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A Refresher on Net Present Value
Budgets and budgeting Digital ArticleKnow what your project is worth in today’s dollars. -
Contribution Margin: What It Is, How to Calculate It, and Why You Need It
Finance & Accounting Digital ArticleDo you know what your most profitable product is? -
When You've Got to Cut Costs--Now
Technology & Operations Magazine ArticleYou've been ordered to reduce overhead by 10%, 20%, or even (wince) 30%. How do you do it? First, don't expect to reach your target with a single big... -
Time-Driven Activity-Based Costing
Accounting Magazine ArticleMany companies abandoned activity-based costing because it did not capture the complexity of their operations, took too long to implement, and was too expensive to build and maintain. Here’s a way around those problems. -
New Framework for Corporate Debt Policy
Accounting Magazine ArticleFew, if any, articles on finance that have appeared in HBR have enjoyed the influence of the 1962 article reprinted here as a “Classic.” Gordon Donaldson’s analysis of how many companies haphazardly established their debt capacity, and his careful explanation of what he considered a better way, seemed to strike a chord among corporate administrative […] -
The Department of Mobility
Costing Magazine ArticleEmployees are constantly in motion—making sales calls or taking service trips; visiting an international office for a few days or relocating there for a few years; soaring across oceans in the corporate jet or heading across town in the company car. Typically, these activities are administered by an assortment of departments and vendors. But we […] -
Solving the Health Care Cost Crisis
Costing Digital ArticleMichael Porter and Robert S. Kaplan, Harvard Business School professors and authors of the HBR article How to Solve the Cost Crisis in Health Care, explain why providers must start with proper measurement. -
The Forgotten Strategy
Financial markets Magazine ArticleMost of modern global strategy focuses on minimizing differences between countries. Perhaps it’s time to dust off approaches that exploit those differences as well. -
Three Headwinds for Facebook's IPO
Technology & Operations Digital ArticleI am not pessimistic about Facebook's future. I have used the social network for eight years and continue to be impressed with Mark Zuckerberg's focus... -
Managing for Shareholder Value—From Top to Bottom
Accounting Magazine ArticleIn his first big presentation to the board, the newly appointed CEO of a $3 billion, multibusiness company announced his intention to shift management’s focus from quarterly earnings to “shareholder value.” The management team was determined to understand exactly how much value the corporation and each of its business units were creating for shareholders and […] -
Accounting for Taste
Leadership & Managing People Digital ArticleHere's a next big thing: predicting cultural predilections of individuals and groups. Prediction has been slowly encroaching on many aspects of human... -
To Control Health Care Costs, U.S. Employers Should Form Purchasing Alliances
Costing Digital ArticleA hot labor market is limiting employers’ ability to shift more costs to their workers. -
Stock or Cash?: The Trade-Offs for Buyers and Sellers in Mergers and Acquisitions
Accounting Magazine ArticleCompanies are increasingly paying for acquisitions with stock rather than cash. But both they and the companies they acquire need to understand just how big a difference that decision can make to the value shareholders will get from a deal. -
Why Not Leverage Your Company to the Hilt?
Costing Magazine ArticleEasy credit means hard choices. The old consensus between lenders and corporate borrowers about what constitutes a prudent level of financial reserves has broken down. Today’s junk-bond financiers, merchant bankers, and “credit corporations” offer far more leverage than businesses have historically been comfortable with, and these venturesome lenders pose a difficult problem for management. Managers […] -
Why Your Organization Needs an Aspirational P&L
Organizational Development Digital ArticleFour key questions to broaden your team's thinking. -
Make Tax Planning a Part of Your Company’s Risk Management Strategy
Risk management Digital ArticleThree strategies for boards. -
KPIs Aren't Just About Assessing Past Performance
Finance & Accounting Digital ArticleA dynamic scorecard can help you predict future performance too. -
Do You Know Your Cost of Capital?
Managerial accounting Magazine ArticleProbably not, if your company is like most -
The New Health-Cost Crisis
Costing Magazine ArticleCosts are going through the roof again. It’s time for you to act. -
The Greening of the Balance Sheet
Budgets and budgeting Magazine ArticleGreen initiatives can, by reducing costs, enhance a company’s bottom line. Actions that harm the environment can have the opposite effect. Now, thanks to a burgeoning market in greenhouse gas emission credits put into effect by the Kyoto Protocol, environmental considerations will increasingly affect not only companies’ income statements but also their balance sheets. A […]
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Building Innovation at Terrapin Bright Green
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Case Study8.95View Details Describes Terrapin Bright Green, an environmental consulting and strategic planning firm, and its approach for creating integrative, systematic solutions... -
LinkedIn (A)
Strategy & Execution Case Study8.95View Details In the summer of 2005, LinkedIn, a two-year-old start-up, was choosing between two options to monetize its 5 million business people network. Members... -
Metta Rest Spa: Should the Stricklands Lend?
Finance & Accounting Case Study8.95View Details A Canadian couple whose daughter owned Metta Rest Spa, a flotation spa that opened in September 2014 in Vancouver, British Columbia, had invested almost... -
Honest Tea
Finance & Accounting Case Study8.95View Details This case examines the decisions of Seth Goldman and Barry Nalebuff, founders of Honest Tea. Honest Tea is a start-up in the ready-to-drink tea market.... -
Danone: Adopting Integrated Reporting or Not? (B)
Finance & Accounting Case Study5.00View Details Supplement to case W18733 -
Groom Energy Solutions: Selling Efficiency
Strategy & Execution Case Study8.95View Details Groom Energy Solutions helps organizations reduce their energy use and costs through the implementation of energy efficiency measures, which create long-term... -
Managing Stakeholders with Corporate Social Responsibility, Course Overview
Leadership & Managing People Case Study8.95View Details The note articulates the ways in which strong stakeholder-company relationships developed through corporate social responsibility initiatives and other... -
PricewaterhouseCoopers: Building a Global Network
Technology & Operations Case Study8.95View Details Price Waterhouse and Coopers & Lybrand merged in July 1998, creating one of the world's largest full-service professional organizations. This case provides... -
The Tax Man: Taxes in Private Equity Real Estate
Finance & Accounting Case Study8.95View Details In January 2018, Caelan Langan, an associate at KSW Partners LLC ("KSW"), was asked by Katherine Scott, the partner for whom he worked, to recommend a... -
Innovation at Insigne Health
Finance & Accounting Case Study8.95View Details Insigne Health is a fictional for-profit, integrated health insurer/health care provider whose leadership believes that by shifting members' focus from... -
Compass Box Whisky Company, Spanish Version
Finance & Accounting Case Study8.95View Details Compass Box Whisky Company is facing a changing supply situation and is evaluating switching to a business model with high inventory and long lead times.... -
Accounting for Bitcoin at Tesla, Spanish Version
Finance & Accounting Case Study8.95View Details On February 8, 2021, Tesla revealed, through its 10-K filing to the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), that it had purchased $1.5 billion of Bitcoin,... -
Finding a Response: Pixar and a Coy Story
Communication Case Study8.95View Details Pixar, Inc. is the subject of an article that suggests its share price is currently overvalued. The article is picked up in summary by several wire services.... -
American Apparel: Drowning in Debt?
Finance & Accounting Case Study8.95View Details The American clothing retailer American Apparel recently experienced a loss of $106 million and faced huge debt repayments. In addition, the chief executive... -
Accounting Fraud at Tesco Stores (B)
Finance & Accounting Case Study5.00View Details This case serves as a complement to the case "Accounting Fraud at Tesco Stores (A)". -
Route 11 Potato Chips
Sales & Marketing Case Study8.95View Details Route 11 Chips, a regional potato chip company, is struggling with whether to reduce the number of flavors it markets. Additional flavors add operational... -
Identify the Industries--1996
Finance & Accounting Case Study8.95View Details Common-size balance sheets and financial ratios are given for thirteen companies. Students must identify which company is in which of thirteen industries.... -
China or the World? A Financial Reporting Strategy for Hong Kong's Capital Markets
Finance & Accounting Case Study8.95View Details Set in 2010, the case discusses the strategic directions Hong Kong could pursue, particularly vis-a-vis China, as it seeks to preserve its preeminence... -
EILEEN FISHER: Repositioning the Brand, Spanish Version
Sales & Marketing Case Study8.95View Details Well-established fashion brand Eileen Fisher has traditionally appealed to older women. However, to drive growth, Eileen Fisher's management team wants...
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Making Smart Investments: A Beginner’s Guide
Costing AdviceReduce the risk factor, increase the reward factor, and generate meaningful returns. -
A Refresher on Net Present Value
Budgets and budgeting Digital ArticleKnow what your project is worth in today’s dollars. -
Contribution Margin: What It Is, How to Calculate It, and Why You Need It
Finance & Accounting Digital ArticleDo you know what your most profitable product is? -
When You've Got to Cut Costs--Now
Technology & Operations Magazine ArticleYou've been ordered to reduce overhead by 10%, 20%, or even (wince) 30%. How do you do it? First, don't expect to reach your target with a single big... -
Time-Driven Activity-Based Costing
Accounting Magazine ArticleMany companies abandoned activity-based costing because it did not capture the complexity of their operations, took too long to implement, and was too expensive to build and maintain. Here’s a way around those problems. -
New Framework for Corporate Debt Policy
Accounting Magazine ArticleFew, if any, articles on finance that have appeared in HBR have enjoyed the influence of the 1962 article reprinted here as a “Classic.” Gordon Donaldson’s analysis of how many companies haphazardly established their debt capacity, and his careful explanation of what he considered a better way, seemed to strike a chord among corporate administrative […] -
Building Innovation at Terrapin Bright Green
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Case Study8.95View Details Describes Terrapin Bright Green, an environmental consulting and strategic planning firm, and its approach for creating integrative, systematic solutions... -
LinkedIn (A)
Strategy & Execution Case Study8.95View Details In the summer of 2005, LinkedIn, a two-year-old start-up, was choosing between two options to monetize its 5 million business people network. Members... -
Metta Rest Spa: Should the Stricklands Lend?
Finance & Accounting Case Study8.95View Details A Canadian couple whose daughter owned Metta Rest Spa, a flotation spa that opened in September 2014 in Vancouver, British Columbia, had invested almost... -
Honest Tea
Finance & Accounting Case Study8.95View Details This case examines the decisions of Seth Goldman and Barry Nalebuff, founders of Honest Tea. Honest Tea is a start-up in the ready-to-drink tea market....