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  • 21 Jul 2015
  • First Look

First Look: July 21, 2015

2014. Based in Oakland, California, GCY was a five-year-old not-for-profit with a fiscal year (FY) 2015 budget of $3.5 million. Its mission was to make it much more the norm for graduating high school students in the U.S. to choose a... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 27 Dec 2010
  • Research & Ideas

HBS Faculty on 2010’s Biggest Business Developments

between government revenues and spending. “Every company and household here and abroad will ultimately be affected by the unabated and accelerating gap between government revenues and spending.” There is a great deal of confusion in the popular media about the level of... View Details
Keywords: by Staff
  • 26 Jan 2004
  • Research & Ideas

What Developing-World Companies Teach Us About Innovation

Approximately 40 percent of the company's revenues are derived from products introduced within the last two years. Natura achieved this result with an R&D staff of about 150 and a budget totaling only 3 percent of net income. Compare... View Details
Keywords: by Donald N. Sull, Alejandro Ruelas-Gossi & Martin Escobari
  • 30 Oct 2005
  • Research & Ideas

Tuning Jobs to Fit Your Company

contracts, and accounting and finance. The span of accountability. The second span refers to the range of trade-offs affecting the measures used to evaluate a manager's achievements. For example, a person who is accountable for head count or specific expenses in an... View Details
Keywords: by Robert Simons
  • 01 Nov 1999
  • Lessons from the Classroom

What’s Next & So What? Leading in the 21st Century

at the top are typically not close enough to the "voice of the future" to see new opportunities, creating a bias against doing new things. In addition, this process is tied to an annual calendar; obviously, opportunities don't present themselves only in... View Details
Keywords: by Staff
  • 07 Apr 2009
  • First Look

First Look: April 7, 2009

for tactical purposes, such as promotional campaigns. Its management team is thinking about how to incorporate that information to the budgeting (profit-planning) process. From an analytical standpoint the case looks at the surprising... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 22 Jul 2008
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First Look: July 22, 2008

  Working PapersFixing Market Failures or Fixing Elections? Agricultural Credit in India Authors:Shawn A. Cole Abstract This paper integrates theories of political budget cycles with theories of tactical electoral redistribution to test... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 02 Oct 2007
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First Look: October 2, 2007

18 gates that Delta had left at DFW. Kelly carefully considered his options. Was now the time to call his lobbyist? Purchase this case: http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=707470 Stryker Corporation: Capital View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 24 Apr 2012
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First Look: April 24

note:http://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cb/product/812096-PDF-ENG Hayman Capital Management Robin Greenwood, Julie Messina, and Jared DourdevilleHarvard Business School Case 212-091 In late December 2011, Hayman Capital founder and portfolio manager Kyle Bass was reviewing... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 03 Jun 2008
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First Look: June 3, 2008

vulnerable are economic interventions to capture by politicians, how are captured resources used, and how costly are the resulting distortions? This paper answers these questions in the context of the credit market in India. Integrating theories of political View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 18 Oct 2011
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First Look: October 18

expenditures, general consumer inability to budget and forecast, bank incentives, and community norms and social capital. Furthermore, using both national data and a natural experiment, we find that access to payday lending seems to lead... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 11 Aug 2009
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First Look: August 11, 2009

from 3% to 15% as a fraction of government budget without negatively affecting publication quality and quantity. This follows incentive policy change and leadership change at labs, an event whose timing is plausibly exogenous being... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 25 May 2010
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First Look: May 25

with annual revenues of $107 million. As we watch it change its culture, practices, and organization from offline to online marketing, we have an opportunity not simply to see the metrics used in online marketing budget allocation, but... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 12 Aug 2002
  • Op-Ed

Using Big Business to Fight Poverty

amount of talk about free markets or balanced budgets will make a difference. The solution is an entirely new engine of change: a World Development Corporation (WDC). This entity could be chartered by the United Nations and established as... View Details
Keywords: by George C. Lodge
  • 18 Feb 2014
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First Look: February 18

investing more time and marketing budget on managing the quantity, quality, and location of online reviews, with particular attention paid to TripAdvisor. Purchase this case: http://hbr.org/search/514071-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 12 Oct 2011
  • First Look

First Look: October 12

municipalities more generally. In February 2009, in the midst of a recession, recently appointed Governor Quinn had to lay out his budget for the coming fiscal year and tackle the state's underfunded public pension, its largest liability.... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 21 Dec 2010
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First Look: December 21

hospital, considers which organizational structure will help them adjust to the changing health sector environment. The move from global budget to activity-based funding has led his and many other public hospitals to suffer losses in... View Details
  • 08 Jun 2010
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First Look: June 8

medical conditions served by the Department of Medicine. Each subspecialty within the department would form a single, co-located unit with its own budget that encompassed both inpatient and outpatient care. This case examines the... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 02 Aug 2016
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August 2, 2016

Russia’s car services industry positioned them well to truly understand their customers and ultimately expand to other major cities. But with limited budgets to acquire talented and expensive platform developers, Fasten needed to ensure... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 01 Oct 2013
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First Look: October 1

organization induced teachers to volunteer their knowledge and preferences, which otherwise would have been difficult to elicit. Although governance was a struggle, none of the cases in our sample suffered a "tragedy of the commons" in terms of View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

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