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- 19 Oct 2009
- Research & Ideas
Why Are Web Sites So Confusing?
stories. Indeed, all of these intermediaries are in the business of matching consumers with products. Trouble is, prior to visiting an intermediary, consumers are interested only in some products, which may not necessarily be the ones...
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by Andrei Hagiu & Bruno Jullien
- 02 Mar 2015
- Research & Ideas
‘Retail Revolution’ Excerpt: The Scale of the Ecommerce Threat
lowered, gross margin declines directly eat into net margins. Although this dynamic does not necessarily send retailers directly to bankruptcy, falling store profits will force many retailers to a point...
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- 01 Jun 2017
- News
Streamlining the Supermarket
full-time employees, slashing labor costs by 90 percent. Those two innovations are expected to add up to a net profit margin of three times that of the overall industry. “And that is really powerful,” Pedró...
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Francis Storrs
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Supplemental Financial Information - Annual Report 2014
internally funded faculty research. The resulting intellectual capital is disseminated by Executive Education and Harvard Business Publishing (HBP) to managers around the world. Completing a self-sustaining cycle, revenues from these two groups serve as the primary...
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- 28 Jun 2004
- Research & Ideas
Microfinance: A Way Out for the Poor
for someone to get off the ground: enough to buy inventory, rent space, and begin to generate an income in order to feed, clothe, and shelter a family. A legal loan of that amount from a real bank is also the difference between paying fair View Details
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by Martha Lagace
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Supplemental Financial Information - Annual Report 2014
fiscal 2013, primarily driven by an increase in the size of the faculty and staff. The total number of faculty at HBS, as measured in full-time equivalents (FTEs), can rise or fall in any given year as a result of retirements, departures, and fluctuations in recruiting...
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Supplemental Financial Information - Annual Report 2019
primarily driven by growth at Executive Education, Publishing, and Online. All three groups delivered solid operating margin leverage on sales growth in fiscal 2019, and Online generated an operating surplus for the first time. Despite...
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Supplemental Financial Information - Financial Report 2015
contribution. Reflecting historically low interest rates, the School’s interest income remained flat year-over-year at zero in fiscal 2015. Continue to Page 2 * In pursuit of greater comparability across the...
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Supplemental Financial Information - Annual Report 2017
contribution margin for the year. Total revenue at HBP grew by $4 million, or nearly 2 percent, to $221 million, from $217 million in fiscal 2016, driven by 11 percent growth in Higher Education group sales. Higher Education continued to...
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CFO Letter - Annual Report 2019
Publishing (HBP, or Publishing), and Harvard Business School Online (Online) groups, the School leverages the intellectual capital created by the faculty to educate leaders and influence the practice of management on a global scale. Completing the cycle, View Details
- 22 Dec 2022
- Blog Post
Climate Stories Episode #13: Democratizing Climate Returns - Nisha Desai (HBS 1997), Founder and CEO of Invest With Intention
With Intention. “We want consumers to sync what they are investing in with their financial assets, with education about decarbonization investment opportunities in their own homes and cars.” She continued, “My husband and I have been disciplined savers. But even if you...
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Supplemental Financial Information - Annual Report 2016
revenues—from MBA tuition, alumni gifts, and Executive Education and HBP (and eventually HBX) margin contributions—serve as the primary source of research funding. These funds also provide crucial support for innovation. Recent examples...
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Supplemental Financial Information - Annual Report 2017
departures, and recruiting activity. Net of retirements and departures, the size of the HBS faculty was unchanged at 233 FTEs in fiscal 2017. At the same time, the School’s administrative staff grew to a budgeted 1,680 FTEs, from 1,631 in...
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CFO Letter - Annual Report 2017
of last year’s rate. Driven by these positive revenue and expense dynamics, fiscal 2017 was a strong year for operating margins and internally generated cash at the School. Operating cash flow grew 21 percent, driven mainly by higher...
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- 01 Nov 2011
- First Look
First Look: Nov. 1
repatriated earnings from foreign affiliates exceeded net capital investments by $1.1 trillion in 2010 dollars; and from 1950 to 2010, repatriated earnings and net interest...
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Sean Silverthorne
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Supplemental Financial Information - Financial Report 2015
$294 million, from $276 million in the prior year. The total number of faculty at HBS, as measured in full-time equivalents (FTEs), can rise or fall in any given year as a result of retirements, departures, and fluctuations in recruiting activity. View Details
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Supplemental Financial Information - Annual Report 2016
fall in any given year as a result of retirements, departures, and fluctuations in recruiting activity. Net of retirements and departures, the School’s faculty increased by two FTEs to 233 in fiscal 2016, from 231 FTEs a year earlier. HBS...
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Financial Report 2018 - Financial Report 2018
Executive Education and HBP, total net margin contribution as a percentage of revenue grew to 10.5 percent, from 8.6 percent last year and 7.7 percent five years ago. Cash from operations—the School’s...
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- 26 Jan 2016
- First Look
January 26, 2016
entrepreneurial channel using data from the Longitudinal Business Database of the U.S. Census Bureau. The marginal effect of taxation for growth for a state at the 10th or 25th percentile of corruption is significantly positive; on the...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 28 Jul 2015
- First Look
First Look: July 28, 2015
sellers of CDS protection are an important determinant of CDS spread movements. I first establish that markets are dominated by a handful of net protection sellers, with five sellers accounting for nearly half of all View Details
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Carmen Nobel