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Supplemental Financial Information - Annual Report 2017
HBP’s fiscal 2017 top-line growth was slightly below the School’s forecast and the slowest since fiscal 2010. While continuing to make strategic investments in future business growth, HBP shaved millions of dollars off its budgeted cost... View Details
- 13 Oct 2003
- Research & Ideas
How to Pick Managers for Disruptive Growth
from the core business who has demonstrated a record of success? An outsider who has started and grown a successful company? The school-of-experience view suggests that both of these managers might be risky hires. The internal candidate would have learned how to meet... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Raynor
- 06 Dec 2021
- News
Monaco's Digital Transformation
Genta manages 5 percent of the state budget and a staff of 270. His ministry oversees the telecom industry and digital improvements in smart city initiatives, education, and health care, as well as programs and partnerships benefitting... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie
- 16 Jan 2014
- News
Learning from Helping Others
as director in October, leaving a healthy program that now feeds 13,000 people 20,000 meals a year on a modest budget of $100,000. She hopes to pursue a career in public relations and photojournalism, but continues to volunteer at All... View Details
- 11 Jul 2012
- News
A Man, and a Plan, in Africa
Congress in 2004, currently with an annual budget of about $900 million, the MCC (whose first CEO was Paul Applegarth [MBA 1972]) requires that partner countries qualify for funding by meeting a majority of 20 economic, governance,... View Details
- 09 Jun 2023
- Blog Post
Learning Curve
president and handled the business side of the growing school, from learning to write a budget to scouring used furniture stores for inexpensive desk chairs and finding ever-larger classroom spaces (the school moved three times in its... View Details
- 11 Sep 2006
- Research & Ideas
Negotiating When the Rules Suddenly Change
budget, and then scoop up the excess talent. But if the other owners move cautiously in this new terrain, it would be in your interest to aggressively sign stars before the market heats up. Either strategy carries risks. You wouldn't want to blow your View Details
- 17 Feb 2015
- News
The First Five Years: Justin Pasquariello (MBA 2010)
translate for us, willingness to donate isn’t so different—and so my strategy class has also been very helpful. I use accounting to evaluate finances and develop budget documents both here and in my role on the board of the organization I... View Details
Keywords: Health, Social Assistance
- Profile
Nabihah Sachedina
and strategic consequences. On the practical side: "All those finance and accounting classes I dreaded? Without them, I could never have managed a budget of that [the Commission's] size. I can say without uncertainty that before HBS,... View Details
- October 2023 (Revised April 2024)
- Case
Accounting Red Flags or Red Herrings at Catalent? (A)
By: Joseph Pacelli, ZeSean Ali and Tom Quinn
Fund manager Janet Curie asked for a recommendation about the pharmaceutical company Catalent. The company seemed like a solid investment. However, a pair of research reports issued over the previous two months complicated this narrative. GlassHouse Research, a short... View Details
Keywords: Accounting Audits; Budgets and Budgeting; Earnings Management; Cost Accounting; Fair Value Accounting; Revenue Recognition; Integrated Corporate Reporting; Fairness; Moral Sensibility; Values and Beliefs; Government Legislation; Conflict of Interests; Announcements; Blogs; Debates; Investment; Trust; Business and Shareholder Relations; Pharmaceutical Industry; Accounting Industry; United States
Pacelli, Joseph, ZeSean Ali, and Tom Quinn. "Accounting Red Flags or Red Herrings at Catalent? (A)." Harvard Business School Case 124-024, October 2023. (Revised April 2024.)
- 24 Jun 2015
- HBS Case
Upgrading School with a Startup Mentality
school systems typically devote up to 85 percent of their budgets to personnel. This creates heavy managerial burdens and difficulties in aligning staffing to meet the needs of students and parents. AltSchool's microschool strategy... View Details
- 01 Sep 2005
- News
Get Ready for Saudi Oil Shock
could reorder the way a lot of corporations work today. Instead of having 1,000 people in the same office, create localized offices or give people a budget to create an office at home. In doing so, you would significantly improve the... View Details
- 01 Jun 2015
- News
Research Brief: If State Pensions Clean Up Their Books, Who Pays?
When the financial crisis hit in 2008, it became apparent that many states had played fast and loose with their pension funding. Some states slashed benefits, others contemplated bankruptcy. You might think state governments, burned badly once, would be eager to clean... View Details
Keywords: Erin Peterson
- 28 Apr 2022
- Blog Post
Climate Stories Episode #4: Erika Myers, World Resources Institute Ross Center for Sustainable Cities
budgets have entered the EV space.” The ads, she noted, confirm the growing consumer interest in and target market for electric vehicles. Tesla’s boast that it delivered 1 million cars last year shows “that the technology is viable and... View Details
- 16 Dec 2014
- First Look
First Look: December 16
the severity of pension plan underfunding, state budget deficits, and the use of high discount rates. Further we find opposing states are subject to more stringent balanced budget requirements and greater... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 09 Mar 2016
- Lessons from the Classroom
In This Classroom, Beer Can Improve Your Grade
up to 7 rounds, and all teams have the same baseline budget and number of beers to work with. Once play begins students can redesign or scuttle existing beers or create new ones. Rounds start off lasting two to three hours each, but... View Details
- 11 Nov 2013
- Research & Ideas
A Smarter Way to Reduce Customer Defections
marketing priority—and they've been given bigger budgets to fight the battle. But as Gupta points out, identifying potential defectors to target is not as easy as it sounds. For years, companies have used churn management strategies that... View Details
- 29 Apr 2013
- Research & Ideas
Are First-Time Buyers Left Out of Real Estate’s Rebound?
ownership. A tax subsidy like the mortgage interest deduction, which reduces the amount of money available to the federal government by $100 billion a year, is understandably at risk today because of our concern with deficit reduction. To put this huge number in... View Details
- 08 Jun 2011
- Lessons from the Classroom
Twenty-first Century Skill: Trading Carbon Credits
Cap and trade has become an increasingly popular mechanism used by governments to induce green behavior among corporate polluters, with news emerging almost daily. Just recently New Jersey Governor Chris Christie withdrew his state from the Regional Greenhouse Gas... View Details
- 01 Aug 2008
- What Do You Think?
Has the Time Come for “Stretch” in Management?
stretch goal would be a turnover of 10 in five years, with improvements toward that goal recognized and rewarded on a year-to-year basis. One goal of this philosophy was to eliminate the time-wasting annual budgeting game in which middle... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Heskett