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  • November 1996 (Revised May 1998)
  • Case

Margaret Thatcher

Portrays Margaret Thatcher's rise to the leadership of Great Britain's Conservative Party. Thatcher's political career began with her election to Parliament's House of Commons in 1959. Sixteen years later she was elected the leader of her party, and then in 1979, she... View Details
Keywords: Leadership; Personal Development and Career; Gender Characteristics; Government and Politics; Power and Influence; Public Administration Industry; Great Britain
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  • January 2020
  • Supplement

Brexit: A Withdrawal Agreement? — Boris Johnson

By: Laura Alfaro and Sarah Jeong
The UK was due to leave the EU in March 2019 after a referendum vote in June 2016. Following additional extensions and multiple failed attempts to reach an agreement with Parliament, Theresa May stepped down as Conservative Party leader and was replaced by Boris... View Details
Keywords: Brexit; Government and Politics; International Relations; United Kingdom; European Union
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  • 2008
  • Simulation

DEC v. Riverside

By: David A. Lax, James K. Sebenius, Lawrence Susskind and Thomas Weeks
Riverside Lumber is a pulp manufacturer in a small town in the Pacific Northwest. Riverside regularly dumps effluent into a nearby river. The Division of Environmental Conservation (DEC) claims that the effluent is toxic and jeopardizes the local salmon catch.... View Details
Keywords: Competition; Conflict Management; Cooperation; Courts and Trials; Decision Choices and Conditions; Natural Environment; Negotiation; Pulp and Paper Industry; Northwestern United States
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  • 2015
  • Case

Advanced Leadership Pathways: Torsten Thiele and the Global Ocean Trust

By: Rosabeth Moss Kanter and Brian Hoffstein
Following a successful career in finance, Torsten Thiele devoted himself full-time to the challenging cause of ocean conservation and stewardship. In August 2015, Thiele had already come a long way in spearheading initiatives towards the protection of the ocean: from... View Details
Keywords: Environment; Natural Environment; Environmental Sustainability; Pollutants; Science-Based Business; Climate Change; Social Enterprise; Leadership
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  • March 2021 (Revised December 2023)
  • Case

Capitalism and the Party-State: The People's Republic of China at 70

By: Meg Rithmire and Courtney Han
In 2019, the People’s Republic of China (PRC) turned seventy-years-old and became the longest active authoritarian regime in recent history. By then, China was the world’s second largest economy by GDP (after the United States), and a high-technology industrial... View Details
Keywords: Party-state; Economic Systems; Business and Government Relations; Economy; Society; International Relations; China
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  • July 2018 (Revised September 2018)
  • Case

Donald Trump and the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act

By: Matthew Weinzierl and Robert Scherf
In January 2018, President Donald Trump was full of optimism. He had just signed the most substantial legislation of his young presidency, the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act (TCJA), making major changes to the tax code. Echoing his campaign slogan—Make America Great Again—Trump... View Details
Keywords: Taxation; Jobs and Positions; Government and Politics; Public Opinion; United States
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  • 03 Jul 2018
  • First Look

New Research and Ideas, July 3, 2018

Party City In 2005, Berkshire Partners, a Boston-based private equity firm specializing in growth equity, was one year into their ownership of Amscan, the market leader of designed, manufactured, and distributed decorated View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 08 Sep 2008
  • HBS Case

The Value of Environmental Activists

There are many methods, most financial, to measure the success of companies in meeting goals. But the question becomes a lot harder at Harvard Business School when MBAs are challenged to measure the efforts of environmental organizations like Greenpeace and the World... View Details
Keywords: by Sarah Jane Gilbert; Energy; Utilities
  • 20 Sep 2022
  • Research & Ideas

How Partisan Politics Play Out in American Boardrooms

data, combined with the voter registration records of 3,786 top executives working at 941 firms in the S&P 1500 between 2008 and 2020. They pulled documents from states that share records and track voter party affiliation,... View Details
Keywords: by Pamela Reynolds
  • 06 Oct 2020
  • Sharpening Your Skills

18 Tips Managers Can Use to Lead Through COVID's Rising Waters

Cash. The most obvious commercial C of the 7 Cs is Cash. Whatever you can do to conserve cash is going to be critical, because that’s what’s going to determine whether your employees are going to be paid next week. To learn more, read 7... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
  • 16 May 2005
  • Research & Ideas

Nonprofit Networking: The New Way to Grow

wide variation in the missions and activities that nonprofits focus on. Additionally, I had an interest in conservation organizations and the social goal of environmental conservation is conducive to the... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
  • 15 Aug 2016
  • Research & Ideas

Black Swans and Big Trends Can Ruin Anyone's Internet Prediction

businesses, I’ll let Speed Trap’s content speak for itself. With respect to the book’s conservative tone, I do think I was reflecting the Zeitgeist. If you are skeptical, read Michael Lewis’s 2002 New York Times Magazine article “In... View Details
Keywords: by Thomas R. Eisenmann; Technology
  • 09 Sep 2013
  • Lessons from the Classroom

Teaching Climate Change to Skeptics

faculty illustrate these points through case studies. Patagonia, for instance, recently teamed up with The Nature Conservancy and Argentine rancher network Ovis XXI to implement a sustainable sheep-grazing protocol that, beyond protecting... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
  • 04 Sep 2001
  • Research & Ideas

Five Questions for Max Bazerman

continue to make decisions that miss opportunities to make all parties better off. We will end up with inefficient methods of creating a cleaner environment. We will continue to miss opportunities to provide more services for the poor at... View Details
Keywords: Re: Max H. Bazerman
  • 14 Nov 2019
  • Book

Lifting the Lid on Turkey's Hidden Business History

it to wholly separate and autonomous agencies, supported by efficient and autonomous court systems. Sadly, the Turkish judiciary and police are bywords for corrupt practices. Silverthorne: In Chapter 5, the essay’s authors explore “Islamic Capitalism and the Rise of... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
  • 23 Jun 2016
  • Op-Ed

Brexit: Should Britain Stay or Go?

and acrimony in Scotland, with those wishing their country to remain part of the UK often accused of being traitors and sellouts. The referendum on staying or leaving the European Union, called entirely because of Cameron’s desire to hold off opponents in his own View Details
Keywords: by Geoffrey G. Jones & Dante Roscini
  • 02 May 2016
  • Research & Ideas

Why People Don’t Vote--and How a Good Ground Game Helps

percent French.” “We thought that perhaps a way to fix this [distrust] is to have politicians speak directly to voters” Hypothesizing that this lack of personal investment in the country depressed their tendency to vote on issues, the researchers recruited activists... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Communications; Public Relations
  • 08 Mar 2017
  • Op-Ed

Op-Ed: Can the Proposed American Health Care Act Improve on 'Obamacare'?

coverage and increase premiums. However, the new proposal actually looks far more similar to Obamacare than many anticipated--causing some conservative groups to speak out forcefully against it. Criticizing the plan, Republican Senator... View Details
Keywords: by John Quelch, Dr. Gordon Moore, and Emily Boudreau
  • 19 Jul 2006
  • Research & Ideas

Political Turmoil and Mexico’s Economy

Mexican history, he found a common thread running through the country's various shifts of power: reliance on a third party to enforce the rules (such as property rights) that make it possible to do business. A Stake In The Game Porfirio... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna
  • 25 Jan 2000
  • Research & Ideas

Strategic Alliances

Starbucks; The Nature Conservancy and Georgia-Pacific; Bidwell Training Center, a nonprofit vocational and technical school in Pennsylvania, and Bayer Corporation; and Jumpstart, a Boston-based NPO that prepares low-income preschoolers to... View Details
Keywords: by Nancy O. Perry

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