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  • 01 Sep 2003
  • News

Andrea Silbert

who took a start-up course at CWE after being laid off from her job as a pet groomer. She now owns Animal Spirits, a successful pet-grooming store in Cambridge. Next to her is Carrie, who came to CWE looking for advice on how to expand her industrial cleaning business... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young; Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services; Professional Services
  • 06 Feb 2023
  • Blog Post

Meet the Black Investment Club

companies, a sale of a health care portfolio company, and several debt refinancings to facilitate portfolio company growth. This summer, Akapelwa expanded on his financial services experience at Kohlberg & Company serving as a Private... View Details
Keywords: Private Equity; Venture Capital; Investment Management / Hedge Fund
  • 28 Feb 2005
  • Research & Ideas

How to Harness Auction Fever

Want to create a high-profit auction? One strategy is to create "auction fever" around your sale by generating lots of hype, having strict rather than flexible deadlines at the end of auctions, and... View Details
Keywords: by Manda Salls; Web Services; Technology
  • 18 Nov 2010
  • Research & Ideas

GM’s IPO: Back to the Future

and the US auto industry are on their way to recovery and that the IPO symbolizes the beginning of a new stage in the life of GM, whose sales figures have recently shown improvement. Vineet Kumar, Assistant Professor of Business... View Details
Keywords: by Staff; Auto
  • 13 May 2014
  • First Look

First Look: May 13

eligible for a discount on the purchase price conditional on their achieving the sales targets set by the franchisor. We show that car dealers (franchisees) who exclusively deal in cars of the brand offered by the franchisor receive... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 16 Oct 2007
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First Look: October 16, 2007

Dewey, wait for the scheduled auction with several interested publishers, or pull out of the race? Allows for an in-depth examination of new-product acquisition, development, and launch strategies in the context of the book publishing... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 01 Jan 2005
  • News

Louis V. Gerstner, Jr., MBA 1965

company's long-term viability. The strategy paid off, with sales jumping well over 50 percent in the first year alone. Under intense scrutiny, Gerstner then reversed a plan to split IBM into independently... View Details
  • 01 Dec 2015
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December 1, 2015

Statistics Survive Another Day: Using Changes in the Composition of Investments to Measure the Cost of Credit Constraints By: Garicano, Luis, and Claudia Steinwender Abstract—We introduce a novel empirical strategy to measure the size of... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 01 May 2000
  • What Do You Think?

Can You Hard-Wire Performance?

technicians, was legendary. Xerox hard-wired its success to results achieved for customers. Then the lure of improved cash flow combined with competitors' practices led to the decision to encourage machine purchases by users. Within a short period of time, View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
  • January 1973 (Revised March 2006)
  • Case

Tyler Abrasives, Inc.

Involves multinational pricing policy. Should a multinational industrial products supplier, with plants on several continents, grant a single worldwide price on given products to multinational customers who purchase on several continents? If so, what should the... View Details
Keywords: Organizational Change and Adaptation; Marketing Strategy; Price; Multinational Firms and Management; Sales; Industrial Products Industry
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Sorenson, Ralph Z. "Tyler Abrasives, Inc." Harvard Business School Case 573-039, January 1973. (Revised March 2006.)
  • 16 Apr 2001
  • Research & Ideas

Brand Power from Wedgwood to Dell: Part One

and Field all understood that they needed consumer feedback. Success wasn't based on just what they offered as it came out of their factories or—in the case of Field—onto their sales floor. Wedgwood conducted some of the first focus... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
  • 01 Dec 2018
  • News

Alumni and Faculty Books for December 2018

firms in the US, why have only 140 companies been able to exceed the $100 million mark? What do these firms do differently from the rest? Do they have a better strategy or talent? Are they simply beneficiaries of good fortune? While each... View Details
  • 19 Mar 2008
  • Research & Ideas

Finding Success in the Middle of the Market

It's not that Toyota only sells in the middle market. Far from it. They sell to all segments (except the luxury segment which they address with Lexus). But midfield is where the bell-curve distribution of auto buyers by price of car reaches its peak. View Details
Keywords: by John Quelch; Auto; Retail
  • 21 Jul 2015
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First Look: July 21, 2015

Case 515-033 Sustainability at IKEA Group By 2014, IKEA Group was the largest home furnishing company, with EUR28.5 billion of sales and a plan to reach EUR50 billion by 2020, mainly from emerging markets. At the same time, IKEA Group had... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 25 Jul 2005
  • Research & Ideas

An Organization Your Customers Understand

Imagine an organization made up of a variety of three-dimensional shapes. Rectangular blocks represent the functions: manufacturing, R&D, and sales and marketing. The spheres are regional offices. Pyramids represent product groups—one... View Details
Keywords: by Robert Simons
  • December 2007 (Revised April 2008)
  • Case

Alltech...naturally

By: David E. Bell and Mary L. Shelman
Entrepreneur Pearse Lyons had built Alltech into the fastest growing company in the global animal health industry through innovative technology, creative marketing, and strong branding. Sel-Plex, a proprietary Alltech product, had shown important health benefits for... View Details
Keywords: Brands and Branding; Leadership Development; Customer Focus and Relationships; Expansion; Technological Innovation; Intellectual Property; Sales; Value Creation; Business Model; Growth and Development Strategy; Health Industry
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Bell, David E., and Mary L. Shelman. "Alltech...naturally." Harvard Business School Case 508-033, December 2007. (Revised April 2008.)
  • 30 Aug 2011
  • First Look

First Look: August 30

sales from emerging markets. Purchase this case:http://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cb/product/311118-PDF-ENG Nestlé SA: Nutrition, Health and Wellness Strategy Rebecca M. Henderson and Ryan JohnsonHarvard Business... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 28 Apr 2009
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First Look: April 28, 2009

since 1980 when compared to firms in Europe or Asia (measured both by sales and by numbers of new product introductions), this essay explores the interplay of regulation, definitions of "patient" and "consumer," and... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 19 Apr 2011
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First Look: April 19

saved customers money and their strong brands generated more traffic and sales but that most retailers, looking only at gross margins, missed this added value. Pepsi managers struggled to craft a strategy... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 24 Dec 2013
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First Look: December 24

We contribute to institutional theory by identifying selective disclosure as a corporate symbolic strategy and by revealing how scrutiny and norms limit this symbolic behavior. Download working paper: http://ssrn.com/abstract=1836472... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
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