Planning - Publications - Faculty & Research

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

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winter 2006
Article

Allocating Shareholder Capital to Pension Plans

By: Robert C. Merton

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

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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

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August 1983
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CIBA-GEIGY Pharmaceuticals Division: Multinational Strategic Planning

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March 1982 (Revised April 1989)
Background Note

Industrial Market Selection and Product Planning

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April 1980
Background Note

Sturdivant Electric Corp.: An Action Plan

By: John J. Gabarro

Keywords: Electronics Industry

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March 1990
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Excerpt from China: Central Economic Planning

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12 May 2011
News

A Game Plan in Trying Times

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

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

2012
Other Unpublished Work

The Efficacy of Shareholder Voting: Evidence from Equity Compensation Plans

By: Ian D. Gow, Christopher S. Armstrong and David F. Larcker

This study examines the effects of shareholder support for equity compensation plans on subsequent chief executive officer (CEO) compensation. Using cross-sectional regression, instrumental variable, and regression discontinuity research designs, we find little... View Details

Keywords: Voting; Equity; Executive Compensation; Rights; Performance Effectiveness; Business and Shareholder Relations; Mathematical Methods; Motivation and Incentives

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28 Nov 2017
News

GOP tax plans ignore reality in creating good American jobs

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

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29 Apr 2010
News

Harvard Business School Holds 14th Annual Business Plan Contest

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

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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

summer 1999
Article

The Design of Multi-Year Option Plans

By: Brian Hall

Keywords: Financial Instruments

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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

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