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- 01 Dec 2004
- News
Ideas: Faculty Research Online
new book, Implementing E-Commerce Strategies: A Guide to Corporate Success after the Dot.Com Bust, shows how to put appropriate metrics to work to measure performance. IBM Finds Profit in Diversity Former IBM CEO Lou Gerstner (MBA ’65)... View Details
- 22 Sep 2017
- News
The Epicenter of Miami’s Vice
Farzad: You have to imagine—we talk about gross margins and profit margins. And in a business, you're happy to clear double digit margins. If you had a connection in Colombia or Peru or Bolivia and you could get your mitts on a hook up of... View Details
- 01 Sep 2007
- News
Riding It Out
necessary capital to launch and expand the business, with the first (raised during the Internet’s heyday) coming much more easily than the second. “When we launched the product, we were operating at a negative gross profit margin,”... View Details
- 02 May 2023
- News
Banking’s Regular Rescuer
boost the bank's profits by $500 million this year and will give it access to many wealthy clients. While some observers raise concerns about the ever-growing reach of JPMorgan, others see the bank and its CEO serving the public good.... View Details
- 25 Oct 2019
- News
Jane Fraser Named President of Citigroup
faces—the Wall Street Journal notes that Fraser “takes over a unit that accounts for roughly half of the bank’s total revenue but whose profit lags behind its investment-banking arm.” READ MORE View Details
- 29 Apr 2025
- News
Challenge Accepted
most profitable telco ever in Europe. JH: How did you do that? Was it just inspiring people? How did you get everyone to work 300 percent of what they could do? VC: I think it was a combination of two things. On one hand, people need to... View Details
- 28 May 2019
- News
A More Perfect Union
exert pressure on Washington to support reform, and educating the public for new laws to increase disclosure and accountability, as well as ending the pay-to-play culture in DC. J.B. Lyon (MBA 1996), founding board member New Profit is a... View Details
- 05 Feb 2019
- News
Protecting the Power Grid
infrastructure protection. “In BGIE, we saw the corrosive societal impacts of self-dealing, within industries and within government bodies,” Popik observes. The Resilient Societies mission statement states that the profit incentive alone,... View Details
- 17 May 2018
- News
Creating Opportunity for Indian Entrepreneurs
have 50 Rupees (75 cents in today’s US dollars, about $1 at the time) for her monthly rent. Following her I Create training, and with 500 Rupees in capital in her pocket, Parmar started a small security agency in Vadodara that today employs 60 people and makes an... View Details
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- 01 Dec 2009
- News
Robert Goodwin
understand how best to utilize their talents to make a difference. We help companies find ways to become more profitable in socially responsible ways. If a company is seeking ways to invest in a community it operates in, we can find... View Details
- 01 Sep 2003
- News
Globalization Revisited
should become “global” by standardizing the production, distribution, and marketing of their products across all countries. Sameness meant efficiency and would be more profitable than difference. From economies of scale would flow... View Details
- 24 Apr 2014
- News
A commitment to conservation supports the bottom line
Protecting the country’s conservation land while also turning a profit guides the business model at The Lyme Timber Company. David Hoffer (AB 1990, MBA 1995, JD 1996), managing director at the timberland investment management firm, says... View Details
- 24 Apr 2014
- News
Leading in business and in public education
saving it from bankruptcy and building a profitable business. Numerous nonprofits also have benefitted from his leadership, including the Wildlife Conservation Society, the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee, and the City Parks... View Details
- 01 Jun 2003
- News
Against All Odds
never accomplished by any other European country, despite 150 years of trying). If it sounds almost as difficult as bringing a profitable drug to market, maybe that’s why Ernesto Bertarelli (MBA ’93), CEO of the Swiss biotech company... 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
- 30 Jul 2019
- News
Turning Around Tesco
£6.4 billion in losses, the largest ever experienced by a British retailer. David Lewis (AMP 161, 2001) arrived on the scene as Tesco’s new CEO in the wake of that dark moment; many now credit him for returning the company to View Details
- 19 May 2023
- News
Quiet Acceleration
Tesla introduced manufacturing efficiencies that helped deliver 15 consecutive profitable quarters and generated $22 billion in available capital. Last year, the company’s operating margin was 16.8 percent, substantially higher than its... View Details
- 02 May 2016
- News
Building Startup Skills for Business and Life
Bill Daugherty (MBA 1991) believes in the power of entrepreneurship—not just to launch successful businesses, but also to jump-start successful lives. After selling his profitable Internet search company in 2004, Daugherty created a... View Details
- 01 Mar 2007
- News
Daniel Vasella
which account for between 15 and 18 percent of the overall health-care costs. The big item is hospital costs. Even if you take away all profits from the pharmaceutical industry, you could lower overall health-care costs by maybe 3 percent... View Details