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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
- 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 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 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
- 15 Dec 2024
- News
Kelp Is on the Way
packaging.” Down to the Last Drop Macro Oceans extracts value from every last ounce of raw materials, from the high-value, bioactive compounds that the beauty industry is demanding, all the way down to the seaweed cellulose that’s essentially a by-product. The View Details
- 01 Mar 2016
- News
Off Script
much of the money in this large and rapidly growing market? It doesn’t seem like the drug companies, physicians, or hospitals are seeing big profit increases. Is it research labs? Drug distribution? Insurance? Where is all this additional... 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
- 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 Dec 2005
- News
One-on-One with Peter Cuneo
event” and “radical change” for the company, Marvel has secured $525 million of nonrecourse debt (its film characters serve as collateral) to produce ten motion pictures. With Paramount as its distributor, Marvel will oversee all other aspects of the films and enjoy... View Details
- 01 Sep 2012
- News
Muhammad Yunus Visits HBS
successful door-to-door salesmen. Yunus described several sustainable “social businesses” (all profits to the enterprise) he has launched in Bangladesh. They include Grameenphone, which put cell phones into the hands of millions of poor,... View Details
- 01 Mar 2013
- News
Getting Smart About Philanthropy
Social Impact, a three-month-long online series at www.HBR.org that will feature the latest thinking on social enterprise through blogs, articles, and webinars from global leaders in the field. In January, HBS senior lecturer Michael Chu hosted the kick-off webinar,... View Details
- 01 Dec 2008
- News
Alumni Books
plans that are easy to apply. It highlights why marketing plans matter and where they go wrong and explains how to create a powerful plan that will help build a strong, profitable business. More than Money: Questions Every MBA Needs to... View Details
- 01 Apr 1998
- News
Microfinance's Big Payoff: Michael Chu and ACCION International
its pragmatic use of the profit motive and market mechanisms to make a sustainable, self-perpetuating, and effective impact on the lives of poor people. When the ACCION opportunity came along, it forced me to confront those late-night... View Details
- 01 Jun 2023
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books
step by step, before you sign your first member, all the way through to selling your profitable business or winding it down. If you’re someone who doesn’t want to reinvent the wheel, this book is for you. The Blessed Generation: Fifty... View Details
- 01 Mar 2011
- News
Tax and Grow
absence of investment opportunities or from indecision among corporate executives. Once such indecision becomes widespread, it can quickly become self-reinforcing. Recent record corporate profits will only exacerbate this situation. If... View Details
- 01 Jun 2012
- News
A Better World, One Idea at a Time
commission-based, door-to-door sales organization while reinvesting profits to expand and provide employee benefits in Haiti. In addition to the judges’ picks, the “Audience Choice” award went to Essmart, a retail distribution company in... View Details