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  • 01 Apr 2002
  • News

Stocking Up Can Build Customer Value

A classic business problem from the 1950s illustrates the tension between inventory costs and missed sales. A newspaper vendor must decide how many papers to buy each day based on typical demand. His profit is optimized, the solution... View Details
Keywords: Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

    Clarence Francis

    Francis oversaw General Foods with a product line that included the successful Post cereals, Maxwell House and Sanka Coffee, Log Cabin Syrup and Jell-O. After absorbing an initial $17 million loss in the frozen foods sector, Francis was able to turn a View Details
    Keywords: Food & Tobacco
    • 12 May 2025
    • News

    Building in the Age of AI: Timeless Methods, Timely Tools

    profitable business models by embracing these timely tools to become "10x Leaders. This webinar was held on May 14, 2025. Building in the Age of AI Resources Download the presentation slides. View Details
    • 2011
    • Working Paper

    Observation Bias: The Impact of Demand Censoring on Newsvendor Level and Adjustment Behavior

    By: David F. Drake
    In an experimental newsvendor setting we investigate three phenomena: Level behavior — the decision-maker's average ordering tendency; adjustment behavior — the tendency to adjust period-to-period order quantities; and observation bias — the tendency to let the degree... View Details
    Keywords: Cost; Consumer Behavior; Decision Making; Prejudice and Bias; Profit
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    Drake, David F. "Observation Bias: The Impact of Demand Censoring on Newsvendor Level and Adjustment Behavior." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 12-042, December 2011.
    • January 2004 (Revised April 2004)
    • Case

    Ford Motor Company: Quality of Earnings Growth Analysis (A)

    By: David F. Hawkins and Jacob Cohen
    Even though Ford Motor Co. reports improved profitability, an equity analyst issues a sell recommendation and Standard & Poor's downgrades long-term debt. View Details
    Keywords: Quality; Business Earnings; Valuation; Investment Return; Profit; Financial Statements; Revenue; Auto Industry; Consulting Industry
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    Hawkins, David F., and Jacob Cohen. "Ford Motor Company: Quality of Earnings Growth Analysis (A)." Harvard Business School Case 104-059, January 2004. (Revised April 2004.)
    • 01 Apr 2014
    • First Look

    First Look: April 1

    opportunistic low-ball offers.   Working Papers The Effect of Management Control Elements on Coordination By: Bormann, Sara, Jan Bouwens, and Christian Hofmann Abstract—This study examines how control elements of a firm affect coordination among View Details
    Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

      Richard M. DeVos

      In 1959, with his partner Jay Van Andel, DeVos established one of the most profitable direct selling companies in the world. Van Andel and DeVos accomplished their success through the use of an elaborate pyramid-like distribution system... View Details
      Keywords: Personal Care & Home Products

        Pete Rozelle

        equal-revenue-earning teams. These changes allowed the NFL to become a profitable enterprise by promoting competition among the teams for players and among the networks and merchandisers for broadcasting and advertising rights,... View Details
        Keywords: Entertainment & Broadcast Media

          Bernard F. Gimbel

          and Milwaukee, Gimbel ran Saks Fifth Avenue stores in New York, Chicago, Detroit and Beverly Hills. During World War II, Gimbel earned huge profits on scarce consumer goods, which he had purchased earlier at low prices. View Details
          Keywords: Retail
          • 01 Feb 2000
          • Research & Ideas

          Keeping Track: Performance Measurement, Control & Strategy

          materials into the classroom and refined the concepts and models through discussions with students in my MBA course, Achieving Profit Goals and Strategies. The result is the fourteen chapters of this book, which includes contributions by... View Details
          Keywords: Re: Robert Simons

            Kenneth H. Olsen

            Olsen's DEC pioneered the minicomputer market in the 1960s and early 1970s, as well as the microcomputer market in the 1980s, garnering profits of over $1 billion by 1987. Olsen shepherded his company through many tough times, including... View Details
            Keywords: Computers & Electronics

              James R. Moffett

              In 1981, Moffett orchestrated one of the largest and most profitable mergers in Wall Street history – the merger of his oil exploration company, McMoRan Oil and Gas Company, with Freeport Minerals Corporation – creating a $4 billion... View Details
              Keywords: Agriculture & Mining

                Mills B. Lane, Jr.

                Taking over the small southern bank after the death of his father, Lane went on to build it into one of the largest and most profitable banks in the Southeast. Lane shook up the staid banking community by employing a variety of marketing... View Details
                Keywords: Finance

                  Howard B. Keck

                  profits of $200 million in 1979. Equally notable, however, was Keck’s work with the W. M. Keck Foundation, which was a huge supporter of science and technology. Under Keck’s leadership, the Foundation’s charitable trust grew from $250... View Details
                  Keywords: Utilities & Energy

                    Walter E. Sachs

                    In addition to continuing Goldman, Sachs’ success in the underwriting business, Walter Sachs expanded the company’s other business areas, his most notable venture being the creation of the investment trust arm, the Goldman, Sachs Trading Company. Despite the wildly... View Details
                    Keywords: Finance

                      William W. Prince

                      Prince took over the estate of his adopted father upon his death and concentrated his efforts on improving Armour, one of Chicago Stock Yards' subsidiaries. When Prince took over Armour, its principal business, meatpacking, was not profitable, but through a series of... View Details
                      Keywords: Food & Tobacco
                      • 19 Jul 2010
                      • Research & Ideas

                      How Mercadona Fixes Retail’s ’Last 10 Yards’ Problem

                      margins. Yet in the new case study "Mercadona," HBS assistant professor Zeynep Ton and research assistant Simon Harrow describe a Spanish supermarket chain that has done all this while achieving steady profits and double-digit... View Details
                      Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Retail; Food & Beverage
                      • 01 Feb 1999
                      • News

                      Newman's Own Brand of Charity

                      profits would have to go to charity. "To make money off that would be so tacky," he noted. From the outset, Newman eschewed costly market research and ignored industry wisdom that new product launches initially lose substantial sums of... View Details
                      • 01 Jun 2003
                      • News

                      HP's Fiorina Speaks at HBS

                      Silicon Valley’s quintessential “garage to riches” enterprise. Perhaps her biggest move has been HP’s 2002 merger with Compaq, the largest such marriage in high-tech history. Acknowledging the nay-saying and controversy that accompanied the deal, Fiorina noted, “We... View Details
                      Keywords: HP; Hewlitt-Packard; Fiorina; Compaq; Management of Companies and Enterprises; Management

                        George H. Love

                        improve its production efficiencies. The operation, which was losing money when he took the helm, was always profitable during his tenure. Love was also highly regarded for his fair union negotiations with John Lewis. In addition to... View Details
                        Keywords: Agriculture & Mining
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