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A Refresher on Net Present Value
Budgets and budgeting Digital ArticleKnow what your project is worth in today’s dollars. -
Corporate Budgeting Is Broken--Let's Fix It
Organizational Development Magazine ArticleCorporate budgeting is a joke, and everyone knows it. It consumes a huge amount of executives' time, forcing them into endless rounds of dull meetings... -
Opportunity vs. Cost in a New Market, Spanish Version
Finance & Accounting VideoBudgeting tools can help you make decisions when very little is known. -
Budget Stress
Finance & Accounting VideoCreating a budget can stress both managers and their employees. The resolution? Depersonalize the process to ease tension and anxiety. -
Conflicting Roles in Budgeting for Operations
Budgets and budgeting Magazine ArticleA senior design engineer for a large American automobile manufacturer recently complained to one of his colleagues. “Those marketing guys want everything. They’ve decided that what they need in the next design series is ‘The All-American Car.’ They say it’s got to be large enough for a family of five (plus dog), small enough to […] -
What Big Companies Can Learn from Shark Tank
Budgets and budgeting Digital ArticleBy utilizing the reality show format, corporations can create a more effective forum for pitching innovative products. -
Using APV: A Better Tool for Valuing Operations
Finance and investing Magazine ArticleToday’s technology can put adjusted present value into the arsenal of every general manager. -
What Really Prevents Companies from Thriving in a Recession
Finance & Accounting Digital ArticleIt's about knowing how to reallocate - and deallocate - resources. -
Use Bad News to Your Advantage, Portuguese Version
Finance & Accounting VideoBe honest with your peers and managers during the budgeting process to avoid issues later. -
Embrace Uncertainty, Chinese Version
Finance & Accounting VideoForecasting can seem scary, because the future is inherently unknowable. Accept that fact. Instead, embrace uncertainty and focus on your goal. -
Why Sit on All that Cash? Firms Uncertain on Cost of Capital
Finance and investing Digital ArticleWith a record $2 trillion in cash and short-term liquid assets on hand, U.S. non-financial firms certainly seem poised to expand. What’s holding them back? Many are deeply uncertain about which initiatives they should fund — and one root of this indecision is a general lack of confidence in the cost of capital projections they […] -
Balance ‘Creativity’ and ‘Practicality’ in Formal Planning
Budgets and budgeting Magazine ArticleThis article contends that to be effective every formal long-range planning system must achieve a compromise between “creativity” and “practicality”—goals for planning that are often in conflict. The authors also argue that the problem of maintaining a satisfactory balance can be directly addressed by varying the design features of the planning/budgeting interface. After specifying the […] -
Advantages of Fund Accounting in ‘Nonprofits’
Accounting Magazine ArticleThe financial worries of New York City in the early 1970s began registering in the bond market in October 1974, when the city first encountered difficulty selling its securities. These problems reached a crisis stage in 1976, and it was not until then that the bond rating services reduced the city’s bond rating. In this […] -
Why Budgeting Drives Us Batty
Finance & Accounting Digital ArticleNow that we are into the fourth quarter of 2009, many companies are deep into their budgeting process for 2010. Unfortunately for some of us, this budget... -
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 […] -
3 Ways to Bring Flexibility to Budgeting
Budgets and budgeting Digital ArticleEasy steps you can take today to craft a more agile process. -
Is Your Budgeting Process Killing Your Strategy?
Leadership Digital ArticleA friend of mine who had taken over running a major government department noticed right away how abused the word “strategy” was. “Everything has to be a strategy in order to get noticed,” he told me. “You practically need a strategy for visiting the restroom.” The second thing he noticed was that nobody was actually […] -
How Nimble Is Your Sales Planning?
Sales & Marketing Digital ArticleRigid plans just won't work anymore. -
Why Executives Should Start Acting Like Activist Investors
Finance & Accounting Digital ArticleTo stay competitive, companies need to be able to shift how they allocate capital in response to changing business conditions.
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A Note on, and a Tale About, Flexible Budgeting
Finance & Accounting Case Study8.95View Details This technical note introduces students to the concept, use, and mechanics of flexible budgeting. It is best used at the beginning of a course module... -
Cavendish Cove Cottages
Leadership & Managing People Case Study8.95View Details Sherry Noonan, a senior business student, is considering purchasing Cavendish Cove Cottages, a complex of 19 cottage rental units marketed to visitors.... -
Americhem: The Gaylord Division (A-1)
Leadership & Managing People Case Study6.95View Details The Gaylord Division of Americhem, a large chemical company, is in the midst of the first use of a new zero-base budgeting system. The general manager... -
Information Technology and Public Education: The Debate About Computers in Classrooms and the Role of Business Interests
Leadership & Managing People Case Study6.95View Details Provides four separate excerpts from published materials that illuminate the issues involved in the debate surrounding deployment of information technology... -
Finance Basics (HBR 20-Minute Manager Series)
Finance & Accounting Book25.00View Details Intimidated by corporate finance? The numbers (and the jargon) can feel overwhelming-but you have to understand them to manage effectively. Finance Basics... -
Calpine Corp.: The Evolution from Project to Corporate Finance
Finance & Accounting Case Study8.95View Details In early 1999, Calpine Corp.'s CEO Pete Cartwright adopted an aggressive growth strategy with the goal of increasing the company's aggregate generating... -
Octane Service Station, Spanish Version
Finance & Accounting Case Study8.95View Details The owner of a gas station must prepare financial statements. -
America's Budget Impasse, 2009-2022
Global Business Case Study8.95View Details The United States has been a fiscal mess for years...at least since the financial crisis in 2009. This case describes the U.S. economy during the presidencies... -
Americhem: The Gaylord Division (B-1)
Leadership & Managing People Case Study5.00View Details Supplements the (A) case, 314011. A rewritten version of an earlier supplement. -
The Challenges of Marketing Budget Preparation in Uncertain Times
Sales & Marketing Case Study8.95View Details Fitzie, a sports and fitness brand that manufactured, marketed, and sold sports and lifestyle footwear and apparel, had been doing relatively well in... -
PittaRosso (B): Human and Machine Learning, Portuguese Version
Sales & Marketing Case Study5.00View Details This case supplements the "PittaRosso: Artificial Intelligence-Driven Pricing and Promotion" case, and provides major highlights on what happened at the... -
Standard Costs and Variances
Finance & Accounting Case Study8.95View Details An introduction to standard costs and cost variances. Discussion, formulae, and examples introduce the idea of comparing actual costs to those that were... -
uMunch: Mobile Food-Delivery App Feasibility Analysis
Finance & Accounting Case Study8.95View Details Two recent university graduates were completing a business plan in hopes of securing a government grant to assist them in coming up with the necessary... -
Reliance Baking Soda: Optimizing Promotional Spending (Brief Case)
Sales & Marketing Case Study8.95View Details Reliance Baking Soda is Stewart Corporation's oldest and most established product. The new Domestic Brand Director needs to create a 2008 marketing budget... -
Introduction to Responsibility Accounting Systems
Finance & Accounting Case Study8.95View Details Introduces responsibility accounting systems. -
Harmon Foods, Inc., Japanese Version
Strategy & Execution Case Study8.95View Details Prediction and shipment has been a scheduling and budgetary problem. Multiple regression is suggested as a solution. Evaluation of regression coefficients... -
Note on Responsibility Accounting
Finance & Accounting Case Study8.95View Details Discusses the relationship between cost accounting and responsibility accounting, distinguishing between measurement and control. Then looks at several... -
Revenue Recognition at HBP, Japanese Version
Finance & Accounting Case Study8.95View Details In early 2014, Paul Bills, CFO of Harvard Business Publishing (HBP), sat down with David Wan, the company's CEO, to discuss budget preparations for the... -
California's Budget Crises, Tax Reform, and Domestic and International Tax Competition
Finance & Accounting Case Study8.95View Details How do (and how should) governments design fiscal policies to compete in a globalized economy while meeting internal policy priorities including redistribution?...
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How to Build Wealth When You Don’t Come from Money
You are worthy of wealth, despite the systems designed to keep it from you. -
Everything You Need to Know About Stock Options and RSUs
Finance & Accounting AdviceJust like salary, you should negotiate equity compensation. -
A Refresher on Net Present Value
Budgets and budgeting Digital ArticleKnow what your project is worth in today’s dollars. -
5 Ways to Manage Your Personal Finances
Finance & Accounting ListicleFirst, let go of your limiting beliefs about money. -
A Note on, and a Tale About, Flexible Budgeting
Finance & Accounting Case Study8.95View Details This technical note introduces students to the concept, use, and mechanics of flexible budgeting. It is best used at the beginning of a course module... -
Cavendish Cove Cottages
Leadership & Managing People Case Study8.95View Details Sherry Noonan, a senior business student, is considering purchasing Cavendish Cove Cottages, a complex of 19 cottage rental units marketed to visitors.... -
Americhem: The Gaylord Division (A-1)
Leadership & Managing People Case Study6.95View Details The Gaylord Division of Americhem, a large chemical company, is in the midst of the first use of a new zero-base budgeting system. The general manager... -
Cavendish Cove Cottages Teaching Note
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Corporate Budgeting Is Broken--Let's Fix It
Organizational Development Magazine ArticleCorporate budgeting is a joke, and everyone knows it. It consumes a huge amount of executives' time, forcing them into endless rounds of dull meetings... -
Information Technology and Public Education: The Debate About Computers in Classrooms and the Role of Business Interests
Leadership & Managing People Case Study6.95View Details Provides four separate excerpts from published materials that illuminate the issues involved in the debate surrounding deployment of information technology...