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- 29 Jun 2007
- First Look
First Look: June 29, 2007
boards (PCBs) in-house rather than buying them from third-party contract manufacturers. Stryker Corporation's Instruments business is considering the proposal in response to difficulties with existing suppliers. The case requires students to formulate View Details
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Martha Lagace
- 21 Nov 2016
- Research & Ideas
It Matters That Your CEO Doesn't Know Much About Sales
CEOs need to roll up their sleeves and learn more about the customer-facing sides of their businesses, like sales. Source: AlexBrylov Let’s face it: To most C-suite executives, sales processes are often an afterthought or a somewhat...
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by Michael Blanding
- 01 Oct 2002
- News
Pearson Hunt Remembered
also contributed to the theory of capital budgeting and to the development of a more realistic application of the cost of capital to investment decisions. In the midst of this work, Hunt coined the term EBIT...
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- 01 Jan 2005
- News
Nancy M. Barry, MBA 1975
in 1979, had a budget of only $2 million, and many of Barry's peers questioned her decision to leave one of the world's most prestigious institutions to join a much smaller player in the global economy. "On...
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- 01 Jun 2018
- News
Q&A with Janet Cahill
know that HBS is using my gifts wisely? HBS employs a disciplined budget process—making trade-offs when necessary and focusing new investment in areas of strategic importance to extend the mission of the...
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Andrew Simko
confidence” in the case protagonist's ability to run a new manufacturing plant due to some bad initial budgeting with her, the Founder/CEO, sitting in the front row. Talk about flipping who's in the hot seat. What is one thing you brought...
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HBS - Financials | From the Chief Financial Officer
million, to support the School’s higher revenues and the increased level of activity on campus. While in any given year our largest expense—people—is always the same, the budget dynamics from one year to the...
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- 01 Dec 2014
- News
Customizing Couture Online
The way Áslaug Magnúsdóttir sees it, her new website, Tinker Tailor, which uses interactive web technology to customize high-end designer clothing, is an old-school approach to fashion. “Couture always was a collaboration between the designer View Details
- 17 Nov 2022
- News
Alumni Leaders on Decarbonization Strategies for Combating Climate Change
such, it is appropriate to reflect on the IRA’s barrier-breaking spending on climate change compared to our defense budget. The IRA budget for climate is just 4 percent of the country’s defense budget on...
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Minal Mehta
solid budget at Amazon to work with agencies to execute marketing campaigns, with BollyX, I find myself doing everything from social media posts, website copywriting, event planning, and cold calling, to...
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- 01 Mar 2009
- News
Just Keep Our Money
refund-savers would involve some changes in financial “plumbing” within the Treasury to build a pipeline between the IRS and the Bureau of the Public Debt, but it would not require a new bureaucracy, a new annual View Details
- 15 Jul 2024
- News
A Sporting Chance
trainers to come to Spain, and his foundation has grown over the past 25 years to serve 1,500 people a year with a budget of more than 1 million. Meanwhile, Metrovacesa’s market capitalization has grown to...
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- 17 Sep 2007
- Research & Ideas
Broadband: Remaking the Advertising Industry
online ad budget is spent on search advertising, which is more effective than banner advertising at driving traffic. The ability to place your ad on the screen exactly where someone is searching for information is profound. View Details
- 01 Mar 2015
- News
Feedback
Five Degrees of Doriot Re: Lasting lessons My fondest memory of the Business School is having lunch with the professor and discussing my thesis on “making the automatic factory a reality” that I did with classmate John Diebold. Doriot...
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Andrew Pratt
our business on a shoestring budget is quite a challenge How do your HBS ambitions fit into the big picture of the world beyond? When I started here, I had a clear vision; I’d get the management skills I need to go back into aerospace...
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Manufacturing/Energy
- 28 Apr 2003
- Research & Ideas
Shareholders Key to Corporate Reform
more balanced and comprehensive if management believes that directors might seek an independent opinion. It should be noted that there is a precedent for providing directors with independent funding: The Sarbanes-Oxley Act requires that...
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- 06 May 2002
- Research & Ideas
Profits for Nonprofits: Earning Your Own Way
address the issues that kept them from being employed well in the past." The bakery's challenges include limited financial resources—its budget is $200,000 a year—and learning to be profitable while training View Details
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by Martha Lagace
- 01 Mar 2012
- News
Social Investing Pioneers
allocation to this new asset class of social investment, the same way that venture capital and private equity benefit today from such allocations.” The idea is taking off in the United States. President Obama proposed $100 million in his...
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- 22 Nov 2022
- Blog Post
Alumni Leaders on Decarbonization Strategies for Combatting Climate Change
security and thus eventually could reign even greater tragedies than imagined. As such, it is appropriate to reflect on the IRA’s barrier-breaking spending on climate change compared to our defense budget. The IRA View Details
- 25 May 2010
- First Look
First Look: May 25
with annual revenues of $107 million. As we watch it change its culture, practices, and organization from offline to online marketing, we have an opportunity not simply to see the metrics used in online marketing View Details
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Martha Lagace