Planning - Publications - Faculty & Research

The COVID-19 pandemic demonstrated that U.S. hospital and health care systems were ill-prepared for the surge of patients who overwhelmed available health care resources. An overlooked resource deserves more attention: the availability of intensive care unit (ICU)... View Details

Keywords: COVID-19 Pandemic; Crisis Management; Knowledge Sharing; Governance Compliance; Planning; Health Industry; United States

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July 1980 (Revised July 1984)
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Corning Glass Works: Information Systems Planning

By: James I. Cash Jr.

Keywords: Information Technology; Planning

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18 Dec 2020
News

Progress Update on Racial Equity Plan

This week, HBS offered a progress update on its Racial Equity Plan—a seven-part action plan developed by the Dean’s Anti-Racism Task Force and released in September. In the past three months, the School’s progress has included launching a... View Details

December 1969 (Revised April 1988)
Case

Norton Co. (C): Formal Planning System

By: Francis Aguilar

Keywords: Planning; Corporate Strategy

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Plan a Visit | Baker Library

Plan a Visit Special Collections & Archives welcomes users exploring our archival records, manuscript collections, and print materials. Visit our Search for Special Collections page to learn more about finding and requesting materials.... View Details

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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2007
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The Future of Retirement and Planning

By: Robert C. Merton

Keywords: Retirement; Planning

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02 May 2014
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Are You Confusing Strategy with Planning

Keywords: strategy; succss

April 2013
Teaching Plan

Marks and Spencer: Plan A (TP)

By: David Bell and Michael Norris

Teaching Note for 509029. View Details

Keywords: Marketing; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Strategic Planning; Environmental Sustainability; Competitive Advantage; Retail 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 Dec 2009
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An Action Plan for Economic Recovery

POZEN: Offers a plan for overhauling the U.S. financial system to avoid a repeat of the recent market meltdown. Most books about the nation’s financial crisis tell us what happened. In his new book, HBS senior lecturer Robert Pozen tells... View Details

Keywords: Roger Thompson; Finance

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

01 Sep 2005
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Business Plan Contest Has Many Winners

With its ninth annual competition last May, the HBS Business Plan Contest has become a well-established start-up that hits “home runs” every year. This year’s traditional track winner was Karen Grajwer (MBA ’05), founder of Uplift, an... View Details

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