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    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
    • 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
    Keywords: Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services; Management of Companies and Enterprises; Management; Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services; Professional Services; Electric Power Generation, Transmission, Distribution; Utilities
    • 27 Sep 2016
    • First Look

    September 27, 2016

    case: https://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cbmp/product/517002-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 117-101 Management Control Systems Module 1: Managing Organizational Tensions This module lays the foundation for implementing strategy using management control systems. It... View Details
    Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
    • 15 Jan 2008
    • First Look

    First Look: January 15, 2008

    specialize in different stages of a complex production process. This paper considers the pricing behavior and profitability of these so-called modular clusters. In particular, we investigate a possibility hinted at in prior work: that for... View Details
    Keywords: Martha Lagace
    • 28 Aug 2007
    • First Look

    First Look: August 28, 2007

    convinced that they had been deceived by the sellers about the profitability of the company. ABRY must determine whether they were deliberately misled, what courses of action are available, and which they should pursue. Considerations... View Details
    Keywords: Martha Lagace
    • 24 Sep 2014
    • Op-Ed

    Take a Trim Tab Approach to Climate Change

    The "bully pulpit"—a term coined by Theodore Roosevelt back when the word "bully" meant terrific—originally referred to the US presidency and its tremendous potential for speaking out and influencing public opinion. Nowadays, the term describes any position with the... View Details
    Keywords: by Amy C. Edmondson; Energy; Utilities
    • 30 Apr 2001
    • What Do You Think?

    Dot.Com Shakeout: Chess or Roulette?

    kind. That's the consensus among those responding to my recent questions concerning the future of the best and brightest of the Internet entrepreneurs still in business who have yet to achieve cash flow breakeven. As Yung-Hi Lim put it, "It's all about risk; it's... View Details
    Keywords: by James Heskett
    • 17 Jul 2020
    • News

    Support System

    work with Mother’s Shea and Eu’Genia are paid a 20 percent premium for their nuts, and 15 percent of company profits are channeled back to the families of the shea-nut pickers to help cover educational costs. For the women without... View Details
    Keywords: Maureen Harmon
    • 14 Aug 2019
    • News

    Leading from Within

    mentorship and financially or personally, to those in need or to groups and institutions whose missions they value. True to the values it teaches, the program donates all its profits to Thistle Farms, a social enterprise organization... View Details
    Keywords: Maureen Harmon
    • 01 Mar 2008
    • News

    Avoiding a Succession Crisis

    years is the reported average tenure for turnaround artists), profits may be better but the company is strategically weaker. And their turnaround has not involved investment in leaders for the future. As a result, there are no CEOs... View Details
    Keywords: Joseph L. Bower; Management of Companies and Enterprises; Management
    • 01 Sep 2015
    • News

    Case Study: Golden Ticket

    tempting to want to go after as many customers as broadly and quickly as you can. However, once your new service is out there, you need to learn about opportunities to serve current customers better. Profit from the core. —Anita Lynch... View Details
    • July 2010 (Revised March 2013)
    • Case

    One Firm One Future at Davis Langdon (A)

    By: Robert G. Eccles and Kaitlyn A. Simpson
    Senior Partner Rob Smith just led construction consultancy firm Davis Langdon through a major organizational change in Europe and the Middle East. In the past, compensation arrangements had not incentivized partners to collaborate across the firm to serve clients'... View Details
    Keywords: Profit Sharing; Global Strategy; Compensation and Benefits; Leading Change; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Partners and Partnerships; Cooperation; Expansion; Consulting Industry; Europe; Middle East
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    • June 2006
    • Teaching Note

    Cola Wars Continue: Coke and Pepsi in 2006 (TN)

    By: David B. Yoffie
    Teaching Note to 706447. View Details
    Keywords: Industry Structures; Competitive Strategy; Revenue; Price; Brands and Branding; Emerging Markets; Growth and Development; Profit; Performance; Food and Beverage Industry; United States
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    • 27 Jun 2016
    • News

    Ulf Mark Schneider Has Plans to Make Nestlé Healthy

    in 2015, compared with 4.2 percent rate for the group as a whole, while Nestlé is aiming to lift annual sales of health products to as high as 10 billion francs. The health operations also bring stronger profit margins. The group’s... View Details
    • February 2008
    • Article

    The Founder's Dilemma

    By: Noam Wasserman
    Most entrepreneurs want to make a lot of money and to run the show. New research shows that it's tough to do both. If you don't figure out which matters more to you, you could end up being neither rich nor king. View Details
    Keywords: Business Growth and Maturation; Business Startups; Entrepreneurship; Profit; Growth and Development Strategy; Managerial Roles
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    • 05 Aug 2002
    • What Do You Think?

    Is Platform Leadership Old Hat or the Wave of the Future?

    conflicts of interest most effectively), these organizations have taken different paths to build competitive positions that are hard for others to attack. They can force suppliers, consumers, competitors, and complementors to bend to their will in the hope of obtaining... View Details
    Keywords: by James Heskett
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    Evelyne White

    start-up with limited resources. Your product is intently geographical. Concentrate on markets large enough to become profitable where you have no competition so you can spend your energy running the business rather than fighting wars. If... View Details
    Keywords: Technology; Services

      William C. Procter

      Under Procter's guidance, P&G grew out of its mid-western roots as a soap producer into a national consumer goods conglomerate. Procter was responsible for the creation of many famous brands, including Crisco shortening, but also played a large role in improving... View Details
      Keywords: Personal Care & Home Products