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- 01 Mar 2014
- News
Cutting Edge
irrelevance. The company's signature wild cherry–flavored product all but disappeared from retailers' shelves; by 2012, annual revenues had sunk to about $1 million. Enter Steve Silk (MBA 1978), turnaround maestro and patron saint of lost... View Details
- 01 Oct 2002
- News
Andrew H. Tisch
things like helping the pool attendant put towels on the chaise longues. It was a family business, so we were all involved.” Tisch Hotels evolved into the Loews Corporation, one of the largest diversified financial enterprises in the United States. Last year, the firm... View Details
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Scaling Technology Ventures - Course Catalog
is the business model? Scope and Speed : How does a venture scale by expanding into new geographies, products, and markets? What does it take to manage multiple revenue streams? How fast should your... View Details
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Demo Day | New Venture Competition
providers. Furca Amna Hashmi (MBA 2025) Furca is a simple referral management platform for dental service organizations. Furca provides one workflow for all their referrals with minimal staff training and practice onboarding to boost... View Details
- 12 Oct 1999
- Research & Ideas
Media Metamorphosis: Advertising in the Technology Age
In 1998, Internet advertising revenue passed the $1 billion mark, more than double its 1997 level. Indeed, although the Internet entered the media fray barely four years ago, its revenues from national... View Details
- 25 May 2010
- First Look
First Look: May 25
stay with the old technology as a rational, proactive choice rather than as a mark of managerial and organizational failure. We then consider the distinctive challenges and organizational dynamics that arise in technology retreats and their implications for the ways in... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 12 Jan 2016
- First Look
January 12, 2016
Management Science The Relationship Between Workplace Stressors and Mortality and Health Costs in the United States By: Goh, Joel, Jeffrey Pfeffer, and Stefanos A. Zenios Abstract—Even though epidemiological evidence links specific... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 06 Jun 2005
- Research & Ideas
Microsoft vs. Open Source: Who Will Win?
Casadesus-Masanell decided to dive in. Most research to date into the OSS movement has focused on the organization and management issues surrounding OSS. Ghemawat and Casadesus-Masanell chose to explore the fundamental competitive... View Details
- 01 Sep 2020
- News
Road Work
history or FICO score necessary to access the capital necessary to launch a business or take an existing venture to the next level. Their businesses could be described as “microenterprises,” with annual revenues of around $183,000—about a... View Details
- Profile
Michael Maples
an early investor in Twitter, Weebly, Bazaarvoice, Twitch, Chegg, Demandforce and a raft of others, Maples has been on a long and profitable roll. Part of his success came from his personal experience as an entrepreneur. Having co-founded Motive, an Austin-based... View Details
- 15 Sep 2011
- Research & Ideas
High Ambition Leadership
of the firm. There is substantial evidence for this: see Danny Miller and Isabelle Le Breton-Miller's book Managing for the Long Run: Lessons in Competitive Advantage from Great Family Businesses. These leaders also start with the... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 19 Apr 2018
- Blog Post
Policy, Practice, Leadership & Impact: Making a Difference with the HBS/HKS Joint Degree
and quantitative methods with an emphasis on policy and practice. When combined with Harvard Business School’s Masters in Business Administration (MBA), students will demonstrate exceptional aptitude in the areas of policy expertise and cross-disciplinary View Details
- 01 Dec 2014
- News
3-Minute Briefing: Nagisa Manabe (MBA 1991)
package on Thanksgiving? Year over year, our revenue is up, even if we’re still in the red. And that’s a good thing. Touring a postal facility, you’ll often see someone hand-sorting beautiful, large envelopes, usually wedding invitations,... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 17 Dec 2001
- Research & Ideas
Risks and Rewards of the Intrapreneur
the intrapreneurial effort fails, you'll still have a job tomorrow, said HBS assistant professor Clark Gilbert, who served as moderator. And for managers of the start-up, a corporate benefactor can make starting a new organizational life... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Dec 2019
- News
What’s Behind the Explosive Growth of Sustainable Investing?
Image by John Ritter Image by John Ritter An estimated $30 trillion in assets worldwide—including half of all professionally managed assets in Europe—are already evaluated through environmental, social, and governance (ESG) or impact... View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint
- 12 Aug 2014
- First Look
First Look: August 12
provider" offering financing solutions including debt and equity, investment banking, brokerage, and asset management services to clients in the infrastructure sector. With nearly 50% of its employees joining through acquisitions,... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Jun 2001
- News
Q&A: Donna Dubinsky
track. Revenues for the last quarter of 2000 hit $115.6 million, a 600 percent increase from the same period in 1999. Dubinsky, however, remains vigilant: “Many companies are interested in this marketspace,” she observes, “so we have a... View Details
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Maliha Khan
had built up its manufacturing business in anticipation of the new law, doubling our capacity in just one- and a-half years." Through growth and acquisitions, the business jumped in scale to revenues of $90 million a year with 3,500... View Details
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Transforming Health Care Delivery
project sponsors Executive bios Size of organization, i.e., number of employees, revenue Capital IQ - Public and private companies and nonprofit... View Details
- 10 Jun 2002
- Research & Ideas
Reinventing the Industrial Giant
Internet system to handle billing and related services. Also in November, GM signed an agreement with EDS to manage its B2B and business-to-employee projects.92 The revenue growth and savings that GM... View Details