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28 May 2013
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First Look: May 28

non-American CEO, aims to reinvigorate the medical device maker's growth by focusing on emerging markets, therapy innovation, and creative business models. In 2012, budget constraints in mature economies, the lack of new medical therapies... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

07 Sep 2021
News

Increasing Access and Expanding Opportunity

FINANCIAL AID AT-A-GLANCE SCHOLARSHIP BUDGET $43M Total funds awarded annually SCHOLARSHIP FUNDING 800-900 Need-based scholarships funded annually SCHOLARSHIP AWARDS $42K Average one-year scholarship award SUMMER FELLOWSHIPS 223 MBA... View Details

Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie

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Supplemental Financial Information | Annual Report 2024

years may see adjustments to balance the goals of maintaining budget stability and preserving the endowment's purchasing power over time. The Harvard Corporation gives final approval for the payout amount each year. Funds within the HBS... View Details

12 Apr 2004
Research & Ideas

Waking Up a Sleeping Company

delayed, expense budgets overrun, all with no direct consequences for the individuals in charge. The organization tended to diffuse responsibility for performance, making it difficult to find out who was responsible. When individuals... View Details

Keywords: by Bill George

10 Apr 2018
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First Look at New Research, April 10, 2018

Harvard Business School Case 518-041 The ABN AMRO World Tennis Tournament Should the ABN AMRO World Tennis Tournament gamble most of its player budget on superstar player Rafael Nadal, even after the event’s previous two editions saw... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

January 2024
Supplement

Accounting Red Flags or Red Herrings at Catalent? (B)

By: Joseph Pacelli, ZeSean Ali and Tom Quinn

GlassHouse Research identified accounting red flags at Catalent. Fiat Lux Partners countered most of GlassHouse’s claims. Who was right? This update explores the aftermath of the short seller duel. View Details

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October 2023 (Revised January 2024)
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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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18 Oct 2011
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First Look: October 18

expenditures, general consumer inability to budget and forecast, bank incentives, and community norms and social capital. Furthermore, using both national data and a natural experiment, we find that access to payday lending seems to lead... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

11 Aug 2009
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First Look: August 11, 2009

from 3% to 15% as a fraction of government budget without negatively affecting publication quality and quantity. This follows incentive policy change and leadership change at labs, an event whose timing is plausibly exogenous being... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

01 Mar 2013
News

Making Change

Foundation Clinton Fellows. Part-time, we also have an urban planner working on policy and an architect. Our annual budget of about $200,000 is part grant-funded and part fees-generated from consulting assignments. What makes you most... View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley; housing; gay rights; diabesity; disability; Construction of Buildings; Construction; Educational Services; Social Assistance; Health, Social Assistance; News, Library, Internet, and Other Services; Information; Real Estate

07 Jun 2019
Book

Are You a Digital Manager?

all met physically at least once. For sure, he had invested in the latest video and e-communication technologies. Still, he used a significant portion of his budget to have everyone meet together to develop a sense of shared purpose. It... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

06 Aug 2024
Op-Ed

What the World Could Learn from America's Immigration Backlash—100 Years Ago

welfare state. Restricting immigration would require budget cuts that would harm natives by reducing pension benefits or increasing the age of retirement, for example. “It’s thus impossible to conclude that immigration has no economic... View Details

Keywords: by Marco Tabellini

06 Mar 2012
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First Look: March 6

have often proved highly productive in policy terms, delivering the best ideas from both sides. In the 1840s, for instance, state politicians who were deeply skeptical of government pushed hard for balanced budget amendments while... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

29 Feb 2016
HBS Case

Bigbelly's Big Bet on the Digital Trash Can

money” is not always a convincing pitch for cities. “The reality is, 80 percent of a city’s operating budget is people,” says Weiss. “When you say, ‘save money,’ what they hear is ‘lay off people.’ That doesn’t mean it shouldn’t be done... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Energy

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Minal Mehta

solid budget at Amazon to work with agencies to execute marketing campaigns, with BollyX, I find myself doing everything from social media posts, website copywriting, event planning, and cold calling, to strategic planning and project... View Details

Keywords: Entrepreneurship; Services

02 Jul 2013
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http://hbr.org/search/713085-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 713-078 America's Budget Impasse In the spring of 2013, Barak Obama faced a difficult budgetary challenge-reducing fiscal deficits over 10 years without dampening the weak... View Details

Keywords: Anna Secino

25 May 2010
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First Look: May 25

with annual revenues of $107 million. As we watch it change its culture, practices, and organization from offline to online marketing, we have an opportunity not simply to see the metrics used in online marketing budget allocation, but... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

12 Aug 2002
Op-Ed

Using Big Business to Fight Poverty

amount of talk about free markets or balanced budgets will make a difference. The solution is an entirely new engine of change: a World Development Corporation (WDC). This entity could be chartered by the United Nations and established as... View Details

Keywords: by George C. Lodge

06 Nov 2006
Research & Ideas

How South Africa Challenges Our Thinking on FDI

economy was managed spectacularly, with inflation brought down to single digits relatively quickly, budget balances within a reasonable ability to pay, and political stability guaranteed by the ANC's (African National Congress)... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

11 Apr 2000
Research & Ideas

Financial Services 24/7

reacting to similar challenges. As trendy financial dot-coms with huge technology and advertising budgets emerge offering everyone an equal—and inexpensive—chance to trade stock, apply for a loan, buy insurance, or pay a bill, traditional... View Details

Keywords: by Susan Young

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Increasing Access and Expanding Opportunity

Supplemental Financial Information | Annual Report 2024

Waking Up a Sleeping Company

First Look at New Research, April 10, 2018

Accounting Red Flags or Red Herrings at Catalent? (B)

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

First Look: October 18

First Look: August 11, 2009

Making Change

Are You a Digital Manager?

What the World Could Learn from America's Immigration Backlash—100 Years Ago

First Look: March 6

Bigbelly's Big Bet on the Digital Trash Can

Minal Mehta

First Look: July 2

First Look: May 25

Using Big Business to Fight Poverty

How South Africa Challenges Our Thinking on FDI

Financial Services 24/7