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14 Jul 2023
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Balancing Act: Kate Eberle Walker’s Action Plan for C-suite Diversity

responsibility of fostering other women, starting with her executive team. The first step was sharing her plan with employees and listening to their concerns. The response she received at Princeton Review and at PresenceLearning was... View Details

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Beyond Good Intentions: Prompting People to Make Plans Improves Follow-through on Important Tasks

By: Todd Rogers, Katherine L Milkman, Leslie K. John and Michael I. Norton

Many intend to stay fit but fail to exercise or eat healthfully; students intend to earn good grades but study too little; citizens intend to vote but fail to turnout. How can policymakers help people follow through on intentions like these? Plan-making, a tool that... View Details

Keywords: Behavior; Success; Planning

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September 2019 (Revised March 2020)
Teaching Note

Roush Performance: How to Design a Sales Force Compensation Plan

By: Doug J. Chung

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2013
Article

Planning Prompts as a Means of Increasing Preventive Screening Rates

By: Katherine L Milkman, John Beshears, James J. Choi, David Laibson and Brigitte C. Madrian

Keywords: Reminder Systems; Communication; Economics; Behavioral; Primary Prevention; Colonoscopy; Memory; Behavior; Health Care and Treatment; Health Testing and Trials; Communication Strategy; Health Industry

March 1995 (Revised January 1996)
Teaching Note

Portfolio Planning at Ciba-Geigy and the Newport Investment Proposal TN

By: David J. Collis

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Keywords: Chemical Industry; Pharmaceutical Industry; Switzerland

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03 Mar 2021
News

Return-to-Office Plans Are Set in Motion, but Virus Uncertainty Remains

08 Oct 2019
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Study: Northeast clean energy plans inadequate to meet climate goals

29 Nov 2019
News

As Trump Courts Unions, His Apprentice Plan Risks Alienating Them

20 Jun 2017
News

Inside the $20 Million Plan to Take Drone Racing Mainstream

1970
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Managing the Resource Allocation Process: A Study of Corporate Planning and Investment

By: J. L. Bower

Keywords: Management; Resource Allocation; Planning; Investment; Information

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November 2022 (Revised October 2024)
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'A Marshall Plan for Africa': James Mwangi and Equity Group Holdings

By: Caroline M. Elkins, Debora L. Spar, Zeke Gillman and Julia M. Comeau

Financial Inclusion. Dignity. Trust. These were the core principles driving James Mwangi’s transformation of Equity Building Society, insolvent in 1991, into what is, today, Equity Group Holdings, East and Central Africa’s largest retail banking institution. Raised in... View Details

Keywords: Income Inequality; Micro Finance; Microcredit; Microfinance; Banks and Banking; Equality and Inequality; Mission and Purpose; Business Model; Social Entrepreneurship; Banking Industry; Financial Services Industry; Africa; Kenya

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01 Oct 2001
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The Eyes Have It: Business Plan Winners Pursue Global Vision

could be prescribed, assembled, and fitted in the field by trained microentrepreneurs rather than by optometrists or ophthalmologists. The next step was to form a "Low Cost Available Eyeglasses" (LCAE) team and enter the HBS Business Plan... View Details

Keywords: eyeglasses

08 Oct 2019
Blog Post

Balancing Act: Kate Eberle Walker’s Action Plan for C-suite Diversity

successor and two years later, after Tutor.com had merged with The Princeton Review, she became CEO of the combined company. For Eberle Walker, being in charge came with the responsibility of fostering other women, starting with her executive team. The first step was... View Details

Keywords: Entrepreneurship