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- 21 Nov 2017
- News
Alumni Peer into the Future of Energy
than climate change. How can we use all of these tools of abundance to create solutions of abundance? “What we do at Scoot is share electric vehicles. We started with little red scooters, with a 10-mile range; two years later we ordered... View Details
- 01 Dec 1997
- News
Making Real Progress in the Middle East: The Bottom-Up, Economic Solution
these ventures is competitive advantage and profit. For Israeli companies, cooperation can open up new markets, provide cost-effective outsourcing opportunities, and significantly lower the costs of production, which is especially... View Details
- 01 Sep 2011
- News
Breaking Free from Fear of Change
research on high-need-for-achievement professionals — people with an insatiable need to keep achieving at all costs — DeLong took stock of the ways in which he and other driven executives can become victims of their own ambitions and... View Details
- 01 Dec 1998
- News
Year 2000 Computer Problem and You: Disaster for Some, Lessons for All
instance. One of the real problems with all of this is that many managers aren't conscious of how frequently computers use dates. Whether it's ordering supplies, transferring money, or buying and selling stocks, our business lives are... View Details
- 19 Mar 2015
- News
Walter Salmon Remembered
and that Professor Milt Brown, head of marketing, ordered me back to the equivalent of boot camp—teaching first year marketing—led by Professor Walt Salmon. Brown explained that “Walt will teach you some marketing,” and so he did,... View Details
- 01 Oct 1996
- News
Leading In a New Era
as well as a positive brand image, good relationships with key customers, and some $250 million cash (and no debt). "For me," Charron notes, "it was simply a question of how to deploy those assets and how to take advantage of the opportunities we had in View Details
Keywords: Nancy O. Perry
- 01 Feb 1997
- News
Made, Not Born: HBS Courses and Entrepreneurial Management
need to cut the cost of a building by 10 percent in order to make the numbers work, they need to understand what has been given up. I'd like them to be better at visualizing the impact of what is being... View Details
- 02 Mar 2016
- News
On Credit
also brought about change. In 1874, Dun placed an order with E. Remington and Sons for 100 of the newfangled machines at a cost of $55 each, assuring the future of the young, struggling company. After that,... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 01 Jun 2007
- News
Mission Possible
top researchers in the field in order to yield more effective results, faster. “The really great venture capitalists are not reactive, they’re proactive,” he says. “They identify the absolute best thought leaders and back them.” At the... View Details
- 01 Dec 2018
- News
Trade Off
started World War I, and it all collapsed. As percentages of GDP, we didn’t return to those earlier levels of global capital flows until the 1990s. Global free trade is not the natural order of things. Globalization is a project, and... View Details
- 01 Sep 2016
- News
The Taxi Wars of Jakarta
on-demand business model. Its success was linked to the proliferation of smartphones in the United States, which made quickly ordering a car to the user’s location possible. A similar trend was emerging in Jakarta. That rapid growth of... View Details
- 09 Dec 2021
- News
Higher Returns
a new purpose for a corporation. And they listed five things. And in order those five things were number one, delivering value to customers. Fair enough. Number two, investing in our employees. Okay. Number three, dealing fairly and... View Details
- 15 Feb 2023
- News
Grand Ambitions in the Great Plains
National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine have estimated the world needs an additional 10 billion tons of carbon dioxide removal each year through various mitigation strategies in order to meet that goal. But can we afford... View Details
- 09 Sep 2024
- News
Basket Chase
together and they will actually pay you a salary and cover your costs while you search for a business to buy, in return for having the right to invest in that business on terms you and they agree on upfront, and they’ll put up the equity... View Details
- 01 Sep 2011
- News
Water for Life
is perfor-mance-based and guarantees the reimbursement of our expenditures and cost of capital as long as these are prudent and efficient. The model requires us to accelerate and even advance our capital investments, roll out the network... View Details
- 02 Oct 2015
- News
The ‘F’ Word
information junkie, but I did generally know every answer to every nit-picking question that the higher-ups threw at me (e.g., the cost of capital at Playboy was 10 percent). I even developed a working knowledge of things as abstruse as... View Details
Keywords: Walt Disney Studios
- 01 Feb 1997
- News
OPM Celebrates 21st Anniversary at Gala Florida Reunion
the difficulty and high cost of bankruptcy. "Bankruptcy lawyers charge anywhere from $200 to $350 an hour, and I want to tell you that even for a small company, those hours can easily mount up to $20,000 or $30,000 a month," he noted. "I... View Details
- 05 Aug 2014
- News
A Diversified Portfolio
real business opportunity to invest in companies with high-growth potential and at least one woman in a leadership role that were being overlooked by the traditional VC community. Sometimes, in order to see an opportunity, you have to be... View Details
Keywords: Constantine von Hoffman
- 01 Mar 2005
- News
Answering the Call
they “enjoyed eating in exotic surroundings but were deeply mistrustful of exotic foods.” He also determined that labor cost and availability was the key problem in the U.S. restaurant business and that eliminating the conventional... View Details
- 07 Sep 2021
- News
September 2021 Alumni Books
These micro-entrepreneurs desire to have the economic and social benefits of managing their own business but do not want the startup costs or demands associated with traditional business planning. As such, becoming a direct-selling... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley