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- 01 Dec 2009
- News
Alumni Books
times. Rigby ex-plains how to craft an action plan tailored to the specific situation, providing tools for cutting costs intelligently, sustaining margins and the brand, boosting revenue by refocusing the sales force on the right... View Details
- 19 May 2023
- News
Quiet Acceleration
Tesla introduced manufacturing efficiencies that helped deliver 15 consecutive profitable quarters and generated $22 billion in available capital. Last year, the company’s operating margin was 16.8 percent, substantially higher than its... View Details
- 01 Mar 2011
- News
Noted & Quoted
“To use economic terms, there are diminishing marginal returns to data-dumping in your answers.” — HBS professor emeritus John Kotter, author of Buy-In: Saving Your Good Idea from Getting Shot Down, on avoiding overuse of facts and... View Details
- 01 Mar 2014
- News
Ask the Expert: Taxing Questions
1960), former chief economist, Royal Bank of Canada, Canada The United States has the worst of all worlds: a relatively high marginal tax rate that influences behavior negatively, but a considerably lower average tax rate that precludes... View Details
- 01 Feb 2001
- News
High Stakes: Springboard 2000 Comes to HBS
presentations to a group of some three hundred top investment professionals. Presenters spoke of markets with multibillion-dollar potential, margins over 70 percent, eighteen-month paths to profitability, and, of course, products... View Details
- 01 Dec 2018
- News
A Force for Good
“In doing so, we can open up access to economic opportunities to traditionally marginalized groups and bring more equity into our economy, all while making hiring an easier, better experience for companies.” “We have to help companies as... 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 Jun 2010
- News
Booth Gardner’s Night at the Oscars
understand him. When he walks, he lists ever so slightly. He wonders aloud when his end will come. He knows “it’s not a pretty picture.” While Gardner’s campaign succeeded by a wide margin — the Death with Dignity Act, a ballot... View Details
- 01 Dec 1999
- News
Water, Water Everywhere
both domestically and in emerging markets, looks favorable. "This is a business that has been primarily government-controlled without significant economies of scale," Mark said. "The ownership and operation of assets to improve operating View Details
- 15 Jun 2021
- News
HBS Addresses Racial Equity
financial need who have demonstrated an exemplary commitment to serving Black and African American, Latinx, and other marginalized communities of color prior to enrolling at HBS. The School’s Doctoral Programs is committed to build a... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie
- 01 Jun 2004
- News
Media, VC Discussed at WSA Conference
The media and entertainment business can be a bit of a roller-coaster ride — particularly in today’s climate of tight margins and consolidation. But that state of flux creates opportunity, agreed panelists at the Women’s Student... View Details
- 07 Sep 2021
- News
Increasing Access and Expanding Opportunity
and other marginalized communities of color in their activities prior to attending HBS. How critical is the support of alumni and friends to the School’s efforts to make the MBA Program more accessible? Chad Losee: We have been able to... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie
- 01 Sep 2018
- News
After the Fall
of overoptimism during good times and overpessimism in bad times. So how do you design a financial system around human nature? “I would want to build in extra margins of safety,” he says. As an example, perhaps financial firms should be... View Details
- 01 Jun 2024
- News
The Bookshelf: Try As One Might
understand the necessary risks and how to manage them. Cultivating doubt becomes fundamental to that: We have to treat what we think is true as a hypothesis and doubt the things we’ve accepted as true. Because the opposite of true is not false; it’s doubt.” Being Wrong... View Details
- 01 Sep 2006
- News
Strange Bedfellows
United States could junk the dual-book system and require corporations to pay taxes, at a considerably lower rate, on profits reported to capital markets. Such a change would save the considerable resources now dedicated to dual-reporting system compliance and allow... View Details
- 01 Mar 2006
- News
Nelson Mandela’s Right-Hand Man
stated that investment is sorely needed to help reduce unemployment, one of South Africa’s most pressing problems. A positive sign, he said, is the increasing involvement of blacks in business. HBS professor Linda Hill, the event’s moderator and faculty chair of the... View Details
- 01 Dec 2022
- News
Research Brief: Pocket Change
that is good news for democracy in the United States.” Whereas small donors were previously on the margins of being able to affect the electoral process, technology now allows contributors to easily “donate repeatedly to the same... View Details
Keywords: Jill Radsken
- 01 Jun 2015
- News
Case Study: Sneak Peak
sell-through, then you may not fully understand the situation you are in. If you are really getting great sell-through and your margins are strong, the angels should be lining up to invest. There are plenty of people out there, both large... View Details
- 30 Sep 2024
- News
The Making of a Streaming Sensation
can't see a return on investment, that on the margin they'll commission less. And I think one of the big opportunities is for the production community to help the services get to a point where they can afford to do more. There is an... View Details
- 01 Dec 2022
- News
The Potential of Business to Improve Lives
When Robin Ely, the Diane Doerge Wilson Professor of Business Administration and the faculty chair of HBS’s Race, Gender, and Equity Initiative, was studying questions of gender and race in organizations in the 1980s, research into building an inclusive economy was “a... View Details
Keywords: April White