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20 Jan 2010
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distribute cash to shareholders. We also provide indirect evidence as to why firm managers may cater to the demand for dividends from local seniors. Overall, these results suggest that the composition of a firm's investor base affects View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

09 Mar 2022
Research & Ideas

War in Ukraine: Soaring Gas Prices and the Return of Stagflation?

researching the Nord Stream 2 natural gas pipeline linking Russia and Germany. In an interconnected corporate world, he says, the pipeline project illustrates how inseparable politics and business are, especially at the edges of old Cold... View Details

Keywords: by Avery Forman; Energy

04 Mar 2019
What Do You Think?

What’s the Antidote to Surveillance Capitalism?

inter-governmental regulation as powerful enough to offer some hope of containing the excesses of surveillance capitalism. When industrial capitalism was moderated we lived in a world where nation states still had much autonomy confronted by global View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett; Advertising; Consumer Products

06 Sep 2004
Research & Ideas

The Innovator’s Battle Plan

technology so it could be useful to Western Union's most profitable real-time long-distance data customers. When an existing firm tries to insert a product or service with disruptive potential into its processes, what comes out the other... View Details

Keywords: by Clayton M. Christensen, Scott D. Anthony & Erik A. Roth

11 Aug 2003
Research & Ideas

Why Budgeting Kills Your Company

tool for achieving strategic alignment. How Fixed-performance Contracts Ensure Underperformance At its simplest, a company's budget process consists of each unit producing a sales forecast (assuming it's a profit center) and a capital... View Details

Keywords: by Loren Gary

April 2012 (Revised February 2013)
Case

H-E-B: Creating a Movement to Reduce Obesity in Texas

By: Jose B. Alvarez, Jason Riis and Walter J. Salmon

In January 2012, H-E-B Grocery Co., a private retail chain with stores located in Texas and Mexico, was introducing its Healthy at H-E-B program to its customers. The program, which started with the company's employees a few years earlier, was an effort to educate and... View Details

Keywords: Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Profit; Leading Change; Customer Focus and Relationships; Food and Beverage Industry; Retail Industry; Texas

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06 Mar 2018
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their businesses to shareholders through stock buybacks and dividends rather than invest for the long term, undermining job growth and putting the country’s economic future at risk, often pointing to the high ratio of shareholder payouts to net income. These claims are... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

20 Aug 2013
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falling profitability left it perilously close to violating key debt covenants, he had to move quickly. Purchase this case: http://hbr.org/search/213142-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Note 413-122 Crafting a Career Narrative for New... View Details

Keywords: Anna Secino

21 Jan 2009
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Online Video Harvard Business School Case 709-447 In late March 2007, CBS faces an important decision about its online video strategy. A just-announced joint online distribution venture between NBC Universal and News Corporation (Fox) is... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

09 Jan 2006
Research & Ideas

When Benchmarks Don’t Work

business partners with line executives. Finance spending as a percentage of revenues will increase, but the profit impact from these partnerships can repay the additional spending many times over. These examples collectively reveal the... View Details

Keywords: by Robert S. Kaplan; Service

18 Feb 2015
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enterprises (MNEs), the paper argues we have reason to reject assigning human rights obligations to business enterprises and their managers. The paper begins by distinguishing business and human rights from the more general topic of View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

07 Feb 2019
Book

How Big Companies Can Outrun Disruption

other mistake companies make with innovative culture is presenting it as something that is going to be really fun." And, sometimes responding is not even the right response. As I write in the book with the example of digital photography, sometimes a new thing... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

20 Aug 2008
Op-Ed

The Time is Right for Creative Capitalism

he succeeded so convincingly playing the game of market capitalism that first emerged in the late 19th century and grew to great influence during the 20th century. This game or system has been dominated in many industries by large, multinational View Details

Keywords: by Nancy Koehn

06 Jul 2011
Research & Ideas

Are You a Level-Six Leader?

the regional or national electorate. It is difficult to find renowned corporate leaders who fit this category because in business, typically, the Chameleons are weeded out before they reach the top. The world of politics is another... View Details

Keywords: by Mitch Maidique

06 Oct 2003
Research & Ideas

The Problem with Hedge Funds

unfamiliar ways, it is explained as if it were behaving in traditional ways. Nowhere is the change in the players in the market recognized. The change in the means by which large players seek to profit and the greater role of the hedge... View Details

Keywords: by D. Quinn Mills

09 Aug 2011
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KhuranaHarvard Business School Note 311-115 The purpose of this note is to describe the manner in which publicly traded corporations and local governments in the United States account for their pension plans. Purchase this... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

28 Jun 2004
Research & Ideas

How to Avoid a Price Increase

Gourville discusses the price-versus-quantity dilemma in this e-mail interview. Manda Salls: When prices for raw materials increase, companies need to compensate to keep their profit margin on target. What are the typical responses? John... View Details

Keywords: by Manda Salls

05 Nov 2021
Op-Ed

Is the Business World Finally Ready for the Wisdom of Shibusawa?

economic development. Spreading prosperity through the gappon business model It is less Shibusawa’s track record as a serial entrepreneur than his views on the purpose of business that have attracted renewed interest. The Confucian philosophy of the old feudal regime... View Details

Keywords: by Geoffrey Jones and Rei Morimoto; Financial Services; Retail

11 Mar 2001
Research & Ideas

Merchants to Multinationals: British Trading Companies in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries

profits continued to be an important source of funds for the British merchant groups, after 1870 they also drew substantially on outside funds to finance expansion into new activities. Partners and directors of the merchant houses did not... View Details

Keywords: by Geoffrey Jones

2007
Book

From Higher Aims to Hired Hands: The Social Transformation of American Business Schools and the Unfulfilled Promise of Management as a Profession

By: Rakesh Khurana

Is management a profession? Should it be? Can it be? This major work of social and intellectual history reveals how such questions have driven business education and shaped American management and society for more than a century. The book is also a call for reform.... View Details

Keywords: Social History; Business Education; Moral Sensibility; Profit; Leadership; Managerial Roles; United States

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