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  • December 2003
  • Case

Manville Corporation Fiber Glass Group (C) (Abridged)

By: Lynn S. Paine
Manville Corp.'s senior managers are surprised when Japanese government officials advise them not to go forward with their plan to add a cancer warning label to diatomaceous earth (DE) products sold in Japan. The International Agency for Research on Cancer has ruled... View Details
Keywords: Risk and Uncertainty; Moral Sensibility; Safety; Government Administration; Cross-Cultural and Cross-Border Issues; Decision Choices and Conditions; Ethics; Announcements; Industrial Products Industry; Japan
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  • 05 Feb 2008
  • First Look

First Look: February 5, 2008

done on managing the organizational and political dimensions of generating and improving forecasts in corporate settings. We examine the implementation of a supply-chain planning process at a consumer electronics company, concentrating on... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 10 Nov 2003
  • Research & Ideas

A Fast Start on Your New Job

the culture and politics of a new organization. It's so easy to fall into pitfalls in these areas and really damage your credibility. The risks obviously are highest for new leaders coming in from the... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
  • March 2021
  • Supplement

Snapp: Scaling Under Sanctions in Iran (B)

By: Meg Rithmire and Gamze Yucaoglu
The case opens in November 2020 as Eyad Alkassar and Mahmoud Fouz, co-founders of Iran’s first and leading ride-hailing platform, Snapp, eagerly await the results of the U.S. presidential elections.
The case takes us through the challenging times between... View Details
Keywords: Sanctions; Change Management; Disruption; Volatility; Decision Choices and Conditions; Cross-Cultural and Cross-Border Issues; Government and Politics; International Relations; National Security; Crisis Management; Risk Management; Health Pandemics; Transportation Industry; Middle East; Iran
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  • 17 Feb 2010
  • First Look

First Look: Feb. 17

Publication:MIT Sloan Management Review 51, no. 2 (winter 2010): 57-61 An abstract in unavailable at this time. Read the preview: http://sloanreview.mit.edu/the-magazine/articles/2010/winter/51220/what-it-takes-to-make-star-hires-pay-off/ Acting in Time Against... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 01 May 2020
  • In Practice

COVID-19’s Hard Lessons Might Prepare Business for Climate Change

The coronavirus pandemic caught the business world by surprise, but the catastrophe might force companies to face a crisis that has been unfolding in plain sight: climate change.  We asked faculty members affiliated with the Business and Environment Initiative at... View Details
Keywords: by Danielle Kost
  • December 2023
  • Case

The American Bully XL

By: Robin Greenwood, Richard S. Ruback, Johnathan Sun and Robert Ialenti
The American Bully XL, first introduced to the United Kingdom around 2014, had been held responsible for a disproportionate share of both dog-related attacks and deaths. The case discusses the announcement, in October 2023, that the dog breed would be added to a list... View Details
Keywords: Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Policy; Government Administration; Laws and Statutes; Risk and Uncertainty; United Kingdom
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  • 14 Jan 2015
  • Research & Ideas

Thriving in the Turbulence of Emerging Markets

business navigated uncertainty in the past in Turkey. Sabancı, who started her career by working at the group's tire factory, gradually worked her way up the family business, building global partnerships and steering the business through times of View Details
Keywords: by Geoffrey Jones; Manufacturing; Auto
  • 02 May 2018
  • Blog Post

Should Companies Disclose Employee Compensation?

practice he calls “radical transparency.” That means “giving most everyone the ability to see most everything (to reduce) harmful office politics and the risks of bad behavior more likely to take place... View Details
Keywords: All Industries
  • 05 Oct 2010
  • First Look

First Look: October 5, 2010

board, their past professional experience, and their political contributions vary with the degree to which the accounting standards they propose are perceived as increasing accounting "relevance" and/or decreasing accounting... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 21 Sep 2009
  • Research & Ideas

Excessive Executive Pay: What’s the Solution?

In the search for culprits in the global financial meltdown, bloated executive pay and the excessive risk-taking behavior it fueled stand out as prime suspects. Of the two, pay dominates the headlines and provokes the most public and View Details
Keywords: by Roger Thompson
  • 01 Sep 2015
  • News

Alumni and Faculty Books for September 2015

grow their business. Stewart, an award-winning CFO and veteran entrepreneur, shares his expertise and insights to help entrepreneurs more fully understand how a bank thinks about them and their business as a credit risk and a loan... View Details
  • 10 May 2004
  • Research & Ideas

Rethink the Value of Joint Ventures

local partner. Of course, one final example of where local owners are useful is in countries where local knowledge is especially useful in navigating political considerations. Q: What's your advice for managers considering a joint... View Details
Keywords: by Cynthia Churchwell
  • 08 May 2018
  • First Look

First Look at New Research and Ideas, May 8, 2018

quality metrics are unreliable and thus, recent legislation may result in unintended consequences. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=54443 in press Business History Internment as a Business Challenge: View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 15 May 2015
  • Blog Post

2+2: A "Liberating and Life-Altering" Choice

I first learned about the 2+2 Program after an older friend from Vanderbilt, my undergraduate college, applied and was accepted into the inaugural class in 2008. My undergraduate background was in political science and human and... View Details
  • 01 Jun 2022
  • Blog Post

Climate Stories Episode #6: Climate Change, Peacebuilding, and Business: Lise Grande and Dr. Teagan Blaine, USIP.

Her focus, with the support of her boss, USIP President Lise Grande, is to help a relatively new field gel – to consolidate political and business leaders’ appreciation of the linkages between environmental “tensions and grievances” and... View Details
  • 27 May 2009
  • First Look

First Look: May 27, 2009

  Working PapersThe Long-Run Risks Model and Aggregate Asset Prices: An Empirical Assessment Authors:Jason Beeler and John Y. Campbell Abstract The long-run risks model of asset prices explains stock price... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 12 Jul 2006
  • Research & Ideas

Competition the Cure for Healthcare

produce healthcare together. If the patient does not participate, it limits what the doctor can accomplish. We are moving to a system where the individual must be engaged, or face the consequences. More employers are asking employees to participate in health View Details
Keywords: by Roger Thompson; Health
  • 03 Jan 2008
  • What Do You Think?

Does Judgment Trump Experience?

good judgment—good from whose perspective?" Few questioned that good judgment can be acquired, possibly at some risk and cost of mistakes. This still leaves us with the question of whether it can be taught. (Michael Hogan and Al... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Heskett
  • 25 Feb 2014
  • First Look

First Look: February 25

in the country's economy during the past two decades, have brought together a group of economists and political scientists to systematically examine the impact of a wide range of factors affecting the economy's collapse, from the cost of... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne