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- 01 Mar 2009
- News
Your Taxi Is Waiting
service DayJet, launched in October 2007, placed an up-front order for 239 Eclipse 500s and used a chancier, less profitable per-seat pricing model for its Florida-based operations. The company ran out of money and ceased operations last... View Details
- 02 Oct 2015
- News
The ‘F’ Word
heart surgery. We also kept coming up with shortages when annual inventory was taken and simply could not figure out the problem. This all finally came to a head with a nearly $1 million shrinkage at a time when our profits had sunk due... View Details
Keywords: Walt Disney Studios
- 01 Mar 2017
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for March 2017
processes to achieve higher levels of organizational synergy. The Profitability Test: Does Your Strategy Make Sense? by Harborne W. Stuart Jr. (PhD, 1992) (MIT Press) This book teaches readers to understand View Details
- 01 Dec 1999
- News
Covering the Issues
judgments." Several Bulletin authors considered the sometimes contentious relationship between profit motive and business responsibility in the politically tumultuous 1960s. "Is profit really our goal?"... 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 Sep 2018
- News
After the Fall
of these so-called shadow banks they were quick to pull their funding, which threatened their survival and destabilized the financial system. “The problem was compounded by the fact that competition from shadow banks threatened the View Details
- 01 Jun 2009
- News
Dispatches from the Global Classroom
controversial IPO in 2007, raising $458 million. Many, including Nobel Peace Prize–winner Muhammad Yunus, have accused CB of making a profit at the expense of the poor, passing most of the earnings on to shareholders rather than lowering... View Details
- 01 Sep 2007
- News
To The Rescue
Herculean task of getting EMRI up and running in six months. When he accomplished the nearly impossible in seven months, launching the service on August 15, 2005, Indian Independence Day, Raju pointed out that he was a month behind schedule. And just like at Satyam,... View Details
- 01 Apr 1999
- News
An Eye to the East
firm." It was a reminder that what's right for America may not make sense in Asia - an obvious point, perhaps, but one worth repeating in any forum on cross-cultural issues. The second day of the meeting produced equally profitable... View Details
Keywords: Alejandro Reyes
- 19 Aug 2021
- News
A Letter to My White Friends and Colleagues
know is this has hurt the Black community in so many ways. Specifically, it hurt Black banks, because Black banks were not able to prosper from these securities that are extraordinarily profitable in terms of them being mortgages, and we... View Details
- 01 Mar 2018
- News
‘We were just doing what needed to be done’
organizations that were founded to provide something other than a profit and that also had a social objective. LEWIS: In founding the AASU, we were simply thinking of creating an organization that would be useful for networking, as a... View Details
- 18 Aug 2021
- News
Alumni on the Black Lives Matter Movement
get involved in their communities. “Long-term profitability is driven by bringing long-term value to many, many people,” he said. JULY 20 Amira Polack (MBA 2018), founder and CEO of fitness app Struct Club, recently organized a... View Details