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- 01 Jun 2024
- News
The Bookshelf: Try As One Might
A professor of management at the Darden Graduate School of Business at the University of Virginia and a leading expert on design thinking, Jeanne Liedtka (MBA 1981) helps people make better decisions through experimentation. The concept sounds simple enough in the... View Details
- 29 Jun 2016
- News
Women of Wall Street Tell Their Story
Monica Mandelli (MBA 1998) There’s no shortage of movies about Wall Street—Trading Places, The Big Short, Wall Street, Boiler Room, Margin Call, Bonfire of the Vanities, Wolf of Wall Street—to name but a few. Of course they portray... 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 Feb 2000
- News
New Releases
mountaineer Yvon Chouinard, the company differentiates its clothing along environmental lines, using expensive organic cotton and polyester made from recycled bottles. Patagonia's margins shrank, but sales to its high-end retail clientele... View Details
- 01 Jun 2024
- News
Decoding the Promise and Perils of Generative AI
ChatGPT burst into the public consciousness on November 30, 2022. Within two months, the generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) software, which leverages a large language model (LLM) to produce human-like, text-based conversations, had reached an estimated 100... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 01 Sep 2018
- News
In My Humble Opinion: In the Deal
precious,” says Khan, who focuses primarily on software. “It’s been an incredible segment to invest in over the last few years—cloud software in particular, because these are high-gross margin businesses with low costs and long, recurring... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 26 Oct 2017
- News
Can Farming Save the Planet?
the carbon capture to farmers, but couldn’t figure out a way to make it work. The reason: There wasn’t a profit motive. “But then I met these organic farmers, and the bottom line is that we sell the crops for twice as much, the margins... View Details
- 11 Aug 2014
- News
The First Five Years: Melissa Fensterstock (MBA 2012)
with a healthy alternative.'" Which HBS case study had the greatest impact on you, and why? "'NuCor Steel' changed the way I evaluate innovation. I am now very much on the lookout for low-end disruptors as well as aware of incumbents' resistance to change in the... View Details
- 01 Sep 2003
- News
Andrea Silbert
many people who were living on the margins of society.” She also found the work at HBS challenging. “I think HBS is a very rigorous place academically, and I think that’s what makes it great,” she observes. By the time she graduated, with... 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
- 01 Mar 2018
- News
Democratizing Data to Favor Farmers
grain prices during the commodities boom at the start of the decade. But when grain prices collapsed—the price of corn has fallen in half since 2012—seed and input prices were not restored downward. Now those inputs eat a disproportionately large share of whatever... View Details
Keywords: Sasha Issenberg
- 01 Jun 2018
- News
The Evolution of Modern Pricing Models
the same assortment. However, certain cheaper items required some extra clicks and scrolls to discover. TT: In the end, we were able to increase Zalora’s gross margins by up to 31 percent in some experimental conditions—and it did not... View Details
- 01 Apr 2001
- News
Q&A: Suzy Wetlaufer
goof around. We have to publish very robust, well-thought-out ideas or else we’re hurting our readers and our legacy. To tell you the truth, there’s a very small margin for error in what we do. What keeps you awake at night? I have four... View Details
- 28 May 2019
- News
Look Again
“In more traditional scenes, the black woman’s gaze does not meet ours; instead she is usually looking at her employer. Here, Bazille depicts her alone, with no mistresses to marginalize her, and gives her a direct but enigmatic... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 22 Feb 2022
- News
Case Study: Welcome Aboard
fraction of what other devices would cost up front, and when we’re at scale we can make a margin of over 90 percent on the refill packs, which has huge implications to our actual revenue model.” View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint
- 01 Mar 2023
- News
An Investment in Tomorrow's Leaders
Individuals Seeking Equity (RISE) Fellowships Funding for students who have served marginalized communities in the United States MAKING DREAMS ATTAINABLE Full-Tuition Assistance Enabling Students to Pursue Their Passions Socioeconomic... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie
- 01 Mar 2011
- News
Two Kinds of Green
while effective, are the “low hanging fruit” in meeting sustainability goals. “Going those last few yards to become 100 percent waste-free costs much more than the earlier steps,” agrees HBS’s Marquis. “The marginal economic benefit can... View Details
- 24 May 2023
- News
Balancing Acts
discovers somebody else doing something that works, they'll enter that. They'll bring capital or they'll bring people, some type of resources, and mostly squeeze the margin out of it. And so, you need to always be doing new things. And... View Details
- 17 Oct 2019
- News
Venturing Away from Venture Capital
requires a significant initial capital investment, and she raised just over $10 million in seed and series A funding to get it up and running in 2011. Since then, Lin’s had plenty of opportunities to raise more capital. But the company’s growth View Details
Keywords: Alexander Gelfand
- 01 Mar 2018
- News
Case Study: On the Record
well as a strategic one. The tactical question is around the math of making added investments and the short-term impact it would have on more volume and perhaps more margin. Assuming the answer is a good one, the strategic question would be whether the company can use... View Details
Keywords: April White