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05 Mar 2013
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First Look: March 5

513-044 From modest beginnings as a cashew trader in Nigeria, Olam, founded by Indian nationals in 1989, has grown into a leading global agricultural trading company, with annual revenues of $14 billion. The company recently has begun... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

13 Dec 2006
Research & Ideas

Improving Public Health for the Poor

anyone can visit for $2. Today the drugstore chain has upwards of 3,500 outlets and revenues of $900 million. Two-and-a-half million people visit the doctors and 10.5 million people go through "Farmacia Simi" per month. Just by... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Health

14 Aug 2018
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First Look at New Research and Ideas, August 14, 2018

tighter budget constraint. While the fall in tax revenues was partly offset by higher debt, this strategy may, in the long run, have proven unsustainable, contributing to the financially distressed conditions of several U.S. central... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

10 May 2016
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May 10, 2016

announcement date (post quarter). Our within-quarter measure is powerful in explaining quarterly sales growth, revenue surprises, and earnings surprises, generating average excess returns at announcement of 3.4%. However, surprisingly,... View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

19 Jan 2016
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January 19, 2016

and face disincentive effects from taxation but acquire positive benefits from public infrastructure. Political corruption governs the efficiency with which tax revenues are translated into infrastructure. The model predicts an inverted-U... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

03 Feb 2015
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First Look: February 3

vacation-rental sector. To stay ahead, HomeAway initiated a pilot cross-platform collaboration to list some of its properties on Expedia's site. More momentously, Sharples was also weighing a new commission-based revenue model that... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

22 Feb 2011
Research & Ideas

The Most Important Management Trends of the (Still Young) Twenty-First Century

many others. In fact, a recent estimate from the Association of Certified Fraud Examiners indicates that U.S. businesses lose approximately 7 percent of their annual revenues to various forms of unethical behavior, an amount equal to a... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

18 Apr 2017
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First Look at New Ideas, April 18

https://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cbmp/product/717430-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 814-033 A Note on Healthcare IT and Applications to the Healthcare Industry This note provides an overview of three key healthcare IT areas: electronic medical records and electronic... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

22 Sep 2014
Op-Ed

Online Banks Fill Funding Needs for Small Business

these marketplaces is that they mitigate one of the biggest problems borrowers and lenders face: search costs. Typically, these marketplaces earn revenue by charging a small fee on top of the loan if the borrower gets funded and accepts... View Details

Keywords: by Karen Mills; Banking; Financial Services

15 Dec 2015
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December 15, 2015

regional, and city governments and public authorities. In those seven years, Burns had raised capital from many sources: friends and family, angel investors, strategic partners, banks, and the investment arm of a major family fund. He and Stabenow had also grown the... View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

18 Oct 2011
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First Look: October 18

environmentally beneficial functions: it diverts waste from landfill and it produces renewable energy. At the same time, the waste-to-energy firm serves and collects revenue from two types of customers: waste generators who pay for waste... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

January 2024
Supplement

Frank Cornelissen: The Great Sulfite Debate (B)

By: Tiona Zuzul and Susan Pinckney

In 2018, artisanal Italian vineyard Frank Cornelissen was one of the world’s leading natural wine vineyards. Its founder, Frank Cornelissen, faced weather related conditions that forced him to have to decide between staying true to the tenets of the natural wine... View Details

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August 2023 (Revised January 2024)
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Arla Foods: Data-Driven Decarbonization (B)

By: Michael Parzen, Michael W. Toffel, Susan Pinckney and Amram Migdal

The case describes Arla’s history, in particular its climate change mitigation efforts, and how it implemented a price incentive system to motivate individual farms to implement scope 1 greenhouse gas emissions mitigation measures and receive a higher milk price. The... View Details

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06 Dec 2016
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December 6, 2016

the firm operates above this threshold, managing earnings smoothes revenue and cash flow with few long-term consequences. Below it, managing earnings can tip the firm into a vicious cycle of accelerating decline. Our results have... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

15 May 2012
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First Look: May 15

Tequila Mobile SA, a mobile gamers developer, publisher, and service provider, had to make some important strategic decisions. Tequila Mobile SA had already decided to shift to a new "free2play" revenue model but needed to... View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

14 Aug 2007
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First Look: August 14, 2007

United States, with 14,000 employees and gross revenues of $3.8 billion. Although USG used asbestos in a small subset of its products (and never in its SHEETROCK), as more companies that were heavy users of asbestos went bankrupt, USG was... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

19 Sep 2006
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First Look: September 19, 2006

favorite content wherever they are whenever they demand it, consumption patterns will become more, not less uniform, this theory predicts. To shed light on this debate, we study the distribution of revenues across products in the context... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

19 Dec 2017
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New Research and Ideas, December 19, 2017

determine how Propel could generate meaningful revenue while continuing to provide value to users. Purchase this case: https://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cbmp/product/818008-PDF-ENG View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

13 May 2014
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First Look: May 13

Tesco, the UK's largest supermarket chain with revenues of £64.5 billion ($104 billion). CEO Philip Clarke unveiled the first half-year profit drop in almost 20 years and, in the UK, the majors Asda and Sainsbury were closing the... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

06 Dec 2011
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First Look: Dec. 6

million in revenue and was the largest solar integrator in southern California. In December 2010, Verengo raised $9.7 million in growth equity funding and was considering its options for future growth. Eager to expand to markets outside... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

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Online Banks Fill Funding Needs for Small Business

December 15, 2015

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