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29 May 2001
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Good News, Not Blues, For the Inner City

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Portfolio Betas Do Not Make for Better Asset Pricing Tests

Many papers claim that because using portfolios instead of individual stocks as test assets minimizes idiosyncratic volatility, their use also yields more precise estimates of risk premia. I show that while portfolio formation does lead to more efficient beta... View Details

13 Apr 2015
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3 Ways Firms Can Profit From Environmental Investments

summer 2007
Article

Fast-Track Profit Models: Creating the New Due-Diligence Process for Mergers and Acquisitions

By: Steven R. Anderson, Kevin J. Prokop and Robert S. Kaplan

Keywords: Profit; Mergers and Acquisitions

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31 Mar 2015
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Society is not ready for CEOs with fiery activism

January 1998 (Revised July 2019)
Case

Cafes Monte Bianco: Building a Profit Plan

By: Robert L. Simons and Antonio Davila

Alert: This case has been revised since its original publication; all amounts have been converted to euros and the dates have been updated to 2020. If you’ve taught with this case in the past, please note that changes may affect teaching plans and classroom use. Using... View Details

Keywords: Strategic Planning; Cash Flow; Investment Return; Profit; Financial Statements; Food and Beverage Industry; Italy

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February 1992 (Revised January 1999)
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Selected Profitability Data on U.S. Industries and Companies

Describes the importance of industry structure and competitive positioning to the profitability of U.S. corporations between 1981 and 1994. Cites recent research indicating that persistent industry differences and persistent competitor differences account for 19% and... View Details

Keywords: Competitive Strategy; Industry Structures; Profit; United States

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19 Oct 2017
Research & Ideas

How Charitable Organizations Can Thwart Excuses for Not Giving

motivations for prosocial behavior, such as volunteering and charitable giving. These insights are important not only for nonprofits trying to motivate donors to give, but also... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

14 Apr 2013
News

Heavens, Not Havens

06 Nov 2019
News

Boeing mess is 'a template for how not to be trustworthy.'

27 Sep 2004
Research & Ideas

IBM Finds Profit in Diversity

accountable for diversity-related results is key. Gerstner noted, "We did not set quotas, but we did set goals and made people aware of the people in their units who they needed to be accountable View Details

Keywords: by David A. Thomas

10 Apr 2015
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Peltz not qualified for board, go after weak companies

18 Mar 2008
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The battle for global business is not yet won

20 Dec 2006
Working Paper Summaries

The Demise of Cost and Profit Centers

Keywords: by Robert S. Kaplan

19 Sep 2011
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How to Bring Our Companies' Foreign Profits Back Home

2022
Working Paper

The Gender Gap in Confidence: Expected But Not Accounted For

By: Christine L. Exley and Kirby Nielsen

We investigate how the gender gap in confidence affects the views that evaluators (e.g., employers) hold about men and women. If evaluators fail to account for the confidence gap, it may cause overly pessimistic views about women. Alternatively, if evaluators expect... View Details

Keywords: Confidence; Experiments; Gender; Perception; Values and Beliefs; Performance Evaluation; Analysis

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