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- 01 Mar 2018
- News
Democratizing Data to Favor Farmers
Malmstrom (MBA 2012) is helping farmers maximize their profits MORE Hear how FBN’s Erik Malmstrom (MBA 2012) is helping farmers maximize their profits Baron and Deshpande started in 2014 with a handful of... View Details
Keywords: Sasha Issenberg
- 20 Jun 2016
- News
Having an Impact on Development and Poverty Issues
businesses concentrating on the bottom of the pyramid, such as microfinance, could profit from using the same tools and approaches as any other financial institution. “I hired a team that is a classic private-equity, venture-capital... View Details
Keywords: Constantine von Hoffman
- 01 Jun 2007
- News
Delta’s Flight from Bankruptcy
aspiration has been very clear: We will be the most profitable airline in the United States,” said Whitehurst, who media reports speculate is one of the senior Delta executives currently under consideration to be its next CEO. View Details
- 01 Dec 2005
- News
Faculty Books
bare compliance with regulations, do firms have additional social responsibilities to commit resources to environmental protection? Should firms sacrifice profits in the social interest, given their fiduciary responsibilities to... View Details
- 07 Feb 2018
- News
Helping Startups Give Back
Foundation of Canada, notes, “They rarely have the cash or the time.” Four years ago, Goldstein helped launch the Upside Foundation to provide a platform for early-stage and high-growth companies to pledge a percentage of profits from... View Details
- 01 Sep 2010
- News
Social Entrepreneurship Fellows Named
McKinsey & Company. Faith currently serves as the site’s content manager. Last year, sectionmate Melissa Hayes, with MillerCoors, joined as a partner. Darren’s dream is to profitably grow AbilityTrip into a major online community serving... View Details
- 01 Sep 2008
- News
Faculty Books
Service Profit Chain to Work for Unbeatable Competitive Advantage by James L. Heskett, W. Earl Sasser, and Joe Wheeler (Harvard Business Press) The authors extend their earlier idea of a service-profit chain improving performance to... View Details
- 01 Apr 2001
- News
Books: A Nation Transformed by Information
open systems or licensing agreements. Their actions stimulated entire industries and innumerable start-ups that would further facilitate and propagate the flow of information. Americans, the editors conclude, “have demonstrated a clear penchant to develop, exploit,... View Details
Keywords: Information
- 01 Oct 2000
- News
Mario A. Corti: Global Reconnaissance
Nestlé's sales of nearly $46 billion represented growth of 3.6 percent in real terms, with profits up 12 percent over 1998. Corti -- who has a doctorate in economics from the University of Lausanne -- speaks five languages, reads widely,... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 01 Dec 2001
- News
BOOK: Ruling the Waves
that commerce craves, and the stability that society demands." Time and again, Spar writes, "once the technological frontier has moved beyond a certain point, power and profits seem to shift away from those who break the rules and back to... View Details
- 26 Oct 2017
- News
Can Farming Save the Planet?
who have decades of experience in both organic and conventional farming, directly manage the farmland they convert. The organization uses a profit-sharing model, giving all participants––partners, operators, and management alike––a stake in the View Details
- 01 Sep 2012
- News
High Honors
Carroll has increased operating profits and decreased debt. “Once we started partnering with the local communities, unions, and governments, we saw a positive change in performance,” she observes. A mother of four whose husband gave up... View Details
- 01 Dec 2005
- News
A Matter of Opinion
muckraker Lincoln Steffens as a personal hero and who confesses that his heart still quickens when he hears the songs of the International Brigade. At OPM, Navasky wrote later, “My Nation self still tended to regard the profit motive as... View Details
- 01 Mar 2019
- News
In Character: A Case Discussion Drama
UK-based multinational, is interested in acquiring the company. Petja is hopeful that his children will instead continue to operate the family business independently. But there are barriers to that happy scenario. Katrina, the visionary behind the company’s highly... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 19 Jun 2013
- News
Your Guide to Social Enterprise
Georgia Levenson Keohane Photo courtesy of Georgia Levenson Keohane What is social entrepreneurship? Is it simply an approach to business in which profit comes hand in hand with some positive social change? Or is it the application of... View Details
- 01 Jun 2003
- News
Books
The New Imperative for Creating and Profiting from Technology, was a research model built for a different era. When groups like AT&T’s Bell Labs and Xerox’s Palo Alto Research Center (PARC) were formed, academic scientists had little... View Details
- 01 Dec 2019
- News
Action Plan: Tapping into a Legacy
remodeled its franchise pub business. “It was around the time of the big recession, and our business partners were struggling to make ends meet,” he says. To help out, H&W dropped its rent and profit requirements, which Kearsey describes... View Details
- 01 Jun 2015
- News
3-Minute Briefing: Rehito “Ray” Hatoyama (MBA 2008)
where anyone can contribute to create a “win-win” business together. When I joined Sanrio in 2008, our market cap was about $500 million. Now it’s closer to $3.5 billion, with $750 million in sales and an operating profit just over $200... View Details
- 01 Jun 2014
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for June 2014
and finding practical ways to improve the coordination between sales and other functions required for profitable growth. Teaming to Innovate by Amy C. Edmondson (Jossey-Bass) This book brings together insights on teaming in innovation.... View Details
- 01 Jun 2017
- News
Streamlining the Supermarket
full-time employees, slashing labor costs by 90 percent. Those two innovations are expected to add up to a net profit margin of three times that of the overall industry. “And that is really powerful,” Pedró says. “You can actually give... View Details
Keywords: Francis Storrs