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- 19 Mar 2007
- Research & Ideas
Handicapping the Best Countries for Business
deficit that drives up interest rates. She cares if we have a huge current account deficit and import everything from elsewhere. Her own business might erode to the point of failure. Finally, the American cares because our economic... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 17 Jan 2024
- Research & Ideas
Are Companies Getting Away with 'Cheap Talk' on Climate Goals?
Companies regularly set ambitious climate goals, but these plans often end up like many people’s New Year’s resolutions: unmet aspirations that quietly fizzle out. While companies often gain positive media attention by trumpeting plans for reducing greenhouse gas... View Details
Keywords: by Tim Gray
- Web
Lehman Brothers Timeline | Baker Library | Bloomberg Center | Harvard Business School
and global economic collapse. 1933 Congress passes the Glass-Steagall Act separating commercial banks from investment banks. 1934 Congress establishes the Securities Exchange... View Details
- December 2013
- Supplement
Bruce Allyn: Negotiating with the KGB (B)
This case picks up (from the end of the "A" case) the detailed story of the KGB's high-pressure negotiations with Harvard doctoral student Bruce Allyn to recruit him as a secret asset for the Soviet spy agency. The "A" case describes how, at the tense height of the... View Details
Keywords: Negotiation; Bargaining; Hard Bargaining; KGB; Espionage; Spying; War; National Security; Alliances; Ethics; Negotiation Tactics; Decision Choices and Conditions; Negotiation Participants; Negotiation Offer; Cambridge; Moscow; Soviet Union
Sebenius, James K. "Bruce Allyn: Negotiating with the KGB (B)." Harvard Business School Supplement 914-028, December 2013.
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Curriculum - Case Method Project
Act in 1933, and culminates in a decision of whether to adopt the National Securities Exchange Act in 1934. Coverage: 1910s – 1934; stock market crash of 1929; President... View Details
- 07 Jul 2008
- Research & Ideas
Innovation Corrupted: How Managers Can Avoid Another Enron
building on intense lobbying to encourage further domestic deregulation and limit federal oversight of the energy industry, Skilling encouraged Enron executives to exploit to the hilt recent Securities View Details
- 24 Oct 2016
- Research & Ideas
Bernie Madoff Explains Himself
service of buying shares; now Madoff had turned the practice upside down and was paying them to trade. That innovation diverted trading away from the New York Stock Exchange floor, View Details
- 10 Dec 2021
- Research & Ideas
Truth Be Told: Unpacking the Risks of Whistleblowing
In 2018, HBS associate professors Aiyesha Dey and Jonas Heese wrote a case about a whistleblower at a multi-national gambling company who exposed financial misstatements, first to his manager and later to... View Details
Keywords: by April White
- 30 Jun 2022
- HBS Case
Peloton Changed the Exercise Game. Can the Company Push Through the Pain?
classes left us energized, refreshed, stronger, and ready to take on anything,” Foley explained in Peloton’s 2019 registration filing with the Securities and View Details
- 13 Jan 2023
- Research & Ideas
Are Companies Actually Greener—or Are They All Talk?
Most companies now account for social good in their financial reports in some way, but with regulation scattershot and evolving, it’s complicated for investors to assess so-called ESG reports. The disclosures, known as Environmental, Social, and Governance reports,... View Details
Keywords: by Rachel Layne
- 23 Mar 2023
- Research & Ideas
As Climate Fears Mount, More Investors Turn to 'ESG' Funds Despite Few Rules
Investor interest in social responsibility has skyrocketed in the past three years, even as US regulations to hold companies accountable remain in flux and the environmental, social, and governance (ESG) label itself draws backlash. Investors are willing to pay a... View Details
- 04 Jun 2024
- Research & Ideas
Navigating Consumer Data Privacy in an AI World
Layne: The EU and US landscapes are so different. What should businesses think about when they’re working on privacy matters in these different regions? Ascarza: Indeed, these two regions have a very different approach. In Europe, the... View Details
- 22 Aug 2005
- Research & Ideas
Restoring a Global Economy, 1950–1980
1970s, but its governments systematically discouraged wholly owned FDI [foreign direct investment], and restricted it to a low level. During the 1940s and early 1950s only the U.S. dollar was available as a... View Details
Keywords: by Geoffrey Jones
- 21 Jul 2021
- Research & Ideas
What Does an ESG Score Really Say About a Company?
Receiving more information can clarify the complex, but not when it comes to environmental, social, and governance (ESG) scores. A recent study shows that the more information a company discloses about its ESG practices, the more rating agencies disagree on how well... View Details
Keywords: by Kristen Senz
- 30 Jan 2018
- First Look
January 30, 2018
in the Istanbul Stock Exchange and to being the country’s largest retail company by market capitalization. Seeing an opportunity to pioneer the format internationally, the company was now also in Morocco... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 20 Dec 2010
- Research & Ideas
Panama Canal: Troubled History, Astounding Turnaround
change have been on the security of US overseas investments. Book Excerpt From the Big Ditch: How America Took, Built, Ran, And Ultimately Gave Away The Panama Canal By Noel Maurer View Details
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Bloomberg: tickers
e.g., [EQUITY] for stocks) exchange (e.g., LN for London) dates (e.g., bond maturity; mm/dd/yy) To find a company ticker: Type company name, then hit HELP. Select #2 (Companies) and then choose... View Details
Robert C. Merton
Robert C. Merton is the School of Management Distinguished Professor of Finance at the MIT Sloan School of Management.
Merton is University Professor Emeritus at Harvard University and was the George Fisher Baker Professor of... View Details
- 07 Apr 2023
- Research & Ideas
When Celebrity ‘Crypto-Influencers’ Rake in Cash, Investors Lose Big
After a rough 2022, the $1.2 trillion global cryptocurrency market is still going strong, though its value is down by more than half from its 2021 peak of $3 trillion. Last year saw the collapse of cryptocurrency exchange FTX View Details
Keywords: by Kristen Senz
- 04 Aug 2010
- News
A Lonely Crusader
and distort” campaign allegedly motivated by his quest for a big profit if the company faltered. At the firm’s urging, New York attorney general Eliot Spitzer launched an investigation, and the View Details