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16 Sep 2013
Research & Ideas

Earnings Calls That Get Lost in Translation

questions. The calls are high stakes — a top executive with a murky message can cause share demand to dry up, or worse, a drop in the stock price, faster than you can say, "Outlook is uncertain." Imagine, then, the challenge for... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman

01 Sep 2007
News

Riding It Out

feeder,” he says. “Our customers are the same sort of people who have ZOOTS do their dry cleaning and who get their DVDs through Netflix,” Gisholt remarks. “It’s another way to put something else in your... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; dog food; pets; Food Manufacturing; Manufacturing; Food and Beverage Stores; Retail Trade

Profile

Marcela Sapone

we believe we can do it as well if not better than you.” To that end, new subscribers are assigned a personal “Alfred,” a carefully vetted individual who comes to a subscriber’s home, takes care of everything from the View Details

08 Aug 2016
Lessons from the Classroom

Panic Management: Keep Your Eyes on the Road

globalized business world, and technologies that are constantly changing. Within that dynamic environment, a curveball can come from anywhere: a portion of their businesses may suddenly dry up, belt-tightening layoffs may loom, or... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman

16 Dec 2016
News

An Environmental Epiphany

there so that we could replenish our water supply. As we got to the watering hole-- looking forward to the cold, fresh water-- we found a dry hole. And somehow, the inside struck me-- how dependent we are, as humans, on this planet we... View Details

01 Feb 2001
News

Drilling Down

measurement of liquids in the petroleum industry, it contains 42 U.S. standard gallons. Abbreviated to "bbl." Christmas Tree: A multivalve device that channels fluid flows from a well into a pipeline. Duster: A dry well. Elephant: A "real... View Details

Keywords: Hanna, Julia; Matthew R. Simmons; Oil and Gas Extraction; Mining; Natural Gas Distribution; Utilities

01 Apr 1996
News

Stewards of the Seventh Generation

is lost money." Sam Johnson (MBA '52) loves to tell the story about how his grandfather once sold the family's famed floor wax to a London shopkeeper. One presumably foggy day in 1913, the elder Johnson entered a hardware store and proceeded to polish, buff, and View Details

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

24 Jul 2007
First Look

First Look: July 24, 2007

window for energy-related companies closes. Purchase this case: http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=807092 Zoots—Financing Growth (A) Harvard Business School Case 807-139 Traces the genesis and founding of Zoots, the largest chain of View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

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