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Steven A. Burd
Burd implemented an extensive cost-cutting plan, which included deep cuts in capital expenditure, enabling the company to lower the shelf prices in its stores and to boost revenue. Once costs were under control, Burd began expanding the... View Details
Keywords: Retail
John T. Dorrance
In 1899, Dorrance invented the process for making condensed soup, reducing canning and shipping costs by two-thirds. As a result of Dorrance’s invention, Campbell Soup became the first soup company to achieve national distribution. Within... View Details
Keywords: Food & Tobacco
- 01 Mar 2019
- News
@Soldiers Field
market appeal at the cost of creativity. ARS LONGA Harvard University’s ArtLab opened in February on Allston’s North Harvard Street. The 9,000-square-foot “work-in-progress” space encourages interdisciplinary experimentation and... View Details
Keywords: Arts, Entertainment
- May 2015 (Revised March 2016)
- Supplement
Thomas Cook Group on the Brink (C): Transformation Year 2 Results
By: Benjamin C. Esty
Analyzes the results of the Thomas Cook turnaround plan after the second year under Harriet Green's leadership (November 2014). View Details
Keywords: Turnaround; Corporate Restructuring; Female Ceo; Transformation; Change Management; Communication Strategy; Cost Management; Financial Liquidity; Financial Management; Management Succession; Leading Change; Crisis Management; Value Creation; Leadership; Travel Industry; United Kingdom
Esty, Benjamin C. "Thomas Cook Group on the Brink (C): Transformation Year 2 Results." Harvard Business School Supplement 215-052, May 2015. (Revised March 2016.)
- Profile
Ricardo De Armas
banking," Ricardo says, "but in my first internship, I found it very bureaucratic. P&G gave me a chance to pursue finance in a more dynamic environment." Over a four- and a-half-year tenure, his responsibilities were both deep and broad. "At... View Details
- 08 Jul 2013
- Research & Ideas
Everything Must Go: A Strategy for Store Liquidation
working paper, doctoral student Nathan Craig and professor Ananth Raman introduce a dynamic approach for optimizing the profitability of store liquidation that increases net recovery on cost by 2 to 7 percent of assets on hand, an... View Details
- 07 Oct 2013
- Research & Ideas
The Case for Combating Climate Change with Nuclear Power and Fracking
If you ask any given environmentalist to identify the biggest threat to the planet, you may expect to hear about man-made climate change, consumerism, or overpopulation. But if you ask Harvard Business School's Joseph B. Lassiter, he'll toss in another: single-issue... View Details
- 03 Jul 2012
- Research & Ideas
HBS Faculty on Supreme Court Health Care Ruling
focuses almost entirely on disease care to keep people alive, but does very little to enable Americans to live healthy lives. The longer people live in their disease-prone years, the more they cost Medicare. AHCA doesn't really address... View Details
- 19 Aug 2022
- Blog Post
Climate Stories Episode #8: The Role of Solar and Wind Farming (and Other Tools) in the United States’ Clean Energy Future
difficult it is to align on transmission planning and cost allocation rules with so many competing resources, state policies, and economic interests at play. It leads to literal gridlock in more ways than one. Transmission is the... View Details
- 01 Dec 2003
- News
HBS Releases 2003 Financial Report
increase established for the MBA class that entered the School in September 2002. In response to the revenue shortfall, the School implemented vigorous cost controls, made all the more challenging because of the fixed-cost nature of... View Details
Michael R. Bloomberg
Through the development of a proprietary computer system, Bloomberg built one of the most successful financial news, information and analysis services in the country. Competing against stalwarts like Dow Jones and Reuters, Bloomberg effectively infiltrated Wall Street... View Details
Keywords: Entertainment & Broadcast Media
Daniel Willard
began to pay off for the B&O in the 1920s, and he continued that trend of high quality, introducing, among other things, the first mechanical air-conditioned equipment. During Willard’s later years with the company when the Depression stifled growth, he kept the... View Details
Keywords: Transportation
- May 2000
- Case
To Trim or Not to Trim: That Is the Question
By: Srikant M. Datar
Should Novartis drop 20% of its global pharmaceutical product brands that account for only 3% of its pharmaceutical revenues? View Details
Keywords: Business Earnings; Cost vs Benefits; Business Strategy; Investment Return; Problems and Challenges; Pharmaceutical Industry
Datar, Srikant M. "To Trim or Not to Trim: That Is the Question." Harvard Business School Case 100-105, May 2000.
- September 2011 (Revised February 2014)
- Case
Duke Energy and the Nuclear Renaissance
Duke Energy, an American investor-owned electric utility, confronts multibillion dollar decisions about its future fuel mix. In particular, its leaders are considering building new nuclear capacity. Whether this is sensible depends, among other things, on demand... View Details
Keywords: Cost vs Benefits; Expansion; Policy; Business Strategy; Energy Sources; Utilities Industry; Energy Industry; United States
Vietor, Richard H.K., and Forest L. Reinhardt. "Duke Energy and the Nuclear Renaissance." Harvard Business School Case 712-002, September 2011. (Revised February 2014.)
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The Institute for Cancer Care Innovation - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness
existing models of cancer care delivery and reimbursement. Its programs are based around the principles of value-based health care delivery, which focuses on the outcomes and costs of care. The Institute has been at the forefront... View Details
- October 2017
- Teaching Note
Canadian Pacific's Bid for Norfolk Southern
By: Benjamin C. Esty and E. Scott Mayfield
Teaching Note for HBS No. 216-057. View Details
- April 2016
- Supplement
Canadian Pacific's Bid for Norfolk Southern Spreadsheet Supplement
By: Benjamin C. Esty and Scott Mayfield
In December 2015, Canadian Pacific Railroad (CPR) has just made its third bid to acquire Norfolk Southern Corporation (NSC), one of the largest railroads in the United States. Having rejected the prior offers, NSC’s CEO James Squires and the NSC board must now value... View Details
- November 1993 (Revised September 2018)
- Case
Rudi Gassner and the Executive Committee of BMG International (A)
By: Linda Hill and Katherine Seger Weber
Explores the roles of CEO Rudi Gassner and the 9-person executive committee in leading BMG International. BMG International is the international music subsidiary of Bertlesmann, a German company that is the second-largest media conglomerate in the world. Describes a... View Details
Keywords: Managerial Roles; Management Teams; Decision Making; Business Plan; Growth and Development Strategy; Global Strategy; Leadership Style; Organizational Culture; Business Subsidiaries; Business Conglomerates; Cost Management; Change Management; Music Industry; Media and Broadcasting Industry; Germany
Hill, Linda, and Katherine Seger Weber. "Rudi Gassner and the Executive Committee of BMG International (A)." Harvard Business School Case 494-055, November 1993. (Revised September 2018.)
- June 2009
- Teaching Note
Curled Metal Inc. - Engineered Products Division (TN)
By: Frank V. Cespedes
Teaching Note for [709434]. View Details
Keywords: Sales; Product Development; Customers; Business Divisions; Price; Business Strategy; Cost; Production; Mining Industry
- 21 Mar 2004
- Research & Ideas
Loyalty: Don’t Give Away the Store
particularly bad. The marginal cost is almost 75 percent, so every time you give a dollar to someone in the form of a turkey, or a ham, it's costing you 75 cents. In contrast, if you look at offers from the... View Details