Publications

Web

Developing the Plan - Advancing Racial Equity

Action Plan Developing the Plan One-Year Action Plan Update Re: Srikant Datar, Terrill Drake, Jan Hammond & Brian Kenny 23 SEP 2021 Dean Srikant Datar discusses the School’s... View Details

29 Apr 2008
News

Harvard Business School Holds 12th Annual Business Plan Contest

October 2001 (Revised November 2005)
Case

eBay, Inc.: Stock Option Plans (A)

The footnote disclosure for eBay, Inc. in 2000 indicates that if the company had accounted for employee stock options under the fair value method, its reported profit of $48 million would have been a loss of $91 million. The protagonist is a prospective member of the... View Details

Keywords: Corporate Disclosure; Stock Options; Financial Reporting

September 2001
Background Note

Assessing Your Organization's Crisis Response Plans

Organizations inevitably face crises, but few are well prepared to deal with them. This note summarizes the findings of research and experience about what it takes to respond effectively in crisis situations. Provides principles to guide crisis response planning,... View Details

Keywords: Organizations; Crisis Management

winter 2006
Article

Allocating Shareholder Capital to Pension Plans

By: Robert C. Merton

Keywords: Capital; Resource Allocation; Business and Shareholder Relations; Compensation and Benefits

February 1998
Case

Planned Parenthood Federation of America (C)

By: V. Kasturi Rangan and Elaine V. Backman

Describes the series of events and processes that led to the formulation of a reinvention plan. View Details

Keywords: Change Management; Nonprofit Organizations

August 1983
Case

CIBA-GEIGY Pharmaceuticals Division: Multinational Strategic Planning

March 1982 (Revised April 1989)
Background Note

Industrial Market Selection and Product Planning

April 1980
Background Note

Sturdivant Electric Corp.: An Action Plan

By: John J. Gabarro

Keywords: Electronics Industry

March 1990
Case

Excerpt from China: Central Economic Planning

12 May 2011
News

A Game Plan in Trying Times

Keywords: yoga; Clothing and Clothing Accessories Stores; Retail Trade

07 May 2015
News

Renegotiating Retiree Health Care Plans After New Supreme Court Guidance

01 Sep 2005
News

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

Editorial

Why CEOs Should Share Their Long-Term Plans with Investors

By: Christina Rehnberg, George Serafeim and Brian Tomlinson

Rather than requiring less short-term information, the key to combating short-termism is to encourage companies to share more information about their long-term plans. Analysis of companies that have done so suggests that long-term plans are not mere marketing... View Details

Keywords: CEO; Investor Relations; Disclosure; Long-term Growth; Investing; Business and Shareholder Relations; Strategy; Corporate Disclosure

Register to Read

January 1977 (Revised July 1985)
Case

Perkin-Elmer Instrument Division: Plans and Forecasts (Revised)

By: Steven C. Wheelwright

Keywords: Planning; Forecasting and Prediction

28 Nov 2017
News

GOP tax plans ignore reality in creating good American jobs

May 2014 (Revised March 2017)
Case

Unilever's Lifebuoy in India: Implementing the Sustainability Plan

By: Christopher A. Bartlett

Unilever's new Global Brand VP must not only revitalize Lifebuoy soap's sagging market performance, but simultaneously impact the health of one billion people worldwide. The latter challenge comes from Unilever's new CEO who has introduced the Unilever Sustainable... View Details

Keywords: Multinational Management; Corporate Social Responsibility; Strategy Implementation; Marketing Strategy; Mission And Purpose; Change Management; International Business; Global; Fast-moving Consumer Goods; Soap; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Health Care and Treatment; Environmental Sustainability; Global Strategy; Developing Countries and Economies; Beauty and Cosmetics Industry; Health Industry; India

summer 1999
Article

The Design of Multi-Year Option Plans

By: Brian Hall

Keywords: Financial Instruments

June 2016
Case

Aggressive Growth Plans For Zimmer Spine

By: Kevin Schulman and Miranda Shaw

Steve Healy, the President of Zimmer Spine, has to transform his organization into a market leader. Zimmer is a major medical device firm, but the Spine division has underperformed, and its core technology did not get the expanded FDA label that had been expected. The... View Details

Keywords: Medical Device; Organizational Innovation; Organizational Growth; Organizations; Growth and Development Strategy; Medical Devices and Supplies Industry