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HBS Working Knowledge
January 12, 2004
Jonathan Byrnes |
Bridge the Gap Between Strategy and Tactics: Part 3 The Magic Matrix enables managers to go far beyond core integrated planning into much more sophisticated, powerful advanced integrated planning. Here are six applications.   |
HBS Working Knowledge
November 3, 2003
Jonathan Byrnes |
Bridge the Gap Between Strategy and Tactics Profitability management, the theme of this column, is all about translating great strategies into sound plans -- and sound plans into effective tactical actions. |
HBS Working Knowledge
October 6, 2003
Jonathan Byrnes |
Managing Profitability: One Year Later The most important issue facing managers in this difficult economy is making more money from the existing business without costly new initiatives. The author revisits this assertion from a year ago. |
Entrepreneur
December 2003
Mark Henricks |
A Tight Ship Profitability management helped PC maker Dell pull off a turnaround. Can it help you do the same? |
HBS Working Knowledge
April 3, 2006
Jonathan Byrnes |
Making the CFO Chief Profitability Officer Profitability management opens a new realm of opportunity for the creative CFO. Using it, a CFO can generate revenues, profits, and cash surprisingly quickly, and at very little cost. But it requires that the CFO move beyond his or her traditional domain. |
HBS Working Knowledge
February 2, 2004
Jonathan Byrnes |
Action-Training for Effective Change Profitability management is all about greatly improving a company's performance without the need for capital expenditures. But this requires effective change management and ironically, for many managers, it may seem easier to spend money than to change their managers' behavior. |
HBS Working Knowledge
March 1, 2004
Jonathan Byrnes |
Reconnect Sales Management to Profitability In many companies, top managers are frustrated because the sales process seems disconnected from corporate objectives. This presents a serious impediment to management's efforts to manage profitability effectively. |
Science News
July 1, 2006
Ivars Peterson |
Magic Square Physics Taking a magic square or cube for a spin reveals some interesting properties. |
Science News
January 3, 2004
Ivars Peterson |
Perfect Magic Cubes A magic cube is a three-dimensional array of whole numbers, in which each row, column, and body diagonal adds up to the same total. A perfect magic cube is one in which the diagonals of each vertical or horizontal slice through the cube also sum to the same value. Mathematicians are intrigued. |
The Motley Fool
January 20, 2011
Jim Royal |
Big Pharma's Magic Formula Joel Greenblatt's Magic Formula revolves around two factors: How cheap is the stock? How profitable is the company? Let's see how some Big Pharma companies fare. |
HBS Working Knowledge
February 7, 2005
Jonathan Byrnes |
Precision Retailing Can you apply profitability management to a retailer? |
The Motley Fool
September 9, 2011
Shubh Datta |
Magic on the Move Magic Software is moving in the right direction. |
The Motley Fool
January 21, 2011
Jim Royal |
Retail's Magic Formula Joel Greenblatt's Magic Formula revolves around two factors: How cheap is the stock? How profitable is the company? How do these retail companies fare?: Wal-Mart... Costco... Target... TJX... |
Science News
January 26, 2008
Julie J. Rehmeyer |
Math Trek: Benjamin Franklin Plays Sudoku Founding father entertained himself devising beautiful mathematical puzzles. |
CRM
November 2007
Colin Beasty |
Predicting Profitability After years of trial-and-error, enterprises are finally developing innovative strategies and incorporating new software to allow them to identify - and sell to - their most profitable customers. |
Science News
July 5, 2003
Ivars Peterson |
Alphamagic Squares Magic squares have fascinated people for thousands of years. They consist of a set of whole numbers arranged in a square so that the sum of the numbers is the same in each row, in each column, and along each diagonal. A twist on the concept, the alphamagic square, is interesting, too. |
Linux Journal
October 2000
Jon Valesh |
Magic Enterprises Edition 8.3 for Linux Magic Enterprise 8.3 provides the back end, and Magic Tool Kit 8.3 provides the rapid development environment for e-commerce and other database-intensive applications. Between the two, you'll have everything you need for your database/web site integration. |
The Motley Fool
January 21, 2011
Jim Royal |
Consumer Goods' Magic Formula This mechanical strategy could be magic. |
Science News
June 25, 2005
Ivars Peterson |
Magic Squares of Squares People have been toying with magic squares for more than 2,000 years--setting themselves increasingly difficult challenges to find arrays of numbers that fit given patterns. Here are some examples. |
Reason
December 2007
Brian Doherty |
Magic Trade Tricks For years the magic industry has managed to protect intellectual property without any recourse to patent, copyright, or trade secret law, according to a Yale Law School study. |
HBS Working Knowledge
August 8, 2005
Robert S. Kaplan |
A Balanced Scorecard Approach To Measure Customer Profitability Some companies become customer-obsessed rather than customer-focused and lose potential profits. |
Science News
June 24, 2006
Ivars Peterson |
Counting Franklin's Magic Squares One mathematician finds that Benjamin Franklin's remarkable magic squares are just three of more than 1 million possibilities. |
CRM
January 2013
Woody Driggs |
Add Customer Satisfaction Through Analytics Companies need to improve customer value to boost profitable growth, gain insights into customers' profitability and lifetime value, and monitor customer behavior across multiple channels and social media |
Chemistry World
October 23, 2011
David Bradley |
Clicking Together Cultural Niches Researchers in the US have made three-dimensional hydrogels that are not only compatible with living cells but can be tuned to create specialist growing environments - culture niches - for studying cell function. |
The Motley Fool
January 21, 2011
Jim Royal |
Trucking's Magic Formula This mechanical strategy could be magic. |
Sports Central
February 9, 2005
Tyson Wirth |
Profile of a Leader: The Magic Touch The awesome power of Bird's statement is that it's as accurate in describing Magic off the court as on it. A decade after retirement, Earvin is still one of the most charismatic and inspirational faces ever associated with the NBA. |
The Motley Fool
January 21, 2011
Jim Royal |
Telecom's Magic Formula Joel Greenblatt's Magic Formula revolves around two factors: How cheap is the stock? How profitable is the company? How do these telecom companies fare?: AT&T... Verizon... Vodafone... Sprint Nextel... |
Bank Technology News
July 2001
Joseph McKendrick |
Your Best Customers May Be Different Tomorrow Financial technology helps institutions predict which of their clients are worth fighting for... |
The Motley Fool
January 10, 2012
John Rosevear |
A Better Idea Than the Dogs of the Dow The "Dogs of the Dow" strategy has had its day -- but its basic idea is sound. |
PC Magazine
February 21, 2007
Robert P. Lipschutz |
Network Magic 4.1 Aimed at the person forced into managing a home network, Network Magic has a plethora of helpful tools. |
CRM
January 2005
Jason Compton |
Profits One Customer at a Time CRM strategists often speak of improving company performance by boosting revenue on a per-customer basis. CRM magazine cuts through the hype to examine what individual customer profitability can--and cannot--do for your business. |
The Motley Fool
August 11, 2010
Charly Travers |
Moody's Magic Formula A simple screen for market-beating returns. Value investing is a proven strategy and the first part of the Magic Formula is to screen for stocks that are cheap. |
The Motley Fool
August 12, 2010
Charly Travers |
The Buckle's Magic Formula The Magic Formula just might work for this retailer. |
Wall Street & Technology
November 17, 2003
Jessica Pallay |
Calif. Co Launches Data-Management and Financial-Planning System Financial planners need data management, according to Carlsbad, Calif.-based Financial Profiles. |
The Motley Fool
January 20, 2011
Jim Royal |
Big Tobacco's Magic Formula Joel Greenblatt's Magic Formula revolves around two factors: How cheap is the stock? How profitable is the company? Let's see how some tobacco companies fare. |
CRM
October 18, 2004
Joshua Weinberger |
Hot Seat: Should CRM Focus on Maximizing Top Customers or Boosting the Profitability of Others? Some loyal customers may be only marginally valuable today, but enormously valuable tomorrow. |
The Motley Fool
August 11, 2010
Charly Travers |
Aeropostale's Magic Formula With an earnings yield of 20.9% and a ROA well above 25%, Aeropostale blows away the criteria of the screen and would be suitable for purchase by an investor following this mechanical strategy. |
Chemistry World
June 21, 2011
Manisha Lalloo |
Making Smell-o-Vision a Reality Using a Polymer Matrix A polymeric matrix of cells, which can be opened and closed individually, could bring personal 'smell-o-vision' a step closer to reality. |
The Motley Fool
August 10, 2010
Charly Travers |
PDL BioPharma's Magic Formula If you want low-fuss investing options that aren't mutual funds or exchange-traded funds, you should consider a mechanical investing strategy. See how it works with this BioPharma stock. |
Financial Planning
February 1, 2005
Julie Littlechild |
The Profit Problem Understanding what a financial adviser is making--or losing--on individual clients takes a lot of work. The alternative is to keep on flying blind. Client profitability is not about cash flow, and as a result, it often gets short shrift. |
The Motley Fool
August 10, 2010
Charly Travers |
Apollo Group's Magic Formula A simple screen for market-beating returns applied to for-profit education companies. |
The Motley Fool
August 16, 2010
Charly Travers |
Renaissance Learning's Magic Formula With an earnings yield of 11.1% and a ROA greater than 25%, Renaissance Learning would be suitable for purchase by an investor. |
CIO
June 24, 2009 |
Download Personnel Matrix Models Adapt this method for managing IT support resources across functional lines. |
The Motley Fool
August 16, 2010
Charly Travers |
Domino's Magic Formula A simple and proven method for market-beating returns. |
The Motley Fool
August 12, 2010
Charly Travers |
Impax Laboratories' Magic Formula With an earnings yield of 46.6% and a ROA greater than 25%, Impax Laboratories meets the criteria of the screen and would be suitable for purchase by an investor following this mechanical strategy. |
The Motley Fool
August 23, 2010
Charly Travers |
Lorillard's Magic Formula A simple and proven method for market-beating returns. |
Bank Systems & Technology
August 5, 2004
Ivan Schneider |
Security National Brings Families Closer Customer profitability software allows a bank to gain strategic clarity about the drivers of its overall profitability, but it's difficult to pin down an exact return on investment. |
The Motley Fool
August 16, 2010
Charly Travers |
Select Comfort's Magic Formula Select Comfort meets the criteria of the screen and would be suitable for purchase. |
The Motley Fool
August 10, 2010
Charly Travers |
Gilead Sciences' Magic Formula A simple screen for market-beating returns. |
The Motley Fool
August 16, 2010
Charly Travers |
Bridgepoint Education's Magic Formula With an earnings yield of 34.1% and a ROA of 37.2%, Bridgepoint Education blows the screen criteria out of the water |
