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  • 06 Sep 2012
  • Working Paper Summaries

FIN Around the World: The Contribution of Financing Activity to Profitability

Keywords: by Russell Lundholm, George Serafeim & Gwen Yu
  • 08 Feb 2021
  • Book

How to Make the World Better, Not Perfect

toward racial equity more recently, he began to feel uncomfortable helping only people who were bold enough to ask for this favor. After all, while social science research shows most people do not actively... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding

    Frenemies in Platform Markets: Heterogeneous Profit Foci as Drivers of Compatibility Decisions

    We study compatibility decisions of two competing platform owners that generate profits through both hardware sales and royalties from content sales. We consider a game-theoretic model in which two platforms offer different standalone utilities to users. We find that... View Details
    • May 1995
    • Teaching Note

    Direct Product Profitability at Hannaford Bros. Co. TN

    By: David E. Bell
    Teaching Note for (9-591-002). View Details
    Keywords: Retail Industry
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    • June 2007 (Revised November 2007)
    • Case

    Italy: If not now, when?

    By: Richard H.K. Vietor and Julia Galef
    Describes Italy's main macroeconomic problems: low productivity growth, stagnant GDP growth, and high public debt. As of early 2007, the country's global competitiveness has plummeted and its debt remains well above the level allowed by the EU's Maastricht treaty.... View Details
    Keywords: Economic Slowdown and Stagnation; Macroeconomics; Borrowing and Debt; International Relations; Competition; Italy
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    • April 2011
    • Supplement

    Emergia: Driving Profitability on Help Desk Contracts (CW)

    By: F. Asis Martinez Jerez
    Contact Data for September 2010, dictionary of terms, and agent login information. View Details
    Keywords: Contracts
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    • 18 Nov 2009
    • HBS Case

    Customer Feedback Not on elBulli’s Menu

    creativity and innovation trump any traditional decisions about pricing and operations. "I should charge 600 euros [for a meal at elBulli]," Adrià has said, "but I do not cook for... View Details
    Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Food & Beverage
    • 28 Mar 2016
    • News

    Culture Is Not the Culprit

    • 2013
    • Working Paper

    FIN Around the World: The Contribution of Financing Activity to Profitability

    By: Russell Lundholm, George Serafeim and Gwen Yu
    We study how the availability of domestic credit influences the contribution that financing activities make to a firm's return on equity (ROE). Using a sample of 51,866 firms from 69 countries, we find that financing activities contribute more to a firm's ROE in... View Details
    Keywords: Domestic Credit; Return Of Equity; Corporate Performance; Financial Statement Analysis; Financial Statements; Valuation; Cost of Capital; Asset Pricing; Economic Growth
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    • 22 Sep 2011
    • News

    Critics Fault H-P's Board, Not Just CEO

    • June 2017
    • Case

    MIA: Profit at the Base of the Pyramid

    By: Lynda M. Applegate, José Antonio Dávila Castilla, Sarah Mehta and Aldo Sesia
    In January 2016, Guillermo Jaime had just returned home to Mexico City after attending a Harvard Business School executive education program. Jaime was the founder and CEO of Mejoramiento Integral Asistido (MIA), a company providing affordable housing to low-income... View Details
    Keywords: Base Of The Pyramid; Social Capitalism; Housing; Emerging Markets; Social Enterprise; Society; Wealth and Poverty; Social Entrepreneurship; Construction Industry; Mexico
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    • October 2013 (Revised March 2015)
    • Supplement

    Kiehl's Since 1851: Pathway to Profitable Growth (B)

    By: Robert J. Dolan and Leslie K. John
    Email mking@hbs.edu for a courtesy copy.

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    • 29 May 2006
    • Research & Ideas

    Why CEOs Are Not Plug-and-Play

    and where to cut was clearly a plus for Carlos Ghosn, who is not a GE alumnus but is one of the cases we teach on a new CEO widely known for transforming the nearly bankrupt... View Details
    Keywords: by Boris Groysberg, Andrew N. McLean & Nitin Nohria; Employment
    • 24 Oct 2017
    • News

    Leading, Not Managing, in Crisis

    • 22 Jan 2011
    • News

    Google tremor not felt here

    • 31 May 2004
    • Research & Ideas

    How Team Leaders Show Support–or Not

    not appropriate for the team member); not providing enough clarity about an assignment; changing assignments or objectives too frequently; giving assignments that conflict with... View Details
    Keywords: by Martha Lagace
    • 15 May 2015
    • News

    Ethical Negotiation: Not an Oxymoron

    • 18 Nov 2002
    • Research & Ideas

    Where Morals and Profits Meet: The Corporate Value Shift

    rather than misdeeds and malfeasance.— Lynn S. Paine Moreover, new issues are constantly coming to the fore as a result of changes in technology, society, and politics. For instance, data privacy was not a... View Details
    Keywords: by Carla Tishler
    • 30 Nov 2020
    • Research & Ideas

    COVID Not Slowing VC Investment

    seek larger equity stakes. “The valuations might not be as high as they would have expected, but there's still money there,” Gompers says. “There are still opportunities for those with really great companies... View Details
    Keywords: by Danielle Kost; Financial Services; Banking
    • 18 Apr 2011
    • Research & Ideas

    It’s Not Nagging: Why Persistent, Redundant Communication Works

    the wheel" to get buy-in and to reinforce the urgency of the previous communication, Neeley says. "Managers without authority enroll others to make sense of an issue together and go for a solution." The researchers also... View Details
    Keywords: by Kim Girard