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- 06 Nov 2013
- What Do You Think?
Is Top-Down Resource Allocation on the Rise?
situation here, but rather a more subtle process change by some companies, especially those in volatile or fast-moving industries. What I see happening among partners I deal with is that they allocate strategically from the top (setting overall View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 07 Apr 2003
- Research & Ideas
Three Steps for Crisis Prevention
exactly that." The Big Five also spent millions of dollars urging members of Congress to threaten the SEC leadership with budget cuts if it imposed limits on auditor services. The lobbying worked. The SEC backed off, and the... View Details
Keywords: by Michael D. Watkins & Max H. Bazerman
- 06 May 2002
- Research & Ideas
Profits for Nonprofits: Earning Your Own Way
address the issues that kept them from being employed well in the past." The bakery's challenges include limited financial resources—its budget is $200,000 a year—and learning to be profitable while training and employing people who... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 29 Feb 2016
- HBS Case
Bigbelly's Big Bet on the Digital Trash Can
money” is not always a convincing pitch for cities. “The reality is, 80 percent of a city’s operating budget is people,” says Weiss. “When you say, ‘save money,’ what they hear is ‘lay off people.’ That doesn’t mean it shouldn’t be done... View Details
- 02 Jul 2013
- First Look
First Look: July 2
http://hbr.org/search/713085-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 713-078 America's Budget Impasse In the spring of 2013, Barak Obama faced a difficult budgetary challenge-reducing fiscal deficits over 10 years without dampening the weak... View Details
Keywords: Anna Secino
- November 2019
- Case
Hapag-Lloyd AG:Complying with IMO 2020
By: Benjamin C. Esty, Mette Fuglsang Hjortshoej and Emer Moloney
A new environmental regulation known as IMO 2020 was creating what one industry analyst called “the biggest shakeup for the oil and shipping industries in decades.” According to the new regulation, all ocean-going ships would have to limit their sulfur emissions by... View Details
Keywords: Valuation; Ship Transportation; Strategic Planning; Game Theory; Pollutants; Supply Chain; Corporate Accountability; Capital Budgeting; Environmental Sustainability; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Governance Compliance; Shipping Industry; Transportation Industry; Germany
Esty, Benjamin C., Mette Fuglsang Hjortshoej, and Emer Moloney. "Hapag-Lloyd AG: Complying with IMO 2020." Harvard Business School Case 220-003, November 2019.
- August 2011 (Revised July 2012)
- Case
Sealed Air Corporation: Deciding the Fate of VTID
By: Elie Ofek
In mid 2010 the Sealed Air Corporation has to decide on next steps for its novel video tracking technology (called VTID) after unsuccessful attempts to market it in three different industry settings. The company must determine whether its most recent target market, the... View Details
Keywords: Budgets and Budgeting; Customer Focus and Relationships; Decision Choices and Conditions; Technological Innovation; Marketing Strategy; Problems and Challenges; Commercialization; Service Industry
Ofek, Elie. "Sealed Air Corporation: Deciding the Fate of VTID." Harvard Business School Case 512-029, August 2011. (Revised July 2012.)
- September 2010
- Teaching Note
New Heritage Doll Company (Brief Case)
By: Timothy A. Luehrman and Heide Abelli
Teaching Note for 4212. View Details
- May 2004 (Revised April 2006)
- Case
Ultra: The Quest for Leadership (A)
By: Dwight B. Crane and Ricardo Reisen de Pinho
Ultra is one of a small group of competing Brazilian petrochemical companies, each of which buys raw material and is a minority owner of Copene, a "cracking" company that provides ethylene and other materials. Because of an industry restructuring, an auction of shares... View Details
Keywords: Capital; Capital Budgeting; Investment; Risk and Uncertainty; Risk Management; Industry Structures; Cash Flow; Cost of Capital; Valuation; Bids and Bidding; Economy; Ownership Stake; Chemical Industry; Brazil
Crane, Dwight B., and Ricardo Reisen de Pinho. "Ultra: The Quest for Leadership (A)." Harvard Business School Case 204-146, May 2004. (Revised April 2006.)
- 13 Oct 2010
- Research & Ideas
How Government can Discourage Private Sector Reliance on Short-Term Debt
paper is that it suggests that budget deficits have a silver lining. A: Yes, you could say that our paper is about the "silver lining" of short-term government debt. The more the government issues, the more likely the financial... View Details
- June 2025
- Case
Vail Resorts: Responding to Activist Pressure (A)
By: Benjamin C. Esty and Edward A. Meyer
On January 27, 2025, the head of a relatively small hedge fund named Late Apex Partners sent a highly critical letter to the board of directors of Vail Resorts, the world’s largest ski resort operator. In his letter, and the 88-slide presentation that accompanied his... View Details
Keywords: Corporate Finance; Capital Budgeting; Corporate Governance; Competitive Advantage; Competitive Strategy; Leading Change; Valuation; Investment Activism; Climate Change; Management Succession; Financial Management; Risk Management; Business and Shareholder Relations; Sports Industry; Entertainment and Recreation Industry; Travel Industry; United States; Australia; Canada
Esty, Benjamin C., and Edward A. Meyer. "Vail Resorts: Responding to Activist Pressure (A)." Harvard Business School Case 225-082, June 2025.
- June 2023
- Teaching Note
Graphic Packaging: Project Cowboy (A, B, C, & D)
By: Benjamin C. Esty and Scott Mayfield
Teaching Note for HBS Case Nos. 223-009, 223-066, 223-068, and 223-086. View Details
- 15 May 2020
- Research & Ideas
Find Your Pragmatic Path through Radical Uncertainty
thing not to do is make long-term bets. In budgeting for operations, for example, lots of effort is wasted by thinking that we can project with any accuracy the timing for getting the answers to the important questions that will define... View Details
- 31 May 2016
- HBS Case
Who Owns Space?
decades of decreased funding, which the case notes peaked at 4.4 percent of the United States federal budget in 1966 and had shrunk to just 0.5 percent by 2014. To fulfill its vision for the exploration and study of space, NASA needed to... View Details
- 22 Nov 2011
- First Look
First Look: November 22
seeking to double her budget for social media and other digital marketing initiatives for 2011. A number of digital efforts implemented in the past two years seem to be bearing fruit, and there is a desire to intensify Sephora's social... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 28 Apr 2003
- Research & Ideas
Shareholders Key to Corporate Reform
more balanced and comprehensive if management believes that directors might seek an independent opinion. It should be noted that there is a precedent for providing directors with independent funding: The Sarbanes-Oxley Act requires that audit committees have their own... View Details
- June 2009 (Revised March 2010)
- Supplement
Hansson Private Label, Inc.: Evaluating an Investment in Expansion, Student Spreadsheet (Brief Case)
By: Erik Stafford and Joel L. Heilprin
- 2010
- Simulation
Finance Simulation: Capital Budgeting: Product No. 3357.
By: Timothy A. Luehrman
In this single-player simulation, students act as members of the Capital Committee of New Heritage Doll Company, tasked with selecting and allocating capital across the company's three divisions. Students evaluate a diverse set of competing investment proposals and... View Details
- 15 Apr 2013
- Research & Ideas
Solving the Search vs. Display Advertising Quandary
The dirty little secret of advertising agencies is that much of their work is pure guesswork. Companies spread out their advertising budgets across channels—a little bit of TV, some print media, a few billboards—and wait for customers to... View Details
- 11 Sep 2006
- Research & Ideas
Negotiating When the Rules Suddenly Change
budget, and then scoop up the excess talent. But if the other owners move cautiously in this new terrain, it would be in your interest to aggressively sign stars before the market heats up. Either strategy carries risks. You wouldn't want to blow your View Details