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Faculty - Creating Emerging Markets

Subbiah Dr. Nalli Kuppuswami Chetti Das Narayandas Edsel Bryant Ford Professor of Business Administration Research Interests : business marketing , customer focus , customer profitability analysis , customer... View Details
  • 10 May 2010
  • Research & Ideas

What Top Scholars Say About Leadership

leadership versus transactional leadership. We also wondered to what extent there were different insights depending on the unit of analysis with which one began. We knew it was essential to also invite people who were reflective,... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Education
  • 13 Sep 2011
  • First Look

First Look: September 13

in the control group receive a standard volunteer contract often offered for this type of task, whereas agents in the three treatment groups receive small financial rewards, large financial rewards, and non-financial rewards, respectively. The View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
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Business Finance Course Online | HBS Online

FAQs Enroll Now Key Concepts Understand the key financial levers that drive financial performance Discover how and why finance is concerned with cash flow versus profits and why that matters for your business and budget Identify ways to... View Details
  • 21 Dec 2011
  • Research & Ideas

The Most Common Strategy Mistakes

to understanding everything from the free enterprise system to the individual motivations of managers. Why are some companies more profitable than others? In this excerpt from an interview between Porter and Magretta, Porter discusses the... View Details
Keywords: by Joan Magretta
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Events - Business History

history research appears to show that profits and sustainability have been hard to reconcile throughout history. These tensions and conflicts merit careful examination from a variety of scholarly and practitioner perspectives. This... View Details
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Poor’s Manual: The Rise of Business Analysts - Railroads and the Transformation of Capitalism | Harvard Business School

profits and losses, tracking pricing, assessing standardized procedures, and improving technology. Henry Varnum Poor, author of A History of the Railroads and Canals of the United States (1860), editor of the American Railroad Journal... View Details
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Globalization - Faculty & Research

Globalization Globalization December 2014 Article Market Competition, Earnings Management, and Persistence in Accounting Profitability Around the World By: Paul M. Healy , George Serafeim , Suraj Srinivasan and Gwen Yu We examine how... View Details
  • 28 Aug 2012
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First Look: August 28

dispute and a trend analysis of over 400 total WTO disputes, I find that the WTO dispute settlement process is helping to legitimize the institution of free trade through its public display of rational authority and neutral expertise. At... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
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Patent search: A comparative table of databases

allows patent quality analysis based on the Patent Assets Index Methodology. Such an analysis helps tech driven companies gain valuable insights into the strength and relative value of patents and... View Details
  • 04 Oct 2011
  • First Look

First Look: October 4

emergence or change. Yet the question of identity endurance is equally puzzling. Relying primarily on the analysis of 309 internal bulletins produced at a French aeronautics firm over almost fifty years, we theorize a link between... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 05 May 2020
  • Research & Ideas

China Tariffs and Coronavirus a Double Hit to American Retailers

websites of hundreds of online retailers to track how they change over time. “What is distinguishing about our paper is that we observe prices not only at the border, but we can also see the impact in retail prices,” Cavallo says. Consumers sheltered from price... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
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Research - Behavioral Finance & Financial Stability

analyze potential policy solutions. Overall, their analysis suggests that the two key issues will be court congestion and excess liquidation and failure of small firms. See Robin’s other research here , Benjamin’s other research here ,... View Details
  • 06 Mar 2006
  • Research & Ideas

Four Strategies for Making Concessions

Richard E. Walton and Robert B. McKersie's book A Behavioral Theory of Labor Negotiations: An Analysis of a Social Interaction System (ILR Press, 1991). The head of a manufacturing firm was preparing to initiate talks with the leadership... View Details
Keywords: by Deepak Malhotra
  • May 2022
  • Case

Maestro Pizza: Coming in Hot!

By: Ramon Casadesus-Masanell and Fares Khrais
Maestro Pizza opened its first store in 2013 after its founder, Khalid Al Omran, recognized an opportunity in Saudi Arabia to offer high quality pizza at affordable prices. The business grew rapidly and under the radar at first, but soon enough caught the attention of... View Details
Keywords: Competitive Strategy; Competitive Advantage; Competition; Market Entry and Exit; Emerging Markets; Business Startups; Corporate Entrepreneurship; Product Positioning; Disruption; Disruptive Innovation; Advertising; Advertising Campaigns; Social Media; Forecasting and Prediction; Crisis Management; Growth and Development Strategy; Brands and Branding; Product Development; Production; Service Delivery; Business Growth and Maturation; Financial Statements; Cost Management; Analysis; Quality; Performance Consistency; Customer Satisfaction; Profit; Family Ownership; Food and Beverage Industry; Middle East; Saudi Arabia
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  • 12 Mar 2021
  • News

My Favorite Case

Company” In 1997, a portion of the Manila Metropolitan Water and Sewage System is taken over by a joint venture, the Manila Water Company, which must develop the newly acquired employees and assets into a profitable firm. I work in... View Details
Keywords: Business Schools & Computer & Management Training; Educational Services
  • 21 Feb 2005
  • Op-Ed

Is Business Management a Profession?

reason that the issue of trust arises is that these individuals are expected to exercise judgment—based on specialized knowledge and methods of analysis that they alone are thought to possess—in areas in which their decisions affect the... View Details
Keywords: by Rakesh Khurana, Nitin Nohria & Daniel Penrice
  • 10 Aug 2009
  • Research & Ideas

High Commitment, High Performance Management

value, though they all understand profit as an essential outcome. HCHP firms are able to show sustained performance because they achieve the following three paradoxical goals: Performance alignment: Managing with their head, leaders... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
  • 20 Oct 2010
  • Op-Ed

Export Competitiveness: Reversing the Logic

investments in infrastructure and targeted regulatory reforms. Only then will it become profitable for companies to make the investments in activities with higher levels of productivity that leverage that better skills available. For... View Details
Keywords: by Christian Ketels
  • 26 Aug 2014
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First Look: August 26

firms that are flush with cash (or have just had large positive cash shocks). Furthermore, NPEs target firm profits arising from exogenous cash shocks unrelated to the allegedly infringing patents. We next show that NPEs target firms... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne