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  • 01 Feb 2001
  • News

Drilling Down

resources on earth? "The difficult margins we've had to deal with over the past fifteen years have made us put aside the cowboy hats and boots and adopt more of a green eyeshade approach to running the business," observes Bradley Fischer.... View Details
Keywords: Hanna, Julia; Matthew R. Simmons; Oil and Gas Extraction; Mining; Natural Gas Distribution; Utilities
  • 19 Apr 2011
  • First Look

First Look: April 19

spillovers) and (2) whether the marginal benefit of a hospital's focus in cardiovascular care depends on the degree to which the hospital "co-specializes" in related areas (complementarities). In our setting, we find evidence of... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 15 Jan 2019
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New Research and Ideas, January 15, 2019

case:https://hbsp.harvard.edu/product/818061-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 218-079 Margin Accounts No abstract available. Purchase this case:https://hbsp.harvard.edu/product/218079-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 119-032... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 12 Jul 2016
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July 12, 2016

convinced that it presented an opportunity to sell to customers as long as Best Buy's prices were competitive. Joly had committed the company to a multi-channel strategy in North America and exited struggling international operations. Operating View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 14 May 2013
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First Look: May 14

(vertical integration) benchmark, whenever the marginal product yields higher profits per consumer exposure relative to the average product. Third, the effect of platform competition on search diversion incentives depends on the nature of... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 30 Mar 2010
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First Look: March 30

avoidance at portfolio firms as an additional source of economic value. We document that PE-backed portfolio firms engage in significantly more nonconforming tax planning and have lower marginal tax rates than other private firms.... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 23 Dec 2008
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First Look: December 23, 2008

and improved margins necessary to meet the "Nestlé model." Purchase the case: http://harvardbusinessonline.hbsp.harvard.edu/ b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=509001 Note on Human Behavior: Differences at Work Part 2: The... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 17 Mar 2008
  • Research & Ideas

The Lessons of Business History: A Handbook

has not been entirely displaced, but it has always been marginal to mainstream research agendas, and business historians have not made a lot of progress in reaching valid generalizations of the kind Chandler offered for the growth of... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
  • 15 Jan 2008
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First Look: January 15, 2008

over 150 countries over the last 200 years. We use this comprehensive data set to explore the shape of the diffusion curves. Our main finding is that, once the intensive margin is measured, technologies do not diffuse in a logistic way.... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 09 Dec 2021
  • News

Higher Returns

consumers? RS: It's important to drive home the optimistic side of all this. I think that, you know, profit margins and revenue predictions aside, we are engaged in this really thrilling age for business. And that doesn't mean just... View Details
  • 01 Feb 1997
  • News

Made, Not Born: HBS Courses and Entrepreneurial Management

flow, husbanding resources, and hiring and motivating staff. "Small companies are so vulnerable," notes Bowen. "The margin of error is very narrow. Dealing effectively with these operational issues is a matter of survival." Many of the... View Details
  • 11 Oct 2017
  • Research & Ideas

The House Wants to Squelch Voices of ‘Small’ Shareholders. Research Shows Those Voices Matter.

whose proposals are contested are often not marginal holders of the firm’s securities,” the researchers write. Next steps Soltes hastens to acknowledge that the shareholder proposal process is due for an upgrade. The current rules are... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
  • 05 Jun 2012
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First Look: June 5

operations like it did in India; launched a unified brand across the continent; and culturally integrated with its new environment. Key business metrics, including profit margins and market share, are showing early signs of improvement.... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 20 Jul 2010
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First Look: July 20

international capital to local infrastructure decides how to balance range of services, risk-adjusted return, margin pressure, and nation building. IDFC was chartered with partial ownership from the Indian government to help evaluate... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 15 Dec 2009
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First Look: Dec. 15, 2009

explain eight lessons from optimal tax theory and compare them to the last few decades of OECD tax policy. As recommended by theory, top marginal income tax rates have declined, marginal income tax schedules... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 17 Mar 2015
  • Research & Ideas

Where Did My Shopping Mall Go?

the dollar stores and others who provide the low end, and those targeting the high end. Both of those are doing fairly well from a traffic and margin perspective. Ecommerce is making life most difficult for players targeting the middle... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Retail
  • 11 Sep 2007
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First Look: September 11, 2007

own profits when one side is subsidized in equilibrium. By contrast, if platforms make positive margins on both sides, the same investment has the regular, expected effects. Our analysis implies that the strategy space and the logic of... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 12 Oct 1999
  • Research & Ideas

Confronting the Challenges that Face Bricks-and-Mortar Stores

operations are not well integrated across media. As a consequence, a frequent shopper may be given first-class treatment in the physical store but receive marginal service on the telephone or via the Internet. Retailers need to tap into... View Details
Keywords: by Raymond Burke; Retail
  • 28 Jan 2002
  • Research & Ideas

Read All About It! Newspapers Lose Web War

attention to the disruptive proposal. For example, when DEC launched the minicomputer, IBM might have looked at that new business and said, "let them have it." IBM's mainframe customers didn't need it, the small business market was nascent, and the View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Entertainment & Recreation; Information; Publishing
  • 29 Apr 2014
  • First Look

First Look: April 29

negative trend. For example, to welcome people back to its stores, J.C. Penney ran deep discount sales for Mother's Day and Veterans Day. By November 2013 the retail stores posted positive sales comparisons year over year, the first time since December 2011. However,... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne