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Whitney Stevens
the negativity associated with the firm’s labor struggles, Whitney Stevens invested in many new and profitable operations, the most notable of which was a partnership with Ralph Lauren to make home décor, that allowed View Details
Keywords: Fabric & Apparel
Roger B. Smith
investing heavily in technological automation and robotics, and ridding the company of its risk-averse bureaucracy. Though these changes struggled to earn consistent profits for GM, Smith was nonetheless credited with putting it back on... View Details
Keywords: Automotive & Aerospace
Otto D. Donnell
assets, which then stood at $203 million. Under Donnell, Ohio Oil produced 39 million barrels of gross oil, boasting a profit of $68 million, a near tenfold increase from when he began his presidency. View Details
Keywords: Utilities & Energy
- 20 Jan 2010
- First Look
First Look: Jan. 20
paper explores the influence of social categories on the perceived trade-off between relatively bad but equal distribution of resources between two parties and profit maximizing, yet asymmetric, payoffs. Studies 1 and 2 show that people... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Dec 2020
- News
Steady as She Goes
for the community was a profitable strategy: The company saw a 7.1 percent year-over-year increase in retail profits for the fiscal year that ended in June. Weckert isn’t going to predict that the coming... View Details
- 01 Oct 1996
- News
"Service-Profit Chain" Links Members of Service Management Unit
The following article is the sixth in a series on the activities and research taking place in each academic unit at HBS. Why was Southwest Airlines the only U.S. airline to realize a profit in 1992? What has made crime in New York City... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 18 Jul 2016
- Research & Ideas
Is Greed Ruining Private Equity Firms?
In a first-ever look at the internal economics driving private equity partnerships, Harvard Business School researchers have found that many of these funds can be torn apart by greed among founding partners who take home a much bigger share of View Details
Michel C. Bergerac
Bergerac, however, is most known for the extensive diversification of Revlon into a health care products business. With the acquisition of companies in such areas as drugs, vision care, and medical diagnostics, the expanded health care division contributed 66% of... View Details
Keywords: Personal Care & Home Products
John M. Hiebert
In his years of leadership at Sterling, Hiebert consolidated the brand names of Bayer, Centaur-Caldwell and Chas into a single division that became increasingly profitable and also launched the environmentally conscious Zimmerman process,... View Details
Keywords: Healthcare
Roger A. Enrico
player in the snack and beverage industry, which enabled it to gain significant market share and post improved profitability numbers. During his tenure, Pepsi-Cola and Mountain Dew were the second and third largest soda brands, Aquafina... View Details
Keywords: Food & Tobacco
- January 1999
- Case
Prague Post, The
By: Paul A. Gompers
Lisa Frankenberg, co-founder of the Prague Post, is faced with several business and professional decisions. The English-language paper she founded is under pressure from competition and a Czech Republic recession. She must decide how to return the paper to... View Details
Keywords: Growth and Development Strategy; Decisions; Decision Choices and Conditions; Profit; Competition; Financial Crisis; Personal Development and Career; Publishing Industry; Czech Republic
Gompers, Paul A. "Prague Post, The ." Harvard Business School Case 299-033, January 1999.
- February 2010
- Teaching Note
Fabindia Overseas Pvt. Ltd. (TN)
By: Mukti Khaire
Teaching Note for [807113]. View Details
- 11 Jun 2019
- Book
These Aren't Beach Books, but Managers Should Read Them Anyway
greater burdens on managers but also creating new opportunities to shine. Varieties of Green Business: Industries, Nations and Time Making a business successful is a challenge in itself, but making a green business profitable is an even... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Dec 2001
- News
BOOK: Ruling the Waves
that commerce craves, and the stability that society demands." Time and again, Spar writes, "once the technological frontier has moved beyond a certain point, power and profits seem to shift away from those who break the rules and back to... View Details
- 01 Dec 2022
- News
Flying High
aerospace sector, proposed a different approach for Aero, one that took its cues from other profitable airlines that own their fleets: “We’re a low-cost carrier on the back end and a premium service on the front end,” she explains. Mikael... View Details
Keywords: April White; aviation; airlines; entrepreneurship; leadership; innovation; Air Transportation; Transportation
- 01 Jun 1999
- News
Short Takes
familiar business imperative of creating value. "A firm that delivers cash to shareholders only by selling off assets is not sustainable," he says, "and neither is a firm that creates accounting profits only by liquidating natural capital... View Details
Keywords: Judith A. Ross
- 01 Sep 2009
- News
Ready for Launch
that provides incentives to employees while generating profits and growth.” The plan: Rechargeable batteries are a safe, clean, affordable energy source. Each battery has the size and weight of a brick and can be delivered directly to... View Details
- 30 Oct 2006
- First Look
First Look: October 31, 2006
Entrepreneur's Dilemma Author:Noam Wasserman Periodical:The Academy of Management Best Paper Proceedings (August 2006) Abstract The two major motivations to start a new venture are the profit motive and the control motive. This paper... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 08 Jul 2013
- Research & Ideas
Everything Must Go: A Strategy for Store Liquidation
working paper, doctoral student Nathan Craig and professor Ananth Raman introduce a dynamic approach for optimizing the profitability of store liquidation that increases net recovery on cost by 2 to 7 percent of assets on hand, an... View Details
- November 1999
- Case
Seminis Inc.
By: Ray A. Goldberg, Jonathan West, Carin-Isabel Knoop and David Benedict Pearcy
Seminis became the world leader in vegetable seeds through a series of acquisitions. This case describes the Seminis strategy toward capturing value, biotechnology, and international operations. View Details
Keywords: Business Earnings; Acquisition; Profit; Global Strategy; Corporate Strategy; Valuation; Value Creation; Biotechnology Industry
Goldberg, Ray A., Jonathan West, Carin-Isabel Knoop, and David Benedict Pearcy. "Seminis Inc." Harvard Business School Case 600-030, November 1999.