Profit Planning - Publications - Faculty & Research

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

20 Nov 2012
First Look

First Look: November 20

quantitative insight on the link between a firm's business model choices and their ultimate profit consequences. We apply the method to Walmart. Using evidence from annual reports, research papers, case studies, and books for the period... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

09 Dec 2008
First Look

First Look: December 9, 2008

Public Authorities Control Board rejects a $1.4 billion plan to build the New York Sports and Convention Center (NYSCC) on the West Side of Manhattan. If built, the NYSCC would have served as the home for the Jets and possibly the opening... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

26 Apr 2011
Op-Ed

HBS Faculty Comment on Environmental Issues for Earth Day

offering or withholding capital, banks rival governments in their power to shape business behavior across various industries. Cynics wondering if this is just window-dressing should consider the case of Santander Brazil, a top financial group that has View Details

Keywords: by Staff; Energy; Utilities

01 Dec 2014
News

Alumni and Faculty Books for December 2014

Alumni Books Dual Momentum Investing: An Innovative Strategy for Higher Returns with Lower Risk by Gary Antonacci (MBA 1978) (McGraw-Hill) Antonacci explains his investing method, which combines U.S. stock, non-U.S. stock, and aggregate bond indices, in a formula that... View Details

05 May 2010
What Do You Think?

Is Denial Endemic to Management?

"data-driven decision style" (David Cawlfield), the development of "early warning indicators" combined with an "external interference mechanism" (Gopal Padinjaruveetil), scenario planning of the type... View Details

Keywords: by Jim Heskett

11 Mar 2001
Research & Ideas

Digital Designs on the Inner City

possibly going to change their attitudes about what they think their lives can be." Yet Harris doesn't wait for residents to come to him. Instead, he has reached out to inner city business owners, helping them write competitive business View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman

01 Jan 2006
News

Ann S. Moore, MBA 1978

magazines especially popular. Launched in 2000, Real Simple is dedicated to helping people simplify and organize their lives. Ranked third on Adweek's 2006 "Hot List," the publication has been so successful that it turned profitable in... View Details

23 Dec 2002
Research & Ideas

Partnering and the Balanced Scorecard

the nature of the organization's business and how the organization intends to succeed and outperform competitors. It articulates the critical elements for a company's growth strategy 5: Objectives for growth in shareholder value Targeted customers through whom View Details

Keywords: by Robert S. Kaplan & David P. Norton

01 Dec 2022
News

December 2022 Alumni and Faculty Books and Podcasts

1987) and Gary Grossman Beaufort Books Arctic ice is melting, the waters are warming, and Russian President Nicolai Gorshkov is one step closer to monopolizing the oil industry and funding his expansionism plans past Ukraine and Latvia.... View Details

26 May 2009
Research & Ideas

Improving Market Research in a Recession

research on secondary products or customers. Now, nice-to-knows that are not essential will have to wait. Enlist trusted partners. Marketers and research suppliers who trust each other and have established long-term relationships can jointly View Details

Keywords: by John Quelch

01 Sep 2020
News

Alumni and Faculty Books for September 2020

this growth is inevitable as the divide between man and machine blurs. Hot Stocks: Investing for Impact and Profit in a Warming World by James Ellman (MBA 1994) Rowman & Littlefield The world is warming, our portfolios will have to adapt,... View Details

01 Mar 2009
News

Your Taxi Is Waiting

service DayJet, launched in October 2007, placed an up-front order for 239 Eclipse 500s and used a chancier, less profitable per-seat pricing model for its Florida-based operations. The company ran out of money and ceased operations last... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; Air Transportation; Transportation

09 Nov 2009
Research & Ideas

Come Fly with Me: A History of Airline Leadership

to entry were eliminated, and many new carriers entered the market. While deregulation resulted in a dramatic increase in air travel, it also fundamentally changed the profit potential of the industry. Under regulation, airlines could... View Details

Keywords: by Sarah Jane Gilbert; Air Transportation

01 Dec 2003
Research & Ideas

Sometimes Success Begins at Failure

that eventually resulted in a historic windfall for the drug maker soon after it began marketing UK-92,480 under the brand name Viagra. Pfizer was able to develop and launch a wildly successful and profitable new drug because it... View Details

Keywords: by Henry Chesbrough; Health; Pharmaceutical

30 Apr 2001
Research & Ideas

Big Companies, Big Opportunities—Big Questions

reach that level of trading volume. Building A Consumer-products Empire But the negatives haven't scared off consumer products giant Procter & Gamble. Since 1987, the company's Latin American sales have grown by 4.5 times to $2.8 billion. View Details

Keywords: by Julie Jette

01 Jun 2018
News

June 2018 Alumni and Faculty Books

Washington. With Gratitude: Barker Steel and the People Who Made It Work by Robert B. Brack (OPM 2, 1977) ArchwayPublishing When Robert Brack returned to Barker Steel Co. (the business started by his grandfather in 1920) several years after college, the firm had one... View Details

26 Sep 2006
First Look

First Look: September 26, 2006

Danner was about to make his first presentation to the board of directors of Codon Devices, a one-year-old biotechnology start-up based in Cambridge, Massachusetts. After a month as the company's CEO, Danner was prepared to lay out his strategic View Details