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- 01 Dec 2013
- News
Alumni News | Book Briefs
and consulting for thousands of the world's top executives, investors, and venture capitalists, the authors explain the next phase of the Digital Revolution to a wider audience: how to position firms to profit in this new era of... View Details
- 01 Sep 2020
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for September 2020
this growth is inevitable as the divide between man and machine blurs. Hot Stocks: Investing for Impact and Profit in a Warming World by James Ellman (MBA 1994) Rowman & Littlefield The world is warming, our portfolios will have to adapt,... View Details
- 01 Dec 2011
- News
Li & Fung's Global Footprint
and our profit centers to be as flexible as the small companies they’re competing against. So that led to a system where we operate more like a partnership than a very structured, bureaucratic company. It’s a very flat organization where... View Details
- 01 Dec 2017
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for December 2017
work done in the modern organization is less and less about looking inward and creating strong teams inside the company, and more about teaming across boundaries that often are in flux. Profits and Sustainability: A History of Green... View Details
- 01 Jun 1997
- News
Taylor R. M. Keen
environmental improvement efforts. Encouraged by Mankiller, he applied to Harvard as a joint degree candidate at both HBS and the Kennedy School of Government, but deferred admission for a year to help the Omahas reinvest profits from the... View Details
Keywords: Marguerite Rigoglioso
- 01 Sep 2007
- News
How to Take a Stand On UBS and Climate Change
if an NGO or activist organization like Greenpeace wants to reward the companies that contribute to the greater good, it won’t know how to ‘read’ this company,” he observes. “To send credible signals to the public, you need to do things that are about more than simple... View Details
- 01 Oct 1996
- News
Tedlow on Tires and the Meaning of Life
not want to confront, because these tires greatly diminished the need for replacements. And since the replacement market was the only place they could make money, this meant the end of profitability unless there was a fundamental change... View Details
- 01 Jun 2023
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books
Edited by Margie Kelley Alumni Books The Boxer of Quirinal By John Barr (MBA 1972) Red Hen Press All animals struggle to survive. In John Barr’s poems, the success of the heron hunting, the albatross breeding, the inchworm spinning give proof of life. But for us that... View Details
- 01 Mar 2014
- News
Ask the Expert: Taxing Questions
revenue-neutral reform: A much-reduced rate, to facilitate US domestic investment and discourage transfer pricing games. A transition to a territorial regime of taxation with only US-earned profits subject to taxation and foreign... View Details
- 27 Jul 2017
- News
Seeing a Way Forward
opportunities,” Leger says. “I believe the idea that there is an inevitable tradeoff between profit and impact is fundamentally flawed and can be challenged through innovative social enterprises that will tackle markets and needs... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Myers
- 11 Dec 2017
- News
Growing from Within
locations in the US, and counts consumer experience, increased sales, and sustainable profits among his charges. We asked him about the pros of corporate ownership, the data that drives his strategy, and—naturally—his regular order.... View Details
- 01 Dec 2009
- News
Taking the Plunge
“It took around fifteen years for the Washlet to take off in Japan, so you can argue that the same will be true in the United States, where it was introduced about ten years ago. On the one hand, it makes sense to persevere. On the other hand, why bother? TOTO is... View Details
- 01 Dec 2022
- News
December 2022 Alumni and Faculty Books and Podcasts
current and aspiring leader to reach their full, authentic potential. Purpose and Profit: How Business Can Lift Up the World By George Serafeim, the Charles M. Williams Professor of Business Administration Harper Collins Leadership Are purpose and View Details
- 01 Dec 2005
- News
The Deleterious Effects of Dirty Money
realistic to expect other people to follow his example? Why not? You can do business all around the world abiding by the laws of other countries. It’s when we want to maximize the profit on every single transaction that we get into... View Details
- 01 Apr 1998
- News
Plunging Into the Net
profit. At this stage, however, profit is not the point. "Ultimately, we're talking about a change in the economy, in the way businesses organize themselves, and in the way customers access services," says Rayport. The HBS Bulletin... View Details
- 01 Jun 2008
- News
The $4 Billion Question
It’s no secret that private equity firms have enjoyed massive profits in recent years. In Private Equity Finance, a course in the second-year MBA elective curriculum, students follow the life cycle of a deal in order to learn more about... View Details
- 01 Oct 2001
- News
HBS Press Books in Brief
what loyalty means or how to build it. Reichheld, author of the 1996 bestseller The Loyalty Effect, outlines six principles of loyalty that can make the Internet a hospitable and highly profitable place for businesses to succeed. 20/20... View Details
- 01 Jun 2002
- News
Steven Murch: Philanthropist-in-Training
and recently created PocketShop, a grocery shopping list program for the Pocket PC. Available at www.sdmventures.com, Murch notes that all profits will go to Habitat and the World Wildlife Fund. Working with Habitat, observes Murch, “has... View Details
- 01 Jun 2010
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Green Dreams: Eco-Friendly Countertops
recession as feeling “like someone turned off the faucet” in construction. Still, Magagnini hopes IceStone can break even this year and turn a profit next year. The green building market is with her: McGraw-Hill Construction projects it... View Details
- 10 Jan 2017
- News
Paying It Forward
“People find us because everyone has the same problem,” says Malay Kundu (MBA 2003) of his company, StopLift, which is using software and video technology to stop massive losses in retail profits due to theft and checkout fraud. “Retail... View Details