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Stephen W. Sanger

Sanger began his tenure with General Mills in 1974. One of his early successes was the introduction of blue diamond marshmallows in Lucky Charms which resulted in a 15% increase in sales. During his CEO tenure, sales have increased at a... View Details

Keywords: Food & Tobacco

01 Aug 2016
Research & Ideas

Retail Execs Underplay Current Performance to Investors--but Why?

Business School finance professor Kenneth A. Froot in the April working paper What Do Measures of Real-Time Corporate Sales Tell Us about Earnings Surprises and Post-Announcement Returns? “It’s startling to find that managers are not even... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Financial Services

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Jamal Motlagh

had, Jamal went to Microsoft as a junior sales associate. "Selling is my focus," says Jamal. "Microsoft promised me a full sales position when I reached its performance targets." Jamal... View Details

01 Oct 1999
News

Eight Among Many: Robert F. Diromualdo

CEO of Borders Group, Inc. - which includes more than 250 Borders Books & Music superstores around the globe, 900 Waldenbooks stores throughout the United States, and Borders.com - DiRomualdo runs an organization that rang up $2.6 billion in consolidated View Details

Keywords: James E. Aisner

01 Mar 2016
News

Off Script

top posts at Schering-Plough and Wyeth. Are there structural reforms that could be implemented in the drug industry to lower the market-driven price of drugs? Forcing pharma firms to invest in R&D a minimum percentage of the sales of any... View Details

Keywords: Insurance Carriers and Related Activities; Finance

22 Feb 2019
News

Empowering a New Generation of Business Leaders

assigned a product or service to turn into a business, and then the rest was up to them. That included raising money to start the business, creating a marketing plan, and developing some of the company’s operations, like banking, sales... View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley; Arts, Entertainment

Bernard Marcus

employees that would revolutionize the home improvement market. As Home Depot grew, it surpassed competitors like Hechinger's and Lowe's, as well as forced the closing of Marcus and Blank's former employer. By the end of Marcus' tenure, Home Depot stores numbered 624... View Details

Keywords: Retail

01 Dec 2020
News

The Fine Print: Alumni Recommend Their Best Reads

front: Bob Moesta’s Demand-Side Sales 101. On the personal development side: Dan Harris’s 10% Happier: How I Tamed the Voice in My Head, Reduced Stress Without Losing My Edge, and Found Self-Help That Actually Works—A True Story. And in... View Details

30 Jan 2021
News

Finding a Fresh Approach to Dry Cleaning

items, is about $35. Simon’s troops clean more than 100,000 pieces a year,” Heath writes. These higher volumes and higher prices helped Parkway reach almost $4 million in annual revenue before the pandemic hit last March. “Simon said most dry cleaners consider $1... View Details

Keywords: Personal and Laundry Services; Personal Services

01 Mar 2017
News

Promoting a Deeper Understanding

Cynthiana, Kentucky, with sales offices in Europe and Asia. Supporting the School’s efforts to continue to deepen the global knowledge of HBS’s faculty and students has been a priority for Bullard and his wife, Sherri. They initially... View Details

01 Jul 2014
First Look

First Look: July 1

antecedent of successful problem solving may harm the other. Download working paper: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/download.aspx?name=14-075.pdf Cases & Course Materials Harvard Business School Case 814-100 Clef Company: Turnover The Clef case focuses on the... View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

01 Dec 2022
News

3-Minute Briefing: Yla Eason (MBA 1977)

in June, when retailers had made their purchasing decisions in February. Sales is often about education. I asked chain retailers where they were selling dark pantyhose and makeup for brown skin, then cross-referenced that information with... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; entrepreneurship; diversity; leadership; Miscellaneous Manufacturing; Manufacturing

01 Apr 2000
News

Award-Winning Article Urges Companies to Loosen Ties that Bind

expenses associated with everyday activities such as management meetings, conferences, phone conversations, sales calls, reports, and memos. Hagel and Singer maintain that by dramatically reducing interaction costs, the Internet and other... View Details

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Pharmaceuticals: drug retail prices

begin with BI PHRMG) Micromedex - Average drug wholesale prices. (May search by individual drug name or multiple drug names using Tools > RED Book) Additional resources: Manufacturer reporting of Average Sales Price (ASP)... View Details

Ralph Folz

Ralph is a serial entrepreneur, board director and angel investor with deep experience building software companies. In his most recent role, he spent 7 years as WordStream's CEO through its sale to Gannett in 2018. The company achieved 6... View Details

01 Sep 2011
News

Entrepreneur Named Director of Harvard i-lab

marketing and sales experience with Fortune 500, midsized, and start-up companies, Jones also has a background in education, having taught marketing as an adjunct lecturer at Bentley University outside Boston. Most recently, he worked... View Details

Keywords: Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services; Management of Companies and Enterprises; Management

September 2007
Article

Do Vertical Mergers Facilitate Upstream Collusion?

By: Volker Nocke and Lucy White

We investigate the impact of vertical mergers on upstream firms' ability to collude when selling to downstream firms in a repeated game. We show that vertical mergers give rise to an outlets effect: the deviation profits of cheating unintegrated firms are reduced as... View Details

Keywords: Mergers and Acquisitions; Profit; Game Theory; Sales; Vertical Integration

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Play Time Toy Co.

By: Thomas R. Piper

The president of a toy company is considering the adoption of level production in a business characterized by highly seasonal sales. The issues include balancing the cost savings and the inventory risk, estimating the seasonal financing need, and determining the... View Details

Keywords: Production; Cost Management; Banks and Banking; Sales; Goods and Commodities; Financial Management; Risk Management; Entertainment and Recreation Industry

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