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Supplemental Financial Information - Annual Report 2017
Executive Education continued to deliver solid operating leverage on sales growth in fiscal 2017. As a result, despite incurring higher expenses and making significant growth-focused investments, each group provided important income...
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- 06 Mar 2007
- First Look
First Look: March 6, 2007
negotiations in the 1980s that led to a significant and growing partnership between Procter & Gamble (P&G) and Wal-Mart. From the perspective of Lou Pritchett, P&G's Vice President of Sales and Customer Development, the...
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Martha Lagace
- 01 Sep 2009
- News
Read All About It!
twenty-first century, the distribution of both wealth and income became increasingly unequal. The top 5 percent of the income distribution saw their fortunes rise as both their livelihoods and assets grew. At the same time, real wages for...
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- 12 Jun 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, June 12, 2018
$2.8 trillion via dividends—$7 trillion in total. These shareholder payouts amounted to over 96% of the firms' net income. Academics, corporate lawyers, asset managers, and politicians point to such shareholder-payout figures as...
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Dina Gerdeman
- 06 Jun 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas: June 6, 2017
Pharmacyclics is a biotechnology company that had received FDA approval in late 2013 for its flagship asset Imbrivica (ibrutinib), a biologic treatment for chronic lymphocytic leukemia and two other even rarer blood malignancies. Entering...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 19 Aug 2008
- First Look
First Look: August 19, 2008
survey. We find that the end-of-month inventory significantly increased in four of the six retail segments studied and that, after controlling for sales and macroeconomic factors, the positive time trends for the end-of-month inventory...
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Sean Silverthorne
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Supplemental Financial Information - Financial Report 2015
expenses for executive program participants. HBP and Executive Education delivered strong operating leverage on sales growth in fiscal 2015. As a result, despite incurring higher expenses and making significant growth-focused investments,...
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Supplemental Financial Information - Annual Report 2016
specialized outside professional services in functional areas such as information technology (I.T.), and marketing and residence expenses for executive program participants. HBP and Executive Education continued to deliver solid operating leverage on View Details
- 01 Jun 2014
- News
Screen Saver
filed to take the company public in 2006 but withdrew a few months later when market conditions were deemed unfavorable. A new attempt to go public in 2011 resulted in the May 2012 sale of the company to China's Dalian Wanda Group. Wanda...
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- 03 May 2013
- News
Looking Through Glass, Historically
today they are usually attributed to other companies. In 1921 the company president was able to boast, "We are the largest decorators of glassware in the country"—a claim that held true for the first third of the century. During that period, the key to glass View Details
- 01 Feb 1997
- News
Shaping the Future of Business: Entrepreneurial Evolution at HBS
and CEO Thompson terms "satellite infrastructure" (technology that enables people to conduct business activity anywhere on the planet). Before reaching its fifteenth birthday this spring, Virginia-based Orbital will have surpassed $450 million in View Details
- 19 Oct 2010
- First Look
First Look: October 19, 2010
segmentations that are based on a correlation of product sales or service with the attributes of the purchaser (such as age, gender, income level, and education level), jobs-based segmentation seeks to understand the causal roots of...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 15 Jun 2021
- News
Alumni Achievement Awards 2021
being denied on-campus housing because of his race. Fitzhugh hoped to go into sales and marketing, but companies at the time had little interest in hiring an African American. While working as an independent print salesman in Washington,...
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- 26 Jan 2016
- First Look
January 26, 2016
increases in future sales growth and profitability. In sum, our results document a surprisingly large impact of immigrants’ role as economic conduits for firms in their new countries. Publisher's link:...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 07 Mar 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research, March 7
private-sector financial intermediaries to engage in excessive amounts of maturity transformation—i.e., to finance risky assets using dangerously large volumes of runnable short-term liabilities. Specifically, we make the case that the...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 08 May 2019
- News
Lessons from the Ashes
day one of the takeover, we had a lot more debt than we anticipated. Then there was the October '87 stock market crash, which really hurt our asset sale program in Australia. So by the end of '87, we had in...
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- 23 Dec 2008
- First Look
First Look: December 23, 2008
Working PapersIf You Are So Smart, Why Aren't You Rich? The Effects of Education, Financial Literacy and Cognitive Ability on Financial Market Participation Authors:Shawn A. Cole and Gauri Kartini Shastry Abstract Household financial market participation affects...
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Martha Lagace
- 15 Feb 2011
- First Look
First Look: Feb. 15
despite some dramatic early success. We suggest that these difficulties do not arise from cannibalization concerns or from inherited cognitive frames. Instead they reflect diseconomies of scope rooted in assets that are necessarily shared...
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Sean Silverthorne
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Annual Report FY20 | Baker Library | Bloomberg Center | Harvard Business School
& Immersive Field Course (IFC) SupportField course support expanded to include:Private Equity ProjectsProjects in InvestingArts & Cultural EntrepreneurshipEntrepreneurial Sales & MarketingHealth Care DeliveryNew Diversity & Inclusion...
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Supplemental Financial Information - Financial Report 2018
compensation, specialized outside professional services in information technology (IT) and other functional areas, marketing costs, and residence expenses for executive program participants. HBP and Executive Education continued to deliver solid operating leverage on...
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