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The Institutional Foundations of Lending: Indirect Regulation and State-Building
The Institutional Foundations of Lending: Indirect Regulation and State-Building makes two main theoretical contributions to the scholarship on credit markets and institutional development. First, the book demonstrates that opportunistic lenders can take... View Details
- 01 Mar 2014
- News
Ask the Expert: Taxing Questions
1960), former chief economist, Royal Bank of Canada, Canada The United States has the worst of all worlds: a relatively high marginal tax rate that influences behavior negatively, but a considerably lower average tax rate that precludes the View Details
- 01 Mar 2015
- News
Case Study: The Speed of Light
in the country. QE Solar totaled almost $1 million in revenue in 2014—double what it made the previous year—and projects $2 million in revenue in 2015. The company has taken no money from outside investors.... View Details
Alvin G. Brush
In 1935, American Home Products purchased Brush’s company, Affiliated Products, Incorporated and installed Brush as AHP’s new CEO. Over the next thirty years, Brush presided over a massive growth and diversification plan, purchasing dozens of businesses to expand AHP’s... View Details
Keywords: Healthcare
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Matt Spielman
executives and their teams. Together, they identify a starting point then co-create a path forward to realize key objectives. The process utilizes Inflection Point’s proprietary A-C-H-I-E-V-E goal setting and goal pursuit framework, a topic Matt View Details
- 16 Sep 2015
- News
Rethink pricing to create shared—and expanded—value
John T. Gourville, the Albert J. Weatherhead Jr. Professor of Business Administration, advocates that value be shared by a firm and its customers. “Without a willing customer, there is no value,” he says. “When companies view customers as... View Details
Louis F. Bantle
During his tenure as CEO, Bantle generated a 10-fold increase in revenues (from $100 million to $1 billion) for United States Tobacco. He divested of non-core operating units and launched a major advertising initiative which enabled UST... View Details
Keywords: Food & Tobacco
- November 1985 (Revised August 1997)
- Case
Harnischfeger Corp.
Presents an analysis of Harnischfeger's quality of earnings, and the investment potential of the company's stock in light of the company's turnaround strategy. View Details
Keywords: Financial Condition; Revenue; Stock Shares; Profit; Economic Growth; Financial Reporting; Growth and Development; Growth and Development Strategy; Safety; Utilities Industry
Palepu, Krishna G. "Harnischfeger Corp." Harvard Business School Case 186-160, November 1985. (Revised August 1997.)
- 14 Dec 2010
- Op-Ed
Tax US Companies to Spur Spending
another repatriation tax holiday. Coupling these policies provides a carrot and stick for managers to begin to repatriate cash and use it productively at home. The combined revenue effects is likely to be relatively small, given how... View Details
Keywords: by Mihir A. Desai
- 01 Feb 1999
- News
More Than a Business
recalls. Indeed, Graves the younger was soon hauling in hefty ad revenues from the likes of telecommunications giants, major banks, and scores of other prominent firms. "Family businesses are doomed from the start if the members don't... View Details
Keywords: Jeffrey Lazar
- 19 May 2014
- Research & Ideas
Why Companies Should Compete for Your Privacy
firms may exploit personal information to tap into complementary revenue streams, such as advertising. Personal information can be used to improve the targeting of ads, increasing advertisers' willingness to pay. In addition, firms may... View Details
- 11 Jun 2001
- Research & Ideas
E-Commerce Unplugged
Companies that spent decades understanding consumer-buying psychology traditionally assumed that specific products could satisfy discrete consumer needs. Now, they will need to define consumers by their fundamental life intentions (the life aspirations members of the... View Details
Keywords: by Nitin Nohria & Marty Leestma
Harold S. Geneen
Geneen diversified International Telephone and Telegraph through acquiring shares of companies ranging from the Sheraton Hotel Chain to the Hartford Insurance Company. Geneen grew his firm from $765 million to $8.5 billion in View Details
Keywords: Communications
- 05 Sep 2012
- First Look
First Look: September 5
cases, films are produced independently and distributed by studios under revenue sharing agreements, which give studios 30% to 40% of the revenue stream. Under either regime,... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 24 Jul 2018
- News
How Amy Hood Won Back Wall Street and Helped Reboot Microsoft
to the failing performance and then encouraging everyone to focus on making hard decisions quickly," says Microsoft President and Chief Legal Officer Brad Smith, whose office shares a small hallway with Hood’s. So what was the plan to... View Details
- 01 Dec 2005
- News
Style Check
1993, has seen the Benetton Group’s share price and revenues decline in recent years. (Only 4 percent of the company’s revenues come from the Americas, while 85 percent are... View Details
- 01 Dec 2018
- News
Lifelong Learning about Leadership
careers and lives, and the other utilizes HBS’s online learning platform to share the School’s pedagogy with broader audiences. More than 70 MBA alumni from the classes of 1995– 2005—all seasoned professionals at an inflection... View Details
- 01 Feb 1998
- News
Running Up the Score
it happens), they often see dollar signs first and foremost. Salaries are soaring - even a journeyman player can earn in a few seasons what the average fan makes in a lifetime - and ever-increasing revenues are required to fund expanding... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 30 Nov 2009
- Research & Ideas
Tracks of My Tears: Reconstructing Digital Music
Mushroom Pillow. So despite selling record numbers of individual songs on online services such as Apple's iTunes, the labels are in an era of declining revenues and consolidation. What happens next? “When consumers start buying music... View Details
- 25 Feb 2020
- News
Case Study: The Credit Bureau
There’s no need to give these firms a share of the revenue because there are many ways to reach the end customer. —Sergio Rattner (MBA 2001) I believe the solution is to pursue the hybrid option. My... View Details