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- 1997
- Working Paper
Henry Ford: The Profits and the Price of Primitivism
- 08 Jun 2012
- News
Shared Value: How Corporations Profit from Solving Social Problems
- 15 Jun 2010
- News
Facebook walks a tricky line weighing privacy vs. profit
- 13 Oct 2016
- News
Study shows coupons lead to big profits for drugmakers
- 22 Apr 2002
- Research & Ideas
Profits and Prophets: The Role of Values in Investment
As chair of the investment committee for a college, Sam Hayes was faced with a challenging dilemma: Should the committee invest only in socially responsible funds even though the outcome might mean fewer scholarships and teaching positions, putting the school at a... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- February 2024
- Teaching Note
Masdar City: Aiming for Sustainable and Profitable Real Estate
By: Boris Vallee and Sean Bracken
Teaching Note for HBS Case No. 223-036. View Details
- 11 Jul 2014
- News
Wells Fargo, other big banks could see lower profits
- 18 Aug 2008
- News
Adware vendor Zango profits from pirated movies, says researcher
- 14 Feb 2012
- News
Avon Said to Plan Global Restructuring Amid Declining Profit
- 21 Oct 2016
- News
The Type of Purpose That Makes Companies More Profitable
- December 2014
- Article
Market Competition, Earnings Management, and Persistence in Accounting Profitability Around the World
We examine how cross-country differences in product, capital, and labor market competition, and earnings management affect mean reversion in accounting return on assets. Using a sample of 48,465 unique firms from 49 countries, we find that accounting returns mean... View Details
Keywords: Corporate Performance; Valuation; Equity Valuation; Persistence; Competitive Advantage; Institutions; Earnings Management; Labor Market; Capital Markets; Competition; Profit; Performance; Supply and Industry; Financial Statements; Government and Politics; Globalized Markets and Industries
Healy, Paul M., George Serafeim, Suraj Srinivasan, and Gwen Yu. "Market Competition, Earnings Management, and Persistence in Accounting Profitability Around the World." Review of Accounting Studies 19, no. 4 (December 2014): 1281–1308.
- 02 Aug 2011
- Working Paper Summaries
To Groupon or Not to Groupon: The Profitability of Deep Discounts
- 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
Lundholm, Russell, George Serafeim, and Gwen Yu. "FIN Around the World: The Contribution of Financing Activity to Profitability." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 13-011, July 2012. (Revised March 2014.)
- November 2004
- Article
Linking Customer Management Effort to Customer Profitability in Industrial Markets
By: Douglas Bowman and Das Narayandas
Bowman, Douglas, and Das Narayandas. "Linking Customer Management Effort to Customer Profitability in Industrial Markets." Journal of Marketing Research (JMR) 41, no. 4 (November 2004).
- 2014
- Book
A Social Strategy: How We Profit from Social Media
By: Mikolaj Jan Piskorski
Almost no one had heard of social media a decade ago, but today websites such as Facebook, Twitter, and LinkedIn have more than 1 billion users and account for almost 25 percent of Internet use. Practically overnight, social media seems indispensable to our lives—from... View Details
Piskorski, Mikolaj Jan. A Social Strategy: How We Profit from Social Media. Princeton University Press, 2014.
- 05 Oct 2022
- News
The Chat: Driving Purpose and Profit ft. George Serafeim
A Social Strategy: How We Profit from Social Media
Almost no one had heard of social media a decade ago, but today websites such as Facebook, Twitter, and LinkedIn have more than 1 billion users and account for almost 25 percent of Internet use. Practically overnight, social media seems indispensable to our... View Details
- 2007
- Blog
Harvard Business Online—Marketing Know:How: How To Profit from Scarcity
By: John A. Quelch
Quelch, John A. "How To Profit from Scarcity." Harvard Business Online—Marketing Know:How (blog). August 31, 2007. http://hbswk.hbs.edu/item/how-to-profit-from-scarcity.