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- 01 Dec 2000
- News
Bottom-Line Beauty
www.bluemercury.com. With a $60,000 budget for the first six months of operation, Malcolm kept a tight rein on unnecessary expenditures, choosing low-cost eMachines over standard desktop computers for her employees' relatively light... View Details
- January 2001 (Revised May 2010)
- Case
BP Amoco (B): Financing Development of the Caspian Oil Fields
By: Benjamin C. Esty and Michael Kane
British Petroleum and Amoco were the two largest members of the Azerbaijan International Oil Consortium (AIOC), an 11-firm consortium that was spending $10 billion to develop oil fields in the Caspian Sea. As of March 1999, AIOC had completed a $1.9 billion development... View Details
Keywords: Investment; Policy; Capital Budgeting; Project Finance; Emerging Markets; Mergers and Acquisitions; Financing and Loans; Financial Strategy; Mining Industry; Energy Industry; United Kingdom; Europe
Esty, Benjamin C., and Michael Kane. "BP Amoco (B): Financing Development of the Caspian Oil Fields." Harvard Business School Case 201-067, January 2001. (Revised May 2010.)
- 08 Mar 2017
- Blog Post
Education Sector Opportunities at HBS
skills and experiences: Courses and Independent Projects The required curriculum truly does prepare you with the foundation to enter any field, but there is some metacognitive work to be done to apply what... View Details
- 12 Jul 2011
- News
Phone Fun
have included gangster elf-themed holiday wrapping paper and a Valentine’s Day condom giveaway. “I tell my team that ideas are key and if those ideas are good, I'll reallocate View Details
- 10 Nov 2009
- First Look
First Look: Nov. 10
as the team had already made significant design progress. The team was also working under a tight budget and delivery deadline. However, the aesthetics would appear to be greatly improved by changing the... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Sep 2016
- Blog Post
Reflecting on the HKS/HBS Joint Degree Program
budget of the SA. As Head Senator, I have led sensitive debates such as the approval of new positions for next-year’s elections, and we have managed some emergency decisions. It has been an exciting... View Details
- 12 Jul 2016
- First Look
July 12, 2016
Schreger Abstract—Government forecasts of GDP growth and budget balances are generally more over optimistic than private sector forecasts. When official forecasts are especially optimistic relative to... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Dec 2010
- News
HBS Annual Report for FY ’10
HBS’s Annual Report for fiscal year 2010, which details the School’s budget and finances, will be available in January. The report also includes highlights from a wide range of accomplishments in various HBS... View Details
- Web
Awards | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School
destination) students must send an email to se@hbs.edu detailing the changes and the reason(s) for the request prior to incurring the expense. You will be notified by email about the status of your request within a week of the application... View Details
- 25 Mar 2014
- Research & Ideas
Book Excerpt: ‘Can China Lead?’
of higher education are in the process of slow-motion self-destruction. The University of California system, once the greatest system of public higher education in the world, has been weakened and made increasingly dysfunctional due to... View Details
- 13 Oct 2003
- Research & Ideas
How to Pick Managers for Disruptive Growth
from the core business who has demonstrated a record of success? An outsider who has started and grown a successful company? The school-of-experience view suggests that both of these managers might be risky hires. The internal candidate... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Raynor
- 03 Sep 2020
- Op-Ed
Why American Health Care Needs Its Own SEC
sales of publications by market participants, and fees. (Its 2019 budget of $63 million seems meager in relation to its influence.) As an independent agency with a singular focus, the SEC is accountable for... View Details
- 23 Jun 2016
- Op-Ed
Brexit: Should Britain Stay or Go?
the Single Market so long as they pay into the EU budget and implement virtually all EU legislation. At best, therefore, leaving the EU would amount to little more than Britain’s throwing away the voting... View Details
Keywords: by Geoffrey G. Jones & Dante Roscini
- 29 Jan 2021
- Blog Post
My HBS Student Loan Story: John Cortines (MBA 2015)
MBA, you are likely thinking about what repayment might look like post-graduation. HBS graduates pursue careers in a variety of industries and positions around the world. With a median starting salary of $148,750, View Details
- 01 Feb 2002
- News
One Two Punch
noted, were some one hundred thousand jobs lost due to the economic downturn and a multibillion-dollar budget gap. The new mayor has said he will not raise taxes but will cut expenses View Details
- 25 Aug 2014
- Blog Post
Working in Tech 4Dev
and NGO budgets are squeezed. The City of Los Angeles, for example, used our platform to crowdsource broken sidewalk locations for repair, saving the city a costly location survey estimated at millions.... View Details
Keywords: Technology
- 26 Sep 2013
- News
Panera CEO Takes the Food Stamps Challenge
Ron Shaich, the CEO and founder of Panera Bread lived on a food and beverage budget of $4.50 per day for a week. That figure is about the same amount someone receiving food... 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.)