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Online Entrepreneurship & Innovation Courses | HBS Online

develop innovative opportunities, grow new offerings effectively with limited budgets and resources, and relate to the landscape of digital platforms. You can take the courses... View Details

August 2017
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Boston Public Schools' Long Term Financial Plan

By: C. Fritz Foley, Victor Wu and F. Katelynn Boland

In the fall of 2016, the senior leadership team of Boston Public Schools prepared a report indicating that costs were expected to grow faster than revenues for many years to come. They faced questions about whether the projections would be believed and about how to... View Details

Keywords: Financial Planning; Education Reform; Education; Budgets and Budgeting; Corporate Finance; Public Administration Industry; United States; Boston

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05 Apr 2004
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Six Ways to Build Trust in Negotiations

What began as a misunderstanding about specifications and deadlines between a manager at RLX, a software development firm, and a manager at Impress, one of its clients, had escalated into a conflict charged... View Details

Keywords: by Deepak Malhotra

16 May 2024
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On the Job

Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Dan Morrell: Hi, this is Dan Morrell, host of Skydeck. We all have early memories of on-the-job learnings—those moments that had a lasting impact on how we see the world of work and our place in it. This... View Details

Keywords: first job; leadership; life experience; career lessons; Finance; Oil and Gas Extraction; Mining; Retail Trade

01 Sep 2023
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Case Study: The Home Team

home repairs he was having to undertake. Then president of a 115-year-old independent Catholic school for boys, Kennealey had managed construction projects and budgeted for aging buildings’ capital expenses... View Details

Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint; Real Estate

18 May 2023
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India's New Money Managers

families. "Whether planning savings, investments or retirement, taking out health insurance, or budgeting to invest for a child's education," says Gupta, "the guiding ethos is simple: Knowledge is power." Today, LXME hosts 50,000 women on... View Details

Keywords: Maureen Harmon

08 Feb 2000
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Building Effective R&D Capabilities Abroad

researchers and made plans for further expansion. In order to integrate the new laboratory's scientists into the Xerox community, senior R&D management in Palo Alto, California, allocated a considerable part of the initial laboratory... View Details

Keywords: by Walter Kuemmerle

01 Mar 2011
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Fiscal Year Ends on Upbeat Note

according to the Annual Report 2010. Revenue for fiscal 2010 — July 1, 2009, to June 30, 2010 — exceeded the budget by nearly 8 percent, totaling $467 million, only 1 percent lower than actual revenues for the previous year. Two of the... View Details

Keywords: alumni; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools

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Eligibility | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School

application deadline, and the committee will assess a candidate's eligibility within that specific year-long period, based on the information provided within the application. Quick self-assessment tip: If you did not receive any HBS... View Details

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Business Finance Course Online | HBS Online

Stories FAQs Enroll Now Key Concepts Understand the key financial levers that drive financial performance Discover how and why finance is concerned with cash flow versus profits and why that matters for your... View Details

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Keywords: automotive; computer; consumer products; financial services; grocery; insurance industry; manufacturing; marketing industry; restaurant; retailing; software; tire; tobacco; wine

December 1970 (Revised September 2006)
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Harmon Foods, Inc.

Prediction and shipment has been a scheduling and budgetary problem. Multiple regression is suggested as a solution. Evaluation of regression coefficients leads to better understanding of trend, seasonality, and promotion effectiveness. View Details

Keywords: Demand and Consumers; Production; Forecasting and Prediction; Budgets and Budgeting; Food and Beverage Industry; Food and Beverage Industry

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HBS - Financials | Supplemental Financial Information

School to the endowment reserve. The School budgets the use of endowment distributions to support operations in accordance with the donors’ intentions and the terms of each gift. Unrestricted Reserves (in... View Details

April 1964 (Revised January 2003)
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Empire Glass Company (A)

By: David F. Hawkins

Concerns management control at the divisional level, and the use of budgets. View Details

Keywords: Management; Business Divisions; Budgets and Budgeting

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01 Dec 2019
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Bridging the Gap

there was zero budget to promote awareness of the effort and encourage completion of its online survey. “Thanks to YALP, we were able to have the support and engagement of many... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; illustration by Josh Cochran; photographed by Melissa Golden; cross sector collaboration; local government; nonprofits; education; leadership; Administration of Economic Programs; Government

13 Nov 2013
Research & Ideas

Should Men’s Products Fear a Woman’s Touch?

really goes away. Since the dawn of advertising, retailers have made a point of marketing separate lines of branded products for men and women in many categories, even in cases where their functions are essentially the same. It's a... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Consumer Products; Food & Beverage; Auto

December 2018 (Revised August 2022)
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Revenue Recognition at HBP

By: Siko Sikochi and Paul Healy

In early 2014, Corporate Learning, one of three business units at Harvard Business Publishing (HBP), was in the process of revamping its flagship product, Harvard Manage-Mentor (HMM) from version 11.0 (HMM11) to version 12.0 (HMM12). The revamped software would be... View Details

Keywords: Accrual Accounting; Budgets and Budgeting; Revenue Recognition; Financial Reporting; Publishing Industry; Education Industry; United States

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01 Oct 1999
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Banking on Success

important in this life, and it certainly isn't the latest budget meeting! I'm now a balanced career and family executive. Mentors? From my earliest days at ManHan, I had a... View Details

Keywords: Deborah E. Blagg

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Research - Health Care

medications? We study the health consequences of drug interruptions caused by large, abrupt, and arbitrary changes in price. Medicare’s prescription drug benefit as-if-randomly assigns 65-year-olds a drug View Details

November 2016 (Revised April 2018)
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Darby's Investment in Sirma: Professionalizing an Entrepreneurial Firm

By: Suraj Srinivasan and Eren Kuzucu

In March 2010, Burak Dalgın (HBS MBA 2004) led private equity firm Darby's investment in Sırma, a local Turkish water and beverage company. Sırma was owned and managed by members of two Turkish business families. The existing management, while being highly... View Details