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Patrick Chun
wanted to do." Seeking an opportunity to reflect, a platform for pursuing entrepreneurial ideas, and an opportunity to return to Harvard Square, Patrick applied to HBS. Putting concepts to the test In his RC year, Patrick entered not one, but two concepts in the...
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- 06 Dec 2021
- News
Tipping Point
Kenyan coffee farm. The price of coffee beans on the global market is under $1 a pound, while the actual cost to produce that pound is between $1.62 and $2. The coffee farms are profitable only when they rely on free labor, typically from...
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- 11 Sep 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, September 11, 2018
demand information that the dealer obtains through the initial assessment and subsequent learning in the selling process. With the dealer's average net profit per car in the estimation sample being around $1150, the initial assessment is...
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Dina Gerdeman
- 01 Mar 2009
- News
Damon Silvers
defined-benefit pension plans have withered in part because they were expensive for employers to fund, and in part because they weren’t portable. Can traditional pension plans make a comeback? Of course, the...
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- 01 Mar 2010
- News
Rx for Too Big to Fail
(and hugely leveraged) firms played a pivotal role in causing the crisis, inflating the bubble on the way up and driving the panic on the way down. They were also the undeserving beneficiaries of hundreds of billions in federal bailout funds. They reaped extraordinary...
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- 28 Jan 2014
- First Look
First Look: January 28
predict the future, with the aim of profiting from their forecasts. This book chronicles the lives and careers of the men who defined this first wave of economic fortune tellers, men such as Roger Babson, Irving Fisher, John Moody, C. J....
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Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Dec 1999
- News
Covering the Issues
support for technological innovation. A 1961 article covering a conference on "Technological Planning on the Corporate Level" asserted that "the accelerating rate of change - our expanding technology - is the single most important factor...
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- 16 Dec 2013
- HBS Case
D’O: Making a Michelin-Starred Restaurant Affordable
the restaurant, failing to fill seats nightly, starts operating at a loss. But then there's D'O, a restaurant in Cornaredo, Italy, that opened in 2003 and received a Michelin star only one year later. Under the leadership of chef and owner Davide Oldani, the View Details
- 01 Jan 2004
- News
A. G. Lafley, MBA 1977
Clairol in 2001 for $5 billion and Germany's Wella in 2003 for $7 billion—P&G's largest acquisitions ever—are already paying off by making the company's beauty-care division one of the most profitable beauty-care operations in the world....
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- 20 Dec 2016
- First Look
December 20, 2016
https://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cbmp/product/117107-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 117-108 Management Control Systems Module 8: Linking Performance to Markets This module shows how to link profit plans and...
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Carmen Nobel
- 02 Jun 2003
- What Do You Think?
What Can Aspiring Leaders Be Taught?
(and law schools, medical schools, etc.) should attempt to teach students ways to reconcile their actions when ethics seemingly compete with profit or another targeted outcome." As Ken Coleman pointed out, "business students...
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by James Heskett
- 01 Jun 2003
- News
Student Conferences, at a Glance
group of successful entrepreneurs who shared their experiences of launching and sustaining a minority-owned business. “Start planning early. Save money. And go back to your community,” said L. Londell McMillan, president and CEO of L....
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- 29 Jan 2008
- First Look
First Look: January 29, 2008
corporations and environmental stakeholder groups will be structured. Follow the Small? Information-Revealing Adoption Bandwagons When Profitability Expectations Are Related to Size Authors:Andrew A. King and Ann Terlaak...
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Martha Lagace
- 24 Feb 2009
- First Look
First Look: February 24, 2009
for Implementing Planned Organizational Change Authors:Julie Battilana, M.J. Gilmartin, A.-C., Pache, M. Sengul, and J. Alexander Periodical:Leadership Quarterly (forthcoming) Abstract This paper bridges the leadership and organizational...
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Martha Lagace
- 09 Sep 2008
- First Look
First Look: September 9, 2008
agents and to attract solely or primarily good-type agents. Through the savings from excluding rogue agents, the principal can increase its profits while offering increased payments to good agents. I apply the model to online advertising...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Mar 2009
- News
Letters to the Editor
inculcate a higher sense of ethics in the national and international leaders it anoints. There must be a countervailing force to compensate for the all-too-often glorified notion of profit at all costs — now. Growing the pie for the...
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- 01 Aug 2012
- What Do You Think?
Should CEOs Worry About ‘Too Big to Succeed?’
relationships. Unfortunately, many corporate leaders focus on profits and the Wall Street drivers toward big business and profits. It has become the death knell for many corporations." Phil Harris, joining in, pointed out that there...
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- 10 Nov 2008
- What Do You Think?
How Much Can You Ask of Your Customers?
encouraging, how and when we set overall rules for encouraging (volunteerism) and how we plan to assess, monitor, and manage need to (be) addressed." Alden Cushman added: "how information is collected, put into context,...
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by Jim Heskett
- 01 Dec 2015
- First Look
December 1, 2015
salesperson heterogeneity by using a hierarchical Bayesian framework to estimate our model. We find conditional compensation in the form of quota-bonus incentives to improve performance. We find little evidence that effectiveness differs between a quota-bonus View Details
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Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Mar 2008
- News
One-on-One with Jim Breyer
business plan with a clear path to financial success? Absolutely. With Facebook, we saw an opportunity to build a deep and growing engagement with a targeted demographic. Very typically we look for a business View Details