Planning - Publications - Faculty & Research

18 Aug 2011
Lessons from the Classroom

Business Plan Contest: 15 Years of Building Better Entrepreneurs

the Aldrich classrooms on the Harvard Business School campus where other people's ventures are the usual topic of discussion. Judges—a mix of angel investors, VCs, serial entrepreneurs, and industry executives—score the plans on criteria... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Education

01 Jan 2006
News

Stop Making Plans Start Making Decisions

Keywords: Michael Mankins, Richard Steele

2007
Chapter

The Future of Retirement and Planning

By: Robert C. Merton

Keywords: Retirement; Planning

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02 May 2014
News

Are You Confusing Strategy with Planning

Keywords: strategy; succss

June 1997 (Revised February 2000)
Case

Walker and Company: Profit Plan Decisions

By: Robert L. Simons and Ramsey Walker

Ramsey Walker, a second-year MBA student, must decide how to control a family business as an absentee owner. After providing background details on the publishing industry, the case requires the reader to: 1) make a product segmentation decision; 2) prepare a profit... View Details

Keywords: Organizational Structure; Family and Family Relationships; Market Design; Management Systems; Planning; Profit; Performance Evaluation; Segmentation; Corporate Strategy; Investment Return; Publishing Industry

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May 1982
Case

Honeywell Europe: Human Resource Planning (A)

By: Wickham Skinner, D. Q. Mills and Jean K. Trescott

Keywords: Human Resources; Globalized Firms and Management; Planning; Europe

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May 2011 (Revised December 2011)
Case

Redesigning a 401(k) Plan at Haley-Midland

By: Robert C. Pozen and Scott Eric Perl

Rose Adams, the CFO of Haley-Midland, Inc., dispensed with pleasantries and started right in on her questions for Jim Sweeney, the senior vice president of human resources, and Nancy Walters, Haley-Midland's vice president and treasurer, about the brewing crisis with... View Details

Keywords: Retirement; Crisis Management; Design; Planning; Human Resources

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01 Sep 2010
News

Big Turnout for Business Plan Contest

The dream of starting their own business inspired 110 teams of students to enter the 2010 HBS Business Plan Contest, which awarded $170,000 in cash and in-kind services to winners and runners-up in separate business venture and social... View Details

Keywords: contests; awards; Natural Gas Distribution; Utilities; Water, Sewage and Supply Systems; Utilities

17 Oct 2014
Research & Ideas

New Treasury Rules Help Long-Retirement Planning

The United States Treasury recently amended its rules to encourage workers with retirement plans to purchase life annuities within these plans. Life annuities generally make fixed monthly payments from the date of retirement until the... View Details

Keywords: by Robert Pozen; Financial Services

02 Apr 2018
Blog Post

Event Planning for Recruiting Success – Part 2

The last post, Event Planning for Recruiting Success – Part 1, reviewed the two main recruiting events at HBS, Company Presentations and public Company Conversations. In Part 2 we will cover hosting virtual events, meeting with targeted... View Details

Keywords: All Industries

winter 1982
Article

Solving the Problems of Business Planning

By: Joseph L. Bower

Keywords: Problems and Challenges; Planning

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21 Dec 2018
News

A Four-Point Plan for Teresa May

Two years post-Brexit vote, Britain’s Prime Minister is faced with the unenviable task of negotiating what the controversial plan will actually look like for her fellow citizens. In this New York Times opinion piece, HBS professor Deepak... View Details