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- 23 Oct 2000
- Research & Ideas
The Strategy-Focused Organization
compensation systems linked to the scorecard and revising the planning and budgeting processes to support the strategy. They also reinforced the strategy and the scorecard at every opportunity, especially in their face-to-face meetings... View Details
Keywords: by Robert S. Kaplan & David P. Norton
- 16 Dec 2014
- First Look
First Look: December 16
the severity of pension plan underfunding, state budget deficits, and the use of high discount rates. Further we find opposing states are subject to more stringent balanced budget requirements and greater... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 19 Apr 2010
- Research & Ideas
The History of Beauty
successful that its U.S. sales reached the equivalent in today's terms of half a billion dollars by the end of the 1920s, before the Great Depression eviscerated what had become the world's biggest beauty company. Coty was a larger than... View Details
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Online Entrepreneurship & Innovation Courses | HBS Online
mid-career professionals looking to 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 in any order. Design... View Details
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HBS - Financials | Supplemental Financial Information
representing 42 percent of the group’s total annual sales in fiscal 2022. Harvard Business Review provided subscribers with timely articles from its flagship magazine, website (hbr.org) and social media presence. In addition, HBR Press... View Details
- 06 Nov 2008
- Op-Ed
Selling Out The American Dream
dreams. But these same politicians are consistently unwilling to raise taxes when required. The massive budget deficits run up during the last eight years of war (now projected at 3.8 percent of GDP in 2009) reflect a Federal government... View Details
Keywords: by John Quelch
- 31 Mar 2011
- Research & Ideas
From SpinPop to SpinBrush: Entrepreneurial Lessons from John Osher
the more eclectic business careers of the last few decades. His entrepreneurial journey culminated (at least temporarily) in the sale of his electric toothbrush company to Procter & Gamble for almost a half-billion dollars. Not bad... View Details
- 16 May 2024
- News
On the Job
Shamrock factory on Lake Erie. I also worked with her on Bonnie Bell, which is a cosmetics company, and a marketing plan for this new startup called Leggs, which did pantyhose. Then I worked for International Harvester doing tractor sales... View Details
Keywords: first job; leadership; life experience; career lessons; Finance; Oil and Gas Extraction; Mining; Retail Trade
- 13 Nov 2013
- Research & Ideas
Should Men’s Products Fear a Woman’s Touch?
in every [Hummer] H2 around here." "I heard a rumor that Porsche was devoting their entire racing budget to the "Cayenne Challenge," an event that pits homemakers from different nations against each other in a... View Details
- 01 Oct 1999
- News
Banking on Success
sales and earnings. Some of these businesses will have very interesting futures; as for others - I'm not so sure. What is the best business advice you've ever received? Before I started working as a runner on Wall Street, my dad told me... View Details
Keywords: Deborah E. Blagg
- 06 Mar 2012
- First Look
First Look: March 6
have often proved highly productive in policy terms, delivering the best ideas from both sides. In the 1840s, for instance, state politicians who were deeply skeptical of government pushed hard for balanced budget amendments while... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 18 Sep 2017
- Research & Ideas
'Likes' Lead to Nothing—and Other Hard-Learned Lessons of Social Media Marketing
increased by 200 percent in the past eight years, rising from 3.5 percent of marketing budgets in 2009 to 10.5 percent in February 2017, according to The CMO Survey 2017. And that upward climb is expected to continue: Marketers say they... View Details
- 16 May 2000
- Research & Ideas
Getting the Message: How the Internet is Changing Advertising
them come to you," Deighton adds. DoubleClick's area of expertise involves its ability to package media on the Web to meet the goals of marketers and its employment of technology to facilitate using the Web as an advertising vehicle. In addition to acting as a... View Details
Keywords: by Susan Young
- 01 May 2017
- Research & Ideas
Bad At Your Job? Maybe It's the Job’s Fault
that? What does my budget look like?’ If you’re being asked to do these important things, the first thing you’ll want to know is what resources you’re getting.” 2. What measures are used to evaluate that individual’s performance? This... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 12 Jun 2018
- Research & Ideas
In a Landscape of 'Me Too' Drug Development, What Spurs Radical Innovation?
their cash reserves have suddenly expanded—they tend to put that extra budget towards more exploratory projects,” says Harvard Business School Assistant Professor Joshua Krieger. He co-authored the study Developing Novel Drugs with... View Details
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2021. As a result, total Publishing revenue increased 5 percent from fiscal 2020 to $274 million. HBP international revenue continued its steady growth, increasing 8 percent and representing approximately 40 percent of the group's total annual View Details
- 08 Feb 2000
- Research & Ideas
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
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which increased 6 percent and accounted for 43 percent of the group’s total annual sales in fiscal 2023. Revenue from Corporate Learning products and services increased 7 percent from fiscal 2022. Corporate Learning partners with... View Details
- 03 Oct 2007
- Research & Ideas
Dealing with the ‘Irrational’ Negotiator
owed $130,000 in sales commissions for the work he had done prior to being fired from the firm a few months earlier. The executive, on the other hand, claimed the employee was owed nothing—in fact, he insisted the employee had been... View Details
Keywords: by Deepak Malhotra & Max H. Bazerman
- 05 Sep 2019
- Sharpening Your Skills
Making the Right Technical Hire
developers and 27 percent wanted sales leads, 13 percent were looking for growth marketers and 7 percent wanted front-end developers/UX/designers. Sure, it’s fine to look for a generalist [or augmenting your team with an outsourced dev... View Details