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Market Perspectives (previously Finance and Capitalism) - Course Catalog

media, sea level rise, employment of people with disabilities, and the like. We explore situations in which businesses’ pursuit of profits both positively and negatively affect their communities, including their employees, local physical... View Details
  • 01 Mar 2019
  • News

Research Brief: Unveiling the Truth about Transparency

resulted in an average increase in employer profits of 60 percent and lowered wages by 25 percent. The key finding is that transparency gives employers a reason to negotiate more aggressively, since the wages of higher-paid employees... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Myers

    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
    • 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
      • 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
      • 11 Feb 2019
      • Research & Ideas

      The Business of Saving the Planet

      "The fact that the benefits of addressing the problem of climate change almost certainly outweigh the costs ... does not make concerted global action to address the problem easy." —Climate Change in 2018: Implications for Business If there is one positive... View Details
      Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Energy; Green Technology
      • 09 Jun 2015
      • Sharpening Your Skills

      Sharpening Your Skills: Social Media

      Deighton, is that participants enhance their personal capital in performance of a good deed. Secrets to a Successful Social Media Strategy Misiek Piskorski explores the secrets of successful social media tactics in his book, A Social Strategy: How We View Details
      Keywords: Re: Multiple Faculty; Advertising
      • Web

      Strategies for Value Creation - Abridged (SVC-S) - Course Catalog

      combining elements of strategy and finance has four modules: (1) Understanding value creation, (2) Creating competitive advantage, (3) Sustaining competitive advantage, and (4) Driving profitable growth. Given the compressed nature of the... View Details
      • 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
      • 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

        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
        • 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
        • 01 Jun 2017
        • News

        Case Study: Something New

        affordable prices, a unique offering in the otherwise crowded wedding industry. But custom design creates ongoing operational challenges. As it grows, should Anomalie leverage its supply-chain advantages to create a line of off-the-rack styles, with the potential for... View Details
        Keywords: April White
        • September 1984
        • Case

        Henkel Corp.: International Sealants Brand SISTA (B)

        By: Robert J. Dolan
        Describes the outcome of implementation of the standardized plan described in Henkel (A). View Details
        Keywords: Marketing Strategy; Globalization; Expansion; Profit; Conflict Management; Outcome or Result; Consumer Products Industry; Construction Industry; Europe; West Germany
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        • 17 May 2016
        • First Look

        May 17, 2016

        expectation that private profit not come at the expense of consumer welfare. Consumers, Corporations, and Public Health assembles 17 case studies at the intersection of business and public health to illustrate how each side can inform and... View Details
        Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
        • 08 Sep 2010
        • First Look

        First Look: September 8, 2010

        adult decision maker. Finally, we list a set of open questions that could be profitably addressed by future research. Social Preferences and Strategic Uncertainty: An Experiment on Markets and Contracts Authors:Marco Piovesan, Antonio... View Details
        Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
        • 23 Jan 2007
        • First Look

        First Look: January 23, 2007

        http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=807023   PublicationsTime-Driven Activity-Based Costing: A Simpler and More Powerful Path to Higher Profits Authors:Robert S. Kaplan and Steven R. Anderson Publication:Boston:... View Details
        Keywords: Martha Lagace

          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