Dollar General - Publications - Faculty & Research

25 Sep 2019
Research & Ideas

The Economic Cost of Physician Burnout

the dollar losses were related to physician turnover and reduced clinical hours. The research adds to previous work showing how physician stress generates negative clinical and organizational outcomes. No... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Health

15 Dec 2003
Research & Ideas

The New Global Business Manager

the general manager—the division head, or the CEO. We used to always talk about the CEO as being the grand strategic architect, sitting on top of the company and defining the priorities and making the strategic investments. Historically,... View Details

Keywords: by Cynthia Churchwell

16 Sep 2019
Research & Ideas

Crowdsourcing Is Helping Hollywood Reduce the Risk of Movie-Making

Success at the movie box office can be difficult to predict. For every surprise hit film like Crazy Rich Asians, there’s a massive flame-out like Justice League. Unlike television, where a station can test a pilot before committing to a series, studios must spend... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Motion Pictures & Video

26 Nov 2001
Op-Ed

Why Corporate Budgeting Needs To Be Fixed

changing accruals, for example—the adverse impact on company value is probably small. But rarely is the activity so benign. Usually, the shuffling of dollars results from decisions that change the operating characteristics of a company,... View Details

Keywords: by Michael C. Jensen

10 Feb 2003
Research & Ideas

Commodity Busters: Be a Price Maker, Not a Price Taker

with beating Microsoft. His battle was futile. He left the company as Novell began a long downward slide. The fighter pilot mentality of several U.S. airlines led to a price war in which billions of dollars were lost. Even in small... View Details

Keywords: by Benson P. Shapiro

22 Jul 2019
Book

How to Be a Digital Platform Leader

pursue. In the book, we discuss General Electric’s efforts to build their Predix platform. Predix was clearly going to be a multiyear, maybe multibillion dollar investment and one that was increasingly... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

10 Mar 2015
Research & Ideas

The Surprising Winners and Losers in the Retail Revolution

deploying assets is superior to Walmart's. At the same time, the traffic that was being generated by lower food prices is being threatened by much leaner and more competitive grocery stores. The icing on the cake is that the lower-income... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Retail

09 Apr 2020
Research & Ideas

How Social Entrepreneurs Can Increase Their Investment Impact

supporting aren't going to put their marginal dollars to good use, you can take them back.” Relative to donors, impact investors may also push Husk Power to grow its business and increase profitability. For example, if Husk Power were to... View Details

Keywords: by Rachel Layne

03 May 2016
First Look

First Look, May 3, 2016

116-007 Dollar General Bids for Family Dollar In spring 2015, Dollar General's CEO Rick Dreiling was looking ahead to retiring at year's end but... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

17 Sep 2007
Research & Ideas

Broadband: Remaking the Advertising Industry

dollars if you can translate the traffic into transactions. That's the idea, to get you more compellingly engaged. Even the standard 30-second TV spots are often used to capture the attention of the viewers and then direct them to the Web... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Advertising; Media & Broadcasting; Publishing

12 Jul 2011
First Look

First Look: July 12

Business School Case 111-082 The case describes the challenges that UBS faced as a result of the U.S. Department of Justice investigation for tax fraud, which claimed that UBS had helped some 52,000 U.S. residents hide billions of dollars... View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

02 Feb 2004
Research & Ideas

Where Does Apple Go From Here?

generated during the boom, and since that time, they've continued to lose share. The second problem is related to the underlying economics of one of the core components in the Macintosh—the operating system. The last View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

18 Jan 2012
Research & Ideas

Beyond Heroic Entrepreneurs

ever-growing number intend to fund their social ventures through commercially generated revenue rather than charitable donations—a model known as a "hybrid" organization. "Hybrid organizations have a social mission but View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

05 Dec 2005
Research & Ideas

VCs Survey Post-Bubble Opportunities

contributed 50 percent to 70 percent of distributions in the industry in the past ten to fifteen years. With so much global liquidity, he added, it will become even more difficult to earn a respectable rate of return as too many dollars... View Details

Keywords: by Julie Hanna; Financial Services

17 Feb 2003
Research & Ideas

Rating Fund Managers by the Company They Keep

work? A: Unfortunately the method is quite difficult to implement—it took us many months to do it properly, and it required mutual fund holdings data that costs tens of thousands of dollars (which the HBS Division of Research was kind... View Details

Keywords: by Ann Cullen

03 Jan 2017
First Look

January 3, 2017

pay out capital also initiate debt or equity issues in the same year, resulting in 32% of aggregate payouts being externally financed. Most firms with simultaneous payouts and security issues do not generate enough operating cash flow to... View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

02 Jun 2014
Research & Ideas

Excerpt: ‘A Social Strategy’

Twitter—establishing an account, getting people to follow the firm, and hoping that those people will respond in kind. Such strategies have allowed firms to engage in an activity that's very familiar to them: broadcasting content to customers. And for many, the... View Details

09 Jul 2001
Research & Ideas

Does Misery Love Companies? How Social Performance Pays Off

that in real terms, a dollar invested in large company stocks in December 1925 was worth $24.79 by year-end 1979. Exactly twenty years later, that dollar was worth $303.09. Nevertheless, the fact that the... View Details

Keywords: by Joshua D. Margolis & James P. Walsh

10 Feb 2015
First Look

First Look: February 10

systematic is going on. It must have purpose; all the vigorous uploading, posting, commenting, and sharing must be generating results. We claim that the new order is, in fact, rule-governed, and the rules are the rules of play.... View Details