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01 Jan 2014
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To Spot Financial Trouble Early, Use Three Circles: A conversation with Blythe McGarvie of Harvard Business School

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How do I use the analysis function in SDC Platinum?

You can use the Volume Analysis Function in SDC to get data on deals and new issues. SDC to run a Volume Analysis report from an M&A or New Issues database. From the Output menu, choose View Details

June 1977 (Revised September 1992)
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Sorenson Research Co. (Abridged)

By: Steven C. Wheelwright

Presents the issues facing a high volume, high margin (but lightweight) medical products business. The company is trying to improve its inventory control to reduce inventory investment and improve service. The present multi-site inventory system is described and major... View Details

Keywords: Business Earnings; Investment; Volume; Service Delivery; Supply Chain; Performance Improvement; Medical Devices and Supplies Industry

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Case Writing & Industry | Baker Library

page 15. HBS Archives Vertical File Collection (AC 1947.22). Harvard Business School faculty meeting, July 18, 1922, page 1. Office of the Dean. Secretary to the Faculty Minutes, Volume 1921-1924 (AA 1.5). Harvard Business School faculty... View Details

William L. Clayton

In 1916, Clayton moved Anderson, Clayton and Company’s headquarters to Houston, Texas, where he grew the company into the world’s largest cotton trading organization. During World War I, the firm handled 1 million bales of cotton a year. By World War II, the firm was... View Details

Keywords: Agriculture & Mining

01 Mar 2003
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Flying High

customer experience,” explaining that Fidelity plans to woo youthful investors and retain them as customers as their wealth grows over the years. On the brokerage side, she will work to secure the firm’s place as a mutual fund giant. “It’s a View Details

Keywords: Fidelity; Funds, Trusts, and Other Financial Vehicles; Finance

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Hospitals: statistics (US)

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Stanley C. Allyn

As leader of National Cash Register, Allyn was an ardent supporter of first-class working conditions for employees and a strong believer in corporate citizenship for his company. By 1947, Allyn had tripled National Cash Register’s sales View Details

Keywords: Computers & Electronics

Frank A. Munsey

Frank Munsey revolutionized the publishing industry by bringing financial rigor to the business. Munsey was a pioneer in connecting advertising prices to circulation volume making large-scale magazine production affordable and profitable.... View Details

Keywords: Publishing & Print Media

01 Dec 2011
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Faculty Books

cost-effective responses to climate change. The studies are part of a discussion of how such acceleration might best be accomplished and the role that public policy and government might play in supporting innovation. Henderson, the John and Natty McArthur University... View Details

Keywords: Utilities

Charles H. Steinway

Following behind his Uncle William, Charles Steinway focused on the business side of his family’s growing piano empire. Charles introduced the company’s first modern advertising campaign and personally took control of the European operations of the firm, streamlining... View Details

Keywords: Fabricated Goods

Frederick J. Fisher

Fisher produced auto bodies specifically designed for autos rather than as modifications of horse-drawn carriages. When Cadillac placed an order for 150 closed bodies in 1910, it was the first volume order of its kind in the U.S. In 1919,... View Details

Keywords: Automotive & Aerospace

Vincent A. Gierer, Jr.

Gierer has presided over 8 years of consecutive growth in both revenues and earnings despite intense government-imposed new excise taxes. Gierer has been instrumental in expanding the market for smokeless tobacco, generating volume growth... View Details

Keywords: Food & Tobacco

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Lehman Brothers Deal Books | Baker Library | Bloomberg Center | Harvard Business School

Library Search Search Search Lehman Brothers: 1850 - 2008 Lehman Brothers Deal Books Deal Books Over 900 deal books, from 1925-1986, are included in the Lehman Brothers Collection. Investment firms like Lehman Brothers created these large bound View Details

Gilbert Colgate

Colgate merged with the Peet Company and B. J. Johnson, maker of Palmolive soap, the largest selling soap brand in America in the early 1900s. Colgate led the newly merged Colgate, Palmolive-Peet Company with assets of $63 million. The company’s View Details

Keywords: Personal Care & Home Products

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Business Education & The Case Method | Baker Library

method, referred to as the “problem method,” be called the “case system,” reflecting the formalization of the pedagogy at the School. Harvard Business School faculty meeting, May 10, 1922. Office of the Dean. Secretary to the Faculty Minutes, View Details

Lillian M. Vernon (Katz)

Arden, Avon and Revlon as well as imported goods. She also invested in several new distribution centers throughout New York and built a high-tech communications system to handle the increasingly large volume of orders. By the late 1980s,... View Details

Keywords: Retail

Portrait Project

Emily Kramer

thousands of other fans energizes me. Listening to an old favorite album grounds me. Turning up the volume relaxes me. Sharing a song recommendation with a friend excites me. I plan to emulate the musicians I admire. Like an undiscovered... View Details

April 2002
Teaching Note

Anagene, Inc. TN

By: Robert S. Kaplan

Teaching Note for (9-102-030). View Details

Keywords: Entrepreneurship; Public Ownership; Sales; Production; Forecasting and Prediction; Volume; Governing and Advisory Boards; Cost Accounting; Business or Company Management; Financial Reporting; Strategy; Performance Capacity; Biotechnology Industry