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- 03 Sep 2013
- First Look
First Look: September 3
profitability. Using a sample of 42,337 unique firms from 49 countries, we find that corporate profitability mean reverts faster in countries where product and capital markets are more competitive. Moreover, holding constant product,... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 15 Feb 2000
- Lessons from the Classroom
Delivering Information Services: A 30-Year Perspective
IPO in 1990 to a $10-billion company today, with a market value of close to $140 billion! I'm also doing research for a case on Drugstore.com, which is essentially a drug store "built" on the Internet. It's getting ready to View Details
Keywords: by Staff
- 12 Jan 2010
- First Look
First Look: Jan. 12
(e.g., rubber and coffee) ended up having higher revenues per capita and, thus, lower cost of capital. We also explain that the variation in revenues per capita was both a product of the variation in natural endowments (i.e., the fact... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 24 Jul 2019
- Lessons from the Classroom
Can These Business Students Motivate Londoners to Do the Right Thing?
For years, the United Kingdom sent out letters to delinquent taxpayers urging them to pay their overdue tax bills. The letters cost the government tens of millions of pounds per year, but, unfortunately, most citizens ignored these pleas for payment. In 2010, the UK... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 13 Oct 2011
- Lessons from the Classroom
Building a Business in the Context of a Life
out to do something fun for themselves and ended up creating a production that continues to attract a huge following. Kraus uses Blue Man Group as an example of finding your "flow"—experiencing such enjoyment from an activity that you... View Details
- 06 May 2008
- First Look
First Look: May 6, 2008
its historic status as a vendor of the Macintosh personal computer (PC) line. Mac sales remained vital to Apple's future, but they now accounted for less than half of its total revenue. The company's line of iPod media players, its iTunes online content store and its... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 17 Jun 2002
- Research & Ideas
A Litmus Test for Entrepreneurs
marketed its products as family food, targeting its messages to children as well as adults. Expanding slowly also gave Pujals the chance to work out and test his business model. He was able to determine exactly what sort of investments he... View Details
Keywords: by Walter Kuemmerle
- 21 Oct 2014
- First Look
First Look: October 21
attractive to both consumers and merchants, while trying to accelerate deployment at reasonable cost. Purchase this case: http://hbr.org/product/Pivots-and-Incentives-at-/an/915001-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 815-055 Rent the Runway (Abridged) Two months after... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 10 Oct 2007
- First Look
First Look: First Look: October 10
in-depth examination of new product development and launch strategies in the context of the music industry. Provides rich insights into how grassroots and mass-marketing approaches can facilitate new... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 03 Apr 2007
- First Look
First Look: April 3, 2007
Business School Case 806-044 Fred Khosravi is a serial medical device entrepreneur. In his latest venture, he must decide whether to sell now or continue to develop his current product and whether to market it, sell the company, or IPO.... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 17 Apr 2012
- First Look
First Look: April 17
case considers the challenges of entering the fiercely competitive retirement market, introduces students to the large literature on the behavioral biases of individual investors, and asks students to evaluate an innovative new financial View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 15 May 2013
- Research & Ideas
From McRibs to Maseratis: The Power of Scarcity Marketing
ourselves). Happy Money provides valuable information not only for pleasure-seeking consumers, but also for companies looking to increase the happiness of both employees and customers. The following excerpt describes how the power of limited access led to fanatical... View Details
Keywords: Re: Michael I. Norton
- 09 Feb 2004
- Research & Ideas
Got a New Strategy? Now Make it Happen
Technologies' Systems Generation and Delivery Unit (SGDU), was charged with creating a single global company from a set of fragmented businesses in Asia, Europe, and the United States. To gain control over product decisions being made by... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Beer & Russell A. Eisenstat
- 28 Jun 2016
- First Look
June 28, 2016
synergies as well as a recently added contingent value right (CVR) designed to “sweeten” the offer and decide how to respond. Purchase this case: https://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cbmp/product/216057-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 816-068 Saudi Aramco and Corporate... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 04 Apr 2019
- Cold Call Podcast
Can Mark Zuckerberg Rebuild Trust in Facebook?
though he likes the limelight on his terms, he's been enigmatic as a leader. Let's remind people Facebook has only been around, I think they launched in 2006 to the public. So it's still a relatively young company and one that's... View Details
- 22 Aug 2011
- Research & Ideas
Getting to Eureka!: How Companies Can Promote Creativity
was enough to spur the innovation, offering inventors a "seal of approval" they could then use to show investors that their idea had merit. "When you think about the cost of launching a new innovation, it is clearly an... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 21 Apr 2009
- First Look
First Look: April 21, 2009
Telecom) must decide if launching Read&Go, an electronic newsstand built around an e-paper reader, would be successful. The case describes (1) Orange's strategy; (2) the company's new product development... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 06 Feb 2006
- Research & Ideas
The Trouble Behind Livedoor
discourage short-sellers of their stock by launching ad campaigns threatening to them. Not surprisingly, this behavior seems to work. A more benign form of this occurs when firms spend resources to attract a particular kind of investor.... View Details
- 05 Sep 2012
- First Look
First Look: September 5
had turned around by improving competitiveness in quality, design, and cost. Ford's Alan Mulally, GM CEO Ed Whitacre, and Chrysler CEO Sergio Marchionne took different approaches to guide their respective companies to improvements in View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 08 Oct 2013
- First Look
First Look: October 8
Triandiflou and Ken Burows worked resolutely to plan for the launch of their sales management software company. Soon they recruited a third member, Mike Meisenheimer, to lead product development. Each... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne