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John H. McArthur | About

81, the annual budget for research and course development increased from $10 million to $50 million, and the HBS endowment increased from $106 million to $600 million. McArthur’s impact extended far beyond the Harvard Business School.... View Details

12 Jun 2018
Research & Ideas

In a Landscape of 'Me Too' Drug Development, What Spurs Radical Innovation?

their cash reserves have suddenly expanded—they tend to put that extra budget towards more exploratory projects,” says Harvard Business School Assistant Professor Joshua Krieger. He co-authored the study Developing Novel Drugs with... View Details

Keywords: by Rachel Layne; Health; Pharmaceutical

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HBS - Financials | Supplemental Financial Information

gifts to the endowment, which currently consists of more than 1,000 discrete funds established over the years by individual donors, corporations, and reunion classes. The School budgets the use of endowment distributions to support... View Details

August 2010
Case

Flash Memory, Inc.

By: William E. Fruhan and Craig Stephenson

The CFO of Flash Memory, Inc. prepares the company's investing and financing plans for the next three years. Flash Memory is a small firm that specializes in the design and manufacture of solid state drives (SSDs) and memory modules for the computer and electronics... View Details

Keywords: Forecasting; Financial Management; Cash Flow; Forecasting and Prediction; Capital Budgeting; Computer Industry; Electronics Industry; United States

April 2010
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Groupe Ariel S.A.: Parity Conditions and Cross-Border Valuation

By: Timothy A. Luehrman and James Quinn

Groupe Ariel evaluates a proposal from its Mexican subsidiary to purchase and install cost-saving equipment at a manufacturing facility in Monterrey. The improvements will allow the plant to automate recycling and remanufacturing of toner and printer cartridges, an... View Details

Keywords: Exchange Rates; Securities Analysis; Project Evaluation; International Finance; Debt Securities; Currency Exchange Rate; Cash Flow; Cross-Cultural and Cross-Border Issues; Capital Budgeting; Europe; Mexico

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the Art of American Advertising - Advertising Products

third of the nineteenth century was even more dramatic than that of the economy in general,” historian Robert Jay explains. “Between the 1870s and 1900, the volume of American advertising increased by more than tenfold.” 9 The advertising View Details

2010
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New Heritage Doll Company: Capital Budgeting: Brief Case No. 4212.

By: Timothy A. Luehrman and Heide Diener Abelli

A manufacturer and retailer of specialty doll products must decide which of two projects to fund. The decision requires the student to compute cash flows for the 2 projects, discount values to the present and compare and contrast different project performance measures. View Details

Keywords: Capital Budgeting; Projects; Decision Making; Cash Flow; Performance Evaluation; Production

03 Oct 2007
Research & Ideas

Dealing with the ‘Irrational’ Negotiator

however, was different. Mindful of escalating budget deficits, Congress had decided that the only way to increase foreign food aid was to purchase the food more cheaply—not from American farmers but from developing countries. What would... View Details

Keywords: by Deepak Malhotra & Max H. Bazerman

09 Jan 2006
Research & Ideas

When Benchmarks Don’t Work

strategies. The strategy map for a support unit typically includes a financial objective to improve its efficiency in supplying services to the enterprise. This objective is usually measured by the cost of services provided and a comparison of actual costs versus... View Details

Keywords: by Robert S. Kaplan; Service

26 Mar 2006
Research & Ideas

The Office of Strategy Management

typical organization the budgeting process is partitioned from the strategy development process. The result is that key strategic investments often get lost in the pressures of daily operational management, or worse, the View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

02 Jun 2021
Research & Ideas

A Rare Find in Health Care: A Simple Solution to Racial Inequity

provide instant relief to people hurt by health care inequality, says Chandra, who serves on the Congressional Budget Office’s Panel of Health Advisors. “Too often in the racial disparities literature, we correctly identify root causes,... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Health

06 Oct 2010
Research & Ideas

John Kotter: Four Ways to Kill a Good Idea

the next budget cycle. With a delay strategy, attention can be diverted to some legitimate, pressing issue, the sort of which always exists. There is the sudden budget shortfall, the unexpected competitor... View Details

Keywords: by John Kotter & Lorne A. Whitehead

08 Feb 2000
Research & Ideas

Building Effective R&D Capabilities Abroad

researchers and made plans for further expansion. In order to integrate the new laboratory's scientists into the Xerox community, senior R&D management in Palo Alto, California, allocated a considerable part of the initial laboratory View Details

Keywords: by Walter Kuemmerle

16 May 2005
Research & Ideas

Nonprofit Networking: The New Way to Grow

was serving around 10 million through its many networks, with a global budget of less than $10 million, said Wei-Skillern. The contract was that if high quality was not maintained, Guide Dogs would take control again. Barry decided to... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

16 May 2000
Research & Ideas

Getting the Message: How the Internet is Changing Advertising

advertising budgets are currently spending the bulk of their money outside the Internet media market. WPP's Sorrell notes that "in the last twelve months, branding has become more important than ever, because it provides a way to... View Details

Keywords: by Susan Young

June 2014 (Revised October 2015)
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Molycorp: Financing the Production of Rare Earth Minerals (A)

By: Benjamin C. Esty and E. Scott Mayfield

Molycorp, the western hemisphere's only producer of rare earth minerals, was in the middle of a $1 billion capital expenditure project in its effort to become a vertically integrated supplier of rare earth minerals, oxides, and metals. Yet it had just reported lower... View Details