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- 01 Sep 2010
- News
Reinventing the Annual Report
"That's the report. Now, would anyone like to carp?" © James Stevenson/The New Yorker Collection/ www.cartoonbank.com I am always interested in reading what the companies I own stock in have to say about themselves in their ritualistic... View Details
Keywords: Robert G. Eccles
- 10 Oct 2007
- First Look
First Look: First Look: October 10
defeated by a less reformist coalition. Stock prices of government-controlled companies that had been slated for definite privatization by the BJP dropped by 3.5 percent relative to private firms. Surprisingly, government-controlled... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 22 Jul 2002
- Research & Ideas
How Business Strategy Tamed the “Invisible Hand”
continued in the 1960s, fueled by a booming stock market and corporate strategies that were heavily geared toward growth and diversification. In a classic 1960 article, "Marketing Myopia," Theodore... View Details
Keywords: by Pankaj Ghemawat
- 05 May 2003
- Research & Ideas
Sharing the Responsibility of Corporate Governance
For example, managing earnings to meet analyst expectations may start out being rationalized as necessary to avoid undue volatility in the stock price but end up being used to artificially pump up the View Details
Keywords: by Carla Tishler
- 01 Dec 1997
- News
Making Real Progress in the Middle East: The Bottom-Up, Economic Solution
rate is 16 percent) and is paying its employees 30 percent to 40 percent above the average Jordanian wage rate in similar fields. Furthermore, the venture has the potential to open up markets to both sides that have hitherto been... View Details
- 06 May 2015
- What Do You Think?
Are You Ready for Personalized Predictive Analytics?
tomorrow's version of this technique will be based on the analysis of massive files of individual profiles, from which predictions will be built that establish stock levels needed to support 30-minute deliveries. Personalized logistics... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 24 Aug 2016
- Research & Ideas
Can Obamacare Be Saved?
they also risk having to switch provider networks, disrupting patient-physician relationships. "According to Kaiser, health insurance premiums for the average plan are expected to rise by 9 percent in 2017" These consumers will... View Details
- 24 Jun 2008
- First Look
First Look: June 24, 2008
cluster size and degree of specialization is measured along 3D: absolute number of employees (>10,000 jobs is used as cut-off for a regional cluster), degree of specialization (regional sector employment is at least two times expected... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Jan 2004
- News
A. G. Lafley, MBA 1977
P&G recently reported the strongest earnings in its long history, and its stock price has doubled since 2000. Key ingredients in the company's resurgence include innovation, micromarketing, and an emphasis on nurturing talent. Notes... View Details
- 10 Nov 2008
- What Do You Think?
How Much Can You Ask of Your Customers?
over-involvement (of) customers have led to bitter intellectual property right disputes customers simultaneously trying to drive the product in two (or more) very separate market directions (or) feature creep that literally prevents... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Heskett
- 01 Oct 1998
- News
Andresen Becomes First European and First Exec. Ed. Graduate to Endow HBS Professorship
program at the Nestlé Group in Germany, where he showed a particular talent for marketing and product management. His skills attracted the attention of the management at Pfizer-Germany, who hired him in 1966 as senior brand manager. A... View Details
- 23 Apr 2008
- Op-Ed
The Gap in the U.S. Treasury Recommendations
years for the U.S. stock market since the Great Depression, only 18 banks failed, and thus far into the current crisis, only 5 have gone under, all of them relatively small. Some bank regulators may have... View Details
- 16 Feb 2004
- Research & Ideas
HBS Center Focuses on Europe
European market with the introduction of the Euro.— Vincent Dessain With the support of the ERC, the geographic distribution of European cases is shifting to the continent with a wide spread of countries represented including France,... View Details
Keywords: by Cynthia Churchwell
- 01 Dec 2013
- News
Curing Health Care
practice. We put our ideas into practice, see how they work, and learn from that how to make them even better." —Deborah Blagg Prescription: Make Medicine Personal A writer and scientist with a PhD in biophysics from Johns Hopkins, Gregory View Details
- 11 Nov 2014
- First Look
First Look: November 11
company's desire to preserve its partner's control over decision rights. Why did Hong Kong deny Alibaba's requests to list dual-class shares or to allow its partners to nominate a majority of the board of directors and, in the process, turn away a superstar in Alibaba?... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 23 Jan 2008
- Op-Ed
A House Divided: Investment or Shelter?
Dictionaries are not static. Some words go unused for so long that lexicographers dub them archaic. Definitions also gravitate to that catch-bin. The plummeting housing market has forced a reevaluation, not just of the financial value of... View Details
- 16 Apr 2013
- First Look
First Look: April 16
democratize information and change the way that stocks are traded, threatening the industry's product and business model. There were upheavals and stagnation in established core financial markets such as the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- Web
Entrepreneurial Sales 102: Building the First Sales Team - Course Catalog
sales team Establish your first sales plan Manage the board’s expectations on revenue Instrument an accurate forecasting model “Superior sales and distribution by itself can create a monopoly, even with no product differentiation. The... View Details
- 01 Apr 1998
- News
HBS Alumni Association Board of Directors: President's Report
at HBS, the conference will focus on the tools used by both large and small companies to identify and pursue opportunities in the marketplace. I thought I would give you a preview of what to expect in the Windy City. An important feature... View Details
- 05 May 2003
- Research & Ideas
How Bank of America Turned Branches into Service-Development Laboratories
deposits and withdrawals. Five were turned into "financial centers," spacious, relaxed outlets where customers would have access to the trained staff and advanced technologies required for sophisticated services such as stock... View Details