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- 25 May 2023
- News
Brazil’s Nubank Turns 10
Guilherme Lago (MBA 2005) Guilherme Lago (MBA 2005) Ten years after its founding, the Brazilian digital banking startup Nubank recorded all-time record revenues ($1.6 billion) in the first quarter of 2023—doubling its performance over... View Details
- 20 Dec 2023
- News
New School
Foundation. At the same time, Curriculum Associates has transitioned from a solely print-based company to a largely online one, earned local and national best-places-to-work awards, seen revenues increase 20 times over. “It turns out... View Details
- 01 Feb 1999
- News
Too Much of a Good Thing?
booming. Banks and companies, eager for a piece of the action, invest heavily in production capability. Not surprisingly, a market can soon become saturated with too much product; consequently, demand drops, revenues slow to a trickle,... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 01 Sep 2003
- News
Kumar Mahadeva
Cognizant provides application outsourcing services and 24/7 software project management for a small but intensely loyal client base of large U.S. and European companies. Widely praised in the business press for its innovation and growth, the company reached $229.1... View Details
- 12 Mar 2021
- News
My Favorite Case
four to one. When another premium brand lowers its wholesale price in an attempt to stimulate sales, Heublein’s president decides to increase the price of Smirnoff and put the additional revenue into advertising. This case taught me that... View Details
- 01 Aug 2001
- News
Richard B. Fisher (MBA '62)
investment banking institution had a staff of 110 and annual revenues of about $8 million. Today, the firm has more than 64,000 employees in offices stretching from New York to Beijing. Revenues last year... View Details
- 26 Jun 2013
- News
How a Trivial Pursuit Became a Significant Case
of designing and launching the TV Game was $50,000; revenues were $7.3 million. All this and more is detailed in a 1985 HBS case study, "R&R"—the name of Reiss's company—which was supervised by Professor Howard Stevenson (and prepared by... View Details
- 11 Apr 2024
- News
Mission Control
Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Hi, this is Dan Morrell, host of Skydeck. By the time Peter Platzer (MBA 2002) was a teenager, he knew he wanted to be a physicist—and he was fascinated by space, eagerly engrossed in space-time diagrams... View Details
- 01 Mar 2024
- News
On the Radar
million revenue in the third quarter of 2023. McKnight and his team are currently working with 14 countries to develop pathogen-monitoring programs—what Concentric calls a “bioradar” system. The most public aspect of this system is... View Details
- 01 Jan 2013
- News
Thai Lee, MBA 1985
& Young's New Jersey Entrepreneur Of The Year, Technology 2013 SHI International reaches $5 billion in revenue Thai Lee has an extraordinary ability to take the long view. After earning a degree in economics and biology from Amherst... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 01 Mar 2024
- News
Giving All Stakeholders a Voice
For John Wu (MBA 2000), “Web3” means more than technological innovation. “It’s a mindset,” he says of the movement toward a decentralized internet that accelerates innovation and gives end users greater collaboration with businesses. “It’s a transformative shift in... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 01 Dec 2019
- News
Developing Leaders Who Bridge Business and Engineering
as Commissioner of the Massachusetts Department of Revenue and Special Advisor to Massachusetts Governor Charlie Baker for technology and innovation competitiveness. Most recently, he was Secretary of the Massachusetts Office of... View Details
- 01 Mar 2004
- News
Derek Ferguson
Derek T. Ferguson (MBA 1990) could be mistaken for a minister by fellow commuters on the train from Connecticut to Manhattan. Yet his calling is not to the pulpit, but to the midtown headquarters of Bad Boy Worldwide Entertainment Group, a privately held enterprise... View Details
- 01 Jun 2022
- News
A Sustainable Solution for Fashion
plan for rapid growth. Syrup raised $1 million in a preseed round and enrolled seven brands, retailers, and manufacturers that use the tool on a weekly basis and implement the inventory suggestions it offers. To date, Theuerkauf says, customers have seen growing View Details
Keywords: April White
- 22 Feb 2022
- News
Breaking News
and declining print advertising revenue. That was the firm foundation upon which local newspapers were built, so that pressure on the traditional sources of revenue has obviously put pressure on the rest of the business—and particularly... View Details
- 01 Oct 2000
- News
Carlos A. Saladrigas: Hardworking Optimist
graduating from HBS, in 1984 he cofounded Vincam, a staff-leasing firm that provides HR functions to small companies. Two years after its headline-making 1996 IPO, Vincam's revenues exceeded $1 billion, and the firm became the largest... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 01 Dec 2004
- News
Marquis Jet Takes Off
segued into high-net-worth individuals and corporations — now 90 percent of Marquis Jet’s clientele. And it reaped a bonanza of free exposure when NBC producers picked the company to appear last January on the second episode of The Apprentice, Donald Trump’s hit... View Details
- 01 Mar 2003
- News
Dick Franyo: From Banker to Barkeeper
promotional and charitable events, which often are tied to the cleanup of the Chesapeake Bay. (One percent of the bar’s revenues are donated to The Chesapeake Bay Foundation and other conservancy causes.) “At the Boatyard, what we’re... View Details
- 11 Mar 2021
- News
Leading with Heart
arrived. And we set it up like that. And it's become actually now 14 percent of our revenue comes from curbside. But I want to share with you that ... I shared that when the story began, we were 50 percent down and we are now down about... View Details