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- 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 Jun 2022
- News
Blissful Thinking
what I wished they were, and I was marginalizing things that should probably be more important to me. And I said, “What the hell, man?” On a plane one day, I overheard one of the most famous men in the world confessing to his wife that he... View Details
Keywords: Dan Morrell; illustration by Dan Winters
- 01 Sep 2006
- News
Down the Memory Chute
Once papers were completed, the only after-action assessments were the readers’ comments, penciled in the extra-wide margins of the special green report paper, with a page-long overall commentary attached at the end. “We each read about... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 03 May 2013
- News
Looking Through Glass, Historically
Westmoreland had a low break-even point. It needed margin then—not volume; and so, prices were increased. Although this was an unsound business decision, the records show my grandfather had kept his prices low during the Depression,... 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
- 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 Mar 2017
- News
The Middle Way
marginalized or less powerful,” he says. “Moving from one of the power actors, the provincial government, into another power actor—but one with less resources and little authority in the last century—actually fit where my religious... View Details
Keywords: Dan Morrell; photos by Kamil Bialous
- 19 Mar 2015
- News
Walter Salmon Remembered
grocers, drug stores, and discount stores like Costco. Peter asked me (a banker) what I thought of supermarkets accepting credit cards for groceries. I said that the grocery margins (~1%) wouldn’t support the discounts on card purchases,... View Details
- 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
- 10 Mar 2021
- News
Next Normal
deeply grateful the world got comfortable with remote fundraising. Having to travel 3,000 miles to get a ‘no’ in New York would suck; getting a ‘no’ with 30 minutes’ committed time and zero marginal cost is fine. My acting background has... View Details
- 01 Jun 2010
- News
$how Me the Money
corporation, the company pays only those marginal taxes that are charged in the tax haven. The subsidiary in country C may in turn sell the copiers on the open market for $1,500 each, allowing it to claim, for tax purposes, a $500 loss on... 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
- 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 Apr 1998
- News
World Class Learning
are in a good position to sound the alert about "policies or practices that may have the unintended consequence of marginalizing international students," Walker says. One example is the common tendency of some professors to call on the... View Details
Keywords: Eileen K. McCluskey
- 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
- 01 Oct 2001
- News
Dean Clark on the New Academic Year
change in the business world. In addition, your financial support provides a margin for innovation, allowing us to move ahead on projects that keep HBS at the forefront of business education. Your commitment allows us to embrace change,... View Details