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  • 24 Jan 2005
  • Research & Ideas

Rethinking Activity-Based Costing

the plant, he decided to maintain the capacity for a large contract he expected to win later that year, for which he otherwise would have created new capacity. Updating View Details
Keywords: by Robert S. Kaplan & Steven R. Anderson
  • 03 Mar 2003
  • Research & Ideas

Top Ten Legal Mistakes Made by Entrepreneurs

"I've heard many war stories," says Harvard Business School associate professor Connie Bagley, reflecting on conversations with former students who have started business ventures. To prepare current students for the HBS Business... View Details
Keywords: by Staff
  • Web

Business History - Faculty & Research

court held that the legislature could not prescribe mandatory wage contracts for legally competent workingmen. The decision quashed over two decades of efforts to end View Details
  • 12 Aug 2020
  • Research & Ideas

Why Investors Often Lose When They Sue Their Financial Adviser

Years of bull market bliss gave brokerage clients few reasons to open their account statements—until March. Within one month, stocks in the United States notched their biggest one-day losses—and gains—as mounting fears about COVID-19’s... View Details
Keywords: by Danielle Kost; Financial Services
  • Fast Answer

Bloomberg: futures

How can I locate futures information in Bloomberg? Use Bloomberg for access to futures information. Type CTM and hit GO for the Contract Table menu. For stock index futures click View Details
  • 04 Jun 2020
  • Book

It’s Not About You: Why Leaders Need to Look Outward

earned paychecks for goods and services, pledge our lives to another person in marriage, cast a ballot for someone who will represent our interests. We rely on laws and contracts as safety nets, but even those systems are ultimately built... View Details
Keywords: by Kristen Senz
  • 2017
  • Working Paper

International Business and Emerging Markets: A Long-Run Perspective

By: Geoffrey Jones
This working paper explores long-run patterns in the strategies of international business in developing countries. There was a massive wave of Western multinational investment in the developing world during the first wave of globalization before the 1920s. The... View Details
Keywords: Multinational Firms and Management; Developing Countries and Economies; History; Emerging Markets; Problems and Challenges
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  • 09 Nov 2016
  • Op-Ed

6 Lessons from Donald Trump's Winning Marketing Manual

acquisition with customer retention. Sizzle beats steak. Clinton was always going to beat Trump on the steak of experience and policy knowledge. A new brand can't afford to get lost in the policy weeds.... View Details
Keywords: by John A. Quelch
  • Web

Business & Environment - Faculty & Research

household insurance demand elasticities by exploiting quasi-exogenous regulatory shocks to insurance pricing. We utilize newly available individual-level data on homeowners insurance contracts covering the... View Details
  • 10 Dec 2013
  • Working Paper Summaries

Information and Incentives in Online Affiliate Marketing

Keywords: by Benjamin G. Edelman & Wesley Brandi; Publishing; Technology
  • 21 Apr 2010
  • Working Paper Summaries

Why Do Firms Use Non-Linear Incentive Schemes? Experimental Evidence on Sorting and Overconfidence

Keywords: by Ian Larkin & Stephen Leider
  • 30 May 2005
  • Research & Ideas

Six Steps for Making Your Threat Credible

threat lack credibility, but you also have no way of changing course if the situation becomes dire. 3. Visibly incur sunk costs Suppose you are negotiating with a consulting firm to renew its contract to... View Details
Keywords: by Deepak Malhotra
  • 11 Aug 2003
  • Research & Ideas

Why Budgeting Kills Your Company

management to what you originally wanted." At the same time, the fixed-performance contract fosters the fear in managers that if they don't... View Details
Keywords: by Loren Gary
  • September 2012 (Revised December 2012)
  • Case

Addleshaw Goddard LLP (Abridged)

By: Robert G. Eccles, Amy C. Edmondson and James Weber
Addleshaw-Goddard (AG), the 15th largest law firm in the UK, is seeking ways to serve larger clients on more important legal matters. Part of this strategy involves its "Client Development Centre (CDC)," an innovative idea and set of services launched by Dr. Jim Hever... View Details
Keywords: Price; Innovation and Invention; Service Operations; Partners and Partnerships; Competitive Advantage; Diversification; Legal Services Industry; United Kingdom
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Bloomberg: options

How do I find options information in Bloomberg?   Type a company ticker and select OMON (Option Monitor) to view a complete list of currently active options. In the Options Monitor display, calls are listed on View Details
  • June 2008 (Revised July 2009)
  • Case

COFCO Xinjiang Tunhe Co., Ltd.

By: David E. Bell and Aldo Sesia
In 2005, COFCO Ltd., one of China's largest and most successful companies, acquired Xinjiang Tunhe, a tomato processing firm, which had been, in recent years, poorly managed. COFCO changed Tunhe's management team and set out to create a culture of professionalism and... View Details
Keywords: Agribusiness; Customer Relationship Management; Rural Scope; Supply Chain Management; Performance Consistency; Safety; Agriculture and Agribusiness Industry; China
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HBS - Key Metrics

2023 Annual Report From The Dean Key Metrics Financials PDF Downloads Key Metrics Financials (in millions) 2023 2022 2021 2020 2019 Revenues $1,067 $966 $805 $861 $925 Expenses 1,003 908 779 831 821 Net Operating Surplus 64 58 26 30 104... View Details
  • 09 Oct 2001
  • Research & Ideas

Driven: How Human Nature Shapes Organizations

divisions, and directly in the social contract between all employees and the overall firm. Think of it as seeking the tension of respectful... View Details
Keywords: by Paul Lawrence & Nitin Nohria
  • 29 Oct 2012
  • Research & Ideas

Are You Paying a Tip--or a Bribe?

paying foreign officials to facilitate business contracts was less objectionable and immoral compared to the participants who were exposed to the "reward good... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
  • 18 Nov 2015
  • Research & Ideas

Who Really Determines CEO Salary Packages?

firms. For instance, a board member who helped design a compensation contract for Firm A might employ the same strategy when helping to design a contract for Firm B. “Board... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Consulting