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- March 1999
- Case
MotivAction plc (A)
By: William J. Bruns Jr.
The owner/manager of MotivAction is developing a package of incentives and bonuses that he hopes will stimulate sales growth, encourage development of new autonomous teams, and increase profitability. If they are adopted, these new incentives will replace others... View Details
Keywords: Employee Relationship Management; Compensation and Benefits; Motivation and Incentives; Performance Improvement; Growth and Development Strategy; Decisions; Profit; Organizational Culture
Bruns, William J., Jr. "MotivAction plc (A)." Harvard Business School Case 199-004, March 1999.
- 20 Mar 2018
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, March 20, 2018
dimensions. Consistently, banks that serve customer bases with more dispersed needs receive lower satisfaction scores than banks serving customer bases with less dispersed needs. Finally, a longitudinal analysis of the deposit growth of... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 20 Feb 2018
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, February 20, 2018
distill a lifetime of cutting-edge scholarship into short, accessible essays about Chinese identity, culture, environment, society, history, or policy. Can China’s economic growth continue apace? Can China embrace the sacrifices required... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 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
- 02 Apr 2008
- Research & Ideas
Four Companies that Conquered America
retailer, to enter the U.S. market with the new Fresh & Easy chain of discount grocery stores. Avoiding geographies where Wal-Mart is entrenched, Tesco has so far opened 50 stores in the growth markets of California, Nevada, and... View Details
Keywords: by John Quelch
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 23 May 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Ideas and Research: May 23, 2017
AFC. However, a broader set of emerging market countries show weaker liquidity, solvency, and profitability indicators. More countries are also in the Altman Z-score's “grey zone,” that is, at risk for corporate distress. Regression... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 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 2023
- News
Case Study: Power Nappy
New Venture Competition. Parents are lining up. “We sold our inventory nine months faster than we’d expected,” Saigal says. The Question: Kudos has been selling directly to consumers through its website, in keeping with other eco-friendly diaper startups, and is seeing... View Details
- 23 Apr 2014
- HBS Case
Are Electronic Cigarettes a Public Good or Health Hazard?
technologies, electronic cigarettes were developed by small entrepreneurs with brand names like Logic eCig (founded 2010), Blu (2009), and NJOY (2006). By 2013, according to the case study, the e-cigarette category featured more than 200 brands and their 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
- 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
- 13 Nov 2012
- First Look
First Look: November 13
of industries, clusters, and regions. On the one hand, diminishing returns to specialization in a location can result in a convergence effect: the growth rate of an industry within a region may be declining in the level of activity of... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 16 Dec 2011
- Research & Ideas
Reintroducing Intellectual Ambition to the Study of Business History
regarding the causal links between entrepreneurship, innovation, and economic growth still call for explanation. It remains unclear, for instance, whether William Baumol's neat distinction between productive and unproductive... View Details
Keywords: by Geoffrey Jones & Walter Friedman
- 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
- 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
- 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