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- June 2010 (Revised October 2014)
- Teaching Note
Enterprise Risk Management at Hydro One (A)
By: Anette Mikes
Teaching Note for 109-001 View Details
- 06 Nov 2006
- Research & Ideas
How South Africa Challenges Our Thinking on FDI
economy was managed spectacularly, with inflation brought down to single digits relatively quickly, budget balances within a reasonable ability to pay, and political stability guaranteed by the ANC's... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 08 May 2020
- In Practice
Nonprofits Hurt by COVID-19 Must Hoard Cash to Hold On
funds and budgets ready, should deploy these early to their portfolios of mission-driven organizations, especially those that may be providing critical care to those in need. High quality, well-run social... View Details
Keywords: by Danielle Kost
- September 2010 (Revised October 2014)
- Teaching Note
Enterprise Risk Management at Hydro One - Multimedia
By: Anette Mikes
Teaching Note for 110-707 View Details
- 18 Jul 2012
- Research & Ideas
Penn State Lesson: Today’s Cover-Up was Yesterday’s Opportunity
acknowledged its pedophilia scandals, it would have protected victims and its moral authority. Had President Bill Clinton admitted his relationship with Monica Lewinsky, the scandal would have subsided, enabling him to focus on his... View Details
- 10 Sep 2014
- Research & Ideas
Become a Value Creator
value claimers, and this all-for-me attitude becomes apparent in a variety of ways. For example, during internal corporate budget disputes, some executives focus only on their own needs without considering... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 21 Apr 2011
- Research & Ideas
Searching for Better Practices in Social Investing
In order to garner the capital necessary to foot the bill for social change, nonprofits need to think less about traditional grants and more in terms of innovation--and so do the organizations that fund them. This was a key message from... View Details
- 28 May 2008
- First Look
First Look: May 28, 2008
Publication:Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization (forthcoming) Abstract I model inefficient resource allocations in M-form organizations due to influence activities by division managers that skew capital View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 02 Aug 2016
- First Look
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 View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 24 Apr 2012
- First Look
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 View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 02 Sep 2015
- Research & Ideas
Explaining China's Crash
percent. As the world’s second-largest economy, China’s crash ripped through world markets, including Japan, Hong Kong, Europe, and the United States, as uneasy investors instigated historic single-day sell-offs. Early this week, the... View Details
- 01 Oct 2013
- First Look
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... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 25 Mar 2014
- First Look
First Look: March 25
School Case 514-079 Dumb Ways to Die: Advertising Train Safety (A) The case series focuses on Melbourne Trains' viral advertising campaign to improve safe behaviors around trains among young people. This iconic, low budget campaign swept... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 13 Nov 2000
- Research & Ideas
Managing to Learn: How Companies Can Turn Knowledge into Action
learned" manual to apply to the 757 and 767 models. Allegheny Ludlum, meanwhile, continuously experiments with its steel products, interpreting and applying the results, while allowing work teams... View Details
Keywords: by Laurie Joan Aron
- 14 Oct 2013
- Research & Ideas
Blockbuster! Why Star Power Works
performance of its films over a five-year period, I found that the studio's 10 percent most expensive films—its so-called tent-pole movies—accounted for roughly a third of its production budget and nearly... View Details
- 31 Mar 2002
- Research & Ideas
You’re Wasting Your Employees! What You Can Do About It
departments, simplification of strategic-planning and capital budgeting processes, and massive overhauls of corporate structures and... View Details
- 14 Jan 2014
- First Look
First Look: January 14
chemical company, is in the midst of the first use of a new zero-base budgeting system. The general manager of the division leading the process is experiencing disagreement and conflict among the members of... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 26 Apr 2011
- Op-Ed
HBS Faculty Comment on Environmental Issues for Earth Day
suburbs, surface parking demands large gaps between buildings, perpetuating urban sprawl and making walking infeasible. Meanwhile, road maintenance saps budgets at every level of government. Automobile... View Details
- 20 Feb 2001
- Research & Ideas
What’s Next for Japan
"There are almost no politicians in their 60s who are able to provide the necessary leadership and coherence," he told the group. "The bureacrats are good at dealing with things within their sector, but when it requires... View Details
Keywords: by Hilah Geer
- 02 Sep 2002
- Research & Ideas
The Role of Government When All Else Fails
now—at the dawn of the twenty-first century—it is hard to conceive of any more important or pervasive governmental function. The federal government now devotes a larger part of its budget to social insurance (such as unemployment View Details
Keywords: by Laura Linard