Filter Results:
(511)
Show Results For
- All HBS Web
(2,607)
- People (3)
- News (511)
- Research (1,642)
- Events (15)
- Multimedia (7)
- Faculty Publications (1,055)
Show Results For
- All HBS Web
(2,607)
- People (3)
- News (511)
- Research (1,642)
- Events (15)
- Multimedia (7)
- Faculty Publications (1,055)
Sort by
- 06 Sep 2016
- News
The Solution That Doesn’t Get Discussed About How to Get More Women On Corporate Boards
board search is a loss leader for building the connections and relationships needed to support the traditional search firm’s primary revenue stream. We designed Trewstar not to compete with or disrupt the search firm industry, but to fill... View Details
- 01 Dec 2014
- News
Case Study: Growing the Family Business
longer subscriptions to use the service. This becomes deferred revenue and gets recognized as it’s used, but the cash flow is up front. — Gary Ambrosino (MBA 1988) Got a case? To take part in a future "Case Study," send an outline of your... View Details
- 01 Jan 2011
- News
Robert Kraft, MBA 1965
Bowls 2010 Launches "Kick Cancer" season-long campaign In 1994, Robert Kraft paid a record amount — $172 million — for one of the worst football teams in the NFL. The New England Patriots had lost 36 of their last 50 games and had the lowest View Details
- 01 Jun 2020
- News
How Sports Should Use Its Timeout
yourselves out, or be just your sort of inner circle. That's some revenue. And it depends on the league, but it could vary anywhere from next to nothing to half of the revenue of that league if you're thinking more minor league. THE WAY... View Details
- 01 Mar 2023
- News
Fostering a Supportive Community
campus around people’s access to finances, although, ironically, students talk about money and profit and revenues in the classroom all the time.” Alexxis Isaac (MBA 2020) Alexxis Isaac (MBA 2020) The Socioeconomic Inclusion Task Force,... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Mele
- 15 Nov 2020
- News
Podcasts Engage New Audiences with HBS
Gifts to the HBS Fund support a wide range of people and programs like this. Professor Mike Toffel lays out the scenario: JUUL is the e-cigarette market leader—its revenue grew from $200 million to $1 billion between 2017 and 2018. But... View Details
- 01 Feb 1997
- News
Mexico on the Brink: A Conversation with Juan Enriquez-Cabot (MBA '86)
From 1988 to 1993, Juan Enriquez-Cabot was CEO of SERVIMET, a for-profit urban development entity of the Mexico City government which grew 4,000 percent during his tenure and became the city's largest revenue source after taxes. In 1993,... View Details
- 01 Mar 2010
- News
Alumni Books
market capitalization. The book examines how misguided investment and acquisition strategies have created the paradox that, in media, the faster revenues grow, the worse their stocks perform. The Elements of Investing by Burton G. Malkiel... View Details
- 01 Apr 1997
- News
Facing the Music
record industry, 1996 was a bluesy kind of year. As revenues increased less than 1 percent and consumers bought 8 percent fewer CDs and cassettes compared to the previous year, the pause button, it seems, was hit on a decade of... View Details
Keywords: Marguerite Rigoglioso
- 03 Mar 2017
- News
Big Blue’s Big Bet
that will reimagine health and other fields for decades more. Revenues at IBM have been in the red since 2012, yet analysts have pointed to Watson as the engine that can revitalize the company—as the potential through-line that will touch... View Details
Keywords: Paul Kix; illustrations by Dan Page
- 03 Oct 2019
- News
Skydeck Live: Galactic Returns
tourism actually will be the way to actually bring even more capital and really grow those markets or something else? Garriott de Cayeux: I don’t think that’s where the market is. If you ask me where the market is, it’s going to be in the satellite constellation and... View Details
- 01 Feb 2001
- News
The Doctor Is In
Dr. Peter L. Slavin (MBA '90) nods toward a long line stretching back from a gourmet coffee counter. "That's one of our most utilized facilities," he says with a smile. "The joke around here is that the hospital operation is a loss leader for the coffee shop and the... View Details
- 01 Dec 2015
- News
Faculty Q&A: The Price Is Right
cash, credit cards, loyalty points, foreign currency—varies considerably. So if you allow people to pay what they want in different forms of currency, will your overall revenues be higher as a result of those psychological differences?... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 02 Mar 2015
- News
To Market, To Market
substantially lower costs, so we’re having a much greater impact, at a much lower cost.” Ferrari has also spearheaded Heifer’s efforts to diversify its revenue sources beyond the livestock gift catalog, through partnerships with... View Details
- 20 Jan 2015
- News
Patient Medical Records, Pocket-sized
appointment, the doctor’s office uploads notes and test results to HRC, which creates a searchable PDF to be downloaded to MedKaz. If the doctor is licensed with HRC (licensing is free), he receives payment each time he updates the record. Bushkin notes that “MedKaz is... View Details
- 01 Jan 2008
- News
Meg Whitman, MBA 1979
revenues of $7.7 billion in 2007. She is particularly proud that 1.3 million people make some part of their living selling things through eBay. “Our concept has been to make a small number of rules and get the heck out of the way so that... View Details
- 01 Mar 2005
- News
A Primer on Patents
center.” Instead of subsidizing this agency, Congress wanted the PTO to generate significant revenues for the government. As a result, starting salaries for examiners fell far behind the private sector, and it became difficult to recruit... View Details
- 01 Jan 2002
- News
Raymond V. Gilmartin (MBA '68)
ability to refocus the company on its primary mission-discovering breakthrough drugs-soon earned him the respect of Wall Street, too. Between 1994 and 2001, Merck launched an unprecedented seventeen new drugs and increased revenues from... View Details
- 01 Jan 2005
- News
Rahul Bajaj, MBA 1964
production of a commodity that most Indians needed, I didn't mind." Bajaj's antiestablishment views prevailed, and by the beginning of the 1980s, Bajaj Auto had increased its annual production to 172,000 vehicles. Today, with revenues of... View Details
- 01 Feb 1997
- News
Doing It Your Way
Women's Worth New U.S. Census data reveal that women entrepreneurs are changing the face of the economy. The performance of the women's business sector in recent years has surpassed that of U.S. business overall in several major areas, including rates of new-business... View Details