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- 26 Jul 2010
- Research & Ideas
Yes, You Can Raise Prices in a Downturn
That is what defines a good deal: From their perspective, those customers got more than they spent. Great pricers constantly mine this gap to identify opportunities, and they mind the gap over time, seeking...
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- 2023
- Working Paper
Toward Decision-Useful Carbon Information
By: Gunther Glenk
Companies are increasingly viewed as crucial drivers for timely decarbonization. Current accounting practices for greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, however, often leave corporate carbon disclosures and abatement obscured. Here I introduce a taxonomy for assuring the...
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Keywords:
Carbon Emissions;
Decarbonization;
Carbon Accounting;
Net-zero Emissions;
Greenhouse Gas Emissions;
Environment;
Environmental Impact;
Management;
Sustainable Cities;
Corporate Disclosure;
Environmental Accounting;
Environmental Management;
Climate Change;
Steel Industry;
Steel Industry;
Steel Industry;
Steel Industry;
Steel Industry;
Steel Industry;
Steel Industry;
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Europe;
North America;
South America;
Africa;
Asia
Glenk, Gunther. "Toward Decision-Useful Carbon Information." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 24-026, September 2023. (TRR 266 Accounting for Transparency Working Paper Series, No. 121, May 2023.)
- 05 Dec 2006
- First Look
First Look: December 5, 2006
Working PapersThe Industry R&D Survey — Patent Database Link Project Authors:William R. Kerr and Shihe Fu Abstract This paper details the construction of a firm-year panel dataset combining the NBER Patent Dataset with the Industry...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 02 Nov 2010
- First Look
First Look: November 2, 2010
revisit the idea of investing in cleantech." Purchase this case:http://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cb/product/811009-PDF-ENG Leadership in Corporate Reporting Policy at Tata Steel Karthik Ramanna and Rachna...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 08 Sep 2010
- First Look
First Look: September 8, 2010
describes the growth of Guggenheim Brothers as one of the largest mining companies in the world in the early twentieth century. Global expansion led the firm to Chile, first in copper and later in natural...
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Sean Silverthorne
- January 2001 (Revised May 2010)
- Case
BP Amoco (B): Financing Development of the Caspian Oil Fields
By: Benjamin C. Esty and Michael Kane
British Petroleum and Amoco were the two largest members of the Azerbaijan International Oil Consortium (AIOC), an 11-firm consortium that was spending $10 billion to develop oil fields in the Caspian Sea. As of March 1999, AIOC had completed a $1.9 billion development...
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Keywords:
Investment;
Policy;
Capital Budgeting;
Project Finance;
Emerging Markets;
Mergers and Acquisitions;
Financing and Loans;
Financial Strategy;
Mining Industry;
Mining Industry;
United Kingdom;
Europe
Esty, Benjamin C., and Michael Kane. "BP Amoco (B): Financing Development of the Caspian Oil Fields." Harvard Business School Case 201-067, January 2001. (Revised May 2010.)
- July 1996 (Revised August 2017)
- Case
Continuous Casting Investments at USX Corporation
By: Clayton Christensen
Focuses on the difficulty established companies face when confronted with disruptive technological innovations. The power that their prior asset investments, their cost structures, and their customers have in constraining their investment and innovation decisions are...
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Keywords:
Disruption;
Assets;
Cost;
Investment;
Technological Innovation;
Problems and Challenges;
Mining Industry;
Mining Industry
Christensen, Clayton. "Continuous Casting Investments at USX Corporation." Harvard Business School Case 697-020, July 1996. (Revised August 2017.)
- 23 Sep 2014
- First Look
First Look: September 23
http://hbr.org/product/AmazonFresh--Rekindling-t/an/615013-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 714-026 Asia Optical: The Myanmar Decision No abstract available. Purchase this case: http://hbr.org/product/Asia-Optical--The-Myanmar/an/714026-PDF-ENG Harvard Business...
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Sean Silverthorne
- July 1991
- Case
Pioneer Petroleum Corp.
Pioneer is an integrated oil company. Its operations include exploration and development, production, transportation, and marketing. The case focuses on Pioneer's cost of capital calculations and its choice between a single company-wide cost of capital or divisional...
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Ruback, Richard S. "Pioneer Petroleum Corp." Harvard Business School Case 292-011, July 1991.
- 12 Oct 1999
- Research & Ideas
Building Bridges: New Dimensions in Negotiation
connections with various nonmining quarters of Chilean life, including the financial, industrial, and legal sectors. These players' support for Kennecott strengthened its BATNA. In contrast, while Chile's BATNA — expropriating the View Details
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by Anita M. Harris
- 01 Jul 2008
- First Look
First Look: July 1, 2008
Working PapersCollaborative Architectures for Innovation Authors:Gary P. Pisano and Roberto Verganti Abstract Collaborative innovation has become a hot topic in innovation today. Scholars, consultants, and...
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Martha Lagace
- 25 Oct 2017
- Research & Ideas
Will Machine Learning Make You a Better Manager?
have to be, say, United Airlines to take advantage of these tools. Managers can now purchase off-the-shelf products that can mine Twitter or Yelp and develop a detailed analysis of how sentiment is changing...
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- 1978
- Chapter
Alternatives for Mineral Tax Reform
By: Malcolm Gillis, Louis T. Wells, Glenn Jenkins and Brian Wright
- October 1993
- Teaching Note
Cleveland-Cliffs, Inc. TN
By: Jay O. Light and James O. Sailer
Teaching Note for (9-293-051).
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- 22 Apr 2008
- First Look
First Look: April 22, 2008
Provides a brief background on the history and structure of the steel industry in the United States. Focuses in some depth on the technological changes that have been difficult for the leading View Details
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Martha Lagace
- 20 Jul 2015
- Research & Ideas
Globalization Hasn’t Killed the Manufacturing Cluster
industry moved from steel tubes to carbon fiber ones, the cluster took hold in Taiwan because that's where the expertise is in fabricating and molding carbon fiber. "If the prices go up there, it's not like...
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- March 2019
- Article
Economics of Converting Renewable Power to Hydrogen
By: Gunther Glenk and Stefan Reichelstein
The recent sharp decline in the cost of renewable energy suggests that the production of hydrogen from renewable power through a power-to-gas process might become more economical. Here we examine this alternative from the perspective of an investor who considers a...
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Sustainability;
Clean Technology;
Renewable Energy;
Energy Storage;
Sustainability Management;
Sustainable Business;
Synergies;
Green Hydrogen;
Green Technology;
Environment;
Decarbonization;
Carbon Emissions;
Carbon Abatement;
Energy;
Accounting;
Decision Making;
Economics;
Environmental Management;
Growth and Development;
Management;
Operations;
Science;
Transportation;
Steel Industry;
Steel Industry;
Steel Industry;
Steel Industry;
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Steel Industry;
Steel Industry;
Steel Industry;
Steel Industry;
Steel Industry;
Steel Industry;
Steel Industry;
Steel Industry;
Africa;
Asia;
Europe;
North and Central America;
South America;
Middle East
Glenk, Gunther, and Stefan Reichelstein. "Economics of Converting Renewable Power to Hydrogen." Nature Energy 4, no. 3 (March 2019): 216–222.
- 22 Sep 2009
- First Look
First Look: September 22
http://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cb/product/410042-PDF-ENG Steel Street Harvard Business School Case 210-010 The case involves repositioning an old 6-story warehouse in Pittsburgh and many of the issues of...
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Martha Lagace
- 29 May 2001
- Research & Ideas
How Technological Disruption Changes Everything
Word, for example? The problem: Overshooting the market can open the way for disruptive technologies that are cheaper and simpler to take root. So Xerox was eventually disrupted by less expensive copiers from Ricoh View Details
- 14 Jan 2008
- Research & Ideas
Mapping Polluters, Encouraging Protectors
States on view, where are the most flagrant polluters? Well, the United States has a lot of red dots. Toffel mentions that power plants and metal mines are the 2 industries with the greatest amount of toxic...
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