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CFO Letter - Annual Report 2014
liquidity to execute on its mission and sustain the campus through economic cycles over the long term. One of our key financial planning goals for HBS is to serve as a living model of a well-run organization—consistent with the skills,...
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- 04 Mar 2015
- What Do You Think?
Can a Laissez-Faire Approach Fix Labor Market Inequality?
(with) better-run stores, more satisfied customers and an increase in sales and profits," according to one report. Investors didn't approve. As usual, they took the short-term view, immediately knocking down the price of the...
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- 18 Apr 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Ideas, April 18
Scale Global This case tracks Jerome Chouchan’s strategies and execution for a successful turnaround of Godiva Japan’s operations, which were experiencing a decline in sales when he became the managing director of the company in 2010....
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by Sean Silverthorne
- 06 Dec 2011
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First Look: Dec. 6
effort. Because the positive upward cycle is attributed to one's own actions, people begin to believe that it will never end: assertions are made that the laws of the universe have changed, that business View Details
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Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Mar 2010
- News
Lords of Strategy
the best can be fairly hermaphroditic creatures, one minute exhibiting a professor’s passion for the great clarifying concept, the next displaying sales skills worthy of a street hustler. Among my contentions is that it was this very...
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- 01 Sep 2009
- News
Read All About It!
the 1930s, for example, per-person movie ticket sales were seven times higher than at the end of the 1990s. Fox Photos/Getty Images In the sweep of U.S. history, consumption had been a force for great change. Much of this change played...
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- 02 Sep 2019
- What Do You Think?
Are Overlooked Forces Shielding the US from Severe Economic Downturns?
witnessed, but NO VIRGINIA, the business cycle is not dead.” Others cited forces that, by implication, appeared to weight more heavily as influences on expansion. They included continued reasonable increases in business earnings in...
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- 28 Sep 2015
- News
Rockin’ for a Cause
stake in quality education and want to invest in the district overall.” Motivated Dads Since their first appearance on PiE’s behalf—a two-hour event where the band had to cycle through their nine-song repertoire multiple times—the...
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- 15 Aug 2016
- Research & Ideas
Black Swans and Big Trends Can Ruin Anyone's Internet Prediction
Things—finally fail to attract investor interest, then we might posit that the cycle is reaching its trough. So if, in the wake of a future sector crash, entrepreneurs and investors anticipate a sector-level threat-rigidity response, what...
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- 19 Sep 2012
- Research & Ideas
Funding Innovation: Is Your Firm Doing it Wrong?
urgent needs of the future. Start-ups, on the other hand, are intensely focused on innovation but are also beholden to the impatience and boom-and-bust cycles of the venture capital industry. In his new book, The Architecture of...
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by Carmen Nobel
- 03 Nov 2009
- First Look
First Look: Nov. 3
robbery, as opposed to other kinds of crime like arson, assault, homicide, and rape. Temporal patterns in crime are observed in jurisdictions in which disbursements are focused at the beginning of monthly welfare payment cycles and not in...
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Martha Lagace
- 29 Apr 2014
- First Look
First Look: April 29
utilizes a very rare "no haggle pricing" strategy and extended sales cycle when selling pieces to collectors. Though it remains profitable and very respected, the size and scope of the gallery will...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 20 Dec 2022
- News
Singing to the Corn
soil-depleting cycle of pesticides and fertilization. Sacred Seed started with a simple question one of Keen's mentors asked him over 15 years ago: "What are you doing to protect your corn?" But another part of the story is more personal,...
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- 26 Jan 2004
- Research & Ideas
What Developing-World Companies Teach Us About Innovation
another example of this approach. Headquartered in Monterrey, Mexico, CEMEX is a nearly century-old company that has become in the past few decades the third-largest cement company in the world by volume, selling to customers in more than sixty countries; its View Details
- 01 Dec 2003
- News
Rural Renewal
the much-neglected soil back to life through rotational grazing. “Nutrients cycle from the grass through our cows and sheep, and wind up back in the soil,” explains Reade. The global market for organic food and drink increased to $23...
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- 29 Mar 2016
- First Look
March 29, 2016
healthcare—i.e., patient-centered outcomes achieved per healthcare dollar spent—can define quality and unify performance improvement goals with health outcomes of importance to patients across the entire cycle of care. We describe the...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 06 Dec 2016
- First Look
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...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 04 Oct 2004
- Research & Ideas
Start to Measure Your E-commerce Success
potential payoffs of e-commerce investments. Measuring returns on e-commerce projects can be a daunting challenge. Predicting customer behavior is difficult, because using the Web to do business is still relatively new to many businesses and thus forecasting View Details
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by Marc J. Epstein
- 28 Oct 2014
- First Look
First Look: October 28
October 2014 Quarterly Journal of Economics Waves in Ship Prices and Investment By: Greenwood, Robin, and Samuel G. Hanson Abstract—We study the link between investment boom and bust cycles and returns on capital in the dry bulk shipping...
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Carmen Nobel
- 06 Nov 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, November 6, 2018
Monetary Policy and Emerging Market Credit Cycles By: Bräuning, Falk, and Victoria Ivashina Abstract—Foreign banks’ lending to firms in emerging market economies (EMEs) is large and denominated predominantly in U.S. dollars. This creates...
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Dina Gerdeman