll. I had no idea how to interview and hire the right people. These are all really important business skills. Photo courtesy of... View Details
- 01 Mar 2010
- News
Faculty Research Online
weighs the benefits and opportunities for entrepreneurs and for society. “Right now, the field is wide open,” he says. See http://hbswk.hbs.edu/item/6333.html. Tracks of My Tears: Reconstructing Digital Music Record labels have depended on album View Details
- 01 Dec 2003
- News
Can Manufacturing Keep Its Edge?
levels of productivity. At 5.4 percent, 2002 saw the biggest annual gain in productivity growth since 1950. Like many consumers, companies are tightening their belts and doing more with less in an effort to survive, and thrive, at a time... View Details
- 01 Mar 2018
- News
Case Study: On the Record
Above: photo by Sarah Frankie Linder Vinyl is back. The once-anachronistic segment of the music industry was on target for its seventh straight year of double-digit growth in 2017, according to a Deloitte Global forecast, selling an... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 01 Jun 2003
- News
Alumni Bookshelf
How to Grow When Markets Don't by Adrian Slywotzky (MBA '80) and Richard Wise (Warner Books) Slywotzky brings his expertise in global strategy consulting to his sixth book, which examines the difficulties of sustainable growth and offers... View Details
- 01 Jun 1997
- News
New Releases
orientation may allow important innovations to languish, leaving a void that more entrepreneurial companies in the same field may successfully fill. While keeping close to customers may be critical for short-term success, Christensen says, long-term View Details
- 19 Jan 2017
- News
Finding Purpose in Profit
like a win-win for both parties. [An HBS Bulletin article in 2007 gave a detailed accounting of GoLite’s founding and eventual trademark sale to Timberland.] Yet it was not to be. The following year, as the Great Recession began to take... View Details
- 01 Mar 2007
- News
HBS Issues Upbeat 2006 Annual Report
As a business, HBS had a banner year in fiscal 2006. Demand for the School’s Executive Education programs was up, sales of cases and other print products grew, the MBA Program attained a 91 percent admissions yield, and total revenue... View Details