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- 01 Apr 2002
- News
Professorship Brings Brierley's HBS Connection Full Circle
believer in the importance of giving back to the community. "It's a source of deep satisfaction that the database management tools and techniques first developed at Epsilon have allowed hundreds of nonprofit organizations to profitably... View Details
- 01 Jan 2012
- News
Cynthia Carroll, MBA 1989
internal reorganization and strategic partnerships have led to greater efficiencies and ongoing growth. In her five-year tenure, Carroll has diversified the mix of commodities the company holds through partnerships and acquisitions. Operating View Details
- 01 Dec 2014
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for December 2014
Alumni Books Dual Momentum Investing: An Innovative Strategy for Higher Returns with Lower Risk by Gary Antonacci (MBA 1978) (McGraw-Hill) Antonacci explains his investing method, which combines U.S. stock, non-U.S. stock, and aggregate bond indices, in a formula that... View Details
- 01 Dec 1999
- News
Hawes Family Funds New Classroom Building
options; as a result, about 20 percent of his work force became millionaires when the company went public. "We shared the profits with everyone and gave those staying on an excellent opportunity," Hawes proudly noted. Hawes, who grew up... View Details
- 01 Dec 2015
- News
Complements to the Case Method
incorporated into the MBA curriculum. The School’s most complex simulation to date, “Strategic Brew” focuses on maximizing the profitability of a beer company. Students are assigned to four-member brewery teams, and four of these teams... View Details
- 01 Dec 2003
- News
HIV/AIDS and Business
costs of the epidemic to business, including lower productivity, increased expenditures, and declining profits and investment. “When 30 to 40 percent of your workforce is affected by HIV/AIDS, it forces corporations to confront the... View Details
- 06 Dec 2021
- News
Monaco's Digital Transformation
a whole. “When a company invests 1 in digital, it brings 10 to 12 in value, so in terms of taxes, it’s extremely profitable for the government to have companies transform themselves,” notes Genta. His ministry is drawing new enterprises... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie
- 25 Feb 2020
- News
Beyond the Plastisphere
profitable into their value chain.” The firm has certified supply chains in Thailand and Indonesia, which are among the worst contributors of plastic ocean debris, and plans to expand into other parts of Asia and Latin America soon.... View Details
- 01 Jun 2025
- News
Alumni Achievement Awards 2025
Edited by Julia Hanna; photographs by Susan Young Award Recipients Video MORE ON THE RECIPIENTS Read more about the 2025 recipients, and learn about past recipients. ALUMNI ACHIEVEMENT AWARDS SITE MORE ON THE RECIPIENTS Read more about the 2025 recipients, and learn... 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
- 01 Dec 2002
- News
Straddling Two Worlds
was one of Tierney's first lessons in compartmentalizing his dual interests — that of running a highly profitable enterprise and that of helping those less fortunate than himself. After some experimentation with combining the two, he... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 01 Jan 2004
- News
A. G. Lafley, MBA 1977
Clairol in 2001 for $5 billion and Germany's Wella in 2003 for $7 billion—P&G's largest acquisitions ever—are already paying off by making the company's beauty-care division one of the most profitable beauty-care operations in the world.... View Details
- 01 Jun 2012
- News
What Industrial Policy?
generously subsidized (largely through the tax deductibility of mortgage interest, which stimulates demand for homes as well as loans from banks). Private equity, which enjoys a 15 percent tax rate on carried interest. (If the tax rate on View Details
- 23 Sep 2021
- News
Confronting Sustainability in Business; Pro-Bono Consulting for Black-Owned Companies
then finally seeing the outcomes. “Measuring the impact of our actions on the environment, employees, and customers is becoming increasingly important,” Serafeim says. ”With impact-weighted accounts, we have the opportunity to redefine what is a View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 01 Mar 2008
- News
Reimagining China and India
advantage of China’s strengths, and for Chinese entrepreneurs to reciprocate, something that has taken root. Annual trade between the two countries has raced from near zero several years ago to more than $20 billion last year. For their part, multinationals can View Details
- 01 Dec 2001
- News
Steven Rogers
with Laura, to Columbus, Indiana, and then to Rocky Mount, North Carolina. Rogers was impressed with the emphasis on values as well as profit at Cummins, where he worked both as a customer-service supervisor and as a purchasing agent. "I... View Details
- 01 Sep 2020
- News
Saving Grace
capitalism—one that prioritizes social inclusion, health and well-being, and environmental protections—is going to be the more profitable approach in the long term, Savova says. That in turn would lead to happier retirements for its... View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint
- 04 Sep 2019
- News
The School that Donham Built
then–Harvard President Drew Faust said Donham’s leadership was guided by his resolve that Harvard “would educate manager-statesmen motivated not by profit alone, but by the improvement of society.” A prolific author, Donham wrote... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg
- 23 May 2018
- News
John A. Paulson, MBA 1980
and Applied Sciences, which is renamed in his honor President, Paulson & Co. Inc. John Paulson’s knack for business was evident early on. At six, he sold Charms candies on the playground in his Queens neighborhood. Buying the candy in bulk, he sold each piece at a... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 08 May 2019
- News
Lessons from the Ashes
take me from '87 to essentially 1990. That process and how that plays out. Warwick: One of the assumptions I made was I wanted to change management and increase profitability and that the family would somehow stay in, which was an... View Details