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- 11 Dec 2017
- News
Growing from Within
there’s an obvious cost to that arrangement. But what are the benefits that company ownership offers McDonald’s? In the US, the McDonald’s Operating Company, McOpCo as we call it, plays an important role for the McDonald’s system:... View Details
- 01 Mar 2023
- News
Happy Monday
on that day,” Bernard clarifies. For those employees whose work often requires a Friday presence, as in customer care teams, they work with their managers to take another day of their choosing. As the teams felt their way through the... View Details
- 01 Mar 2019
- News
The One That Got Away
percent stake, which would have been a much smaller ownership position than we usually get. So it was an “off-strategy” investment. It was also in the highly competitive space of lead generation, where companies are paid a referral fee if... View Details
- 01 Sep 2004
- News
American Dream
ice-cream fountain boasts a marble counter, and customers eat 100 percent buffalo burgers in a walnut-paneled dining room hung with original oil paintings by Western artists. In another part of the store, there are 1,400 historical photos... View Details
- 01 Feb 1998
- News
Running Up the Score
visible component of a business with increasingly explosive, multifaceted economic aspects. Yet despite these turbulent conditions, there's no shortage of new ownership wanting to jump into the game. For example, two new baseball... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 01 Sep 2009
- News
Faculty Books
Kanter contends that vanguard companies deliver what their customers want better than their competitors do, thereby providing the financial success shareholders demand and the social conscience demanded by the new generation of managers.... View Details
- 01 Mar 2010
- News
The Meaning of Ramadi
Campbell (MBA '07) Courtesy Donovan Campbell One day in April 2007, my phone started ringing during a customer analytics class at HBS. I kept hitting silence, but the phone kept ringing. Thirteen calls and one very annoyed professor... View Details
- 01 Jun 1999
- News
Where Main Street Meets Wall Street
in the capital markets was all but unheard of; Wall Street remained an exclusive investment preserve (some would say playground) for America's financial elite. But by making the ownership of securities easy and affordable for people of... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 01 Mar 2009
- News
Gazprom Goes Global
pipelines in Ukraine, to Europe. Abdelal’s case examines the history of Gazprom, the recent return of the state to ownership (with 50.002 percent), and Gazprom’s strategy for becoming a global energy company, mainly through acquisition... View Details
- 25 Feb 2020
- News
Case Study: The Credit Bureau
young professionals) select pieces from curated collections on the company’s website—think Scandinavian, mid-century modern, or industrial looks. Within a week, a white-glove team delivers preassembled pieces and arranges the room. When the lease is up, the View Details
- 01 Jun 2011
- News
The Best-Laid Plans
Finale’s original lead investors acquired a majority ownership in the business, folding it into a Rhode Island–based holding company where Conforti now serves as managing partner of the restaurant group. “When I started Finale, I... View Details
- 01 Mar 2014
- News
Faculty and Alumni Books for March 2014
a short, traditional text with a living website and cover such fundamental topics as accounting and tax, mortgages, capital markets, REITs and more. It also addresses the 2008 financial crisis and its impact on the real-estate profession. View Details
- 01 Sep 2015
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for September 2015
results—the “service trifecta”; (6) use technology to elevate the most important and eliminate the worst service jobs; (7) take steps to develop a core of customers who are “owners”; and (8) build agile service organizations that learn,... View Details
- 01 Dec 2014
- News
Case Study: Growing the Family Business
cleanliness and are staffed with teachers who use a proprietary curriculum to create an educational environment. Customers pay a significant premium for convenience—as much as $13 an hour for infant care versus $4 an hour or less for... View Details
- 09 Sep 2024
- News
Basket Chase
the way, you’ll have a significant piece of ownership, and that group of search investors will be your partners. That’s the funded search. RR: And the downside of that is that they take a lot of the ownership for themselves. The... View Details
- 01 Mar 2014
- News
The Solution to the Global Food Crisis Just Might Come from Nigeria
be adapted to all sorts of nutritious foods—AACE has added soybeans, maize, and sorghum to its product line—but spices have proven to be an effective proof of concept. It now sells products to customers in 6 of Nigeria's 36 states,... View Details
- 01 Jun 2017
- News
Supercharged
probably won’t be individuals. Ridesharing, says Shen, is taking off even faster in China than it is in the United States. And it’s doing so in part for cultural reasons. In China, Shen explains, ownership has historically been less... View Details
- 01 Sep 2016
- News
The Taxi Wars of Jakarta
on-demand business model. Its success was linked to the proliferation of smartphones in the United States, which made quickly ordering a car to the user’s location possible. A similar trend was emerging in Jakarta. That rapid growth of internet- ready cell phone View Details
- 13 Sep 2019
- News
Hollywood Ending
on and enough customers to make it a viable business. They’re not settling for half-measures. “If we have great content but we don’t have a differentiated experience, we fail,” she says. “And the reverse is true too.” The urgency to get... View Details
- 01 Dec 2012
- News
From Where We Stand
across functions, businesses, and your industry. Engage your peers to deliver solutions to real business problems. Know the customer and the competitor. When you are at the top, be a talent magnet and then build the next generation of... View Details