Publications

08 Nov 2013
HBS Seminar

Laura Diaz Anadon, Harvard Kennedy School

28 Mar 2023
Research & Ideas

The FDA’s Speedy Drug Approvals Are Safe: A Win-Win for Patients and Pharma Innovation

spent $83 billion on research and development (R&D) in 2019, according to a 2021 report from the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office (CBO). The median cost to develop one drug was $900 million, with half of that amount going... View Details

Keywords: by Kasandra Brabaw; Pharmaceutical

30 Mar 2003
Research & Ideas

The Future of IT Consulting

What is the key to their success? A: In our working paper, we state that more than 50 percent of today's capital budgeting expenditures involve computing in one form or another. As a result of the pervasiveness of IT, literally all... View Details

Keywords: by Sarah Jane Johnston; Consulting

October 2004 (Revised January 2006)
Tutorial

Introduction to Responsibility Accounting Systems

By: David F. Hawkins, V.G. Narayanan, Jacob Cohen and Michele Jurgens

Responsibility accounting systems generate financial and related nonfinancial information about the actual and planned activities of a company's responsibility centers--organizational units headed by managers responsible for a unit's performance. The principal... View Details

Keywords: Business or Company Management; Cost Accounting; Governance Controls; Financial Reporting; Performance Evaluation; Budgets and Budgeting; Planning

Web

Criteria | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School

Establishment of an operating budget for current calendar year and projected budget for next calendar year; identified funding sources. [We will evaluate if the funding plan is sensible in terms of capital... View Details

05 Apr 2004
Research & Ideas

Six Ways to Build Trust in Negotiations

suffer, or that you're simply unfair. In reality, of course, it could be that you're representing a constituency that will not accept the deal on the table, or budget constraints might be forcing you to stand firm. Psychologists have... View Details

Keywords: by Deepak Malhotra

April 2015 (Revised April 2022)
Case

Bankruptcy in the City of Detroit

By: Stuart Gilson, Kristin Mugford and Annelena Lobb

The June 2013 bankruptcy of the city of Detroit, Michigan was, at the time, the largest municipal bankruptcy in American history. Detroit had struggled for years with a weakening tax base, high unemployment, a heavy debt load and increasing retiree costs. These... View Details

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Mellon Hall | About

these measures had favorable results before 1929, with the coming of the Great Depression, Mellon’s emphasis on balancing the budget by cutting spending and increasing taxes on the average person drew criticism. He resigned in 1932 and... View Details

November 2000 (Revised April 2004)
Case

Airbus A3XX: Developing the World's Largest Commercial Jet (A)

By: Benjamin C. Esty and Michael Kane

In July 2000, Airbus Industries' supervisory board is on the verge of approving a $13 billion investment for the development of a new super jumbo jet known as the A3XX that would seat from 550 to 1,000 passengers. Having secured approximately 20 orders for the new jet,... View Details

Keywords: Risk and Uncertainty; Investment; Forecasting and Prediction; Capital Budgeting; Valuation; Government and Politics; Demand and Consumers; Product Development; Product Positioning; Air Transportation Industry; Manufacturing Industry

Profile

Dusty Register

world, the National Sports Collectors’ Convention. I arrived at the show with $465 in cold hard cash earned mowing lawns, and after 48 straight hours of shrewd planning, masterfully executed negotiations, and [redacted quantity] of Red Bull, had blown the entirety of... View Details

Keywords: CPG

26 Oct 2022
Research & Ideas

How Paid Promos Take the Shine Off YouTube Stars (and Tips for Better Influencer Marketing)

budget to influencer marketing. Overall, Zhang hopes the research will encourage marketers to “take a step back” when measuring success. They should look beyond easy clicks to consider influencer reputation as part of their advertising... View Details

Keywords: by Kara Baskin; Technology; Media & Broadcasting

01 Sep 2023
News

Case Study: The Home Team

home repairs he was having to undertake. Then president of a 115-year-old independent Catholic school for boys, Kennealey had managed construction projects and budgeted for aging buildings’ capital expenses like boilers and HVAC systems;... View Details

Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint; Real Estate

16 Mar 2009
Research & Ideas

When the Internet Runs Out of IP Addresses

allow paid transfers, if they conclude that such transfers are in the Internet's best interests. Governments definitely play a role. For example, the U.S. Office of Management and Budget (OMB) mandated the installation of IPv6-capable... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Telecommunications

16 Nov 2015
HBS Seminar

Vish Krishnan, Professor of Innovation, Technology & Operations, University of California San Diego Rady School of Man

May 1998 (Revised May 1999)
Case

Biopure Corp.

By: John T. Gourville

It is early 1998 and Biopure Corp., a small biopharmaceutical firm with no sales revenues in its ten-year history, has just received government approval to release Oxyglobin, a revolutionary new "blood substitute" designed to replace the need for donated animal blood... View Details

Keywords: Segmentation; Marketing Strategy; Engineering; Budgets and Budgeting; Sales; Transformation; Markets; Debates; Product Launch; Pharmaceutical Industry

November 2008 (Revised June 2022)
Case

Tottenham Hotspur plc

By: Lauren H. Cohen, Joshua D. Coval and Christopher J. Malloy

Tottenham Hotspur Football Club is a publicly-owned professional soccer team based in London, England. The club's chairman, Daniel Levy, is contemplating a significant investment in physical assets, including the development of a new stadium as well as the acquisition... View Details

Keywords: Valuation; Capital Budgeting; Decision Making; Competency and Skills; Cash Flow; Investment; Buildings and Facilities; Sports; Investment Portfolio; Financial Strategy; Sports Industry; London