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28 Oct 2014
First Look

First Look: October 28

exchange for taking on the risk of young companies in uncertain environments, venture capitalists receive board level oversight privileges, which range from approval of budgets and advice on product development to the right to replace the... View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

04 Feb 2014
First Look

First Look: February 4

succumbed to collective action problems in the form of budget overruns, bogged-down processes, or users feeling disenfranchised. Applying Ostrom's (1990) principles of robust commons governance, we show that the Manchester design commons... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthlorne

January 2001 (Revised May 2010)
Case

BP Amoco (B): Financing Development of the Caspian Oil Fields

By: Benjamin C. Esty and Michael Kane

British Petroleum and Amoco were the two largest members of the Azerbaijan International Oil Consortium (AIOC), an 11-firm consortium that was spending $10 billion to develop oil fields in the Caspian Sea. As of March 1999, AIOC had completed a $1.9 billion development... View Details

Keywords: Investment; Policy; Capital Budgeting; Project Finance; Emerging Markets; Mergers and Acquisitions; Financing and Loans; Financial Strategy; Mining Industry; Energy Industry; United Kingdom; Europe

21 Apr 2020
Research & Ideas

7 Successful Battle Strategies to Beat COVID-19

toward gunfire, where they certainly would be needed. Southwest Airlines famously provides structure to staff built on culture and an aligned operating model. In the field, staff members know what levers they can pull to respond to current conditions, including a... View Details

Keywords: by Euvin Naidoo

June 2003
Case

Peabody Simpson at the Crossroads

By: Rajiv Lal, Nitin Nohria and Leslie Freeman

Three managing directors at Peabody Simpson had just returned from a firm-wide recruiting event at Columbia University, which they had covered together, as all were alumni. They were commiserating about having to submit revised forecasts to their division heads by the... View Details

Keywords: Forecasting and Prediction; Capital Budgeting; Recruitment; Reports; Organizational Design

02 Feb 2010
First Look

First Look: Feb. 2

the long-established industry terms of contract between clients and managers change going forward? Was there an opportunity for clients to negotiate better terms? These issues all needed to be addressed in the context of protecting the University's operating View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

10 Sep 2008
Research & Ideas

Long-Tail Economics? Give Me Blockbusters!

result in dead ends but occasionally lead in an unexpected direction to a blockbuster result. Some big budget movies are flops, others are sleepers, still others meet expectations. More risky than pursuing blockbusters is not to pursue... View Details

Keywords: by John Quelch; Entertainment & Recreation; Pharmaceutical

March 2001 (Revised April 2001)
Case

Montefiore Medical Center

By: Robert S. Kaplan and Syeda Noorein Inamdar

A large urban medical center implements the Balanced Scorecard management tool. Elaine Brennan, senior VP of operations, has reorganized a highly functional health care organization into decentralized patient care centers and support units. Having recently endured the... View Details

Keywords: Balanced Scorecard; Health Care and Treatment; Management Systems; Organizational Structure; Corporate Strategy; Leadership Development; Growth and Development Strategy; Financial Reporting; Budgets and Budgeting; Cost Accounting; Corporate Accountability; Communication; Health Industry

February 1991
Case

Burlington Northern: The ARES Decision (B)

By: Julie H. Hertenstein and Robert S. Kaplan

The ARES team formally proposes that Burlington Northern implement the ARES system. The project meets resistance. In light of financial restructuring and high level of debt, executives wonder whether the company can afford ARES. Weak links during the ARES development... View Details

Keywords: Accounting Audits; Restructuring; Cost vs Benefits; Decision Choices and Conditions; Borrowing and Debt; Capital Budgeting; Projects; Technology Adoption; Service Industry

05 Jul 2006
Research & Ideas

Reinventing the Dowdy Savings Bond

before twelve months. More substantively, he proposes adding a line to the 1040 tax form that would allow filers to invest a part of their refund directly in the savings bond program, making it simpler for people to buy bonds. "We don't need any View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Banking; Financial Services

09 Jan 2006
Research & Ideas

What Really Drives Your Strategy?

Gilbert Gilbert: The same problem exists today. We have just talked to a large financial services firm that has spent millions of dollars building a formal resource allocation system, yet all their efforts have been at the very senior levels of management. The... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

26 Apr 2011
Op-Ed

HBS Faculty Comment on Environmental Issues for Earth Day

suburbs, surface parking demands large gaps between buildings, perpetuating urban sprawl and making walking infeasible. Meanwhile, road maintenance saps budgets at every level of government. Automobile owners face high costs, too,... View Details

Keywords: by Staff; Energy; Utilities

19 Dec 2017
First Look

New Research and Ideas, December 19, 2017

sites focused on more specialized curated design esthetics. Determining the 2014 advertising budget for Wayfair.com is the big question in the case. Two ad budget decisions need to be made. The first... View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

20 May 2014
First Look

First Look: May 20

an effort to accomplish this. The second involved a fiscal policy plan whose initial thrust was expansionary, but which also sought to reduce future budget deficits. The last one involved a series of microeconomic reforms aimed at... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

10 Jan 2005
What Do You Think?

Public Pension Reform: Does Mexico Have the Answer?

to the social security system can be deposited in private versus public accounts, the transition "cost" (really a fiscal budget deficit) will be up to $2 trillion. Theoretically, the impact of this on pensioners could be... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett; Financial Services

08 Jun 2011
Lessons from the Classroom

Twenty-first Century Skill: Trading Carbon Credits

students are assigned roles as managers of large cement manufacturers (simply designated White, Brown, Black, or Green Cement). A fifth student, who represents an environmental activist organization, is assigned the goal of purchasing as many permits as possible within... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Energy; Utilities

10 Aug 2011
Research & Ideas

HBS Faculty Views on Debt Crisis

hesitant to vote for such proposals. Add to this the ideological divisions about whether to emphasize taxes or spending when closing the budget gap, and we have a difficult and volatile fiscal outlook for this country. Given these... View Details

Keywords: by Staff

25 Mar 2014
Research & Ideas

Book Excerpt: ‘Can China Lead?’

of higher education are in the process of slow-motion self-destruction. The University of California system, once the greatest system of public higher education in the world, has been weakened and made increasingly dysfunctional due to state View Details

Keywords: Re: William C. Kirby & F. Warren McFarlan; Education; Technology

05 Jan 2011
Op-Ed

Funding Unpredictability Around Stem-Cell Research Inflicts Heavy Cost on Scientific Progress

typical lab has 20 to 40 people, led by a senior researcher (the "principal investigator''). Most people in a lab are doctoral or postdoctoral students who are pursuing careers in science. Labs have many different projects under investigation simultaneously. Most... View Details

Keywords: by William Sahlman; Biotechnology; Health; Pharmaceutical

22 May 2018
First Look

New Research and Ideas, May 22, 2018

growth. Central to Ferrari’s strategy is its response to disruptive changes in the automotive industry and their impact on the company’s products and brand. Purchase this case:https://hbsp.harvard.edu/product/618047-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 718-041... View Details

Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

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