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  • November 2001
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  • Harvard Business Review

Corporate Budgeting Is Broken, Let's Fix It

By: M. C. Jensen
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Keywords

Budgets and Budgeting; Corporate Finance

Citation

Jensen, M. C. "Corporate Budgeting Is Broken, Let's Fix It." Harvard Business Review 79, no. 10 (November 2001). (This paper is an executive summary of the following: "Paying People to Lie: The Truth About the Budgeting Process," Harvard NOM Research Paper No. 01-01, and HBS Working Paper No. 01-072 (April 2001).)
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Michael C. Jensen

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