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- 01 Sep 2009
- News
Over the Top
everything else.” That culture, critics maintain, spawned executive compensation plans with incentives that encouraged the excessive risk-taking that led to the financial crisis. And while the intricate details of pay View Details
- 01 Dec 1997
- News
Growing Together
Gleason (MBA '97) is finding a way to make both a profit and a difference. Last fall, as a part of HBS associate professor Marco Iansiti's Managing Product Development course, Gleason created a model for a company that would employ... View Details
Keywords: Marguerite Rigoglioso and Nancy O. Perry
- 10 Dec 2014
- News
Front-Row Seat
battling it out over the issues of the day.” The Atlantic has been profitable for five years now, with advertising revenue up 40 percent over last year. For now, at least, all online content is free, including full articles from the print... View Details
- 01 Jun 1997
- News
Blockbuster Deals
inept or complacent management drew the attention of raiders. "I give credit to that 1980s movement as a whole for having created the profit machine that we see in the 1990s," Hayes says. "We now have an M&A; movement driven by strategic... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons and Nancy O. Perry
- 12 Jul 2021
- News
Alumni Confront the COVID-19 Crisis
up the next morning and asked, ‘What can we do to help?’ This is a wartime environment, and businesses need to step forward however they can,” said Harl. Originally planning to make and sell units at cost, a shield producer in Maine... View Details
- 01 Apr 1996
- News
Stewards of the Seventh Generation
assets are practicing sustainable development. According to this line of thinking, harvesting trees and using the money generated to build schools would be an example of sustainable development. But others insist that development is sustainable only if natural-resource... View Details
- 10 Mar 2021
- News
New Releases: Alumni and Faculty Books, Podcasts
and CEO of Best Buy and HBS senior lecturer Hubert Joly shares leadership principles that underpinned the remarkable resurgence of Best Buy, which he believes are at the heart of business: pursue a noble purpose, put people at the center, embrace all stakeholders, and... View Details
- 01 Sep 2018
- News
September 2018 Alumni and Faculty Books
traditional ways of getting work done, and organizations where “lines and boxes” still define how people are managed. As work and organizations have become more fluid and business strategy is no longer about planning years ahead but about... View Details
- 01 Jun 1996
- News
Class Acts
tireless student president also trained for and completed the Boston Marathon (a feat he repeated in this year's centennial anniversary of the race). How did he accomplish it all? "I got about three hours of sleep a night," smiles Dobron, who View Details
- 01 Mar 2016
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for March 2016
it is also a way of addressing men’s (and Gen Y’s) growing hopes for flexibility and innovative ways of working. This book clarifies the business case for gender balance, explores what men have to gain, and provides the basic knowledge to engender debate and action... View Details
- 01 Sep 2011
- News
Water for Life
has invested over $1 billion in laying 2,000 miles of water lines and building 33 wastewater treatment plants while returning strong profits for shareholders. Equally important, the company has emerged as a model for integrating financial... View Details
- 18 Aug 2021
- News
Alumni on the Black Lives Matter Movement
authority and stature inside the company, who's putting together a real plan with real goals that are going to be held accountable based on compensation, just like you would be doing anything else in business. And then would be... View Details
- 01 Oct 1996
- News
Leading In a New Era
structure up-to-date. Last year, Boise Cascade announced its most profitable year ever, with earnings of $352 million on sales of $5 billion. At about the same time that Harad's company was struggling against declining profits, across the... View Details
Keywords: Nancy O. Perry
- 19 May 2022
- News
Leading to Salvation
ones who could, had left them. And they were left with all of the smaller, far less profitable business. The woman who owned it, her husband was a founder of it. He was a mortician and it was, I think, the oldest African American business... View Details
- 09 Dec 2021
- News
Higher Returns
months later, Amazon pledged $2 billion to the climate crisis. You had Wayfair employees refusing to work because they didn't want their company to sell mattresses to the government, who was planning on using them at their detention... View Details
- 01 Dec 2006
- News
Inside Intel
The idea of attacking core memory in mainframe computers with the 1103 DRAM proved a winner because, despite this product’s problems, it was far more economical to use than the existing alternative. When Intel turned a profit and went... View Details