Publications

01 Sep 2020
News

Comeback Trail

economy are rebounding in fits and starts, the Congressional Budget Office estimated in July that the pandemic’s impact would last a decade and cost the US economy $16 trillion. To better understand how to approach an economic recovery of... View Details

25 Jun 2014
News

A Man on a Mission

40 years, and was managing more than 3,300 employees and an annual budget of $773 million. Early training in physics launched his scientific career, but Earls credits what he learned at HBS with giving him the right stuff to soar in the... View Details

Keywords: Robert S. Benchley; NASA; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services; Scientific Research and Development Services

May 1998 (Revised May 2001)
Case

Merchandising at Nine West Retail Stores

By: Ananth Raman and Colin S Welch

Describes the merchandising decision process (organization, structure, and incentives) at Nine West retail stores, a large footwear retailer in the United States. Also describes changes currently occurring at Nine West and thus provides a context in which students can... View Details

Keywords: Organizational Structure; Situation or Environment; Motivation and Incentives; Decision Making; Change; Budgets and Budgeting; Forecasting and Prediction; Brands and Branding; Marketing Strategy; Product Marketing; Retail Industry; Apparel and Accessories Industry; United States

01 Dec 2003
News

HBS Releases 2003 Financial Report

Despite a sluggish economy that constrained revenue growth for a second year, HBS finished fiscal year 2003 last June with a balanced budget and double-digit growth in its endowment funds. “Through careful management of our expenses, we... View Details

Keywords: Business Schools & Computer & Management Training; Educational Services

November 1999 (Revised February 2000)
Case

Granny's Goodies, Inc.

By: Das Narayandas and Katherine B. Korman

The young entrepreneurs of Granny's Goodies, Inc., a corporate gift package specialist, face the challenge of finding ways to create consistent revenue streams and reduce sales costs. Outside of a few long-term contracts, the two founders have had to work very hard for... View Details

Keywords: Budgets and Budgeting; Customer Relationship Management; Entrepreneurship; Cost Management; Marketing Strategy; Product Design; Problems and Challenges; Sales; Segmentation; Service Industry

Mar 2012
Article

Macroeconomic Policy and U.S. Competitiveness

government deficits put upward pressure on the cost of borrowing for companies. The authors propose a plan--they call it "20/21 by 2021"--to reduce the deficit from 3.8% of GDP (the Congressional Budget Office's most likely... View Details

06 Jun 2018
News

The Business of Social Justice

the foundation—partnering with teachers’ unions and grassroots advocacy groups to make lasting and impactful policy changes—may be more important today than ever, as the Trump Administration threatens budget cuts to public education or... View Details

25 Apr 2014
News

A model of service

a year on a modest budget of $100,000. She continues to volunteer at All Souls, and still manages the schools' component of the program. "My biggest accomplishment is getting younger people to understand that service should always be an... View Details

01 Feb 1999
News

Fred Lazarus: Art Work at the Office

career. "It was a fabulous experience. It was there that I became interested in the education of the artist." Under Lazarus's leadership these past twenty years, MICA's operating budget has increased eight times, its endowment has grown... View Details

Keywords: Jeffrey Lazar

September 1990 (Revised June 1994)
Case

Catawba Industrial Co.

By: Francis Aguilar

A department general manager has to decide whether or not to add a lightweight compressor to the line, what price to charge, and what volume to produce. The analysis requires maximizing contribution in a situation where one factor is constrained. As such, it takes into... View Details

Keywords: Cost vs Benefits; Capital Budgeting; Business Earnings; Cost Accounting; Cost Management; Asset Pricing

02 Dec 2014
Blog Post

Building a Consumer-Centric Strategy: Highlights from the Marketing & CPG Club’s Conference

for female athletes around the world. Students learned how marketers are dealing with shrinking budgets and measuring the ROI of their marketing mix on the panel “A Marketer’s Reality: Building Brands on a Budget” and how to resonate on... View Details

Web

Faculty | Information Technology

Creative Cloud Budgeting ChatGPT Edu Computer Upgrades Generative AI Tools at HBS My Requests Information Security Marketing & Communications Templates O365 SharePoint OneDrive O365 Teams Personal Devices Printing Travel Information... View Details

01 Mar 2015
News

Feedback

budget competing with other projects. I don’t know the feedback use metrics on this application, but I’m hopeful management supports the platform’s further reach into the information maelstrom. I suspect every alum would want access to... View Details

Keywords: Business Schools & Computer & Management Training; Educational Services; Publishing Industries (except Internet); Information; Food Manufacturing; Manufacturing

14 Feb 2012
News

Cost-Saving Measures

Keywords: National Security and International Affairs; Government; Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services; Professional Services

01 Dec 2016
News

Ask the Expert: Energy’s Next Era

time, and allow demand to follow supply. Are global R&D budgets being allocated efficiently to the most promising technologies to prepare for the next era—or to those technologies in which our industrial champions have the largest stakes?... View Details

Web

HBS - Financials | From the Chief Financial Officer

of digitalization across the globe, the need for a seamless digital infrastructure at HBS has never been more clear. In that regard, a growing part of future budgets will involve digital transformation. Launched as a strategic priority by... View Details

May 1996 (Revised May 1997)
Case

Colliers International Property Consultants, Inc.: Managing a Virtual Organization

By: Lynda M. Applegate and Carin-Isabel Knoop

In less than 20 years, the real estate firm Colliers International expanded into a federation of 180 offices with close to 4,500 professionals in over 30 countries. Because Colliers expanded by signing up existing firms strong in their local markets, its leaders had to... View Details

Keywords: Demand and Consumers; Globalized Firms and Management; Management Practices and Processes; Service Operations; Information Technology; Organizational Structure; Mergers and Acquisitions; Business Strategy; Budgets and Budgeting; Real Estate Industry