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Supplemental Financial Information - Financial Report 2018
Although HBS characterizes its publishing, online learning, and executive program costs as operating expenses, they would in large part be considered as cost of goods sold in a profit-seeking enterprise. Expenses charged to HBP, HBS...
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- 03 Sep 2018
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Moving Pictures
education at that point. There were certainly more lucrative offers to consider, a return to McKinsey among them, but Singer opted instead for a part-time position with a kids’ online storytelling startup that gave him the mobility and...
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- 17 Jun 2014
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First Look: June 17
quickly to execute the strategy. The firm has committed $1b in investment, building out a new software center in California and a commercial sales function at headquarters to deploy the new products and services. Purchase this case:
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Sean Silverthorne
- 17 Jan 2012
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First Look: January 17
incentive pay. We contribute to this literature by analyzing all forms of incentive pay for several types of managerial positions and include additional measures of earnings manipulation-end-of-year excess sales and class action...
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Sean Silverthorne
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Podcast - Managing the Future of Work
with some very prominent online university, a big online presence, I should say. Could you talk a little bit about the logic behind that, what you’re trying to accomplish with it, and what type of results...
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- 11 Mar 2014
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First Look: March 11
our sample). August 2013 Marketing Letters To Groupon or Not to Groupon: The Profitability of Deep Discounts By: Edelman, Benjamin, Sonia Jaffe, and Scott Duke Kominers Abstract—We examine the profitability and implications of online...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 08 Dec 2015
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December 8, 2015
that may arise. Publisher's link: https://pubwww.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=50144 2015 The Cambridge Handbook of Consumer Psychology The Consumer Psychology of Online Privacy: Insights and Opportunities from Behavioral Decision...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 06 Jun 2017
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First Look at New Research and Ideas: June 6, 2017
expert-produced knowledge, we compare bias in these two models in the context of contested knowledge, which involves subjective, unverifiable, or controversial information. Using data from Encyclopædia Britannica, authored by experts, and Wikipedia, an encyclopedia...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 18 Aug 2009
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First Look: August 18
model from a social networking site to an online gaming business came with new challenges. They hired almost an entirely new staff, cultivated new partnerships, and most urgently sought new funding. However, with three years of...
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Martha Lagace
- 01 Jun 2014
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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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- 14 Nov 2006
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First Look: November 14, 2006
currency. This reduced profitability because Clearwater's costs were in Canadian currency while its sales where largely in other currencies. The case also discusses the challenges of maintaining a sustainable fishery and uses the collapse...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Feb 1997
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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
- 20 Mar 2012
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First Look: March 20
Swatch Group, reflected on the positioning of Omega, its revived flagship brand. Which marketing strategy would best allow it to confront its main competitor, Rolex? And how would potential adjustments to Omega's product, pricing, distribution, and promotion strategies...
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Sean Silverthorne
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Podcast - Managing the Future of Work
“function-oriented”—productivity. Many of the processes that are so common and so core to the way a firm operates today can be automated. So closing the books at quarter’s end totally can be automated. Reviewing sales pipeline, that can...
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- 15 Oct 2008
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First Look: October 15, 2008
Jorge Redmond, CEO of Chocolates El Rey, called a meeting with senior management to discuss the company's growth strategy. A relatively small firm with sales of around $14 million, El Rey produced top quality chocolate made with single...
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Martha Lagace
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Podcast - Managing the Future of Work
place. The other good news is that all of our problems were self-inflicted. Our prices were too high. The online shopping experience was miserable. The speed of shipping was terrible. The experience in the stores had gone down. The cost...
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- 01 Dec 2016
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Alumni Books of 2016
unprecedented rates. Diabetes rates have boomed. Online data thefts have surged. Urbanization and waste have soared. What is happening? Is it globalization? Or is something much deeper taking place, something that the world had never...
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Podcast - Managing the Future of Work
job position—or spending a lot of professional resources or fees to search firms, they emphasize minimizing the number of candidates that are considered and minimizing the time taken to fill a position. That logic gets embedded in their applicant-tracking system—their...
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