Market Share - Publications - Faculty & Research

19 Jun 2012
First Look

First Look: June 19

The alleged benefits of flattening flow primarily from pushing decisions downward to enhance customer and market responsiveness and to improve accountability and morale. Has flattening delivered on its promise to push decisions downward?... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

06 Apr 2010
First Look

First Look: April 6

impairment rules to convey private information on future cash flows; in contrast, agency theory predicts managers, on average, will use the discretion opportunistically. We test these hypotheses in a sample of firms with market... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

19 Dec 2024
News

The Musts of 2024

Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Hi, this is Dan Morrell, host of Skydeck. I love these end-of-the-year lists where you can get recommendations from smart people about things that are worth your time and money. It always sets me up really... View Details

01 Dec 2016
News

Vive la Madeleine!

the pantheon of classic French treats. In the 1980s, the company employed nearly 400 workers and enjoyed a 40 percent market share. Subjected to a series of buyouts, the product line shifted to a more mass-market approach that led to a... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; illustrations by Natalya Balnova

07 Sep 2021
News

Immelt in the Hot Seat: Episode 2

a trait. But I remember, like, my first job in sales. I was good, right? But why was I good? I could always see GE through my customers' eyes. And because I could do that, it made me much more effective to gain market View Details

09 Dec 2008
First Look

First Look: December 9, 2008

supplement: http://harvardbusinessonline.hbsp.harvard.edu/ b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=208125 China's Financial Markets: 2007 Harvard Business School Note 208-147 Provides an overview of capital markets in mainland China in 2007,... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

20 Jul 2022
News

Wired to be Inspired

thought about having an elevator pitch. What's your elevator pitch? Is it: I have a cute widget. Or I have a cute app I want to share with you. Or we’re going to transform the way customers buy and sell, we think we can solve a real... View Details

Keywords: Management of Companies and Enterprises; Management

01 Sep 2020
News

The Devil You Don’t Know

evidence suggests that while there is certainly some traditional behavioral piece to the demand-side problem—that is, people scaling back because they are nervous about the economy and their economic prospects—a very large share of the... View Details

14 Dec 2011
Research & Ideas

The New Measures for Improving Nonprofit Performance

revenues. Those are generally backward-looking measures. Then there are share prices and market capitalization, which are forward-looking measures that anticipate the value of a firm. There may be some... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna

01 Jun 2018
News

The Long Run

arm that would later be published in the local paper. (A journalism major at the University of Georgia, Langford won two years’ free tuition for an editorial he penned on the value of free markets.) While his work—first as an international View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; photographed by Melissa Golden

12 May 2022
News

Onboarding

undertaking something much more serious, leading Xerox’s entry into the Chinese market and fearlessly chastising the company’s chairman for publicizing its activities in the press. Always up for a new challenge, she also began serving on... View Details

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