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- 01 Nov 2012
- Research & Ideas
Book Excerpt: Judgment Calls
particular challenge the company faced was about selling its line of prestigious, professional beauty tools to chain drugstores—risking dilution of the brand, losing existing core customers, and taking on financial commitments way beyond... View Details
- 25 Jul 2005
- Research & Ideas
An Organization Your Customers Understand
payers. For example, an office assistant may order office products to be used by fifty people in a department and paid for by a central accounts payable facility. All these entities are customers. The advice to managers: "Look at all... View Details
Keywords: by Robert Simons
- 01 Jun 2010
- News
Michael Depatie
corporate responsibility and how it relates to “conscious capitalism.” Does doing right by all stakeholders, including the environment, bring good financial results? Absolutely! Corporate social responsibility has to be part of the... View Details
- 10 Mar 2021
- Blog Post
COVID Killed the Traditional Workplace
with employees across the company. Reflect, diagnose, and develop a plan of action. What policies and practices should be in place for the post-COVID world? Make yourself and your senior team accountable to the organization and its... View Details
Keywords: All Industries
- 01 Feb 1997
- News
Shaping the Future of Business: Entrepreneurial Evolution at HBS
- Bloomberg L.P. Scott D. Cook - Intuit Thomas A. James - Raymond James Financial Sandra L. Kurtzig - E-Benefits READ MORE Gordon M. Binder - Amgen Michael R. Bloomberg - Bloomberg L.P. Scott D. Cook - Intuit Thomas A. James - Raymond... View Details
- 01 Jun 2014
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for June 2014
That Excel: Candid Insights and Practical Advice or Directors by Joe White (MBA 1971) (Berrett-Koehler Publishers) This book argues that boards enable organizations to excel only when directors go beyond their standard duties of oversight... View Details
- 14 Jan 2015
- Research & Ideas
Thriving in the Turbulence of Emerging Markets
in India. During the 1990s, she recalled, "we had coalition governments, no stability in politics, high inflation and a high interest rate environment." In 2001, she added, "the entire banking system collapsed." Yet these were exactly the years when the Sabancı Group,... View Details
- 26 Jun 2007
- First Look
First Look: June 26, 2007
increases US investors' equity FPI holdings by 21%, controlling for effects on FDI. This suggests that the residual tax on foreign multinational firm earnings biases capital flows to low corporate tax countries toward FPI. A one standard... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- August 2023 (Revised January 2024)
- Supplement
Arla Foods: Data-Driven Decarbonization (B)
By: Michael Parzen, Michael W. Toffel, Susan Pinckney and Amram Migdal
The case describes Arla’s history, in particular its climate change mitigation efforts, and how it implemented a price incentive system to motivate individual farms to implement scope 1 greenhouse gas emissions mitigation measures and receive a higher milk price. The... View Details
Keywords: Dairy Industry; Earnings Management; Environmental Accounting; Animal-Based Agribusiness; Mergers and Acquisitions; Decisions; Voting; Climate Change; Environmental Regulation; Environmental Sustainability; Green Technology; Pollution; Moral Sensibility; Values and Beliefs; Financial Strategy; Price; Profit; Revenue; Food; Geopolitical Units; Cross-Cultural and Cross-Border Issues; Global Strategy; Cooperative Ownership; Performance Efficiency; Performance Evaluation; Problems and Challenges; Natural Environment; Science-Based Business; Business Strategy; Commercial Banking; Cooperation; Corporate Strategy; Motivation and Incentives; Food and Beverage Industry; Agriculture and Agribusiness Industry; Europe; United Kingdom; European Union; Denmark; Sweden; Luxembourg; Belgium
Parzen, Michael, Michael W. Toffel, Susan Pinckney, and Amram Migdal. "Arla Foods: Data-Driven Decarbonization (B)." Harvard Business School Supplement 624-036, August 2023. (Revised January 2024.)
- 11 Dec 2007
- First Look
First Look: December 11, 2007
eight major North American and European financial services companies as well as an international internet survey in collaboration with journals and organizations. The present paper gives an overview of the initial findings of 61... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 07 Mar 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research, March 7
around the world, as noted by Richard Lewis, Chief Executive of the AELTC. Purchase this case: https://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cbmp/product/517093-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 117-039 Accounting for the iPhone Upgrade Program (B) In... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 16 Nov 2020
- Research & Ideas
Transitions of Power Are Difficult. What Joe Biden and Other Incoming Leaders Need to Know.
have developed a perspective on strategies for the near-term and long-term. But first, before anything else, it’s important to stop the bleeding; that is, deal with crises and pain points. Whether the problems involve financial distress... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
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Education Sector Opportunities at HBS - MBA
Business & Environment Career Change Career and Professional Development Case Method Clubs Curriculum Digital Entrepreneurship FIELD Financial Aid Health Care Instagram Takeover JD/MBA Leadership Letters to Classmates MBA/MPP & MBA/MPA-ID... View Details
- 01 Sep 2020
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for September 2020
constantly evolving world of finance, a solid technical foundation is an essential tool for success. Investment Banking: Valuation, LBOs, M&A, and IPOs, 3rd Edition is a highly accessible and authoritative book that explains how to perform the valuation work and View Details
- 11 Feb 2021
- Blog Post
Good Leadership Is an Act of Kindness
exhaust themselves attending to a special needs child or ailing parent. Everyone frets over their physical and financial well-being. Who among us isn't anxious, stressed out, and off our game right now? From bolstering remote... View Details
Keywords: All Industries
- 19 Jan 2022
- In Practice
7 Trends to Watch in 2022
As 2022 gets underway we asked our faculty to highlight some trends worth watching in the coming year. Ariel Stern: A new future for digital health care While 2020 and 2021 were years of rapid innovation and deployment of new health care technologies and delivery... View Details
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- 01 Jun 2014
- News
Screen Saver
to analyze whether or not a deal made financial sense." According to Beeninga, Lopez was also a clear and direct communicator when things were not going well. Another Lopez quote, in the context of prolonged sluggish results: "Okay, in... View Details
- 05 Feb 2009
- Research & Ideas
In Praise of Marketing
marketing is not a profession. Second, marketing is not a science. Unlike accounting or the law, marketing is not a profession. Anyone can call himself or herself a marketer. The absence of entry barriers allows for greater creativity,... View Details
- 22 Jul 2022
- Blog Post
Climate Stories Episode #7: Turning Waste Heat to Power
for the four newly announced projects will be about 48 MW, with each ranging between 11 and 14 MW. An accountant by training, the 35-year old CEO explained: “We see 24/7 carbon-free energy as the next frontier of sustainability. We are... View Details
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