Publications

November 2003
Article

Planning to Play It By Ear

By: Kathleen L. McGinn

Keywords: Planning

Read Now

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

Educators

28 Jun 2007
Working Paper Summaries

Alignment in Cross-Functional and Cross-Firm Supply Chain Planning

Keywords: by Santiago Kraiselburd & Noel Watson

October 2012 (Revised August 2014)
Case

The Canada Pension Plan Investment Board: October 2012

By: Josh Lerner, Matthew Rhodes-Kropf and Nathaniel Burbank

The Canada Pension Plan Investment Board (CPPIB) is one of the largest and fastest-growing pools of investment capital in the world and follows an unusually active program of investment management. In October of 2012, Mark Wiseman was just 12 weeks into his role as... View Details

Keywords: Canada; CPPIB; Pensions; Private Equity; Financial Services Industry; Canada

Educators

29 Apr 2010
News

Harvard Business School Holds 14th Annual Business Plan Contest

May 2021
Supplement

Valuing Employment Teaching Plan Spreadsheet Supplement

By: George Serafeim, Ethan Rouen and Katie Panella

September 4, 2012
Article

The Underfunding of Corporate Pension Plans

By: Robert C. Pozen

April 2000 (Revised July 2001)
Case

Oxford Health Plans (B): Crisis Strikes

By: Robert S. Huckman and Jody H. Gittell

Supplements the (A) case. A rewritten version of an earlier supplement. View Details

Keywords: Crisis Management; Health Care and Treatment; Health Industry; United States

September 1982
Background Note

Note on Career Planning in Industry

September 1987
Case

Beveridge Plan and the Welfare State

By: Bruce R. Scott and Joshua F. Dienstag

Keywords: Welfare or Wellbeing

21 Aug 2013
News

Harvard's Shih on Kodak's Bankruptcy-Exit Plan

10 Oct 2012
News

Building Innovation into the Business Plan

25 Oct 2009
News

Oakley plans line of $4,000 sunglasses

14 Dec 2013
News

IT Start-Up Eases Health Plan Hiccups

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

December 1969 (Revised April 1988)
Case

Norton Co. (C): Formal Planning System

By: Francis Aguilar

Keywords: Planning; Corporate Strategy

12 Oct 1999
Research & Ideas

How to Write a Great Business Plan

Every seasoned investor knows that detailed financial projections for a new company are an act of imagination. Nevertheless, most business plans pour far too much ink on the numbers—and far too little on the information that really... View Details

Keywords: Re: William A. Sahlman

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

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