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- 07 Apr 2003
- Research & Ideas
Three Steps for Crisis Prevention
exactly that." The Big Five also spent millions of dollars urging members of Congress to threaten the SEC leadership with budget cuts if it imposed limits on auditor services. The lobbying worked. The SEC backed off, and the... View Details
Keywords: by Michael D. Watkins & Max H. Bazerman
- 06 May 2002
- Research & Ideas
Profits for Nonprofits: Earning Your Own Way
address the issues that kept them from being employed well in the past." The bakery's challenges include limited financial resources—its budget is $200,000 a year—and learning to be profitable while training and employing people who... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 01 Sep 2012
- News
Alumni Books
that can greatly improve local governmental services without costing taxpayers more. They discuss incorporating outcome indicators into strategic planning and budgeting; building a local government’s budget with cost drivers; expanding... View Details
- 01 Jan 2004
- News
Donald P. Nielsen, MBA 1963
parents—or "customers," as Nielsen likes to call them—a greater say in their child's schooling. It also decentralized both decision-making and budgeting to empower principals. "Before that, principals had no authority over money, staff,... View Details
- 13 Sep 2019
- News
Hollywood Ending
Laurence Fishburne. Oscar-winning director Guillermo del Toro (The Shape of Water), Jason Blum (Get Out), Lena Waithe (Master of None), and Sam Raimi (Spider-Man) have also signed on to headline “lighthouse” shows, with budgets of up to... View Details
- 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 half of its revenues. There can... View Details
- 25 Oct 2011
- First Look
First Look: October 25
Foundation funds its operations and grant budget by selling discounted salesforce.com software licenses to nonprofits and education clients. The case recounts the development and initial stages of this project and the tradeoffs inherent... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 23 Aug 2010
- Research & Ideas
The Drive to Acquire’s Impact on Globalization
both the United States and China the rewards of globalization are flowing disproportionately to an elite few. A 2003 Congressional Budget Office report found that the share of income going to the wealthiest 1 percent of American... View Details
Keywords: by Paul R. Lawrence
- 01 May 2015
- News
Celebrating and Supporting Leadership
societal progress by creating jobs, investing in communities, and bringing the world much-needed products and services. "In an era of budget austerity and political gridlock, business is called on to play a larger role in providing social... View Details
Keywords: Educational Services
- 01 Sep 2005
- News
WATER Ltd.
and for investors, who’ve sent water-related stocks soaring 113 percent over the last five years. As replacement costs for old facilities and equipment combine with increasingly stringent and expensive regulations, more and more communities are also contending with... View Details
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Credential of Digital Innovation and Strategy | HBS Online
Show Hide Details Modules Marketing in the Digital Era Crafting a Digital Marketing Plan Acquiring Customers, Part 1: Paid Media Acquiring Customers, Part 2: Owned and Earned Media Engaging Customers Allocating Budget and Measuring... View Details
- 01 Mar 2006
- News
The Producers
so long.” * * * * * As president of Echo Lake Productions, Douglas Mankoff (MBA 1995) is doing his bit to foster movies that might fall through the cracks at a big-budget studio. In 1997, Mankoff raised a private equity fund to finance and produce independent films... View Details
- 10 Apr 2014
- Research & Ideas
Book Excerpt--‘Accelerate: Building Strategic Agility for a Faster-Moving World’
supports the opposite conclusion. As long as the world is not changing much, the competition is not too fierce, and the strategic challenges are limited, you can survive with this reality. Performance measures may look very good. But: A world that is not very... View Details
Keywords: Re: John P. Kotter
- 30 Apr 2019
- News
Leading Schools That Change Lives
Kennealey, who embraces the school’s emphasis on spiritual awareness, social responsibility, and academic excellence (98 percent of graduates are college-bound). He accepted the post at a challenging time. Salesianum had experienced several years of View Details
- February 2023
- Supplement
Graphic Packaging: Project Cowboy (A) Courseware
By: Benjamin C. Esty and Scott Mayfield
In July 2019, Graphic Packaging CEO Michael Doss was proposing a $600 million investment in a new machine to produce coated recycled board (CRB), a type of paper packaging used for consumer products (cups, cereal boxes, beverage boxes, etc.) that utilized recycled... View Details
- 02 Sep 2015
- Research & Ideas
Explaining China's Crash
will be a natural counterbalance to the slowdown in industry. Second, China is in good shape from a fiscal standpoint. They have a budget deficit target of 2.3 percent this year, but are currently in surplus. Third, they still have... View Details
- 17 Sep 2007
- Research & Ideas
Broadband: Remaking the Advertising Industry
online ad budget is spent on search advertising, which is more effective than banner advertising at driving traffic. The ability to place your ad on the screen exactly where someone is searching for information is profound. And with... View Details
- 26 Feb 2019
- Blog Post
Forget Cash. Here Are Better Ways to Motivate Employees
rewarded, despite the fact that US companies are spending more than a fifth of their budgets on wages. What employees crave even more is to feel that their managers appreciate them and aren’t afraid to show it, not only in paycheck terms,... View Details
Keywords: All Industries
- 21 Jul 2015
- First Look
First Look: July 21, 2015
2014. Based in Oakland, California, GCY was a five-year-old not-for-profit with a fiscal year (FY) 2015 budget of $3.5 million. Its mission was to make it much more the norm for graduating high school students in the U.S. to choose a... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 27 Dec 2010
- Research & Ideas
HBS Faculty on 2010’s Biggest Business Developments
between government revenues and spending. “Every company and household here and abroad will ultimately be affected by the unabated and accelerating gap between government revenues and spending.” There is a great deal of confusion in the popular media about the level of... View Details
Keywords: by Staff