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- 01 Mar 2004
- News
Reforming Company Boards
or annually? I think it will go the other way. We will get to a point where some performance measures — like sales or orders — are reported daily. Many people argue that this will increase volatility. I suggest the opposite. Once the... View Details
Keywords: Corporate Services
- 18 Jan 2012
- News
Charter Supporter
headquartered in Waterloo, Wisconsin. While there, she set up Trek’s sales and distribution companies across Europe and worked in forecasting and planning. Since 2007, she has devoted her energy and skills full time to the nonprofit... View Details
- June 2018 (Revised July 2018)
- Teaching Note
Mark43
By: Thomas Eisenmann, Mitchell Weiss and Matt Higgins
Teaching Note for HBS No. 817-016. The founders of Mark43, an early-stage startup that provides software for law enforcement agencies, must decide whether to bid on a request for proposals (RFP) from the Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD). On the one hand, LAPD would... View Details
- 24 Jan 2025
- News
The Network Effect
facilitate a $131.8 non-equity funding deal between the two companies. In March 2021, Model was a part of the Agios team that finalized the sale of the biotech’s oncology portfolio. For Agios, the sale was... View Details
- 01 Jun 2003
- News
Hopping to It
period when sales are down sharply.” He’s also undergone a personal makeover, hitting the gym to shed fifty pounds, shaving his beard, and becoming more homebody than homeboy, enjoying domestic life with his wife and one–year–old... View Details
Mary Kay Ash
Ash created a successful cosmetics company by and for women by utilizing a direct sales force and creative motivational sales techniques. At the end of its first year, Mary Kay Cosmetics boasted $198,514 in... View Details
Keywords: Personal Care & Home Products
- 30 Jun 2015
- First Look
First Look: June 30, 2015
directors. Controlling for these effects and other ratings determinants, we find that firms with lower residual ratings have higher subsequent citations in corruption news events. They also report higher future sales growth and show a... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 05 May 2003
- Research & Ideas
SEC Commissioner Sees “Healing and Reform”
& Young's Jim Turley. "Celebrity CEOs and CFOs became cheerleaders for marketing and sales and forgot their role as the conscience of their organizations," he said. " But there's been a lot of changes in the last eight... View Details
Keywords: by Catherine Walsh
- Profile
Daniel Schachne
the business education. Majoring in Sports Management set me up exactly as I hoped it would and helped me find a full-time role in the industry. But I wanted—and think I needed—something more to achieve my long-term goals. While I had a specific View Details
Keywords: Entertainment/Media
- 01 Sep 2008
- News
Negative Ad Power
increase sales and shareholder value. Coke and Pepsi both want to increase the amount of carbonated soft drinks that we consume. If Pepsi and Coke go after each other in advertising, they will turn off consumers and reduce demand for both... View Details
- 15 Apr 2014
- News
Bertarelli Foundation Gift Names Deans' Health & Life Sciences Challenge Prize
generations. In 2007, Serono was purchased by Merck KGaA. The company was subsequently known as Merck Serono SA. Since the sale of Serono, Bertarelli has focused on a number of private investment and nonprofit roles, notably Waypoint... View Details
- 01 Mar 2014
- News
Cutting Edge
Walgreens' 500 Chicago-area stores. "I'm expecting that we'll triple sales and increase profits eight times over in the next three to four years," Silk says. "In truth, it's difficult to quantify how high we could go." View Details
- 01 Oct 2002
- News
Andrew H. Tisch
company focused on improving its sales force and restoring retailers' confidence in the quality of an expanded and more fashionable product line. After five years, Bulova was breaking even; when Tisch left to become chairman and CEO of... View Details
- 01 Dec 2018
- News
Evergreen Business
this seasonal side business, where 99 percent of his customers leave with a tree—a sales rate few retailers can imagine. “Plus it’s Christmas, so everyone’s in a great mood.” View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint
- 01 Mar 2012
- News
Shop Talk, Different Avenues
disruptive business model: an online site that requires customers to register, featuring flash sales of discounted luxury goods for men and women in categories including designer clothing, accessories, home goods, food and wine, and... View Details
- 24 Nov 2014
- Research & Ideas
Corrupting Silence: Companies Must Speak Up Against Bribes
assessments of corruption such as enforcement actions, independent directors, and more rigorous auditing. Furthermore, relative to firms with high anticorruption rankings, firms with low rankings had higher sales growth in regions... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 17 Aug 2011
- Research & Ideas
Protecting against the Pirates of Bollywood
or $2, which would match prices charged by pirates? After examining the numbers, Iyer says students understand that selling low is a losing strategy. "They take such a loss [on the profit margin] that the extra sales don't make up... View Details
- 26 Apr 2004
- Research & Ideas
A Clear Eye for Innovation
early years, such as the first FDA-approved bifocal contacts, by the mid-1980s it remained a distant second to market leader Johnson & Johnson. Making matters worse, in 1987 J&J brought out a new, disposable contact lens that threatened Ciba Vision's View Details
- October 2005 (Revised August 2006)
- Case
Perelson Weiner LLP
By: Thomas J. Steenburgh and Das Narayandas
Perelson Weiner LLP, a successful accounting firm in New York City, is re-evaluating its incentive strategy as it makes plans to grow its business. View Details
Keywords: Accounting; Growth and Development; Compensation and Benefits; Management; Planning; Sales; Motivation and Incentives; Corporate Strategy; Accounting Industry; New York (city, NY)
Steenburgh, Thomas J., and Das Narayandas. "Perelson Weiner LLP." Harvard Business School Case 506-006, October 2005. (Revised August 2006.)
- June 2004
- Article
Market Liquidity as a Sentiment Indicator
By: Malcolm Baker and Jeremy Stein
We build a model that helps to explain why increases in liquidity-such as lower bid-ask spreads, a lower price impact of trade, or higher turnover-predict lower subsequent returns in both firm-level and aggregate data. The model features a class of irrational... View Details
Keywords: Markets; Financial Liquidity; Price; Trade; Sales; Equity; Information; Management Analysis, Tools, and Techniques; Accounting Industry
Baker, Malcolm, and Jeremy Stein. "Market Liquidity as a Sentiment Indicator." Journal of Financial Markets 7, no. 3 (June 2004): 271–299.