Publications

Educators

March 2004
Article

Lofty Missions, Down-to-Earth Plans

By: V. K. Rangan

Keywords: Mission and Purpose; Planning

24 Oct 2011
News

News Corp. Annual Meeting, Succession Plan

June 2020
Teaching Note

Tesla's CEO Compensation Plan

By: Krishna G. Palepu

Teaching Note for "Tesla's CEO Compensation Plan," HBS Case #118-085. View Details

August 1983
Case

Gillette Long-Range MIS Planning

21 Jan 2020
News

Well-Intentioned Planning for 2020

06 Oct 2008
Research & Ideas

Updating a Classic: Writing a Great Business Plan

Sean Silverthorne: "How to Write a Great Business Plan" has been one of the most downloaded articles on Harvard Business Publishing since you wrote it in 1997. Why do you think you hit a nerve? Bill Sahlman: Writing a business View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

December 2020 (Revised April 2021)
Case

Arcos Dorados: A QSR Recovery Plan

By: Forest Reinhardt, José B. Alvarez, Jenyfeer Martinez Buitrago and Mariana Cal

Arcos Dorados—McDonald’s largest independent franchisee, covering Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC)—faced a pandemic that was disrupting the entire consumer foodservice business in 2020. With the exclusive right to own, operate, and sub-franchise McDonald’s... View Details

Educators

January 2001 (Revised March 2002)
Case

Ford Motor Company's Value Enhancement Plan

By: Andre F. Perold

In April 2000, Ford Motor Co. announced a shareholder Value Enhancement Plan (VEP) to significantly recapitalize the firm's ownership structure. Ford had accumulated $23 billion in cash reserves and under the VEP would return as much as $10 billion of this cash to... View Details

Keywords: Restructuring; Forecasting and Prediction; Capital Structure; Cash; Financial Liquidity; Policy; Business and Shareholder Relations; Value; Auto Industry

Educators

July–August 2014
Article

The Crisis in Retirement Planning

By: Robert C. Merton

Corporate America began to really take notice of the looming retirement crisis in the wake of the dot-com crash, when companies in major industries went bankrupt in large part because of their inability to meet their pension obligations. The result was an acceleration... View Details

September 2002
Teaching Note

Strategic Planning at NFTE

By: Allen S. Grossman and Daniel F. Curran

Teaching Note for (9-302-002). View Details

Keywords: Nonprofit Organizations; Growth Management; Management Practices and Processes; Corporate Entrepreneurship; Strategic Planning; Change; Organizational Design; Behavior; Decision Choices and Conditions; Partners and Partnerships

01 Jun 2009
News

Sounds Like a Plan

BRENNEMAN: A fast way to make money. Rigorous, thorough analysis is the precursor of an effective business plan, right? Maybe not. In an interview about leadership in the New York Times (March 15, 2009), Greg Brenneman (MBA ’88), chairman of private-equity firm CCMP... View Details

Keywords: Air Transportation; Transportation

February 1987
Case

PBS National Advertising Plan

By: Stephen A. Greyser

Keywords: Advertising; Media; Media and Broadcasting Industry

October 1985
Background Note

Compensation Planning for Entrepreneurs

By: Howard H. Stevenson

24 Feb 2009
News

Beijing Office Plans Delayed

01 Nov 2019
News

Jeff Bezos’s Master Plan

21 Jan 2023
Video

IT Strategic Plan Video

1969
Book

Industrial Planning in France

By: John McArthur and Bruce R. Scott

Keywords: Planning; Industrial Products Industry; France

May 4, 2020
Article

Your CEO Succession Plan Can't Wait

By: J. Yo-Jud Cheng, Boris Groysberg and Paul M. Healy

CEOs tend to be older, putting them at greater risk of COVID-related illness, and adding to the urgency, succession planning has long been a blind spot for most boards. From 2015 to 2016, the authors conducted a global survey to better understand the experiences,... View Details

Keywords: CEO Succession; Management Succession; Planning; Governing and Advisory Boards