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  • 01 Jun 2007
  • News

Delta’s Flight from Bankruptcy

domestic flights and added service to seventy international destinations in the last fifteen months. Whitehurst said that the company’s future growth will center on Asia, Africa, and the Middle East. “It’s easy to move the metal around... View Details
Keywords: Air Transportation; Transportation
  • 28 Sep 2015
  • Research & Ideas

Six Lessons from Mobile Money Ventures in Developing Countries

In many emerging economies, the need to give people in poverty better access to financial services seems obvious. The mobile phone is a perfect vehicle, given their widespread adoption, even among the financially less well off. Designing a View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Financial Services; Telecommunications
  • Web

Challenges and Opportunities in the Restaurant Industry - Course Catalog

restaurants and delivered meals. Growth and Scale. This module will examine the factors that have traditionally determined profitability and valuation. It will consider growth... View Details
  • 01 Mar 2015
  • News

Fıelds of Gold

Growth Market: Afghan saffron has also attracted the attention of MBA classmates Ben Bines, Kimberly Jung, KinYan Chew, and Emily Miller (all HBS 2015), who founded Rumi Spice with a mission similar to Earth2Globe’s. (©Majid... View Details
Keywords: April White; Support Activities for Agriculture and Forestry; Agriculture
  • 01 Sep 2010
  • News

Faculty Books

offerings, and fatter profit margins. Featuring case studies from around the world, this book shows how to mine sales data to identify “home-run” products, reinvent forecasting and pricing strategies, and extract maximum value from... View Details
Keywords: Retail Trade; Water Transportation; Transportation
  • 01 Jun 2015
  • News

Case Study: Sneak Peak

growth proceeds will go to the lenders, leaving the owners with more stress, work, [and] risk—and probably no more income. Worst case, the launch fails and takes the company with it. —Peter Warner (MBA 1988) The best option would be... View Details
Keywords: Whole Foods; Beverage and Tobacco Product Manufacturing; Manufacturing; Food and Beverage Stores; Retail Trade
  • 30 Nov 2009
  • Research & Ideas

Tracks of My Tears: Reconstructing Digital Music

those data using an econometric model that relates the growth in online music buying to the revenues per bundle. Q: Could we have real-world definitions of what you mean by bundle, pure bundle, mixed bundle, and unbundling? A: Sure. A... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Music
  • 30 Jun 2015
  • First Look

First Look: June 30, 2015

directors. Controlling for these effects and other ratings determinants, we find that firms with lower residual ratings have higher subsequent citations in corruption news events. They also report higher future sales growth and show a... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 01 Jun 2000
  • News

Books

Implementing Strategy. "There's the question of profit and growth versus control, for instance, or short-term results versus long-term capabilities. Managers today are involved in a very delicate balancing... View Details
  • 01 Dec 2010
  • News

Additional alumni books for your consideration.

by John T. Reed (MBA ’77) (John T. Reed Publishing) Gulf Capital and Islamic Finance: The Rise of the New Global Players by Aamir Rehman (MBA ’04) (McGraw-Hill) Doing Both: How Cisco Captures Today's Profit & Drives Tomorrow's View Details
Keywords: Funds, Trusts, and Other Financial Vehicles; Finance
  • 02 Mar 2015
  • Research & Ideas

Retail Reaches a Tipping Point—Which Stores Will Survive?

many of these businesses is still challenged," says Lal, the Stanley Roth, Sr. Professor of Retailing. "From a profit perspective, from a growth perspective, and more importantly from a return on investment... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Retail
  • 20 Jan 2010
  • First Look

First Look: Jan. 20

Abstract Often considered one of the major forces behind economic growth and development, the entrepreneurial firm can accelerate the speed of innovation and dissemination of new technologies, thus increasing a country's competitive edge... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • Web

Financial Management of Smaller Firms - Course Catalog

current profitable business model exists (as distinct from many VC-backed developmental businesses), and frequently the businesses are of a scale that they can be acquired and owned by individuals instead of institutions or families. The... View Details
  • 13 Sep 2012
  • Research & Ideas

Why Public Companies Underinvest in the Future

managers to favor short-term profits over long-term gains. The research results suggest that managers of public companies are under much more pressure than their private-firm counterparts to show short-term financial results. Peeking In... View Details
Keywords: by Maggie Starvish
  • 08 Sep 2010
  • First Look

First Look: September 8, 2010

describes the growth of Guggenheim Brothers as one of the largest mining companies in the world in the early twentieth century. Global expansion led the firm to Chile, first in copper and later in natural nitrates. Chile's economic View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 20 Nov 2019
  • News

From the Ground Up

Paul Phillips (MBA 2003) is cofounder of Kai-Viti Water, which bottles and sells artesian water from the Fiji Islands. In this interview he talks about the company’s policy of dedicating profits from the company to support basic education... View Details
Keywords: Beverage and Tobacco Product Manufacturing; Manufacturing
  • Web

Exploring Trade Links in the Interior - A Chronicle of the China Trade

Exploring Trade Links in the Interior After the Second Opium War (1856-1860), the opening of new ports and riverways sparked tremendous growth in trade. Westerners now ventured from the treaty ports into the interior of China where they... View Details
  • 01 Jun 2017
  • News

Streamlining the Supermarket

full-time employees, slashing labor costs by 90 percent. Those two innovations are expected to add up to a net profit margin of three times that of the overall industry. “And that is really powerful,” Pedró says. “You can actually give... View Details
Keywords: Francis Storrs
  • 01 Dec 2008
  • News

Alumni Books

Breakthrough Marketing Plans: How to Stop Wasting Time and Start Driving Growth by Tim Calkins (MBA ’91) (Palgrave Macmillan) Most marketing plans are a waste of time — too long, complicated, and dense — and end up unread and unrealized.... View Details
Keywords: Securities, Commodities, and Other Financial Investments; Finance; Food Services and Drinking Places; Hospitality; Transportation Equipment Manufacturing; Manufacturing
  • 19 Jul 2010
  • Research & Ideas

How Mercadona Fixes Retail’s ’Last 10 Yards’ Problem

margins. Yet in the new case study "Mercadona," HBS assistant professor Zeynep Ton and research assistant Simon Harrow describe a Spanish supermarket chain that has done all this while achieving steady profits and double-digit... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Retail; Food & Beverage
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