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FAQ - U.S. Competitiveness
clusters for economic development. Pursuing productivity and profitability by positioning business activities to draw on America’s unique strengths. Reining in short-sighted, self-interested actions, especially in lobbying and government... View Details
- 23 Dec 2008
- First Look
First Look: December 23, 2008
so the happiness gains that they experience, whilst not permanent, can still be relatively long-lasting. Finally we study a cross section of nations in 2005 from the World Gallup Poll and find that the past 45 years of economic growth... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 17 Jan 2007
- Op-Ed
Learning from Private-Equity Boards
Private-equity boards are typically composed of members with substantial wealth at risk. Private-equity boards know how to structure financial incentives that deter reckless gambling and reward profitable growth. Private-equity boards... View Details
- 03 Jun 2008
- First Look
First Look: June 3, 2008
Working PapersAccountability and Inequality in Single-Party Regimes: A Comparative Analysis of Vietnam and China Authors:Regina Abrami, Edmund Malesky, and Yu Zheng Abstract Over the past two decades, no two economies have averaged more rapid economic View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 04 Apr 2007
- Research & Ideas
The Business of Global Poverty
of people living in poverty at the bottom of the wealth pyramid, versus the relative handful at the pyramid's peak, represents what is potentially the most explosive socioeconomic challenge facing the world. Now, with markets in the developed economies experiencing... View Details
Keywords: by Garry Emmons
- 02 Apr 2013
- First Look
First Look: April 2
historical context and suggesting that scholars move past unconditional acceptance of the causal power of "socialist legacies" and instead attend to the importance of changes in the post-Mao administrative hierarchy. Working Papers Expectations and... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 04 Dec 2007
- First Look
First Look: December 4, 2007
our stores. While some are growing at a single-digit rate, we have registered 20% to 40% sales growth in many of our stores. Turns are up nearly 20% and profitability has improved over 90%. Purchase this... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 19 Jul 2016
- First Look
July 19, 2016
https://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cbmp/product/216078-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 716-426 The Inexorable Rise of Walmart? 1988–2016 In October 2015, Walmart surprised investors by announcing that it expected flat sales growth for 2015... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Sep 2008
- News
Farming for Fuel
FY 2007, it had posted $23 million in profits but also had begun to experience the harsh realities of rising corn prices, falling ethanol prices, and land scarcity. With all of these factors as a backdrop, students analyze several options... View Details
- 05 Dec 2013
- What Do You Think?
Is Walmart Defying Economic Gravity?
Original Article There is a body of research that seeks to relate economics to human biology. It's usually associated with the notion that the life cycles of businesses parallel stages of biological life: birth, rapid growth, maturity, and death. Companies are... View Details
- 25 Nov 2014
- First Look
First Look: November 25
Lee, Ma, and Wang (2014) perform best, followed by peers with the highest overlap in analyst coverage, in explaining cross-sectional variations in base firms' out-of-sample (a) stock returns, (b) valuation multiples, (c) growth rates, (d)... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 01 Mar 2007
- News
Private Equity under Investigation
collaborative practices constituted an anticompetitive conspiracy. The judge observed that activities the government depicted as nefarious were “nothing more nor less than a gradual, natural, and normal growth or evolution by which an... View Details
- 13 Jan 2009
- First Look
First Look: January 13, 2009
Long-Run Investment: The Case of Innovation Authors:Josh Lerner, Morten Sørensen, and Per Strömberg Abstract A long-standing controversy is whether LBOs relieve managers from short-term pressures from public shareholders, or whether LBO funds themselves are driven by... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 19 Jun 2014
- News
Turning "Black Gold" to Green
the game—and some minds—when it comes to fossil fuels and the future. "We can create an industry and put some new options on the table," he says. "My hope is that we can build some extremely profitable carbon-management EOR projects and... View Details
- 15 Jul 2008
- First Look
First Look: July 15, 2008
potential for further growth on the continent. Brazil was in the process of reforming its system of regulating electric utilities and of introducing competition into Brazil's wholesale generating market. These changes would further... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 17 Jul 2020
- News
Support System
work with Mother’s Shea and Eu’Genia are paid a 20 percent premium for their nuts, and 15 percent of company profits are channeled back to the families of the shea-nut pickers to help cover educational costs. For the women without... View Details
Keywords: Maureen Harmon
- 01 Mar 2008
- News
Avoiding a Succession Crisis
begin with, some CEOs find the prospect of succession downright depressing. For them it means failure or organizational death. They love the job; it is their identity. They think of building a cohort of potential leaders, not as the path to View Details
- 24 Feb 2014
- Research & Ideas
Busting Six Myths About Customer Loyalty Programs
of discrimination is taken up by the media or regulators. Second, as there is more room for sales growth with consumers who are not yet top spenders compared with those who are already top spenders, strict application of loyalty system... View Details
- 01 Oct 2008
- Research & Ideas
How Much Time Should CEOs Devote to Customers?
Harvard Business School professor John Quelch writes a blog on marketing issues, called Marketing KnowHow, for Harvard Business. It is reprinted on HBS Working Knowledge.Customers are the source of all cash flow. Organic growth depends on... View Details
Keywords: by John Quelch
- 27 Jul 2023
- Blog Post
Buy Big, Sell Small
ApnaKlub—which leases warehouse space and trucks—sources the requested products from brand-name manufacturers and distributes them to the wholesalers, who deliver within a reliable time frame. “We leverage technology to bring our customers supply consistency, better... View Details