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- 19 Jan 2011
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First Look: Jan. 18
competitive characteristics on its investment in various type assets, on the profitability of these investments, and on the financial structure of its balance sheet. The case also allows a discussion of (1) the incomplete and lagging... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 28 Sep 2010
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First Look: September 28, 2010
http://people.hbs.edu/dscharfstein/Articles/FT-Article_09-14-10.pdf Working PapersThe Profits of Power: Commercial Realpolitik in Europe and Eurasia Author:Rawi Abdelal An abstract is unavailable at this time. Download the paper:... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 19 May 2009
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First Look: May 19, 2009
investors that his new venture could warrant sustainable growth and profitable returns. Purchase this case: http://hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=808164 An Introduction to Consumer Credit Harvard Business School Note... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 12 May 2009
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First Look: May 12, 2009
Life, faced decisions about the company's growth strategy. Despite profound initial skepticism about demand for a user-generated virtual world that was not a traditional game, Second Life had achieved profitability and strong growth.... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Sep 2009
- News
E Ink’s Wild Ride
profits to publishers and royalties to authors. Olson predicts print books won’t go away anytime soon — at least not until the baby boomers are gone. He owns a Kindle but doesn’t use it much. “Readers are creatures of habit. I love my... View Details
- 07 Apr 2009
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First Look: April 7, 2009
paper addresses these questions by analyzing the available evidence on two related claims: (1) that the current U.S. policy of deferring taxation of foreign profits represents a subsidy to American firms and (2) that activity abroad by... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Dec 2012
- News
From Where We Stand
expansion (President Johnson's Great Society); there were more opportunities for advancement. I soon became manager of the research department, then advertising manager of the book clubs division—Doubleday's largest and most profitable... View Details
- 12 Dec 2017
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New Research and Ideas, December 12, 2017
demand and the profitability to engage in exports and R&D, thereby relaxing borrowing constraints and enabling more firms to overcome the fixed-cost hurdle for financing R&D. We decompose the effects of RER changes on productivity... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 12 Sep 2006
- First Look
First Look: September 12, 2006
profitability was coming to a close or whether this apparent slowdown was just another blip in the course of a century of enviable performance. A rewritten version of an earlier case. Purchase this case:... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Jun 2006
- News
India Arrives
protected economic climate that managed business by issuing a limited number of permits in each industry and dictated production quantities. “When I started in business in the 1960s, many of our companies didn’t have a profit plan;... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 15 Feb 2011
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First Look: Feb. 15
the market. Second, we consider multi-homing. We find that the incumbent dominates the market and earns higher profit under multi-homing than under single-homing. Multi-homing solves the market failure resulting from asymmetric... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 31 Mar 2009
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First Look: March 31, 2009
Farmers may grow crops for local consumption despite more profitable export options. DrumNet, a Kenyan NGO that helps small farmers adopt and market export crops, conducted a randomized trial to evaluate its impact. DrumNet services... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Mar 2014
- News
The Solution to the Global Food Crisis Just Might Come from Nigeria
Nancy Barry (MBA 1975), founder and president of Enterprise Solutions to Poverty, which mobilizes and supports leading companies and entrepreneurs in building profitable and inclusive businesses that incorporate millions of low-income... View Details
- 08 Jul 2008
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First Look: July 8, 2008
costs, vendor profitability is often driven by the ability to "lock in" customers. Despite a large theoretical literature, there are few empirical studies on the success of vendor pricing and product strategies to achieve... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Mar 2017
- News
The Middle Way
Nations hadn’t weighed in: Seventy percent of all the 200 types of forests in the Great Bear region would be protected from logging. As negotiations began, the parties fell along their expected lines: Forestry wanted to mitigate profit... View Details
Keywords: Dan Morrell; photos by Kamil Bialous
- 01 Dec 1997
- News
Growing Together
Gleason (MBA '97) is finding a way to make both a profit and a difference. Last fall, as a part of HBS associate professor Marco Iansiti's Managing Product Development course, Gleason created a model for a company that would employ... View Details
Keywords: Marguerite Rigoglioso and Nancy O. Perry
- 10 Dec 2014
- News
Front-Row Seat
battling it out over the issues of the day.” The Atlantic has been profitable for five years now, with advertising revenue up 40 percent over last year. For now, at least, all online content is free, including full articles from the print... View Details
- 06 Nov 2012
- First Look
First Look: November 6
suppliers are more likely to share this information when requests from buyers are more prevalent, when buyers appear committed to using the information, when suppliers belong to more profitable industries, and when suppliers are located... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 19 May 2022
- News
Leading to Salvation
ones who could, had left them. And they were left with all of the smaller, far less profitable business. The woman who owned it, her husband was a founder of it. He was a mortician and it was, I think, the oldest African American business... View Details
- 26 Jan 2016
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January 26, 2016
should allocate its resources over the next year in order to become profitable and ensure future growth. Purchase this case: https://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cbmp/product/816006-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 815-022 The Ullens Center... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne