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- November 2001
- Background Note
Global Approaches to Anti-Corruption
By: Joseph Hinsey, Guhan Subramanian and Michelle Kalka
In the 1970s, a series of unpleasant revelations about corporate conduct, culminating in the public disclosure about unsavory business practices abroad by more than 400 U.S. corporations, jarred popular perceptions concerning business ethics. Congress responded by... View Details
Keywords: Crime and Corruption; Globalization; Developing Countries and Economies; Laws and Statutes; Ethics; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Information Industry; United States
Hinsey, Joseph, Guhan Subramanian, and Michelle Kalka. "Global Approaches to Anti-Corruption." Harvard Business School Background Note 902-062, November 2001.
- 01 Oct 2013
- First Look
First Look: October 1
yields-is believed to be an important factor contributing to the credit cycle. This paper analyses this phenomenon in the corporate bond market. Specifically, we show evidence for reaching for yield among insurance companies, the largest institutional holders of... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 16 May 2024
- News
On the Job
Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Dan Morrell: Hi, this is Dan Morrell, host of Skydeck. We all have early memories of on-the-job learnings—those moments that had a lasting impact on how we see the world of work and our place in it. This... View Details
Keywords: first job; leadership; life experience; career lessons; Finance; Oil and Gas Extraction; Mining; Retail Trade
- Web
Strategy Execution Online Course | HBS Online
more about this limited-time offer. Strategy Execution $1,850 Next 8-week session starts July 23rd Enroll Now Gain the tools, skills, and frameworks to successfully implement strategy within your organization and drive impactful results.... View Details
- 28 Apr 2009
- First Look
First Look: April 28, 2009
mechanisms impacts firm value. It is also important for minority shareholders in these companies and for regulators, for reasons of transparency and investor protection. Purchase this case:... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 29 Oct 2020
- Blog Post
Delving Deeper into Development with the MBA/MPA-ID Program – a Q+A with Zainab Raji (MBA/MPA-ID 2022)
macro shocks occurred. I discovered a pathway to economic development in management consulting after learning about the huge impact that strategy advisory firms in Africa had helped create. I transitioned to McKinsey after successful... View Details
- 24 Sep 2019
- Blog Post
Launching a Career in Clean Energy
that drove me in my career. I was working on spreadsheets at 2 a.m. just helping make a random billion-dollar company a bigger profit, which wasn’t as rewarding as refueling a tank battalion at 2 a.m. How can students best familiarize... View Details
- 01 Nov 2016
- First Look
First Look - November 1, 2016
with key players from the frontlines of digital change, The Content Trap aims to reorient strategy and offers lessons for businesses, entrepreneurs, and individuals trying to figure out what to do next. Companies that flourish in a... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 08 Feb 2000
- Research & Ideas
Building Effective R&D Capabilities Abroad
knowledge emerge across the globe, companies must establish a presence at an increasing number of locations to access new knowledge and to absorb new research results from foreign universities and competitors into their own organizations.... View Details
Keywords: by Walter Kuemmerle
- 16 Jul 2012
- Working Paper Summaries
Selection, Reallocation, and Spillover: Identifying the Sources of Gains from Multinational Production
Keywords: by Laura Alfaro & Maggie X. Chen
- TeachingInterests
Managing the Future of Work (MBA Education—Elective Curriculum)
The nature and scope of work is changing rapidly, creating massive business challenges in the shadow of broader political and social shifts. HBS launched a major initiative in 2017 on Managing the Future of Work to define these workplace issues and... View Details
- Profile
Peter Gumulia
not his central passion. In college, Peter interned at a supply chain company where he helped a large retailer build its first distribution center dedicated to e-commerce. “I enjoyed the process,” he says. “I learned a lot about warehouse... View Details
- July 2009 (Revised January 2014)
- Case
Sustainability at Millipore
By: Michael W. Toffel and Katharine Lee
This case describes Millipore Corporation's approach to becoming a more environmentally sustainable company. As he prepared for his quarterly meeting with the CEO, the Director of Sustainability needed to develop positions on several issues. Tactically, he needed to... View Details
Keywords: Investment; Corporate Disclosure; Operations; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Organizational Structure; Natural Environment; Environmental Sustainability; Pollutants
Toffel, Michael W., and Katharine Lee. "Sustainability at Millipore." Harvard Business School Case 610-012, July 2009. (Revised January 2014.) (defining sustainability in a corporate context, managing greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions including inventories, targets, disclosure, reduction strategies.)
- 12 Feb 2008
- First Look
First Look: February 12, 2007
inspiring showcase for its new technology, helped business partners connect with the company in a positive way, and offered individuals all over the globe the chance to contribute to something big. Expanding Ethical Standards of HRM:... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
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Faculty - Race, Gender & Equity
Sara L. Fleiss Senior Lecturer of Business Administration Sara Fleiss was the co-founder and co-portfolio manager of Emeth Partners, an emerging markets arbitrage hedge fund. Prior to founding Emeth, Sara was the lead analyst on the Emerging Markets Equities View Details
- 04 Apr 2022
- What Do You Think?
As Disney Board Chair, What Would You Advise CEO Bob Chapek Regarding 'Don’t Say Gay'?
But Iger, who had stayed on until recently as executive chairman and chairman of the board after a “legendary” tenure as CEO, said publicly, “A crisis of this magnitude, and its impact on Disney, would necessarily result in my actively... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 26 Aug 2008
- First Look
First Look: August 26, 2008
evidence. In particular, we find that every major interest group, not just radio broadcasters, publicly opposed expansion of the band in 1927 and that broadcasters themselves were divided at the FRC's hearings. Download the paper:... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- May 2011
- Article
Institutional Stock Trading on Loan Market Information
By: Victoria Ivashina and Zheng Sun
Over the past decade, one of the most important developments in the corporate loan market has been the increasing participation of institutional investors in lending syndicates. As lenders, institutional investors routinely receive private information about borrowers.... View Details
Ivashina, Victoria, and Zheng Sun. "Institutional Stock Trading on Loan Market Information." Journal of Financial Economics 100, no. 2 (May 2011): 284–303.
- 01 Jan 2004
- News
D. Ronald Daniel, MBA 1954
last June, he has been a prime example of the positive results of that litmus test. Daniel first heard of McKinsey & Company at a career panel he attended during his senior year at Wesleyan University, where he majored in mathematics. But... View Details
- 11 Nov 2014
- First Look
First Look: November 11
environmental performance, and social responsibility evaluation, which cover the company in the national, regional, and corporate levels for the purpose of realizing the comprehensive evaluation of economic and environmental performance... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne