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- 06 Dec 2021
- News
Tipping Point
Kenyan coffee farm. The price of coffee beans on the global market is under $1 a pound, while the actual cost to produce that pound is between $1.62 and $2. The coffee farms are profitable only when they rely on free labor, typically from... View Details
- 10 Mar 2021
- News
In My Humble Opinion: A Timely Tension
expands Patagonia’s business in the rapidly growing and increasingly profitable used-clothing market, which can cut the carbon, waste, and water footprint of a purchase by 82 percent. “Imagine if used Patagonia products become the... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 01 Sep 2009
- News
Alumni Books
which you will reach your destination. ‘Start with the answer’ and work your way back to the solution.” More Mortgage Meltdown: 6 Ways to Profit in These Bad Times by Whitney Tilson (MBA ’94) and Glenn Tongue (Wiley) The authors explain... View Details
- 01 Apr 1998
- News
Going For The Summit
Dozens of blue-chip advertisers have flocked to the site; according to Carpenter, iVillage may be the only private content company with more than $1 million a month in revenue. Although the company is not yet operating in the black, she expects it to become View Details
Keywords: Caroline Chauncey
- 27 Mar 2023
- News
A Sporting Chance
required him to call on the soft skills he learned at HBS. "The people there are not profit driven or bonus driven; they are in life to help people and give back to society," he says. His goals for the foundation are to grow it to the... View Details
Keywords: Ralph Ranalli
- 01 Feb 2002
- News
Telling the Electronic Century's Unfinished Story
capabilities and learning in areas such as marketing, production, and distribution. This is what I call a "virtuous strategy," which basically means that the learning and profits from an early innovation are then applied to the next one.... View Details
- 01 Jun 2010
- News
$how Me the Money
any profit on the sale, no taxes are owed. The dummy corporation in the tax haven then sells the copiers to another subsidiary in country C, at a price of $2,000 each. Now the company in country A is making a View Details
- 25 Aug 2022
- News
On Purpose
They aren’t motivated by pay alone. The same is true for investors. HBS professor Ranjay Gulati says that today’s stakeholders expect companies to reflect their values “to the degree that pursuing profits without concern for purpose is no... View Details
- 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
- 01 Mar 2007
- News
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
- 08 May 2015
- News
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 Mar 2014
- News
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
- 12 May 2016
- News
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
- 01 Jan 2004
- News
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
- 01 Jan 2002
- News
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
- 24 Apr 2014
- News
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 Oct 1998
- News
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
- News
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
- 01 Oct 2000
- News
Q & A: Bain & Company's Thomas J. Tierney
levels in the nonprofit sector have been well below those of the for-profit sector; and second, for-profit executives have undervalued the skills and achievements of their nonprofit counterparts, thereby making migration into the profit... View Details
- 01 Aug 2001
- News
Cleveland Global Alumni Conference a Sold-Out Success
Potentia Pharmaceuticals, winner of this year's HBS Business Plan Contest (see pages 6-7). When creating a successful venture, said Hart, basics such as scalability, sustainability, adaptability, and profitability are key components of... View Details