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- 19 Nov 2013
- First Look
First Look: November 19
taking his company private. The company, which he had founded in his dorm room as a college freshman and which had made him the youngest Fortune 500 CEO in history, had been the market leader in PC sales in the early 2000s. In recent... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Mar 2007
- News
Courting the Poor
A BETTER MOUSETRAP: At a Magazine Luiza virtual showroom, sales staff use computers to help customers make their purchases. Photo COURTESY MAGAZINE LUIZA The inspiration for a new case can strike at any time. For HBS associate professor... View Details
- 23 Apr 2014
- HBS Case
Are Electronic Cigarettes a Public Good or Health Hazard?
and analysis," says Quelch. A Smoking Market Uncertainty over health data hasn't hurt the product's popularity. In 2013, electronic cigarettes tripled in sales in the US to approximately $3 billion. (The overall tobacco retail market... View Details
- 20 Mar 2007
- First Look
First Look: March 20, 2007
Working PapersIncorporating Price and Inventory Endogeneity in Firm-Level Sales Forecasting Authors:Saravanan Kesavan, Vishal Gaur, and Ananth Raman Abstract As numerous papers have argued, sales, inventory, and gross margin for a... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Dec 2015
- News
Snapping Up Voters
Saliterman—a 33-year-old veteran of the Bush White House and Republican National Committee—promoted new tools that permitted campaigns to run ads for a select group of voters before YouTube videos. After moving to launch Snapchat’s first political advertising View Details
Keywords: Sasha Issenberg
- Profile
Damali Brown
she applied and was accepted as a Fellow by Morgan Stanley, initiating a working relationship that began with a summer sales and training position and that led to five years of employment in various positions at the firm. Equated with... View Details
- 28 May 2012
- Research & Ideas
A Pragmatic Alternative for Creating a Corporate Social Responsibility Strategy
not force the disparate CSR programs into their business strategies. Instead, the goal should be to "bring discipline and structure to the many fragmented components. [The] components will in some cases support the core strategy and in... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 17 May 2010
- Research & Ideas
What Brazil Teaches About Investor Protection
Companies can overcome the shortcomings of the legal system in which they operate. If investor protections are weak in national laws, companies can offer protections in their bylaws that compensate for those weaknesses. It is easier to... View Details
- 20 May 2014
- First Look
First Look: May 20
aimed at increasing female labor force participation to compensate for Japan's aging population, reforms of the electric power sector directed at reducing electricity costs, and efforts designed to promote... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 14 Feb 2007
- Op-Ed
Tata-Corus: India’s New Steel Giant
was to supplement the customer-facing front-end in the developed markets, with a lower-cost back-end in an emerging market. That is, TCL was trying to buy a sales and marketing structure and a set of brands. Much like Tata is with Corus.... View Details
Keywords: by Tarun Khanna
- 31 Mar 2002
- What Do You Think?
Is This the Decade of the Investor?
interests of small investors." He also suggests that investors have little ability to judge whether compensation for managers is fair, particularly in an information economy in which it is difficult to assess justification for... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 01 Oct 2000
- News
Raymond A. Baxter: Sweet Smell of Success
cookies. Annual proceeds from the sale total close to $450 million, $300 million of which supports scouting activity. "If there's a more effective fundraiser in the world, I don't know what it is," Baxter remarks. "But it's also a... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 03 Jan 2007
- First Look
First Look: January 3, 2007
Kendall Square Research was a small competitor in the supercomputer industry. Sales grew rapidly in 1992 and early 1993 and the company sold stock to the public for the first time. Analysts forecast higher earnings for 1993, then the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 02 Jan 2008
- Research & Ideas
Most Popular Stories 2007
determination of compensation and, if so, how? Encouraging Dissent in Decision-Making Our natural tendency to maintain silence and not rock the boat, a flaw at once personal and organizational, results in bad—sometimes deadly—decisions.... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 05 Aug 2002
- Research & Ideas
Are Consumers the Cure for Broken Health Insurance?
If companies are willing to embrace a new model of health coverage—one that places control over costs and care directly in the hands of employees—the competitive forces that spur productivity and innovation in consumer markets can be... View Details
Keywords: by Regina E. Herzlinger
- 01 Oct 2002
- News
Andrew H. Tisch
company focused on improving its sales force and restoring retailers' confidence in the quality of an expanded and more fashionable product line. After five years, Bulova was breaking even; when Tisch left... View Details
- 01 Jun 2020
- News
Meal Plan
restaurants? And Keith, what has the situation been with Act III’s smaller, fast-casual portfolio of restaurants? Christian Charnaux: We established our first task force in late February; at that point, the virus wasn’t hitting our... View Details
- 20 Dec 2016
- Research & Ideas
The 10 Most Popular 'Cold Call' Podcasts
Madam C.J. Walker helped invent what have become staples of our modern country and economy: national sales forces, corporate social responsibility, and, yes, even basic haircare. Orphaned at age 8, married at 14, and widowed at 20 with a... View Details
Keywords: Re: Multiple Faculty
- 02 Feb 2012
- Op-Ed
Once a Castle, Home is Now a Debtors’ Prison
market: people offered jobs far afield stay put, reluctant (and unable) to leave their underwater homes. Since the recovery of the housing market will undergird any broader recovery, we must address these debtors' prisons. Novel Solutions The solutions will View Details
- 26 Sep 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, September 26, 2017
Business Review What’s the Right Kind of Bonus to Motivate Your Sales Force? By: Chung, Doug J., and Das Narayandas Abstract—Companies typically compensate their sales View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne