Publications

01 Dec 2016
News

Starting Lineup: Upturning Travel

websites. FLYR CEO Jean Tripier (MBA 1992) Founded in 2013 “The data science company that ends the guessing game of booking airfares.” When JetBlue created a venture capital arm earlier this year, its first investment was in FLYR’s... View Details

Keywords: April White

February 2017 (Revised August 2018)
Case

Sarah Powers at Automated Precision Products

By: Jeffrey T. Polzer, Michael Norris, Julia Kelley and Kristina Tobio

In 2017, Sarah Powers, VP of Sales at an automation hardware firm, is trying to understand why some members of her sales team have been underperforming. She is tasked with analyzing her firm’s email and calendar data to try to find relationships between communications... View Details

Keywords: People Analytics; Sales Attainment; Communication Networks; Data; Human Resources; Business Processes; Sales; Communication; Analytics and Data Science; Analysis; Industrial Products Industry; Manufacturing Industry; United States

November 2014
Teaching Note

Houston We Have a Problem: NASA and Open Innovation (A) and (B)

By: Michael L. Tushman, Hila Lifshitz-Assaf and Kerry Herman

Keywords: Leading Change; Innovation Leadership; Science-Based Business

Web

Anna Wang | MBA

Anna Wang Computer Science Cabot 2022 Cohort 4 I'm excited to be part of a community of innovative, entrepreneurial thinkers where we can learn from one another and support each other through our endeavors. It takes so many different... View Details

May 1992 (Revised August 1993)
Case

Forest Policy in Malaysia

By: Forest L. Reinhardt

The governments of Malaysia and the Malaysian State of Sarawak need to assess possible changes in forest policy. Environmentalist pressure threatens traditional market relationships and patterns of business-government interaction. Harvest regulations, subsidies, trade... View Details

Keywords: Natural Environment; Policy; Government and Politics; Environmental Sustainability; Trade; Business and Government Relations; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Forestry Industry; Forest Products Industry; Malaysia

10 Jun 2015
Research & Ideas

The Transparency Revolution in Corporate Reporting

40 or so years, SASB hopes to simplify and standardize how businesses report data from their environmental, social, and governance (ESG) initiatives. George Serafeim is the Jakurski Family Associate Professor of View Details

Keywords: Re: George Serafeim

2022
Case

Mandalay Homes: Building Sustainable Innovation in Residential Construction

By: Andrew J. Hoffman

Mandalay Homes, a home builder based in northern Arizona, is a market leader in energy efficiency based construction. The company is now at a crossroads for developing a strategy for the future. Internal leadership is in agreement that quality is better than quantity... View Details

Keywords: Green Building; Renewable Energy; Environmental Sustainability; Business Strategy; Construction Industry

03 Apr 2016
News

The Tampon of the Future

together, it becomes obvious. We have an opportunity every single month to collect blood from women, without needles.” Working with a business partner, Tariyal, who was a 2014 Blavatnik Fellow in Life View Details

Keywords: Blavatnick; Scientific Research and Development Services

19 Nov 2010
Research & Ideas

The Landscape of Integrated Reporting: An E-Book

Editor's note: Harvard Business School in mid-October played host to the 2010 Workshop on Integrated Reporting: Frameworks and Action Plan. Under direction of conference organizer Robert G. Eccles, participants recently published an... View Details

Keywords: by Nitin Nohria; Accounting

April 2010
Teaching Note

Swire Beverages: Implementing CSR in China

By: Christopher Marquis, Alison Comings and Bobbi Thomason

Teaching Note for [410021]. View Details

Keywords: Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Business and Community Relations; Health; Organizational Design; Factories, Labs, and Plants; Business Strategy; Business and Stakeholder Relations; Safety; Natural Environment; Brands and Branding; Interests; Partners and Partnerships; Food and Beverage Industry; China

Keywords: Roger Thompson; Margie Kelley; Business Schools & Computer & Management Training; Business Schools & Computer & Management Training; Business Schools & Computer & Management Training; Business Schools & Computer & Management Training

01 Jun 2007
News

Mission Possible

opportunity to create and spread innovative solutions to some of society’s most pressing problems. In doing so, they joined a groundswell of interest in social entrepreneurship. Just as entrepreneurs spot missed opportunities in business... View Details

01 Mar 2006
News

Can the United States Avoid a Fractured Future?

ENRIQUEZ: People take too much for granted. PHOTO BY JEFF THIEBAUTH As CEO of Biotechonomy, a life-sciences research and venture capital firm, Juan Enriquez (MBA ’86) has examined the impact of life sciences on the global economy. In his... View Details

Keywords: Lewis I. Rice; Finance; Health, Social Assistance

2010
Working Paper

The Empire Struck Back: The Mexican Oil Expropriation of 1938 Reconsidered

By: Noel Maurer

The Mexican expropriation of 1938 was the first large-scale non-Communist expropriation of foreign-owned natural resource assets. The literature generally makes three assertions: the U.S. government did not fully back the companies, Mexico did not fully compensate them... View Details

Keywords: Non-Renewable Energy; Governance Controls; Business History; Ownership; Business and Government Relations; Natural Environment; Energy Industry; Mexico; United States

Read Now

February 2012
Case

First Quantum Minerals vs. Eurasian Natural Resources

By: George Serafeim

The case describes the battle between First Quantum Mineral (FQM) and Eurasian Resources over mines in Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). After FQM's license to operate was revoked by the government of the DRC, Eurasian bought the rights over the mines that were... View Details

Keywords: Governing and Advisory Boards; Business and Government Relations; Corporate Governance; Natural Environment; Risk and Uncertainty; Government and Politics; Mining Industry; Congo, Democratic Republic of the

2004
Book

R&D Meets M&A: Proceedings of the 2003 Conference on Innovation and Creativity in Chemical R&D

By: Arthur A. Daemmrich

Keywords: Research and Development; Mergers and Acquisitions; Conferences; Innovation and Invention; Creativity; Science

Read Now

June 2001 (Revised November 2001)
Case

Plum Creek Timber (B)

By: Max H. Bazerman, Jack Troast, Hannah Bowles and Nicole Nasser

Plum Creek Timber Co. decides to go ahead with negotiations for a Habitat Conservation Plan (HCP) on its Pacific Northwest properties. HCP represents a new form of public-private-sector collaboration and innovation to improve upon command-and-control environmental... View Details

Keywords: Conflict of Interests; Negotiation Process; Negotiation Participants; Environmental Sustainability; Business and Government Relations; Forest Products Industry; United States