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  • March 2014
  • Case

Babcock International Plc

By: John R. Wells and Galen Danskin
In 2013, Babcock International Plc (Babcock) was the largest engineering services provider in the UK with sales of over £3 billion. Under the leadership of CEO Peter Rogers, Babcock had grown revenues and profits nearly tenfold over the previous decade as it benefited... View Details
Keywords: Strategic Change; Strategy And Leadership; Diversification; United Kingdom; Military; Nuclear Power; Nuclear; Engineering And Construction; Conglomerates; Strategic Planning; Competitive Strategy; Global Strategy; Corporate Strategy; Construction Industry; Energy Industry; United Kingdom
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  • 01 Jun 2023
  • News

Curb Appeal

work ethic—“they didn’t care what we did, but everyone had to work hard,” she says—and her mother offered a model of public service, serving as chancellor of the Board of Regents, New York State’s governing body for education. But when... View Details
Keywords: Alexander Gelfand; photography by Vance Jacobs; Government; Government
  • 15 Feb 2011
  • First Look

First Look: Feb. 15

each complementing the other. Government Advertising and Media Coverage of Corruption Scandals Authors:Rafael Di Tella and Ignacio Franceschelli Publication:American Economic Journal: Applied Economics (forthcoming) Abstract : We... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 2009
  • Other Unpublished Work

Singapore Competitiveness Report

By: Christian H.M. Ketels, Ashish Lall and Boon Siong Neo

The 2009 Singapore Competitiveness Report, the first in this new series of regular assessments by the Asia Competitiveness Institute (ACI) at the Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy, provides data and analysis to inform the discussions on the impact of the crisis... View Details

Keywords: Economic Growth; Financial Crisis; Macroeconomics; Microeconomics; Policy; Competitive Strategy; Singapore
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  • Web

Asia Pacific - Global

research, but a full range of MBA and Executive Education student programming. Through their ongoing work they have developed important links with governments, academic institutions, and corporations within a region that is assuming an increasingly vital role in the... View Details
  • 16 Nov 2010
  • First Look

First Look: November 16, 2010

and Hirotaka Takeuchi. Tokyo: Nihon Keizai Shimbun Publishing, 2010 An abstract is unavailable at this time. How Do Acquirers Retain Successful Target CEOs? The Role of Governance Authors:Julie Wulf and Harbir Singh Publication:Management... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 01 Sep 2023
  • News

Solving for Z

of intimate conversations within teams and networks as well as enterprise-level exchanges with the bank’s community partners, and they have dealt with subjects ranging from race and gender to local and national events. Similarly, Adobe... View Details
Keywords: Alexander Gelfand; Illustrations by Doug Chayka; Government; Government
  • Web

Japan - Global

global impact. Located in Tokyo, the JRC's primary purpose is to support HBS faculty research and case-writing activities in Japan. The School strives to deepen faculty's understanding of and exposure to Japanese management issues, trends, and practices, as well as... View Details
  • September 2011 (Revised August 2013)
  • Case

China or the World? A Financial Reporting Strategy for Hong Kong's Capital Markets

By: Karthik Ramanna, Gwen Yu and G.A. Donovan
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 in the region. In 2010, the Hong Kong Exchange announced that it would allow listed Chinese companies to report using... View Details
Keywords: Governance Compliance; Global Range; Local Range; Competitive Strategy; Global Strategy; Globalized Economies and Regions; Financial Reporting; International Accounting; Hong Kong
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  • 01 Nov 2017
  • What Do You Think?

What Are the Real Lessons of the Wells Fargo Case?

team (had been given) sufficient power and resources to do their work.” “Former Employee” maintains that “Wells Fargo has no HR presence at the local level, which means there is no buffer between rogue managers and conscientious... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett; Banking
  • 2021
  • Working Paper

The Political Economy of Anti-Bribery Enforcement

By: Lauren Cohen and Bo Li
This paper documents novel evidence on the influence of political incentives in the regulatory enforcement of foreign bribery. Using exogenous variation in the timing and geographic location of U.S. Congressional elections, we find that the probability of a Foreign... View Details
Keywords: Bribery; Regulatory Enforcement; Crime and Corruption; Governance Controls; Political Elections
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  • 23 Mar 2010
  • First Look

First Look: March 23

and responding to adverse drug reactions suggests that only government regulators are in a position to integrate case report and statistical analysis. Despite the appeal of fragmented post-market drug safety studies, centralization may be... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • February 2021
  • Article

Rethinking the Role of the EU in European Competitiveness

By: Christian H.M. Ketels and Michael E. Porter
The aim of this conceptual paper is to delineate the scope and give directives towards higher levels of competitiveness and prosperity for EU members. The EU integration history and challenges are retraced and the EU’s current competitiveness context is presented. In a... View Details
Keywords: Competitiveness; Public Policy; Competitive Advantage; Government Administration; European Union
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  • 2011
  • Case

Wrapitup

By: W. Earl Sasser
A restaurant chain based in California offers made-to-order sandwich wraps using fresh, healthy ingredients. The founders of the company take a very active role in day-to-day business and tightly control every aspect of the restaurant operation from hiring store... View Details
Keywords: Service Operations; Governance Controls; Revenue; Employee Relationship Management; Planning; Customer Satisfaction; Problems and Challenges; Profit; Change Management; Compensation and Benefits; Leadership Style; Service Industry; California
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  • 16 Nov 2021
  • HBS Case

How a Company Made Employees So Miserable, They Killed Themselves

can make extreme means seem justifiable.” A company spiraling into debt France Télécom’s troubles started in the late 1990s, after the French government turned the national telephone monopoly into a publicly traded company, now known as... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
  • Web

Topics - HBS Working Knowledge

Model (23) Business Offices (4) Business Plan (2) Business Processes (4) Business Startups (38) Business Strategy (31) Business Units (1) Business Ventures (152) Business and Community Relations (8) Business and Government Relations (44)... View Details
  • 09 Nov 2023
  • News

From the Brink

about an opening at the Treasury Department from the HBS Career and Professional Development Office, he became a senior policy advisor for state and local government finance. At Treasury, Chepenik earned a... View Details
Keywords: Ralph Ranalli
  • May 2024
  • Article

Housing Policies and Energy Efficiency Spillovers in Low and Moderate Income Communities

By: Omar Isaac Asensio, Olga Churkina, Becky D. Rafter and Kira E O'Hare
Housing policies address the human dimensions of increasing urban density, but their energy and sustainability implications are hard to measure due to challenges with siloed civic data. This is especially critical when evaluating policies targeting low- and... View Details
Keywords: Energy Efficiency; Public Policy; Climate Change; Energy Conservation; Housing; Analytics and Data Science; Policy; Income; Environmental Sustainability; Real Estate Industry; United States
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  • Web

General Management - Faculty & Research

have added climate governance to their agendas. But the maturity of boards’ climate-oversight processes and activities varies widely. To better understand how climate issues are being handled in the boardroom and to determine what good... View Details
  • Web

Finance - Faculty & Research

mechanism that amplifies interest rate volatility. I find strong support for these predictions in the time series of US government bond returns. 2014 Working Paper Financial Repression in the European Sovereign Debt Crisis By: Bo Becker... View Details