Budgets and Budgeting - Publications - Faculty & Research

01 Apr 1997
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An Orchestral Startup

with Yoo hiring topflight young musicians and Lim handling the business end, Metamorphosen came to life with a startup budget of $75,000 raised from charitable donations (the orchestra is a tax-exempt... View Details

Keywords: Linda Goodspeed

01 Dec 2010
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Additional alumni books for your consideration.

as money-market funds. Islands of Profit in a Sea of Red Ink: Why 40% of Your Business Is Unprofitable, and How to Fix It by Jonathan L.S. Byrnes (DBA ’80) (Penguin Portfolio) Given the uncomfortable truth that it’s possible, even easy,... View Details

Keywords: Funds, Trusts, and Other Financial Vehicles; Funds, Trusts, and Other Financial Vehicles

01 Sep 2012
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Alumni Books

that can greatly improve local governmental services without costing taxpayers more. They discuss incorporating outcome indicators into strategic planning and budgeting; building a local government’s budget... View Details

Keywords: Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools

01 Dec 2011
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Making the Case for Leadership

programming vision, to recruiting and motivating a growing team of employees (some of whom, like Swan, were commuting from other cities at the time). Also in play: managing a tight, closely watched budget... View Details

01 Jun 2022
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Turning Point: Sparking Change

confidence I had gained by growing up in Detroit and going to Howard University to say, “I would raise that ad budget by $5 million.” Professor Starr said, “You would?” After I’d explained my reasoning, he... View Details

01 Jun 2025
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Navigating Uncertainty: Dean Datar on HBS’s Path Forward

revenue is an important component of our economic model, we are not as reliant on it for our operating budget as a number of other schools may be. Collectively, though, these actions have meaningful implications for the School. Even small... View Details

09 Mar 2021
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Addressing Education Inequities Exacerbated by the Pandemic

making the budgets available. Then, beyond that, the private sector can play a really important role. There are a number of companies in India where there’s a mandate to set aside 2 percent of profits for corporate social responsibility.... View Details

Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie

01 Sep 2005
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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

Keywords: Lewis I. Rice; Petroleum and Coal Products Manufacturing; Petroleum and Coal Products Manufacturing; Petroleum and Coal Products Manufacturing; Petroleum and Coal Products Manufacturing

01 Dec 2008
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A Force for Good

stood at a crossroads. It was, by any measure, the preeminent business school in the world. Indisputably, it was the largest, in terms of MBA enrollment, size of faculty, endowment, and operating budget. Its research View Details

Keywords: Jeffrey L. Cruikshank; Construction of Buildings; Construction; Monetary Authorities-Central Bank; Finance; Hospitals; Health, Social Assistance; Publishing Industries (except Internet); Information; Wood Product Manufacturing; Manufacturing; Rail Transportation; Transportation

13 Sep 2019
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Hollywood Ending

Laurence Fishburne. Oscar-winning director Guillermo del Toro (The Shape of Water), Jason Blum (Get Out), Lena Waithe (Master of None), and Sam Raimi (Spider-Man) have also signed on to headline “lighthouse” shows, with View Details

Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint; photo by Christina Gandolfo

01 Dec 2008
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Designing Change

consultant.” It’s easy to see how students would relate to 35-year-old Kahn as he takes on CEO Bill Boyd’s challenge to help revitalize Muzak’s image with clients and its corporate culture on a budget of... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna

01 Oct 1996
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New Releases

HBS faculty and research assistants. Each year, more than 40 percent of the faculty's time and 30 percent of the School's total budget are devoted to faculty research View Details

01 Jun 2015
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Higher Ground

Video Embed Eight months after the levees broke, the Louisiana Philharmonic Orchestra returned to New Orleans to play a concert. They weren’t home yet, though. Their usual venue, the 87-year-old Orpheum Theater downtown, was in ruins, still covered in mud View Details

Keywords: Dan Morrell; Amusement, Gambling, and Recreation Industries; Amusement, Gambling, and Recreation Industries; Amusement, Gambling, and Recreation Industries

01 Mar 2006
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The Producers

so long.” * * * * * As president of Echo Lake Productions, Douglas Mankoff (MBA 1995) is doing his bit to foster movies that might fall through the cracks at a big-budget studio. In 1997, Mankoff raised a private equity fund to finance View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; Motion Picture and Sound Recording Industries; Motion Picture and Sound Recording Industries

01 Sep 2007
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Letters to the Editor

“bottom-line” assessment of “right-wing” HBS graduate President George W. Bush (MBA ’75): growing economy, narrowing budget deficit, and no jihadist attacks on U.S. soil since 9/11. I understand the... View Details

Keywords: Educational Services

01 Jun 2013
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Lesson Plans

been effective. The issue is finding the dollars and the leadership to do that." SOLVING THE HR DILEMMA "It's difficult to recruit the skill level we need for district-level finance positions when most people capable of overseeing a $100... View Details

Keywords: Elementary and Secondary Schools; Elementary and Secondary Schools; Elementary and Secondary Schools; Elementary and Secondary Schools

01 Jun 2024
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Conducting Business

Ohio, where he had secured multimillion-dollar budgets from the federal government. There were several military veterans as well, but they were mostly ex-Army or ex-Marines who had fought in Vietnam, and... View Details

Keywords: Michael Farmer (MBA 1971); illustration by Lucinda Rogers; Business Schools & Computer & Management Training; Educational Services

06 Dec 2021
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New Wave

combination of funding from the New York State Energy Research and Development Authority and the WPTO, which was established in 2008 with a budget of only $10 million ($1... View Details

Keywords: Alexander Gelfand; photographed by Chris Sorensen

15 Sep 2016
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The Burning Man Project

it's supposed to do. So we have a budget of $36 million. And every year, most of that goes to doing the Burning Man event in Nevada. But we also support 26 events around the world that have popped up as a... View Details

01 Dec 2019
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The Race Against Resistance

and cancer. Antibiotics helped lift the average life expectancy at birth from 54 years in 1920 to 78.6 today. But almost as soon as the treatments were made available, physicians had to cope with the specter of antibiotic resistance, a... View Details

Keywords: Lisa Scanlon Mogolov

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