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    Lido (Lee) A. Iacocca

    loan was granted and a year later, Iacocca announced Chrysler’s first profit in many years. During his turnaround of Chrysler, he brought the convertible back into fashion and introduced the minivan. View Details
    Keywords: Automotive & Aerospace
    • 09 Feb 2009
    • Research & Ideas

    Uncompromising Leadership in Tough Times

    purpose than simply profit and increasing stock price, though they were all laser-focused on profitability and saw it as essential to achieving their larger purpose for the firm. They had a multi-stakeholder... View Details
    Keywords: by Martha Lagace
    • 13 Sep 2012
    • Research & Ideas

    Why Public Companies Underinvest in the Future

    managers to favor short-term profits over long-term gains. The research results suggest that managers of public companies are under much more pressure than their private-firm counterparts to show short-term financial results. Peeking In... View Details
    Keywords: by Maggie Starvish

      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

        Ernest T. Weir

        one of the only firms in its industry that focused on the growing demand for lighter weight steel and alloy products, made it one of the only steel companies to consistently turn a profit during the Great Depression. View Details
        Keywords: Metals

          Harry F. Sinclair

          mid-west, building almost 900 miles of line in just two years. By 1929, Sinclair Oil refineries had a production capacity of 80,000 barrels a day, 12,000 acres of coal land, and many other holdings that made it a profitable oil... View Details
          Keywords: Utilities & Energy

            Frederick J. Fisher

            purchased a 60% interest in Fisher Body. After World War I, when the closed car became the industry standard, Fisher Body yielded especially high returns, emerging as Durant’s most profitable acquisition. View Details
            Keywords: Automotive & Aerospace

              Francis B. Davis Jr.

              United States Rubber gained a profit of $2 million. Davis introduced Kaylon, a foam rubber cushion material, in 1934, and in 1938, Davis developed a rayon cord to be used in tire production. View Details
              Keywords: Chemicals & Industrial

                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
                • 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
                • 07 Mar 2005
                • What Do You Think?

                Should Business Management Be Regarded as a Profession?

                knowledge) before being ... allowed to practice" (with attendant licensing and license renewal), 2) "a commitment to specialized knowledge as a public good" with an implicit "renunciation of profit maximization"... View Details
                Keywords: by James Heskett
                • April 2011
                • Teaching Note

                Neck & Neck: Leveraging the Club Neck Information (TN)

                Teaching Note for 111112. View Details
                Keywords: Budgets and Budgeting; Knowledge Use and Leverage; Profit; Planning; Advertising Campaigns; Mathematical Methods; Apparel and Accessories Industry; Retail Industry
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                • 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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                • 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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                  Roberto C. Goizueta

                  In a shrewd acquisition, Goizueta purchased Columbia Pictures for $750 million in 1982. Three years later, Columbia was Coca-Cola’s second most successful enterprise bringing in 14% of the operating income. In his first five years as CEO, Goizueta increased Coca-Cola’s... View Details
                  Keywords: Food & Tobacco
                  • 10 Jan 2017
                  • News

                  Paying It Forward

                  “People find us because everyone has the same problem,” says Malay Kundu (MBA 2003) of his company, StopLift, which is using software and video technology to stop massive losses in retail profits due to theft and checkout fraud. “Retail... View Details
                  • 02 Mar 2015
                  • Research & Ideas

                  Retail Reaches a Tipping Point—Which Stores Will Survive?

                  many of these businesses is still challenged," says Lal, the Stanley Roth, Sr. Professor of Retailing. "From a profit perspective, from a growth perspective, and more importantly from a return on investment perspective." In addition to... View Details
                  Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Retail

                    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
                    • 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

                      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