Business Planning - Publications - Faculty & Research

02 Aug 2022
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From HBS to Cutting-Edge Tech

and would require a lot of business development and strategic planning. I convinced the executive leadership to let me spend a year in the business team. I made significant contributions while serving as a... View Details

01 Dec 1997
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Multimedia Martha: Sharon Patrick Cooks Up A Winner

partnerships with others, like Time Warner. Martha had lots of ideas and a great sense of the possibilities of the businesses and the potential for brand building, but what was missing was a real game plan... View Details

01 Sep 2023
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Turning Point: Listen to the Music

Marnie Tattersall: (MBA 1972) (Illustration by Gisela Goppel) Marnie Tattersall: (MBA 1972) (Illustration by Gisela Goppel) I was born in Colombo, Sri Lanka, and came to the United States in 1958 with my parents and my brother because my parents thought it was... View Details

Keywords: music; film; purpose; career

09 Jan 2006
Research & Ideas

What Really Drives Your Strategy?

process at every level happens in ways that are not always intuitive to people who think about strategy as a top-down planning process. For example, customers can capture what gets considered in a formal budgeting meeting because the... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

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The New Social Contract: Contractors, Firms, and Agencies

The emergence of a 'new social contract' linking employees and organizations - perhaps most notable for the absence of a promise of lifelong job security - has been widely remarked. A related trend, less noted but potentially important, has been the emergence of a... View Details

26 Aug 2013
Lessons from the Classroom

Built for Global Competition from the Start

Thanks to the Internet, entrepreneurs are no longer confined to a local geography when building a new business—the world can be their market from day one. But building a startup as a global business requires managers with skills and... View Details

Keywords: by Kim Girard; Education

20 Sep 2011
First Look

First Look: September 20

Hospital: Cardiac Care for the Poor (B) Tarun Khanna and Tanya BijlaniHarvard Business School Supplement 712-402 Narayana Hrudayalaya (NH) has expanded into a multi-specialty health city in Bangalore and has grown to twelve locations... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

February 2011 (Revised May 2011)
Case

Utilis: Designing, Producing, and Selling Rapid Deployment Shelters for a Troubled World

By: Herman B. Leonard, Daniela Beyersdorfer and Simon Harrow

How can a company that supplies disaster response and humanitarian agencies best handle the intrinsically unpredictable and highly volatile demand for its products? Utilis is a French supplier of rapid-deploy high-end tent solutions for civilian and military uses (such... View Details

Keywords: Business Model; Growth and Development Strategy; Demand and Consumers; Strategic Planning; Natural Disasters; Competitive Strategy; Consumer Products Industry; Industrial Products Industry; France

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October 2022
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Afrigen Biologics: Vaccines for the Global South

By: Debora L. Spar and Julia Comeau

The majority of vaccines used on the continent of Africa (99%) are produced offshore. This makes African nations reliant on the West for major health care needs, a problem which was exacerbated by the COVID-19 pandemic. Afrigen Biologics (in partnership with the WHO)... View Details

Keywords: Vaccination; Vaccine; mRNA; COVID; COVID-19; Inequity; Hub-and-spoke; Health Care and Treatment; Health Pandemics; Production; Social Issues; Business and Government Relations; South Africa; Africa

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28 Sep 2023
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Screen Time

iStock/ST.art MBA 1982’s Section B had already formed a close-knit group that gathered often in the decades following their time at the School, when the pandemic appeared in the spring of 2020. Unable to enjoy one another’s company in person, the group didn’t miss a... View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley

23 Jan 2007
First Look

First Look: January 23, 2007

are beyond the farmgate. Embrapa's director of technology transfer must develop a plan to encourage adoption. Purchase this case: http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=507019 Ethics: A Basic Framework Harvard... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

12 Feb 2021
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How Dunkin’ Donuts Took Over the World

joining the family business, but had no idea that I'd be asked to assume responsibility for the overall business. When I went off to school, early on, the business was an industrial feeding business with... View Details

Keywords: brands; leadership; management; strategy; operations; career; Food and Beverage Stores; Retail Trade

05 Aug 2002
Research & Ideas

Understanding the Process of Innovation

product idea that gets rejected or that gets approved and then bombs will damage the middle manager's career. "As a consequence of this natural process of deciding what to carry forward, the ideas that get developed into business... View Details

Keywords: by Loren Gray

11 Mar 2024
News

In Harmony

situations that challenge his loyalties, conscience, and sense of duty. The book, which will be made into a movie, took Kim 20 years to write. Kim sees no conflict between the business and literary parts of his life. “I like doing deals... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; photograph by Jun Michael Park

22 Jun 2011
Sharpening Your Skills

Sharpening Your Skills: Motivation

Dynamic Structural Analysis of Bonus-Based Compensation Plans Companies generally pay their sales staff with some combination of salary, commissions, and bonuses for meeting quotas—with sales force costs averaging about 10 percent of... View Details

Keywords: Re: Multiple Faculty

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Hamilton Hall | About

the prominent banker who funded the construction of Harvard Business School's original campus . The building was named for Alexander Hamilton (1757-1804), the nation’s first treasury secretary and a key figure in the development of the... View Details

11 May 2010
First Look

First Look: May 11

that pursuing both chemicals and fuels added even more complexity to a business that was already executing multiple development steps in parallel. The case looks at the various strategic and operational decisions facing Melo as he View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

05 May 2003
Research & Ideas

How Bank of America Turned Branches into Service-Development Laboratories

generated, and forty of them had been launched as formal experiments. Once an idea was given a green light, the actual experiment had to be designed. The I&D Team wanted to perform as many tests as possible, so it strove to plan each... View Details

Keywords: by Stefan Thomke; Banking; Financial Services

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From C-Suite to CEO - Alumni

responsibility management. To build these skills consider these paths forward: Ask, and Ask for More Be transparent with your current CEO and Board Members about your career goals in order to gain insight into succession planning and... View Details

September 2000 (Revised October 2002)
Case

National Logistics Management

By: Lynda M. Applegate, Mary Rotelli and Kristin Kohler

National Logistics Management (NLM), a third-party logistics company, is a successful, profitable business that provides a more cost-effective and efficient means to expedite premium freight. With the logistics landscape changing, NLM's market niche is threatened. Can... View Details

Keywords: Entrepreneurship; Business Strategy; Competitive Strategy; Growth and Development Strategy; Business or Company Management; Logistics; Industry Structures; Planning; Service Industry

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