cycling - Publications - Faculty & Research

14 Oct 2008
Research & Ideas

Should You Bring Advertising Expertise In-House?

business cycle, and we chose to study 1991 and 1999 because those years bracket a full business cycle in the U.S. economy. With the passage of almost another decade, how much reliance is currently placed on in-house agencies? The... View Details

Keywords: by Sarah Jane Gilbert; Advertising

05 Nov 2007
What Do You Think?

Why Is Succession So Badly Managed?

with a good track record but an "outsider" with limited knowledge of the business. The cycle is begun again. Sound familiar? It should. It's unfolding in two of the largest financial institutions in the world, Merrill Lynch and... View Details

Keywords: Re: James L. Heskett

17 Sep 2001
Research & Ideas

Let Customers Call the Shots

experiencing them. There is also an issue of skepticism. Clust has about 175 buying cycles (products actually on sale) at any point in time, compared with about 4,000 aggregated demands. YesMail's emails have a response rate of 15%, which... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

09 Nov 2009
Research & Ideas

Come Fly with Me: A History of Airline Leadership

a management perspective, what challenges face airline leaders today? A: Industries can evolve and change as a result of both external and internal forces. As the life cycle of an industry evolves, the dominant business model also... View Details

Keywords: by Sarah Jane Gilbert; Air Transportation

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From the CFO - Financial Report 2015

investments in facilities and information technology (I.T.). Although the objective for investments such as these is to generate revenue and operating income, this cycle can take years to complete. As a result, our financial plan for the... View Details

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CFO Letter - Annual Report 2014

liquidity to execute on its mission and sustain the campus through economic cycles over the long term. One of our key financial planning goals for HBS is to serve as a living model of a well-run organization—consistent with the skills,... View Details

09 Jul 2010
News

Poised for Impact

Keywords: Finance

September 1992
Case

Star Cablevision Group (A): Harvesting in a Bull Market

By: William A. Sahlman

First case in a series of six cases that follow the experience of a cable television company as it adjusts to the rapid rise and precipitous decline of the stock market in the late 1980s. In this case Don Jones, the company's founder and owner, sees the rise in public... View Details

Keywords: Behavioral Finance; Financial Markets; Corporate Entrepreneurship; Business Startups; Restructuring; Corporate Strategy; SWOT Analysis; Wealth; Business Cycles; Entertainment and Recreation Industry

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09 Jun 2009
First Look

First Look: June 9

has a positive effect on current hours. As we show, the model also has reasonable implications for stock prices. We estimate our model for data post-1984 and show that the innovations shock accounts for nearly a third of the variation in output at business View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

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Global Trade, Capital and National Institutions - Course Catalog

course encourages students to consider fundamental characteristics of international trade and financial system: effects of trade, capital flows, why cycles in international capital flows recur, and how sovereign debt and domestic debt... View Details

01 Dec 2003
News

Rural Renewal

the much-neglected soil back to life through rotational grazing. “Nutrients cycle from the grass through our cows and sheep, and wind up back in the soil,” explains Reade. The global market for organic food and drink increased to $23... View Details

Keywords: Susan Young; Crop Production; Agriculture

August 2019 (Revised February 2020)
Case

New Hope Liuhe: Building an Integrated Agri-Food Business

By: Forest L. Reinhardt, Shu Lin, Natalie Kindred and Nancy Hua Dai

In October 2018, LIU Chang (Angela), chairman of Beijing-based New Hope Liuhe (NHL), was considering the strategy of the firm. With $9 billion in sales and a presence in nearly 20 countries, NHL was China’s largest animal feed producer and a major pork and poultry... View Details

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28 Mar 2019
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California Alumni Explore Role of Capitalism in Addressing Climate Change

take action on climate now, while Roland Hwang, Managing Director, Climate and Clean Energy Program, NRDC, closed with a talk on reimagining the role of government and opportunities to create virtuous cycles with business leaders. “It was... View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley

15 Nov 2010
Lessons from the Classroom

Connecting Goals and Go-To-Market Initiatives

and development initiatives aimed at aligning selling behaviors with market realities. Q: How can companies deal with these issues and overcome obstacles to set a strategic foundation for sales success? A: First, as the performance management View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Retail

01 Mar 2019
News

Alumni and Faculty Books for March 2019

sense of fulfillment and purpose. Her first law or principle is that stories matter. We are all living in the story of scarcity—the story that tells us we don’t have enough. We want more and more, perpetuating a vicious cycle of... View Details

24 Aug 2017
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Unlocking Potential

prison. Studies by the US Bureau of Justice Statistics show that nearly seven out of 10 former inmates reoffend and return to prison within three years. The Reset Foundation tries to break that cycle by diverting people from the penal... View Details

Keywords: Ralph Ranalli; Community Partners; Legal Services; Professional Services

01 Jun 2007
News

Steve Schwarzman

low for financial defaults. So when someone asks whether we are going to have problems with increasing levels of defaults, I think it’s almost self-evident. Of course there will be higher levels of defaults when you’re at a 26-year low. That’s the way the financial... View Details

Keywords: Roger Thompson; Finance

12 Jan 2015
Research & Ideas

Regulators Ease Up on Companies Generating Political Benefits

levers that politicians pull to spring the trap, including appointment of favored regulators, control of budget appropriations, and direct arm bending of regulators on behalf of companies they favor. In all these models, the cycle of... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

02 Sep 2019
What Do You Think?

Are Overlooked Forces Shielding the US from Severe Economic Downturns?

witnessed, but NO VIRGINIA, the business cycle is not dead.” Others cited forces that, by implication, appeared to weight more heavily as influences on expansion. They included continued reasonable increases in business earnings in... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett; Service

09 Jan 2014
Research & Ideas

Excerpt: ’Fortune Tellers’

economic data that it collected and published. He made it a priority of government to study the nature of business cycles and to bring business executives to Washington, D.C., to improve their ability to spot upcoming trends. Together,... View Details

Keywords: by Walter A. Friedman

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