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  • 07 Nov 2017
  • Working Paper Summaries

Business and Sustainability: New Business History Perspectives

Keywords: by Ann-Kristin Bergquist
  • 04 Feb 2019
  • Working Paper Summaries

Understanding and Overcoming Roadblocks to Environmental Sustainability. Past Roads and Future Prospects

Keywords: by Ann-Kristin Bergquist, Shawn A. Cole, John Ehrenfeld, Andrew A. King, and Auden Schendler
  • 31 Oct 2017
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New Research and Ideas, October 31, 2017

after misconduct. The labor market partially undoes firm-level discipline by rehiring such advisers. Firms that hire these advisers also have higher rates of prior misconduct themselves, suggesting "matching on misconduct." These firms... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
  • 02 Jan 2018
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First Look at New Research and Ideas, January 3, 2018

causes, including LGBTQ rights, immigration, the environment, and racial equality. Not only are CEOs speaking out, but they’re flexing their firms’ economic muscles by threatening to move business activities out of states that pass... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
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Business & Environment

of household willingness to pay for homeowners insurance and the drivers of household insurance demand elasticities by exploiting quasi-exogenous regulatory shocks to insurance pricing. We utilize newly available individual-level data on... View Details
  • 2024
  • Working Paper

Private Regulation, Institutional Entrepreneurship and Climate Change: A Business History Perspective

By: Ann-Kristin Bergquist and Geoffrey Jones
Private regulatory systems, including voluntary efforts by firms to restrain their own behavior are the primary form of global climate change governance. However, when environmental challenges first rose up on the scientific and political agendas during the 1970s, the... View Details
Keywords: Certification; Climate Change; Environmental Regulation; Business History; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Policy
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Bergquist, Ann-Kristin, and Geoffrey Jones. "Private Regulation, Institutional Entrepreneurship and Climate Change: A Business History Perspective." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 24-041, January 2024.
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Faculty & Research - Business & Environment

and Sarah Sasso Teaching Note for HBS Case Nos. 324-038 and 324-039. 2025 Book Chapter Institutional Entrepreneurship and Climate Change By: Ann-Kristin Bergquist and Geoffrey Jones This chapter explores... View Details
  • 2017
  • Working Paper

Business and Green Knowledge Production in Sweden 1960s–1980s

By: Ann-Kristin Bergquist and Kristina Söderholm
This working paper contributes to the burgeoning historical literature that has transformed our understanding about the relationship between big business and the environmental regulation. Previously, it was believed that corporate managers resisted the extra costs... View Details
Keywords: Environmental Sustainability; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Business and Government Relations; Research and Development; History; Sweden
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Bergquist, Ann-Kristin, and Kristina Söderholm. "Business and Green Knowledge Production in Sweden 1960s–1980s." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 18-050, December 2017.
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Business & Environment - Faculty & Research

Parinitha, Tess Scharlemann, Ishita Sen, and Ana-Maria Tenekedjieva. "The Limits of Insurance Demand and the Growing Protection Gap." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 25-054, February 2025. Institutional Entrepreneurship and Climate Change By: View Details
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Events - Business History

Seminar meets on Zoom. Oct 23 23 Oct 2023 Business History Seminar: Business, Society, and the Environment Ann-Kristin Bergquist (Uppsala University), "Business and Global Climate Politics" Organized View Details
  • 2017
  • Working Paper

Business and Sustainability: New Business History Perspectives

By: Ann-Kristin Bergquist
This working paper provides a long-term business history perspective on environmental sustainability. For a long time, the central issues addressed in the discipline of business history concerned how business enterprises innovated and created wealth, as well as... View Details
Keywords: Environmental Sustainability; Business History; Perspective
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Bergquist, Ann-Kristin. "Business and Sustainability: New Business History Perspectives." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 18-034, October 2017. (Revised November 2017.)
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Social Enterprise - Faculty & Research

Hise O., F. Christopher Eaglin, and Ai-Ling Jamila Malone. "Campbell's Recipe for Advancing School Nutrition." Harvard Business School Case 625-117, April 2025. Institutional Entrepreneurship and Climate Change By: Ann-Kristin View Details

    Responsibility of Business

    rich collections at the Harvard libraries, along with energetic assistance from the librarians, were also indispensable resources. During my fellowship, I was honestly surprised by the number of faculty who were critically examining the... View Details
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    Impact Stories - Business History

    Present Re: Bahia El Oddi (MBA 2019) The Visible Hand of History Re: Chinmay Tumbe Business of Emerging Markets Re: Valeria Giacomin Responsibility of Business Re: Ann-Kristin Bergquist Leading with the Long... View Details
    • February 2009 (Revised March 2013)
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    Messer Griesheim (A)

    By: Josh Lerner, Ann-Kristin Achleitner, Eva Lutz and Kerry Herman
    In 2001, Allianz Capital Partners and Goldman Sachs acquired a majority stake in Messer Griesheim, a European industrial gas concern held by Hoechst. The dealmakers faced several challenges, including delicate corporate governance issues due to partial family ownership... View Details
    Keywords: Mergers and Acquisitions; Restructuring; Venture Capital; Private Equity; Corporate Governance; Family Ownership; Chemical Industry; Industrial Products Industry; Europe
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    Lerner, Josh, Ann-Kristin Achleitner, Eva Lutz, and Kerry Herman. "Messer Griesheim (A)." Harvard Business School Case 809-056, February 2009. (Revised March 2013.)
    • February 2009 (Revised March 2013)
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    Messer Griesheim (B)

    By: Josh Lerner, Ann-Kristin Achleitner, Eva Lutz and Kerry Herman
    In 2001, Allianz Capital Partners and Godlman Sachs acquired a majority stake in Messer Greisheim, a European industrial gas concern held by Hoeschst. The dealmakers faced several challenges, including delicate corporate governance issues due to partial family... View Details
    Keywords: Mergers and Acquisitions; Private Equity; Stock Options; Stock Shares; Corporate Governance; Governance Controls; Family Ownership; Problems and Challenges; Energy Industry; Europe
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    Lerner, Josh, Ann-Kristin Achleitner, Eva Lutz, and Kerry Herman. "Messer Griesheim (B)." Harvard Business School Supplement 809-057, February 2009. (Revised March 2013.)
    • 02 Mar 2010
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    legal change applied). These reductions in agency costs were followed by an increase in average leverage and a reduction in interest costs. Finally, we can estimate the welfare implications of agency costs, because firm values increased... View Details
    Keywords: Martha Lagace
    • 2025
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    Institutional Entrepreneurship and Climate Change

    By: Ann-Kristin Bergquist and Geoffrey Jones
    This chapter explores when and why private regulatory governance systems became the primary form of global environmental governance. The chapter explores two different historical paths in such private regulation and how they came about. The first path involved... View Details
    Keywords: Institutional Entrepreneurship; Environment; Climate Change; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Environmental Regulation; Standards; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact
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    Bergquist, Ann-Kristin, and Geoffrey Jones. "Institutional Entrepreneurship and Climate Change." Chap. 1 in Climate Change and Business: Historical Perspectives, edited by Teresa da Silva Lopes, Paul Duguid, and Robert Fredona, 8–29. London, United Kingdom: Routledge, 2025.
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