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- 22 Sep 2017
- News
The Epicenter of Miami’s Vice
Farzad: You have to imagine—we talk about gross margins and profit margins. And in a business, you're happy to clear double digit margins. If you had a connection in Colombia or Peru or Bolivia and you could get your mitts on a hook up of... View Details
- 01 Sep 2007
- News
Riding It Out
necessary capital to launch and expand the business, with the first (raised during the Internet’s heyday) coming much more easily than the second. “When we launched the product, we were operating at a negative gross profit margin,”... View Details
- 19 Apr 2011
- First Look
First Look: April 19
merchandising decisions in their stores. Purchase this case:http://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cb/product/111069-PDF-ENG Emergia: Driving Profitability on Help Desk Contracts F. Asís Martínez-Jerez and Lisa BremHarvard Business School Case... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 24 Feb 2009
- First Look
First Look: February 24, 2009
conditions in which an advertising principal can set its payment delay to deter rogue agents and to attract solely or primarily good-type agents. Through the savings from excluding rogue agents, the principal can increase its profits... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 09 Apr 2008
- Research & Ideas
The Matchmaker of the Modern Economy
Herald Tribune story, "it is the consensus of those best acquainted with the mass of new developments coming out of the war activity that enough of the projects will turn out to be profitable so that the investment as a whole will be... View Details
Keywords: by Spencer E. Ante
- 02 Sep 2002
- Research & Ideas
Foreign Multinationals in the U.S.: A Rocky Road
profits and managerial problems in the United States between the 1950s and the 1980s. It seemed important to ascertain whether this was a problem unique to one firm, or part of a more general pattern. The upshot was a conference organised... View Details
Keywords: by Sarah Jane Johnston & Martha Lagace
- 20 Feb 2001
- Research & Ideas
What’s Next for Japan
approach was not a universal panacea to competing in the global economy." Porter went on to suggest that even the profitable Japan had serious limitations. "Total quality management, lifetime employment, close relationships with... View Details
Keywords: by Hilah Geer
- Profile
Marla Malcolm Beck
entrepreneur-in-residence. Her advice to would-be entrepreneurs is what she calls DROOM “Don’t run out of money.” She and her husband stayed focused on revenue and profit and Beck believes that is the key to their success.... View Details
- 21 Dec 2022
- Blog Post
Climate Stories Episode #12: Vehicle to Everything - Claire Broido Johnson (MBA 2002), Chief Operating Officer of Fermata Energy
with those chargers and make a profit off of those platforms. Going forward, we will be selling a software platform to monitor and control buildings and electric vehicles.” For now, Fermata Energy is focusing on EV fleets, not residential... View Details
- 01 Apr 1999
- News
New Releases
and technology; and governance, corporate finance, and organizational performance. The remaining chapters in the book give in-depth histories of and updates on some of the other efforts that bore considerable fruit under McArthur: Competition and Strategy; the Service... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 05 Dec 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, December 5, 2017
sustainably differentiated the company from its competitors. For instance, the adoption of fleet management resulted in customer loyalty levels five times higher than under the dominant business model Hilti had formerly employed and over-proportioned View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 02 Feb 2016
- First Look
February 2, 2016
state, and was a key employer and tax payer in a country that was undergoing major structural change. Under OMV and CEO Mariana Gheorghe's leadership, OMV Petrom saw its net profit and sales almost double since 2005, while headcount was... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 11 Dec 2007
- First Look
First Look: December 11, 2007
wise or lucky. His blend of new statistical methods and old common-sense reasoning helped him profit as the forecasting industry first developed. Irving Fisher, Economic Forecasting, and the Myth of the Business Cycle Author:Walter A.... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 28 May 2019
- News
A More Perfect Union
exert pressure on Washington to support reform, and educating the public for new laws to increase disclosure and accountability, as well as ending the pay-to-play culture in DC. J.B. Lyon (MBA 1996), founding board member New Profit is a... View Details
- 18 Dec 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, December 18, 2018
to offline media, which made attribution modeling more difficult. Decisions pertaining to product extensions, channel expansion beyond DTC e-commerce, and geographic expansion were also on the table to prove that Hubble's customer value proposition and operations could... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 15 May 2018
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New Research and Ideas, May 15, 2018
help senior leaders achieve their goals. Too often, they’re done for short-term gain, but the cost savings are overshadowed by bad publicity, loss of knowledge, weakened engagement, higher voluntary turnover, and lower innovation, which hurt View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 11 Oct 2016
- First Look
October 11, 2016
performance measurement and control. Modules 10–15 illustrate the use of these techniques by managers to achieve profit goals and strategies. This module rounds out the introductory section (modules 1–4) of the Management Control Systems... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 21 Apr 2015
- First Look
First Look: April 21
Allstate's stock price rose 45%, buoyed by Wilson's promise that return on equity would reach 13% by 2014. At the May 2012 AGM, Wilson's support from shareholders surged to 97%. By the end of 2012, revenues were up 2% to $33.3 billion while operating View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel & Sean Silverthorne
- 26 Nov 2007
- Research & Ideas
Best Practices of Global Innovators
partners through revenue and profit sharing, while hedging risk by asking them to absorb a portion of development costs. The final principle that emerged in our work is the need to invest in building collaborative capabilities. Many... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 29 Aug 2018
- News
The Value of Valleys
marred by what I'd been through and needed some time to reflect on what were my priorities and did I want to stay in the for profit environment and things like that. Thankfully he said yes, but I didn't have a plan and thought that I... View Details