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Daniel Serna

standards (and resolved the mystery of "missing" milk output — it turns out the gallon jugs were 1.5 ounces too big). Dan also spent time at AgriMark, a dairy co-operative of 1,400 farmers, where he worked on futures and options-trading strategies, global... View Details
  • 01 Jun 2014
  • News

Book Review: Hooray for the Huddled Masses

book, Becoming American: Why Immigration Is Good for Our Nation's Future, weaves in stories of successful immigrant economists, entrepreneurs, and government advisers while debunking myths that surround immigration. For example, according to the Congressional View Details
Keywords: Maureen Harmon
  • 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 pro-growth policies to balance the... View Details
Keywords: by Bill George; Education
  • 01 Dec 2010
  • News

Chaotic Funding Derails Research

postdoctoral students who are pursuing careers in science. Labs have many different projects under investigation simultaneously. Most labs have annual budgets of $1 million to $5 million, with most of that money coming from grants from... View Details
Keywords: William Sahlman; Science funding; stem cell research; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services
  • September 2006
  • Case

Earthbound Farm

By: William A. Sahlman and Alison Berkley Wagonfeld
Describes a set of decisions confronting the senior management of Earthbound Farm, the largest organic produce company in the world. Focuses on what to do with an East Coast distribution center that is losing money but may be useful strategically. View Details
Keywords: Plant-Based Agribusiness; Distribution; Food; Corporate Entrepreneurship; Management Teams; Capital Budgeting; Business or Company Management; Business Strategy; Corporate Finance; Food and Beverage Industry; Agriculture and Agribusiness Industry
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  • 01 Jun 2015
  • News

Research Brief: If State Pensions Clean Up Their Books, Who Pays?

When the financial crisis hit in 2008, it became apparent that many states had played fast and loose with their pension funding. Some states slashed benefits, others contemplated bankruptcy. You might think state governments, burned badly once, would be eager to clean... View Details
Keywords: Erin Peterson
  • 19 Jan 2016
  • News

Electric Avenues

Illustration by Mario Wagner RELATED Learn about how HBS students and alumni are helping transform Boston Watch alumni discuss innovation inside City Hall Once viewed as an oxymoron, civic innovation has become a hot field, with cities from Austin to Pittsburgh hiring... View Details
Keywords: Dan Morrell
  • 11 Sep 2006
  • Research & Ideas

Negotiating When the Rules Suddenly Change

budget, and then scoop up the excess talent. But if the other owners move cautiously in this new terrain, it would be in your interest to aggressively sign stars before the market heats up. Either strategy carries risks. You wouldn't want to blow your View Details
Keywords: by Michael Wheeler; Sports
  • 17 Feb 2015
  • News

The First Five Years: Justin Pasquariello (MBA 2010)

translate for us, willingness to donate isn’t so different—and so my strategy class has also been very helpful. I use accounting to evaluate finances and develop budget documents both here and in my role on the board of the organization I... View Details
Keywords: Health, Social Assistance
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Kwame Owusu-Kesse

kids." Making progress through greater self-awareness Through his experience at HCZ, Kwame realized he needed "strong, private-sector skills I could bring to the nonprofit world — skills in business strategy, budget maintenance,... View Details
  • 24 Feb 2022
  • Blog Post

African American Student Union Spotlight on the Public Sector

your unique professional experience in the public sector at HBS? I have worked on some of the most complex operating challenges facing governments to date, including lack of public trust, deteriorating service delivery, end-of-life systems, loss of skilled talent, and... View Details
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Harvard Business School

HBS Archives Films HBS Archival Collections Bibliography Site Credits Visiting the Exhibit More Baker Library Exhibits Baker Library Special Collectons Name Year Thesis title Harding B. Young (DCS) 1955 The Development and Administration of View Details
  • 01 Mar 2009
  • News

Just Keep Our Money

refund-savers would involve some changes in financial “plumbing” within the Treasury to build a pipeline between the IRS and the Bureau of the Public Debt, but it would not require a new bureaucracy, a new annual budget item, or even... View Details
Keywords: Peter Tufano; Funds, Trusts, and Other Financial Vehicles; Finance; Administration of Economic Programs; Government
  • September 2011 (Revised January 2012)
  • Case

Telemonitoring at Visiting Nurse Health System

By: F. Warren McFarlan, Mark Keil and Mala Kaul
The Telemonitoring at Visiting Nurse Health System case presents one home healthcare organization's efforts to use telemonitoring to improve the quality of care provided to at-risk patients who were discharged from hospitals and needed home care. After two years of... View Details
Keywords: Capital Budgeting; Cost vs Benefits; Risk Management; Technology Adoption; Technological Innovation; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Competitive Strategy; Health Industry; Technology Industry
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  • 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
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  • May 2008 (Revised June 2009)
  • Case

Finansbank 2006

By: C. Fritz Foley and Linnea Meyer
How do financial policy requirements and benefits of ownership concentration affect the need for and process of corporate restructuring? This case provides students with an opportunity to analyze the restructuring of a Turkish multinational business group by way of a... View Details
Keywords: Leveraged Buyouts; Mergers and Acquisitions; Restructuring; Capital Budgeting; Agreements and Arrangements; Valuation; Turkey; Greece
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  • 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
  • 28 Apr 2022
  • Blog Post

Climate Stories Episode #4: Erika Myers, World Resources Institute Ross Center for Sustainable Cities

budgets have entered the EV space.” The ads, she noted, confirm the growing consumer interest in and target market for electric vehicles. Tesla’s boast that it delivered 1 million cars last year shows “that the technology is viable and... View Details
  • 24 Jun 2015
  • HBS Case

Upgrading School with a Startup Mentality

school systems typically devote up to 85 percent of their budgets to personnel. This creates heavy managerial burdens and difficulties in aligning staffing to meet the needs of students and parents. AltSchool's microschool strategy... View Details
Keywords: Re: John Jong-Hyun Kim; Education
  • 27 Mar 2023
  • News

A Sporting Chance

it is now known, assists 1,500 people a year, with a budget of over 1 million and six full-time employees. Balancing his work life, nonprofit life, and family life (Perez de Leza got married two years after HBS and has two daughters) is... View Details
Keywords: Ralph Ranalli