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Case

Ball: EVA Driving the World's Leading Can Manufacturer (A)

By: Jonas Heese and Susan Pinckney

The case describes Ball’s multi decade history of using Economic Value Added to drive decision making and workforce compensation. In 2016, the company acquired Rexam PLC and became the world’s leading metal beverage container company. Consumer demand for varied... View Details

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19 May 2009
First Look

First Look: May 19, 2009

Approved projects will receive an annual operating budget of $2 million. Together they must develop a joint plan for how the money should be spent. Purchase this exercise: http://hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=909041... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

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Alumni Career Journey: Margot Zuckerman (MBA 2024) – Integrating Climate into Business (and Government) Priorities - Blog - Business & Environment

Blog Blog Filter Results Arrow Down Arrow Up Read posts from Author Alumni Author HBS Faculty Author HBS Staff Author Staff Author Students Topics Topics Accelerating Climate Solutions Conference 2023 Alumni Alumni Programs Alumni in Climate Networking Series Business... View Details

01 Sep 2017
News

Case Study: Confidence Builder

will have a better chance of trying to partner with them to capture as much of that revenue as possible. However, if Confi can work with students, it may be able to indirectly influence the schools to increase their annual budgets to... View Details

Keywords: April White; Confi; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

17 Nov 2015
News

Carbon Neutral

everyone would make out under the deal. “The coal industry, which is already losing market share, would go out of business faster,” allows Eacho. That means some coal-producing states would be harder hit than other states—but those side effects, he says, could be dealt... View Details

Keywords: Michael Blanding

04 May 2020
Research & Ideas

Predictions, Prophets, and Restarting Your Business

data and establish a process for keeping that front-line information flowing and timely. Otherwise, “customer focus” will remain a perennial slogan, not an organizational reality. Oversight over this activity is as important as it is in the capital View Details

Keywords: by Frank V. Cespedes

14 Oct 2008
Research & Ideas

Should You Bring Advertising Expertise In-House?

penalty. Thus, if the firm's advertising budget is not sufficiently large to allow its in-house unit to operate at or beyond minimum efficient scale, the advertiser may sacrifice size-related economies realized by an independent agency... View Details

Keywords: by Sarah Jane Gilbert; Advertising

16 Jul 2024
Research & Ideas

Weighing Digital Tradeoffs in Private Equity

answer that question, the researchers compared the performance of companies that had undergone some level of digital transformation with those that didn’t. They found that: Expanding IT budgets increased hiring by 11 percent and sales by... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Financial Services

24 Sep 2024
Blog Post

Climate Finance in Africa: Health, Self-Interest, Avoided Future Cost

investment budget is only about $20 billion – for all areas of concern in all nations, according to World Bank Information. Further, the entire GDP of Nigeria, the largest economy in Africa, is only about $37 billion - for everything, not... View Details

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Post-war PR Campaigns Reaching Wide Audiences | Baker Library | Bloomberg Center | Harvard Business School

mid-1950s, hundreds of employees worked in the U.S. Steel’s public relations department, which oversaw an estimated five- to six-million-dollar annual budget devoted to campaigns targeted at local, national, and international issues. 49... View Details

01 Oct 2002
News

Sam Hayes

increasing its budget and the resources for its enforcement arm and making surprise “inspections” much more frequent. Those who violate the law or SEC rules should be punished severely. Using fines is not sufficient. I think people have... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons

18 Jan 2021
Book

How Thinking Like a Startup Helps Governments Solve More Problems

Forces. He had at his disposal a large part of the $600-plus billion Department of Defense budget and some of the most inventive people at DARPA, the DoD’s research arm, and other places. And yet he still began a startup outside the... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

01 Mar 2012
News

The Accidental Innovator

talent, so we can retain top people for the long haul with attractive compensation. Our total invested capital to date is equivalent to the budget of a small elementary school, and we’re reaching 4 million students a month. So the social... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons; Educational Support Services; Educational Services; News, Library, Internet, and Other Services; Information

21 Apr 2011
Research & Ideas

Searching for Better Practices in Social Investing

investors lose. The idea has garnered much discussion in the United States since President Obama proposed spending up to $100 million on social impact bond pilot programs when announcing the 2012 budget in February. While the idea of a... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Financial Services

15 May 2020
Research & Ideas

Find Your Pragmatic Path through Radical Uncertainty

thing not to do is make long-term bets. In budgeting for operations, for example, lots of effort is wasted by thinking that we can project with any accuracy the timing for getting the answers to the important questions that will define... View Details

Keywords: by Howard Stevenson, Eugene B. Kogan, and Shirley Spence

31 May 2016
HBS Case

Who Owns Space?

decades of decreased funding, which the case notes peaked at 4.4 percent of the United States federal budget in 1966 and had shrunk to just 0.5 percent by 2014. To fulfill its vision for the exploration and study of space, NASA needed to... View Details

Keywords: Re: Matthew C. Weinzierl; Aerospace

22 Nov 2011
First Look

First Look: November 22

seeking to double her budget for social media and other digital marketing initiatives for 2011. A number of digital efforts implemented in the past two years seem to be bearing fruit, and there is a desire to intensify Sephora's social... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

28 Apr 2003
Research & Ideas

Shareholders Key to Corporate Reform

more balanced and comprehensive if management believes that directors might seek an independent opinion. It should be noted that there is a precedent for providing directors with independent funding: The Sarbanes-Oxley Act requires that audit committees have their own... View Details

Keywords: by Cynthia A. Montgomery & Rhonda Kaufman

13 Jun 2017
News

Finding Common Ground

and his partners created SharedXpertise Media and took over Corporate Responsibility Magazine, a publication modeled on CFO and Workforce magazines. “We were betting there would be a corporate responsibility officer who would have a similar View Details

Keywords: Ralph Ranalli

01 Jun 2005
News

One-on-One with Grover Norquist

that is the difference between two very interesting and very important numbers: how much money the government spends and how much it collects in taxes. Those are both important numbers. The difference between the two of them is not important. The View Details

Keywords: Government

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