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  • 19 Jul 2016
  • First Look

July 19, 2016

https://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cbmp/product/216078-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 716-426 The Inexorable Rise of Walmart? 1988–2016 In October 2015, Walmart surprised investors by announcing that it expected flat sales growth for 2015 and growth of only 3% to 4%... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 05 Jul 2011
  • First Look

First Look: July 5

  Working PapersTo Groupon or Not to Groupon: The Profitability of Deep Discounts Authors:Benjamin Edelman, Sonia Jaffe, and Scott Duke Kominers Abstract We examine the profitability and implications of... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 25 Apr 2005
  • Research & Ideas

New Learning at American Home Products

drug business. They relied, however, on licensing rather than building their own in-house capabilities for drug discovery and commercialization. In the low-tech OTC [over-the-counter] sector, they consistently maintained a strong profit... View Details
Keywords: by Alfred D. Chandler Jr.; Chemical; Health; Manufacturing; Pharmaceutical

    Joe C. Thompson, Jr.

    Thompson expanded the chain now known as “7-Eleven” in hopes of helping his starving company. Boosted by the end of Prohibition in 1933, the retail chain, along with the temporarily revived ice business, helped return Southland to View Details
    Keywords: Retail
    • 24 Jul 2018
    • Op-Ed

    4 Ways Managers Can Exercise Their 'Agency' to Change the World

    harness the power of business to address some of society’s most significant problems, not as a separate part of employees’ lives—businessperson by day, volunteer by night—but as an integrated whole, working in a profitable company that... View Details
    Keywords: by George Serafeim
    • 29 Sep 2009
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    First Look: September 29

    Authors:Michael C. Jensen and William H. Meckling Abstract This paper discusses five common divisional performance measurement methods—cost centers, revenue centers, profit centers, investment centers, and expense centers—while providing... View Details
    Keywords: Martha Lagace
    • Web

    Launch Lab/Capstone 1 - Course Catalog

    hypotheses that capture how the new product/service will create value, including business model design, pricing, sales and marketing, operating model and profit formula. The Capstone is divided into two parts, the first of which is an... View Details

      Justin Dart

      Dart transformed United Drug into a profitable firm again. He did this by going with the Rexall banner, which the founder Louis Liggett had made into a household name, and discarding most of the other names in use by the company.... View Details
      Keywords: Retail
      • June 2012
      • Article

      Comovement and Predictability Relationships Between Bonds and the Cross-Section of Stocks

      By: Malcolm Baker and Jeffrey Wurgler
      Government bonds comove more strongly with bond-like stocks: stocks of large, mature, low-volatility, profitable, dividend-paying firms that are neither high growth nor distressed. Variables derived from the yield curve that are already known to predict returns on... View Details
      Keywords: Relationships; Bonds; Stocks; Investment Return; Cash Flow; Quality; Risk and Uncertainty; Forecasting and Prediction; Profit
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      • December 2010 (Revised January 2012)
      • Supplement

      Vodafone in Japan (B)

      By: Juan Alcacer, Mary Furey and Mayuka Yamazaki
      By 2005, Vodafone Group was losing its footing in the sophisticated Japanese telecom market. What were they doing wrong? Should they cut their losses and leave Japan, or could they learn from mistakes and turn things around? View Details
      Keywords: Business Subsidiaries; Profit; Cross-Cultural and Cross-Border Issues; Knowledge Acquisition; Market Entry and Exit; Operations; Adaptation; Diversification; Expansion; Telecommunications Industry; Japan
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      Challenges and Opportunities in the Restaurant Industry - Course Catalog

      requires a focus on both hospitality and profitability – how can cultures be developed to deliver both consistently? Among the most significant challenges facing the industry are the decreasing availability, increasing cost, and high... View Details
      • 03 Sep 2013
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      First Look: September 3

      Government Efficiency, and Profitability Around the World By: Healy, Paul M., George Serafeim, Suraj Srinivasan, and Gwen Yu Abstract—We examine how cross-country differences in product, capital, and labor market competition, and... View Details
      Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
      • 01 Jul 2008
      • First Look

      First Look: July 1, 2008

      of rapid profit improvement. The question facing CEO Thomas J. Wilson was how to maintain the momentum. This case tracks the evolution of Allstate's strategy over 20 years, examining the logic behind the strategic changes, and the... View Details
      Keywords: Martha Lagace

        Charles S. Woolworth

        expansion. Though Frank Woolworth’s original one-price limit was eventually lifted, Woolworth stores continued to remain profitable under Charles Woolworth’s leadership, with stores growing to 2,000 by the time of his retirement in 1944. View Details
        Keywords: Retail

          John G. Searle

          product of John Searle’s intensive research program, Enovid was a huge success, allowing the firm’s profits to grow from $7.4 million to $24.2 million between 1960 and 1964. View Details
          Keywords: Healthcare

            Charles M. Schwab

            Schwab’s other achievements include the establishment of a profit sharing plan for Bethlehem employees and the creation of a unique leadership hierarchy that afforded lower managers much independence and greater pay. View Details
            Keywords: Metals

              Ben Cohen

              Cohen with his partner, Jerry Greenfield, created a business that was known as much for its socially conscious employment and philanthropy policies as for its high quality, unique ice cream flavors. During his tenure as CEO, Cohen ensured that Ben & Jerry's donated... View Details
              Keywords: Food & Tobacco
              • March 1993 (Revised June 1995)
              • Case

              Singapore TradeNet: The Tale Continues

              By: Lynda M. Applegate, John L. King and Boon-Siong Neo
              Continues the story of Singapore Network Services Pte. Ltd. (SNS), which was created to initiate and manage the creation of value-added networks for trade and other aspects of commerce in the island nation of Singapore. SNS built on its TradeNet experience to develop... View Details
              Keywords: Internet and the Web; Information Infrastructure; Internet and the Web; Profit Sharing; Partners and Partnerships; Trade; Business and Government Relations; Web Services Industry; Singapore
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                Philip Lehman

                Lehman was responsible for forming a profitable alliance with Goldman, Sachs that marked the beginning of a new type of investment house. Together they managed 114 negotiated offerings for 56 issuers. Their premiere interest was on the... View Details
                Keywords: Finance

                  Paul Fireman

                  Reebok was pegged as the fastest growing company in America from 1983-1987 by Fortune magazine, and in a 1987 survey by Forbes, Reebok was ranked as the most profitable of 880 companies. View Details
                  Keywords: Fabric & Apparel