Planning Process - Publications - Faculty & Research

21 Mar 2019
Blog Post

What I Didn't Know About HBS Faculty

college, I joined Saudi Aramco where I worked as a process engineer, and later as a project engineer, helping to build one of the largest petrochemical facilities in the world. While working at Saudi Aramco I was selected to join one of... View Details

22 Feb 2022
News

Addressing The Financial Security Gap

emergency—a problem that is particularly acute for women and their ability to save for retirement. “In the United States, women’s pensions or retirement plans are typically 35 percent less than men’s even though we live longer and our... View Details

Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie

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2021 Symposium - Race, Gender & Equity

equality , Cuz: an American Tragedy , and Talking to Strangers: anxieties of citizenship since Brown v. Board of Education. She has chaired numerous commission processes and is a lead author on influential policy roadmaps, including... View Details

01 Sep 2018
News

An SUV Built for African Roads—by African Workers

production facility that are different from typical original equipment manufacturers (OEMs). And the vehicle’s design allows for an efficient production process at low volumes and with manual labor. Because of these innovations, Yong says... View Details

Keywords: Amy Yee

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Demo Day | New Venture Competition

Investors NVC Demo Day is invitation-only and tickets are non-transferable. We will send out additional instructions to invited investors. Coming to Campus When planning your trip to Harvard Business School for NVC Demo Day, we encourage... View Details

22 Feb 2022
News

Case Study: Welcome Aboard

manage their assets, tenants, and leasing, the software solutions that Lerner and Holder supported offered the promise of a cutting-edge solution. The implementation process once a customer signed on, however, could be a struggle, with... View Details

Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint

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IT Strategy: Protecting HBS Information and Data Assets | Information Technology

sustainable process for remediations and risk reduction, allowing HBS to stay ahead of vulnerabilities now and into the future. While all the initial program objectives in the Strategic Plan were achieved,... View Details

25 Apr 2014
News

To create breakthrough strategies, harness creativity to the scientific method

"Conventional strategic planning is not actually scientific," argues Jan W. Rivkin, the Bruce V. Rauner Professor of Business Administration. "To produce novel strategies, teams need to adopt a step-by-step View Details

12 Jun 2019
Research & Ideas

Investors Have More Than Money to Offer Entrepreneurs

bang your head for hours trying to find the root cause of a hard bug. But you bring over a colleague and talk through the situation and often a solution will appear. They didn’t tell you the answer, but the process of conversation brought... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Austin

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1.19 Immersive Field Courses (IFC) | MBA

Course Fee IFCs require a firm commitment and carry a financial obligation. Financial aid is available in the form of a student loan, a need-based HBS scholarship, or a combination of both depending on individual circumstances. The Add/Drop View Details

13 Jun 2012
HBS Case

HBS Cases: A Startup Takes On the Credit Ratings Giants

and 2009, when the field of ratings seemed ripe for upheaval, Becker learned of several planned rating agency start-ups, including what would become KBRA. When the firm lured ex-Moody's executive Jerome Fons, whom Becker knew, "I... View Details

Keywords: by Maggie Starvish; Banking; Financial Services

01 Apr 2002
News

Q&A - Mark Fields

sit at meetings, for example — whereas in other aspects of life, everybody is treated the same. How do you operate in such a different environment? I spent the first year developing a strategic operating plan for the company. For the... View Details

Keywords: auto; Mazda; Ford; Mark Fields; Machinery Manufacturing; Manufacturing

23 Oct 2018
First Look

New Research and Ideas, October 23, 2018

in self-confidence, assessments of others, and behavior in a cooperative game. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=55101 forthcoming Management Science Effects of a Tournament Incentive Plan Incorporating... View Details

Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

13 Feb 2020
Blog Post

Know Your Audience – Recruiting HBS Students for Manufacturing

into different areas of the company, Kristen strongly recommends considering how you frame your LDP. “If you are bringing a student right into a general management role but plan to rotate them into different groups, don’t call the program... View Details

Keywords: Manufacturing

21 Dec 2018
Blog Post

The Dedication - A Concrete Symbol: The Building of Harvard Business School 1908-1927 – Baker Library | Bloomberg Center, Historical Collections

the outside of the buildings, but in the work and training on the inside.” George F. Baker, Dedication Address, June 4, 1927 Aerial view of Campus during Dedication Ceremonies, June 4, 1927. The celebration of the new HBS campus on June 4, 1927 began with an academic... View Details

04 Mar 2002
Research & Ideas

Don’t Lose Money With Customers

series of articles and HBS Working Papers, he explores the process of how firms in business-to-business markets manage customer relationships. As a frame of reference, Narayandas explains that modern marketing occurs at three distinct... View Details

Keywords: by Peter K. Jacobs

18 Mar 2001
Research & Ideas

Want to Be an Entrepreneur? [Part I]

designed to focus on those challenges "horizontally"—across all the functions managers need to address from the original business plan through the first eighteen months of an organization's life. For companies that are "up... View Details

Keywords: by John S. Rosenberg

26 Sep 2017
First Look

First Look at New Research and Ideas, September 26, 2017

the United States, the time, cost, and complications of patent suits provide openings for opportunistic assertions of infringement. This article proposes a way to address information problems that facilitate opportunistic assertion: an automatic View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

05 Apr 2004
What Do You Think?

Should We Brace Ourselves for Another Era of M&A Value Destruction?

mergers and acquisitions fail to achieve their objectives, suggesting possible remedies to this "flawed process." Kathryn Yates, for example, cited three primary reasons for M&A failure: "1) Forgetting to plan for the... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

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