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- 03 Mar 2014
- HBS Case
Decommoditizing the Canned Tomato
supermarkets over independent shops and the fact that processed tomatoes were considered a commodity, fierce competition for miniscule profits was the norm. So Francesco decided to close Mutti's side businesses in cheese and cattle and...
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- 01 Dec 2018
- News
Hard Choices
right to decide that their business exists solely to maximize profits. But let’s stop to examine what that even means. What are those things that cause profits to be maximized? And should we be aiming to maximize them this year, or next...
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Seth Klarman (MBA 1982)
- 10 Jul 2000
- Research & Ideas
Privatization and the New European Economy
markedly, and in 1998 the company recorded its first profit in forty years. Reutlinger sees Sabena's shift from state to private ownership as part of a major and growing trend in the transportation and other...
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- 08 Oct 2014
- Research & Ideas
Who Is the Chief Sustainability Officer?
improving working conditions in their supply chain, creating better safety procedures, and reaping profits from products that address environmental and social problems. "Regulators and investors are asking for it, customers are...
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- 18 Feb 2014
- First Look
First Look: February 18
and by incorporating user innovation. We then examine how this ease of external engagement impacts the organization and its strategic activities. Specifically, we consider how this shift in information processing costs affects...
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Sean Silverthorne
- Web
Winning with Digital Platforms Online Course | HBS Online
a platform might increase profitability by changing its network clustering structures Advise a startup platform, Picabuu, on how it might generate strong network effects to scale Module Capstone: Picabuu 6 hrs Module 3 Scaling and...
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- 06 Nov 2019
- Op-Ed
Torched Planet: The Business Case to Reinvent Almost Everything
the regulatory and the market conditions that led to their success will remain the same and will not shift significantly in response to sweeping changes in technology, policy, or consumer preference. Some oil and gas companies, for...
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- 09 Apr 2024
- Blog Post
IFC India: JSW Steel
more citizens are achieving personal wealth, and the middle class is growing. On our trip to India, we had the opportunity to meet with a variety of companies that are part of the clean build: from incumbent power and steel producers that are working to View Details
- 01 Aug 2001
- News
Cleveland Global Alumni Conference a Sold-Out Success
Potentia Pharmaceuticals, winner of this year's HBS Business Plan Contest (see pages 6-7). When creating a successful venture, said Hart, basics such as scalability, sustainability, adaptability, and profitability are key components of...
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Scaling Technology Ventures - Course Catalog
Students will learn how leadership teams address the challenges and opportunities ventures face after achieving product-market fit – and how to activate and manage exponential growth. The course reflects the recent shift in market...
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- 06 Sep 2016
- First Look
September 6, 2016
response in receiver actions after learning that they were profitably deceived. Despite the change in receiver behavior, stated beliefs about sender strategies remain insufficiently skeptical, which suggests that while direct and...
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Carmen Nobel
- 01 Dec 2022
- News
December 2022 Alumni and Faculty Books and Podcasts
current and aspiring leader to reach their full, authentic potential. Purpose and Profit: How Business Can Lift Up the World By George Serafeim, the Charles M. Williams Professor of Business Administration Harper Collins Leadership Are purpose and View Details
- 24 Sep 2001
- Research & Ideas
Why the Internet Doesn’t Change Everything
entrepreneurs sensed that they, too, were standing on the edge of history, bending authority to their will and reaping fabulous profits along the way. Some of them succeeded beyond their wildest dreams. Pioneers such as Thomas Edison and...
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by Debora L. Spar
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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...
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- 15 Oct 2008
- First Look
First Look: October 15, 2008
decades in the U.S. advertising agency industry: How can the shift from the bundling to the unbundling of services be explained and what accounts for the slow pace of change? Using a cost-based theoretical framework of bundling due to...
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Martha Lagace
- 02 Apr 2014
- What Do You Think?
Has the Post-Capitalist Economy Finally Arrived?
and using 'money' facilitates the exchange of goods and services. So we are still capitalists " Barry Shere commented that "I do not see how profits are neutered as a result of the pressure on prices and margins per transaction....
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- 04 Jan 2010
- Research & Ideas
Best of HBS Working Knowledge 2009
advantages, great employee and customer loyalty, and a smoother on-ramp in leadership succession. A book excerpt from The Ownership Quotient: Putting the Service Profit Chain to Work for Unbeatable Competitive Advantage by HBS professor...
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- 21 Apr 2014
- Research & Ideas
Bio-Piracy: When Western Firms Usurp Eastern Medicine
emerging market entities as imitators. (Cases of bio-piracy indicate the opposite.) From a practical perspective, they wanted to suss out factors that might thwart bio-piracy altogether. In a series of new papers, the researchers trace a significant historical View Details
- 23 Aug 2019
- Blog Post
A Summer of Peaks and Swells: Interning at Patagonia
its two thousand employees have the means and the will to prove to the rest of the business world that doing the right thing makes for a good and profitable business.” There was meaningful work to be a part of at Patagonia. In discovering...
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- 13 Jan 2009
- First Look
First Look: January 13, 2009
Long-Run Investment: The Case of Innovation Authors:Josh Lerner, Morten Sørensen, and Per Strömberg Abstract A long-standing controversy is whether LBOs relieve managers from short-term pressures from public shareholders, or whether LBO funds themselves are driven by...
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Martha Lagace