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- 13 May 2019
- Research & Ideas
The Unexpected Way Whistleblowers Reduce Government Fraud
contracts.” In fixed-price contracts, the supplier provides a product or service to the government at a fixed price. In cost-plus contracts, the supplier bills the government based on reported production costs and profit margin, making it... View Details
- 01 Mar 2018
- News
Case Study: On the Record
to build capabilities that would be hard to replicate. Let’s build a plan here—not just to grow but to develop some long-term defensibility. Some record profits would be music to investors’ ears. —Jeffrey Glass (MBA 1994) Grow market... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 01 Jan 2003
- News
Lillian Lincoln Lambert, MBA 1969
of its contracts. "Suddenly, I was losing a lot of money," she says "It took us three years to be profitable again." Stringent cost controls and aggressive outreach to commercial clients made the difference. As Centennial One grew through... View Details
- 23 Dec 2002
- Research & Ideas
Partnering and the Balanced Scorecard
in support functions and shared services.—Robert S. Kaplan and David P. Norton In a sharp departure from the past, Mobil adopted an objective and measure to increase dealers' profitability. Mobil set a stretch target to have its dealers... View Details
Keywords: by Robert S. Kaplan & David P. Norton
- 31 Mar 2002
- What Do You Think?
Is This the Decade of the Investor?
employees and less than 3 percent to investors. Compared with the preceding decade of the 80s, customers enjoyed the benefits of low inflation while corporations suffered lower rates of increase in profits and investors received lower... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- Profile
Patrick Chun
a social-enterprise business that marketed handmade luxury goods sourced directly from artisans in developing countries. Consumers would get unique accessories, and the craftsmen would get a higher share of the View Details
- 01 Sep 2009
- News
Alumni Books
which you will reach your destination. ‘Start with the answer’ and work your way back to the solution.” More Mortgage Meltdown: 6 Ways to Profit in These Bad Times by Whitney Tilson (MBA ’94) and Glenn Tongue (Wiley) The authors explain... View Details
- 01 Sep 2012
- News
What’s the Big Idea?
and governance dimensions. Critics of the One Report concept maintain that it destroys shareholder value by diverting attention from short-term profit maximization. But Eccles and two colleagues found just the opposite. In a recent paper... View Details
- 08 Mar 2016
- First Look
March 8, 2016
sensitive customers in markets where it has supplied relatively high (low) levels of service quality in the past. Furthermore, we show that it is the high quality incumbent’s most profitable customers who are the most attracted by... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 03 Apr 2012
- First Look
First Look: April 3
managerial performance, found that managers higher in metacognitive cultural intelligence (CQ) were rated as more effective in intercultural creative collaboration by managers from other cultures. Study 2, a social network survey, found that managers lower in... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 24 Feb 2009
- First Look
First Look: February 24, 2009
Case 209-097 Perry Capital owns shares in King and, to facilitate approval of the merger, buys shares in Mylan, whilst hedging out its economic exposure to Mylan's share price... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 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
- 01 Sep 2003
- News
Globalization Revisited
should become “global” by standardizing the production, distribution, and marketing of their products across all countries. Sameness meant efficiency and would be more profitable than difference. From economies of scale would flow... View Details
- 20 May 2008
- First Look
First Look: May 20, 2008
variable labor supply, social security benefits and portfolio choice over safe bonds and risky equities. Our analysis reinforces prior findings that equities are the preferred asset for young households, with the optimal share of equities... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Dec 2006
- News
Forestalling Terror
individuals can do their jobs? It reminds me of one of the most poignant lines in the 9/11 Commission report: “Good people can overcome bad structures. They should not have to.” It’s been said that, post-9/11, the intelligence community’s culture must change from... View Details
- 03 Mar 2014
- HBS Case
Decommoditizing the Canned Tomato
supermarkets over independent shops and the fact that processed tomatoes were considered a commodity, fierce competition for miniscule profits was the norm. So Francesco decided to close Mutti's side businesses in cheese and cattle and... View Details
- 20 Jan 2015
- First Look
First Look: January 20
following a prosocial norm and self-regulation. We tested 433 children between 6 and 13 years of age in two variations of the Dictator Game (DG). Children were asked what they should or would give in the game and then played an actual DG. We show that most children... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 29 Jan 2008
- First Look
First Look: January 29, 2008
and marginal-cost options. The emphasis on short-term earnings per share as the primary driver of share price, and hence shareholder value creation, acts to restrict investments in innovative long-term... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Feb 2001
- News
Drilling Down
long-term proposition that often requires years of complicated research, negotiation, construction, and drilling before a drop of oil or a penny of profit is produced. The capital required to initiate and to sustain this far-flung... View Details
- 01 Dec 2021
- What Do You Think?
How Will the Metaverse Affect Productivity?
company’s well-publicized problems. After all, Google can now provide an Oxford dictionary definition of the Metaverse as “a virtual reality space in which users can interact with a computer-generated environment and other users.” It has been described as a View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett