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- 01 Mar 2018
- News
Case Study: On the Record
to build capabilities that would be hard to replicate. Let’s build a plan here—not just to grow but to develop some long-term defensibility. Some record profits would be music to investors’ ears. —Jeffrey Glass (MBA 1994) Grow market... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 01 Jan 2003
- News
Lillian Lincoln Lambert, MBA 1969
of its contracts. "Suddenly, I was losing a lot of money," she says "It took us three years to be profitable again." Stringent cost controls and aggressive outreach to commercial clients made the difference. As Centennial One grew through... View Details
- 01 Dec 2019
- News
The Race Against Resistance
Waltham, Massachusetts, suggests two main reasons why so few new antibiotics are in the pipeline. First, antibiotics are used for relatively short courses and, as a result, aren’t as profitable as chronic-care medicines. Second, in the... View Details
Keywords: Lisa Scanlon Mogolov
- 29 Aug 2018
- News
The Value of Valleys
marred by what I'd been through and needed some time to reflect on what were my priorities and did I want to stay in the for profit environment and things like that. Thankfully he said yes, but I didn't have a plan and thought that I... View Details
- 01 Dec 2011
- News
Making the Case for Leadership
decade ago, Natarajan took the reins of Zensar, an ailing software company based in Pune, India, with the challenge of charting a profitable future. Almost immediately, he set a new tone of employee participation resulting in a trajectory... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons;Julia Hanna;Roger Thompson; Performing Arts, Spectator Sports, and Related Industries; Arts, Entertainment; National Security and International Affairs; Government; Health, Social Assistance; Data Processing, Hosting, and Related Services; Information; Electrical Equipment, Appliance, and Component Manufacturing; Manufacturing; Food Manufacturing; Manufacturing; Nonmetallic Mineral Product Manufacturing; Manufacturing; Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services; Professional Services
- 01 Mar 2019
- News
Research Brief: Unveiling the Truth about Transparency
resulted in an average increase in employer profits of 60 percent and lowered wages by 25 percent. The key finding is that transparency gives employers a reason to negotiate more aggressively, since the wages of higher-paid employees... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Myers
- 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 Feb 2001
- News
Q&A - Dirty Money: Raymond Baker Explores the Free Market's Demimonde
effectively enforced money-laundering laws? For one thing, the flow of illegal drugs into this country would be significantly curtailed. At first, drug profits might simply be laundered elsewhere. Good! American banks and companies... View Details
- 01 Sep 2005
- News
Predictable Surprises
CEOs several decades ago. The airline’s previous generation of leaders settled tough union negotiations, made agreements that allowed them to operate profitably and look good in the short term, and dumped their pension obligations into... View Details
- 01 Jan 2003
- News
James E. Burke, MBA 1949
competition for nearly one hundred years," Burke recalls. "Whenever we cared for the customer in a profound-and spiritual-way, profits were never a problem." The Tylenol crisis could have been a death blow to the brand and, potentially,... View Details
- 01 Jan 2006
- News
Ann S. Moore, MBA 1978
magazines especially popular. Launched in 2000, Real Simple is dedicated to helping people simplify and organize their lives. Ranked third on Adweek's 2006 "Hot List," the publication has been so successful that it turned profitable in... View Details
- 01 Dec 2000
- News
Opening Doors: Inside the World of Museum Management
will harness the great capability of the museum's curators and its collection while also maintaining an umbrella identity for what the museum is doing as a whole." Not for Profit While its IRS designation 501(c)(3) connotes a... View Details
- 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
- 01 Dec 1996
- News
Laurel without Hardy? A Lesson for Business
to consumers and thereby fuel demand for their cars. Entering a complementary business requires that companies do their accounting a little differently. You cannot measure the profitability of the two businesses independently, nor can you... View Details
- 01 Apr 1998
- News
New Releases
service, and knowledge management in examining the implications of this paradigm shift for managers, entrepreneurs, and policymakers. Cost & Effect by Robert S. Kaplan and Robin Cooper (Harvard Business School Press) Cost & Effect: Using Integrated Cost Systems to... View Details
- 13 Sep 2019
- News
Hollywood Ending
she says. No matter. In breaking new ground, without a map, Whitman is in her comfort zone. Her first step at Quibi was to “put meat on the bones of the business plan,” she says: defining the content and tech strategies and figuring out how they could produce View Details
- 01 Dec 2022
- News
Educating, Connecting, and Mobilizing Around Climate Change
building a more sustainable economy. She focuses particularly on how firms can safeguard economic growth and long-term profitability by addressing challenges like climate change and inequality, actively contributing to the health of our... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie
- 01 Apr 2002
- News
Q&A - Mark Fields
linguistic, economic, social,and business-culture obstacles — daunting for a foreigner under the best of circumstances — while making the inevitably unpopular decisions required to achieve a turnaround. Fast-forward a couple of years, to a return to View Details
- 01 Oct 2002
- News
Sam Hayes
Heightened surveillance overall is essential. As for reforms, one step would be to require that securities analysts be genuinely independent of the investment banking side of the firms they work for. Profits on the investment banking side... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 12 Apr 2023
- News
Step Change
investment (one made as managing director at Global Ventures), demonstrating that impact and profit aren't mutually exclusive. "I want founders and entrepreneurs to be wealth creators and invest in their communities and families," Enan... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna; entrepreneurship; women; venture capital; Egypt; developing economies; Finance