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- 23 May 2000
- Research & Ideas
Minding the Muse: The Impact of Downsizing on Corporate Creativity
counting on to drive sales over the next few years might not be forthcoming. Corporate downsizing is hardly anything new. Indeed, in recent years it has often been management's tool of choice for improving competitiveness. Ironically, new... View Details
Keywords: by Peter K. Jacobs
- 04 Dec 2007
- First Look
First Look: December 4, 2007
that the buyer's plans will go awry. Purchase this note: http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=208060 Fu Ji Food and Catering Harvard Business School Case 208-004 Fu Ji, the largest corporate caterer in China, is... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 17 May 2016
- First Look
May 17, 2016
and announcing the product launch through social media channels, the company finds significant customer interest. With only two weeks of promising data, the CEO must decide whether or not to abandon the planned View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 30 May 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, May 30
maintenance and repair parts and equipment in the U.S., had just held its November 2014 board meeting. The meeting had been productive but not without some soul searching for both the company’s management team and financial sponsors. Was now the right time to start a... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 25 Mar 2014
- First Look
First Look: March 25
when H&M announced plans to enter the U.S., sales had grown 20% per year and operating profits 30% per year for a decade. After the August announcement of U.S. expansion plans, its share price hit a... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 11 Sep 2012
- First Look
First Look: September 11
ambitious 20-year growth plan to transform her family's one-branch community bank into an institution with a substantial presence in southeastern Alabama. Harris Johnson was pleased, so far, with the results. Strategically they had... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 23 Dec 2002
- Research & Ideas
Partnering and the Balanced Scorecard
organization's frontlines and back offices. This new partnership with employees is reinforced with personal and team objectives linked to unit and corporate achievement, and, typically, with a new incentive plan that enables all employees... View Details
Keywords: by Robert S. Kaplan & David P. Norton
- 21 Jul 2008
- Research & Ideas
Solving the Marketing Resources Allocation Puzzle
calculated so that directional recommendations can be made. 'What if' analysis or simulations: A small number of marketing plans are considered by simulating their effects on sales and profit. The best View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 03 Sep 2020
- Op-Ed
Why American Health Care Needs Its Own SEC
sales of publications by market participants, and fees. (Its 2019 budget of $63 million seems meager in relation to its influence.) As an independent agency with a singular focus, the SEC is accountable for its mistakes and readily fixes... View Details
- 01 Jul 2002
- Research & Ideas
What it Takes to Lead Through Turmoil
malapropism as saying, "take it." More than a funny Yogi-ism, the words suggest a fundamental truth for companies wanting not only to survive times of disruption, change, and surprise, but lead through it, Kanter suggests. Companies who do the best job... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 13 Jul 2010
- First Look
First Look: July 13
Bank was entering the fifth year of Hope Harris Johnson's ambitious 20-year growth plan to transform her family's one branch community bank into an institution with a substantial presence in southeastern Alabama. Harris Johnson was... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 31 Jul 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, July 31, 2018
help to scale impact investing, if not bring it into the mainstream. The case is set two years after the acquisition. It describes impact investing, the founding of Imprint, its evolution from serving foundations and home offices to financial institutions, and its... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 15 Dec 2015
- First Look
December 15, 2015
harming its own sales or those of its retail customers? Could Unilever encourage industry-wide changes to have a real impact on global environmental sustainability? Purchase this case:... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 01 Dec 2015
- Research & Ideas
What to Do When Your Organization Has Dueling Missions
$3.94 billion in sales from its more than 3,000 retail stores and its online auction site. Even so, Goodwill’s core mission is to provide job training and placement to people with disabilities, criminal backgrounds, and other challenges... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 01 Aug 2012
- What Do You Think?
Should CEOs Worry About ‘Too Big to Succeed?’
several people have contacted me recently requesting introductions to leaders who have successfully taken their organizations through the size barrier of roughly a billion dollars in sales or several thousand employees without taking a... View Details
- 25 May 2010
- First Look
First Look: May 25
pounds of production per year. The case describes how Johnson took charge of the plant and her action plan for implementing a new set of changes. During Johnson's tenure at Williamsport, the plant was nominated as a potential site for a... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 25 Apr 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research, April 25
industry also grew as the means out of poverty for many women who worked as sales consultants and in salons. Winning beauty contests became the equivalent to winning a lottery. In this respect, the impact of the beauty industry was... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 06 Feb 2018
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas: February 6, 2018
substantially fewer violations. With improved compliance, channel prices increase by 2% without loss in volume. The reduction in violations is particularly stark among authorized retailers with lower sales volume, those that previously... View Details
- 07 Aug 2012
- Research & Ideas
Off and Running: Professors Comment on Olympics
the "Big Owe." It took that city 30 years to repay the municipal debt—$1.5 billion in 1976 dollars, or more than $6 billion today. Sometimes "building new urban infrastructure" is a justification for hosting the Games, but this is more of a View Details
- 15 Sep 2009
- First Look
First Look: September 15
12-year career of a pharmaceutical salesperson, Bob Marsh, from recruitment to termination. Marsh has had an uneven career with Cabot Pharmaceuticals and eventually is asked to resign. Following his termination, a number of Marsh's former customers complain vigorously,... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace