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March 1990
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12 May 2011
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A Game Plan in Trying Times

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

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

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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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

29 Apr 2008
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Harvard Business School Holds 12th Annual Business Plan Contest

April 2002
Case

Contingent Workforce Planning at Motorola, Inc.

Details the rationale for and design of a unique organizational response by Motorola to the challenges of contingent staffing at its semiconductor facility in Austin, Texas. The new outsourcing strategy is built on principles of supply chain management and business... View Details

Keywords: Selection and Staffing; Semiconductor Industry; Texas

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May 1987
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Sears Merchandise Group: 1987 Plan Process

By: William J. Bruns Jr.

Keywords: Retail Industry

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1992
Working Paper

Commitments and Compromises: A Research Plan

By: J. L. Badaracco Jr.

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02 Apr 2013
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Competitive Cash-for-Weight-Loss Plans Work Best: Study

10 Dec 2008
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Expert: Auto Rescue Plans Lack Credibility

26 Mar 2010
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A plan to help troubled homeowners

30 Sep 2019
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Retirement planning must go beyond finances

01 Sep 2009
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A Student Plan Goes to Washington

Not all financial reform proposals under consideration in Washington sprang from federal agencies and congressional committees. One emerged from HBS. Last spring, students in Professor Rakesh Khurana’s elective corporate governance class took aim at solving two... View Details

Keywords: Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services; Administration of Economic Programs; Government

07 May 2015
News

Renegotiating Retiree Health Care Plans After New Supreme Court Guidance

January 1977 (Revised July 1985)
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Perkin-Elmer Instrument Division: Plans and Forecasts (Revised)

By: Steven C. Wheelwright

Keywords: Planning; Forecasting and Prediction

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summer 1999
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The Design of Multi-Year Option Plans

By: Brian Hall

Keywords: Financial Instruments

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June 2016
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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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