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- 01 Feb 2013
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Growth Strategy Has Double Bottom Line
Hoffer and Hourdequin: Managing Directors at the Lyme Timber Company in Hanover, New Hampshire. Photo courtesy of the Lyme Timber Company LP It can be difficult to craft a business model that enables both investors and society as a whole... View Details
- 22 Jan 2001
- Research & Ideas
Control Your Inventory in a World of Lean Retailing
most manufacturers, including this one, tend to assign the same inventory policy for all products in a product line. By fine-tuning inventories according to SKU-level demand, a manufacturer can increase profits and reduce inventory risks.... View Details
- 01 Jan 2010
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Allan W.B. Gray, MBA 1965
William (MBA ’93), to establish Orbis Investment Management in Bermuda in 1990. Today William serves as president at Orbis, which controls about $20 billion in funds. The pair is restructuring Orbis and Allan Gray Limited to provide for... View Details
- 06 Oct 2003
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Is “the Innovator’s Solution” to Sustained Corporate Growth an Unnatural Act?
Long-term growth and profitability are elusive targets for many organizations. The former often is more difficult to achieve than the latter, especially for companies competing in "mature" markets. This presents a problem for... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 10 Mar 2017
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As Head of Fidelity, Abigail Johnson Is Just Getting Started
record $3.5 billion operating profit for 2016, in part due to targeted expense cuts. Fidelity recently cut its fees for online brokerage trades on a bold bet it would result in a strong increase in transactions over its closest rival,... View Details
- 29 Nov 2006
- Research & Ideas
Rich or Royal: What Do Founders Want?
paradox in a recent paper called "Rich versus King: The Entrepreneur's Dilemma," an early draft of which was featured in the Best Paper Proceedings of the 2006 Academy of Management Conference and the 2005 Babson-Kauffman... View Details
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- 01 Jul 2019
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Are Super Stretch Goals Only for the Very Young?
abandon their ethics to get it.” When applied to individuals, the question prompted an interesting exchange between Sandeep and Phillippe Gouamba regarding the effect of wealth and poverty on the tendency of managers to employ super... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 01 Apr 1998
- News
Plunging Into the Net
and fellow faculty member John J. Sviokla coined a term to describe the nonphysical arena in which business transactions were increasingly taking place - the marketspace. The Managing in the Marketspace course the pair developed and... View Details
- 01 Dec 2015
- News
Complements to the Case Method
Learning by Doing: Stock Pitching When it comes to getting an edge in a stock trade, HBS finance professors Lauren Cohen and Christopher Malloy urge students to go straight to the source. “We encourage them to get out in the field and talk to View Details
- 29 Sep 2008
- Research & Ideas
Financial Crisis Caution Urged by Faculty Panel
the importance of risk management and oversight. Robert C. Merton, the John and Natty McArthur University Professor, similarly expressed concern about the unintended consequences of change on Wall Street, closing with the assertion that... View Details
- 01 Jun 1996
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New Releases
of both. In their new book, HBS associate professor Adam Brandenburger and Professor Barry Nalebuff of the Yale School of Management develop a five-part business strategy based on this concept. Drawing from the science of game theory, the... View Details
- 21 Mar 2004
- Research & Ideas
Loyalty: Don’t Give Away the Store
25 percent of your sales, you have a big problem. By using rewards programs, retailers give away things for free that their best customers would have bought anyway. With such a large volume of customers purchasing off the card, you have to worry about having a... View Details
- 29 Oct 2014
- Research & Ideas
Inventing Products is Less Valuable Than Inventing Ideas
more important than the physical aspect." “Companies don't fully exploit the latest ideas that their product has created” In a paper published last year in the Academy of Management Review called "The Second Face of... View Details
- 26 Apr 2004
- Research & Ideas
A Clear Eye for Innovation
The Roman god Janus had two sets of eyes—one pair focusing on what lay behind, the other on what lay ahead. General managers and corporate executives should be able to relate. They, too, must constantly look backward, attending to the... View Details
- September 2011
- Teaching Note
Salud Digna: Successfully Competing with For-Profit Organizations (TN)
Teaching Note for 311-051. View Details
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