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  • 25 Mar 2014
  • First Look

First Look: March 25

fiscal 2012 were $18.1 billion and operating profits were $3.3 billion. H&M operated 2,776 stores, 93% of them outside its home base of Sweden. Over the past decade, H&M had passed Gap in sales, but the company had failed to keep... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

    James R. Moffett

    In 1981, Moffett orchestrated one of the largest and most profitable mergers in Wall Street history – the merger of his oil exploration company, McMoRan Oil and Gas Company, with Freeport Minerals Corporation – creating a $4 billion... View Details
    Keywords: Agriculture & Mining
    • 05 Aug 2015
    • What Do You Think?

    What Happened to the ‘Innovation, Disruption, Technology’ Dividend?

    in the field of analytics are focused on improved utilization of productive equipment and materials It is hard to get much GDP growth or wage growth this way, but corporate View Details
    Keywords: by James Heskett; Computer; Technology
    • 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
    • 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
    • 27 Jun 2016
    • News

    Ulf Mark Schneider Has Plans to Make Nestlé Healthy

    Nestlé’s growth plans: Health products, including medical foods for patients with conditions such as Alzheimers’ and gastrointestinal problems, have become an increasing focus for Nestlé in recent years, with a string of acquisitions and... View Details
    • 20 Nov 2012
    • First Look

    First Look: November 20

    reviewed and directions for further research are discussed. How Concentrated Is the U.S. Advertising and Marketing Services Industry: Myth vs. Reality? Authors:Alvin J. Silk and Charles King III Publication:Journal of Current Issues and... View Details
    Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
    • 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
    • 10 Jun 2002
    • Research & Ideas

    How to Look at Globalization Now

    interview with HBS Working Knowledge's Martha Lagace, he discusses what companies should bear in mind going forward.Lagace: People often equate globalization with the idea that globally standardized products are displacing local ones. In one of your new working papers,... View Details
    Keywords: by Martha Lagace
    • 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
    • 01 Mar 2007
    • News

    Daniel Vasella

    business. But it’s growing at a faster pace. Whenever possible, people switch from branded drugs to generics to cut their expenditures. The question is: Are you in it for the margins, or are you in it for growth of View Details
    Keywords: Roger Thompson; multinational pharmaceutical company; prescription drugs; vaccines; Medicare; generics business; Health, Social Assistance
    • 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
    • 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
    • November 1985 (Revised August 1997)
    • Case

    Harnischfeger Corp.

    By: Krishna G. Palepu
    Presents an analysis of Harnischfeger's quality of earnings, and the investment potential of the company's stock in light of the company's turnaround strategy. View Details
    Keywords: Financial Condition; Revenue; Stock Shares; Profit; Economic Growth; Financial Reporting; Growth and Development; Growth and Development Strategy; Safety; Utilities Industry
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    • 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
    • 19 Dec 2006
    • First Look

    First Look: December 19, 2006

    demand. Download working paper: http://www.nber.org/papers/w12756 The Value of a 'Free' Customer Authors:Sunil Gupta, Carl F. Mela, and Jose M. Vidal-Sanz Abstract Central to a firm's growth and marketing policy is the revenue and View Details
    Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
    • 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... View Details
    • 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
    • 17 Apr 2007
    • First Look

    First Look: April 17, 2007

    the right balance between the private benefits of integrated markets and the public value of civic engagement, evidence on the size of the positive spillovers from local media is needed. To date, such evidence is scant. In this paper, we exploit the rapid View Details
    Keywords: Martha Lagace
    • 13 Sep 2011
    • First Look

    First Look: September 13

    international capital flows net of government debt are positively correlated with growth and allocated according to the neoclassical predictions; (2) international capital flows net of official aid flows, which are mostly accounted as... View Details
    Keywords: Sean Silverthorne