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  • May 2022
  • Supplement

Maestro Pizza (C): Taking the Fight Outside

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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  • 10 Nov 2014
  • HBS Case

How Restaurants in Lima and Copenhagen Became Best in the World

himself as a gastronomic ambassador of Peru; he has this mission to promote Peruvian cuisine. The question is how is that aligned with the business of profitability and growth, [and] so how does he stay authentic. Does he stay true to... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Food & Beverage
  • 20 Jul 2010
  • First Look

First Look: July 20

note:http://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cb/product/610050-PDF-ENG Dassault Systèmes Stefan Thomke and Daniela BeyersdorferHarvard Business School Case 610-080 Dassault Systèmes, a leader in product lifecycle management software, has enjoyed a very View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 08 May 2007
  • First Look

First Look: May 8, 2007

S. Kaplan and Steven R. Anderson Periodical:Journal of Cost Management 21, no. 2 (March-April 2007): 5-15 Abstract Activity-based costing has enabled managers to see that not all revenue is good revenue and not all customers are View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 13 May 2014
  • First Look

First Look: May 13

Tesco, the UK's largest supermarket chain with revenues of £64.5 billion ($104 billion). CEO Philip Clarke unveiled the first half-year profit drop in almost 20 years and, in the UK, the majors Asda and Sainsbury were closing the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 25 Sep 2012
  • First Look

First Look: September 25

of declining revenues and profits at Lind as exchange rates and the impact of the Great Recession took its toll on the firm. Without a quick solution, Lind could be pushed into bankruptcy. Purchase this... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 21 Jan 2009
  • First Look

First Look: January 21, 2009

Case 709-017 Despite a tradition of high household savings, Japan has supported a dynamic and technically sophisticated consumer-lending sector. The high profitability of the sector has periodically attracted interest from domestic banks... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 24 Apr 2018
  • First Look

First Look at New Research and Ideas, April 24, 2018

Script Well known actor Paul Newman started a business to give profits to charity. Summarizes his experience in making the transition from one kind of leadership to another. Purchase this case:... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 07 Aug 2012
  • First Look

First Look: August 7

incentives on risk assessment and lending decisions. We first show that while high-powered incentives lead to greater screening effort and more profitable lending, their power is muted by both deferred compensation and the limited... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 26 Oct 2010
  • First Look

First Look: October 26, 2010

in payout taxes, we show that this prediction holds well. Payout taxes have a large impact on the dynamics of corporate investment and growth. Investment is "locked in" to profitable firms when payout is heavily taxed. Thus,... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 18 Dec 2018
  • First Look

New Research and Ideas, December 18, 2018

to offline media, which made attribution modeling more difficult. Decisions pertaining to product extensions, channel expansion beyond DTC e-commerce, and geographic expansion were also on the table to prove that Hubble's customer value proposition and operations could... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 15 May 2018
  • First Look

New Research and Ideas, May 15, 2018

help senior leaders achieve their goals. Too often, they’re done for short-term gain, but the cost savings are overshadowed by bad publicity, loss of knowledge, weakened engagement, higher voluntary turnover, and lower innovation, which hurt View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 11 Oct 2016
  • First Look

October 11, 2016

performance measurement and control. Modules 10–15 illustrate the use of these techniques by managers to achieve profit goals and strategies. This module rounds out the introductory section (modules 1–4) of the Management Control Systems... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 21 Apr 2015
  • First Look

First Look: April 21

Allstate's stock price rose 45%, buoyed by Wilson's promise that return on equity would reach 13% by 2014. At the May 2012 AGM, Wilson's support from shareholders surged to 97%. By the end of 2012, revenues were up 2% to $33.3 billion while operating View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel & Sean Silverthorne
  • 26 Nov 2007
  • Research & Ideas

Best Practices of Global Innovators

partners through revenue and profit sharing, while hedging risk by asking them to absorb a portion of development costs. The final principle that emerged in our work is the need to invest in building collaborative capabilities. Many... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
  • 14 Feb 2017
  • First Look

First Look at New Research: February 14

out his company’s growth plan for the upcoming five years. The new plan set ambitious goals in terms of revenue and profit increases. At the heart of the strategy to achieve these goals is a desire to embrace a more direct-to-consumer... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 18 Dec 2012
  • First Look

First Look: December 18

novel proposals. Download the paper: http://ssrn.com/abstract=2184791 IP Modularity: Profiting from Innovation by Aligning Product Architecture with Intellectual Property Authors:Henkel, Joachim, Carliss Y. Baldwin, and Willy C. Shih... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 17 Apr 2012
  • First Look

First Look: April 17

impact on the dynamics of corporate investment and growth. Investment is "locked in" in profitable firms when payout is heavily taxed. Thus, apart from any level effects, payout taxes change the allocation of capital. Download... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 01 May 2007
  • First Look

First Look: May 1, 2007

microfinance institutions (MFIs), MIA must now define the strategy for its future growth. Facing both the need to achieve scale and profitability as quickly as possible, and increasing competition from international and local providers... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 19 Jun 2007
  • First Look

First Look: June 19, 2007

Profitability at the MGM Grand Hotel"; "MercadoLibre.com"; and "Bancaja: Developing Customer Intelligence (A)". These datasets are available upon request from the author. Purchase this note:... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace

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