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- 01 Mar 2011
- News
Fiscal Year Ends on Upbeat Note
HBS entered fiscal 2010 with an aggressive plan to reduce costs in anticipation of a prolonged period of diminished revenue in the wake of the global financial crisis. But when the books closed last June, the School’s View Details
- 01 Jun 2024
- News
Conducting Business
family who knew more about money management than most money managers on Wall Street. Everyone looked confident and sophisticated. I felt like a complete dope—an ex-Naval officer with a degree in English.... View Details
- 01 Mar 2009
- News
Just Keep Our Money
© politicalcartoons.com The government’s ever-evolving rescue of the financial sector has already demanded enormous sums, and President Obama’s economic stimulus package will require many billions more. While a stimulus plan would lead to... View Details
- 01 Sep 2009
- News
Executive Pay: Onward & Upward
1994 Under intense pressure from industry, regulators decide stock options should not be reported as a compensation expense but as footnotes in financial statements. 2002 Following the collapse of Enron and WorldCom, Congress enacts... View Details
- Winter 2022
- Article
Vaccines and the COVID-19 Pandemic: Lessons from Failure and Success
By: Scott Duke Kominers and Alex Tabarrok
The losses from the global COVID-19 pandemic have been staggering—trillions in economic costs, on top of significant losses of life, health, and well-being. The world made significant and successful investments in vaccines to mitigate the pandemic, yet there were... View Details
Keywords: COVID-19; Vaccination; Market Design; Health Pandemics; Loss; Outcome or Result; Opportunities; Crisis Management
Kominers, Scott Duke, and Alex Tabarrok. "Vaccines and the COVID-19 Pandemic: Lessons from Failure and Success." Oxford Review of Economic Policy 38, no. 4 (Winter 2022): 719–741.
- 01 Mar 2017
- News
In My Humble Opinion: Arunma Oteh (MBA 1990)
appointment as director general of Nigeria’s Securities and Exchange Commission. MORE The Amazing Life of One of America’s Earliest Black, Female Entrepreneurs MORE The Amazing Life of One of America’s Earliest Black, Female Entrepreneurs Today, Oteh and her World Bank... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 20 Feb 2018
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, February 20, 2018
case where General Motors dealt with a serious recall crisis translated these concepts into the reality of managing a global enterprise in a trustworthy manner. BOOK ABSTRACT: The role of the chief... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- October 1991 (Revised November 1993)
- Case
Play Time Toy Co.
By: Thomas R. Piper
The president of a toy company is considering the adoption of level production in a business characterized by highly seasonal sales. The issues include balancing the cost savings and the inventory risk, estimating the seasonal financing need, and determining the... View Details
Keywords: Production; Cost Management; Banks and Banking; Sales; Goods and Commodities; Financial Management; Risk Management; Entertainment and Recreation Industry
Piper, Thomas R. "Play Time Toy Co." Harvard Business School Case 292-003, October 1991. (Revised November 1993.)
- August 2010
- Teaching Note
Vereinigung Hamburger Schiffsmakler und Schiffsagenten e.V.: Valuing Ships (TN)
By: Benjamin C. Esty and Albert W. Sheen
Teaching Note for 210058. View Details
- 01 Sep 2012
- News
What’s the Big Idea?
confronted with setbacks. Yet in a survey of 669 managers around the world, “progress” ranked dead last as a perceived source of employee motivation, falling behind more expected (but less effective) carrots such as bonuses and... View Details
- 23 Apr 2020
- Blog Post
Fireside Chats with Harvard Faculty: A COVID-19 Symposium
public health sectors need to work together. Mobilizing for a National Response View Video Professor Juliette Kayyem and Professor Dutch Leonard detail what crisis management looks like in a COVID world,... View Details
- 11 Oct 2006
- Research & Ideas
The Success of Reverse Leveraged Buyouts
shares in a company or part of a company that had been taken private in an initial leveraged buyout. Usually, buyout specialists will hold their portfolio firms for several years, working with existing management as well as bringing in... View Details
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Dave Vitello
“take the accounting and financial management base I built at Deloitte and pair it with the strategic thinking I gain at HBS.” The environment is perfectly suited to his ambition. “Each class, whether it is... View Details
Keywords: Financial Services
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Turnarounds and Transformation - Course Catalog
business executives, investors, and/or consultants. First, it would be of interest to those who at some point in their career see themselves as a CEO or senior manager potentially leading a troubled enterprise (small, medium, or large)... View Details
- 16 Mar 2010
- First Look
First Look: March 16
banking" experience. Purchase this case:http://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cb/product/110049-PDF-ENG Ben Bernanke: Person of the Year? Lakshmi Iyer and Matthew C. WeinzierlHarvard Business School Case 710-051 In response to the economic and View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
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Global Trade, Capital and National Institutions - Course Catalog
have different allocations and distributive effects. Indeed, rising inequality, the weak labor market performance for workers at the lower end of the skill spectrum, the Global Financial Crisis of 2008-2009,... View Details
- March 2008
- Supplement
Patel Food and Chemicals Private Limited (B)
By: Felda Hardymon and Ann Leamon
Alok Patel, the founder and chairman of a Gujarat-based, privately held edible oils processor, has hired a CFO and the company is doing extremely well. He wants to add a new plant to process oilive oil, but estimates he will need $20 million. He must decide among... View Details
Keywords: Financial Management; Growth and Development Strategy; Financing and Loans; Investment; Financial Strategy; Food and Beverage Industry; Chemical Industry; Gujarat
Hardymon, Felda, and Ann Leamon. "Patel Food and Chemicals Private Limited (B)." Harvard Business School Supplement 808-143, March 2008.
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Management Allison Mnookin Spring 2025 Q3Q4 3.0 Building and Sustaining a Successful Enterprise Q4 Technology & Operations Management Willy Shih Spring 2025 Q4 1.5 Business Analysis and Valuation Using View Details
- 01 Jun 2007
- News
A Class All His Own
cofounding forty years ago of The Carroll School, which specializes in teaching children with language-based learning differences. He’s also active with his class at Harvard College (celebrating its 70th Reunion this year) and the Treasurers’ Club of Boston, a forum... View Details
- November 1, 2022
- Article
To Prepare for Future Surges, U.S. Hospitals Must Start Planning—& Sharing Resources—Now!
Keywords: COVID-19; Crisis Management; Health Pandemics; Disruption; Planning; Health Industry; United States
Herzlinger, Regina E. "To Prepare for Future Surges, U.S. Hospitals Must Start Planning—& Sharing Resources—Now!" Medical Device News Magazine (November 1, 2022).