Profitability Analysis - Publications - Faculty & Research

01 Apr 1998
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Plunging Into the Net

school topic," says Rayport, who has witnessed a phenomenal increase in interest in the Internet and in Internet-based commerce. Today, every major business school is in hot pursuit of research and analysis of what's going on in the... View Details

01 Sep 2020
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Alumni and Faculty Books for September 2020

this growth is inevitable as the divide between man and machine blurs. Hot Stocks: Investing for Impact and Profit in a Warming World by James Ellman (MBA 1994) Rowman & Littlefield The world is warming, our portfolios will have to adapt,... View Details

01 Dec 2001
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Steven Rogers

with Laura, to Columbus, Indiana, and then to Rocky Mount, North Carolina. Rogers was impressed with the emphasis on values as well as profit at Cummins, where he worked both as a customer-service supervisor and as a purchasing agent. "I... View Details

Keywords: Young, Susan; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services; Retail Trade

27 Oct 2016
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Paying It Forward

inventory losses by alerting retailers when items are given free-of-charge to friends and family by purposely not being scanned by a clerk (called “sweethearting”), when barcodes are covered, when items are left in a shopping cart, or when scales are circumvented. The... View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley

22 Jan 2020
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What It Takes

it, and he thought it was great. The firm was so small somebody heard that he was looking at this. They came into my office and said, "We think it's terrible." And I said, "Why?" He said, "Because all the company's doing is making inventory View Details

01 Mar 2014
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Faculty and Alumni Books for March 2014

Press) The authors outline a method to discover and revitalize the exceptional business that exists inside an organization. The method relies on the well-established 80/20 rule to direct focus and attention; anchors analysis in the... View Details

01 Dec 2010
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The Transformers

philanthropies New Profit and NewSchools Venture Fund. Harvard Business Review also served as a springboard for new ideas. In the March–April 1997 issue, MBA Class of 1957 Professor of Management Practice Allen Grossman cowrote an article... View Details

Keywords: Roger Thompson; Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services; Professional Services

01 Apr 1996
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Stewards of the Seventh Generation

assets are practicing sustainable development. According to this line of thinking, harvesting trees and using the money generated to build schools would be an example of sustainable development. But others insist that development is sustainable only if natural-resource... View Details

Keywords: Marguerite Rigoglioso, Garry Emmons, Linda Goodspeed, and Elaine Gottlieb

10 Dec 2014
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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

Keywords: Julia Hanna; digital media; Corporate, Subsidiary, and Regional Managing Offices; Management

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