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Planned Giving - Alumni
Giving Planned Giving Giving Planned Giving Leave a Legacy Through planned giving, you can use a variety of strategies and assets to support HBS during your lifetime or at your...
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Genentech Capacity Planning
While facilitating a complex clinical approval process over the next two to three years for a family of new cancer drugs, Genentech must develop a long-term capacity plan for a major class of new cancer products. Adding to the complexity and uncertainty is the fact...
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- 01 Jun 2013
- News
Lesson Plans
example of what can push the system to a new approach. Another example, which I plan to visit, is Rocketship Education, a charter school system where students spend the first few hours of the morning in a computer learning lab and the...
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- 01 Jun 2020
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Meal Plan
Alive customers, who tend to have special dietary needs, to access the food they wanted. To address that, we created three- and five-day plans with ready-to-eat, portioned meals that you could just pull out of the refrigerator. That...
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- 01 Jun 2020
- News
Lesson Plans
Patrick Mullane (MBA 1999) Patrick Mullane (MBA 1999) The COVID-19 pandemic has necessarily thrust online learning to the forefront. As executive director of HBS Online—which has reached more than 70,000 learners in 170 countries since 2015—Patrick Mullane (MBA 1999)...
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Jen Mele
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Supply Chain Inventory Planning
My work studies management decision-making in demand and supply planning contexts with a focus on forecasting and inventory planning decisions. I examine these decision-making processes from both a supply chain (i.e. across firm) and an... View Details
- September 1985 (Revised July 1986)
- Background Note
The Art of Action Planning
Describes two different approaches to the process of action planning and implementation. Offers specific advice for action planning and for learning how to action plan.
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Planning
Isenberg, Daniel J. "The Art of Action Planning." Harvard Business School Background Note 486-029, September 1985. (Revised July 1986.)
- May 1983 (Revised November 1987)
- Case
Technical Data Corp.: Business Plan
Contains materials extracted from a business plan developed by the company in 1980. The purpose of the business plan was to raise $100,000 to finance the commencement of operations. The firm intended to provide analytical services to bond market traders. The product...
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Business Plan
Sahlman, William A. "Technical Data Corp.: Business Plan." Harvard Business School Case 283-073, May 1983. (Revised November 1987.)
- November 2005 (Revised March 2006)
- Case
Genentech - Capacity Planning
By: Daniel C. Snow, Steven C. Wheelwright and Alison Berkley Wagonfeld
While facilitating a complex clinical approval process over the next two to three years for a family of new cancer drugs, Genentech must develop a long-term capacity plan for a major class of new cancer products. Adding to the complexity and uncertainty is the fact...
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Factories, Labs, and Plants;
Growth and Development Strategy;
Management Style;
Management Teams;
Time Management;
Product;
Product Development;
Business Processes;
Performance Capacity;
Planning;
Risk and Uncertainty;
Complexity;
Pharmaceutical Industry
Snow, Daniel C., Steven C. Wheelwright, and Alison Berkley Wagonfeld. "Genentech - Capacity Planning." Harvard Business School Case 606-052, November 2005. (Revised March 2006.)
- June 1984 (Revised November 1985)
- Background Note
Product Line Planning
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Planning
Shapiro, Benson P. "Product Line Planning." Harvard Business School Background Note 584-145, June 1984. (Revised November 1985.)
- July–August 1986
- Article
Making Planning Strategic
Hamermesh, Richard G. "Making Planning Strategic." Harvard Business Review 64, no. 4 (July–August 1986): 115–120.
- December 1989
- Background Note
Action Planning in Human Resource Management
Lays out a framework for action planning in human resource management. Prepared for use in the first year MBA HRM course.
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Raff, Daniel M G. "Action Planning in Human Resource Management." Harvard Business School Background Note 490-046, December 1989.
- January 2009
- Case
Marks and Spencer: Plan A
By: David E. Bell, Nitin Sanghavi and Laura Winig
Marks & Spencer initiated a comprehensive approach to sustainability (reduction of waste, carbon emissions, fair trade) called Plan A. Does it offer a competitive advantage?
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Marketing;
Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact;
Strategic Planning;
Environmental Sustainability;
Competitive Advantage;
Retail Industry
Bell, David E., Nitin Sanghavi, and Laura Winig. "Marks and Spencer: Plan A." Harvard Business School Case 509-029, January 2009.
- April 2001 (Revised August 2001)
- Case
Strategic Planning at Sun Life
Describes the firm's strategic planning activities and focuses on the challenge of developing processes that enable the firm to improve the core business as well as processes that foster the creation of promising new business opportunities.
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Strategic Planning
Roberto, Michael. "Strategic Planning at Sun Life." Harvard Business School Case 301-084, April 2001. (Revised August 2001.)
- 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...
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Restructuring;
Forecasting and Prediction;
Capital Structure;
Cash;
Financial Liquidity;
Policy;
Business and Shareholder Relations;
Value;
Auto Industry
Perold, Andre F. "Ford Motor Company's Value Enhancement Plan." Harvard Business School Case 201-079, January 2001. (Revised March 2002.)
- 01 Dec 2012
- News
HBS Gift Planning
FAQ Are there any planned gifts that can help meet current funding needs? Although planned gifts are frequently used to establish a future endowment, a charitable lead trust is one type of View Details
- 01 Jun 2017
- News
Surveying Students’ Summer Plans
brands (like Tim Tams), so I was looking for an opportunity to work on strategic brand initiatives with a firm that has similarly beloved products. Also, my wife and I enjoy outdoor activities and have heard that Minneapolis is amazing in summer—so we View Details
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Julia Hanna
- 26 Mar 2021
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Planning for a Hybrid Workforce
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Admitted? Plan Your Stay
Summary Situated on the HBS campus, the Executive Education Complex is just a short walk from Harvard University and the historic Boston-Cambridge area. Our state-of-the-art classrooms are carefully designed to spark shared learning and intellectual collaboration—and...
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- July 1998 (Revised November 2004)
- Exercise
Succession Planning Worksheet
By: John A. Davis
Copyrighted by John Davis.
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Management Succession
Davis, John A. "Succession Planning Worksheet." Harvard Business School Exercise 899-023, July 1998. (Revised November 2004.)