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- August 1991 (Revised March 1993)
- Case
Champion International Corp.: Timber, Trade, and the Northern Spotted Owl
Champion's forest products division owns timberlands, sawmills, and plywood mills in the Pacific Northwest. The listing of the northern spotted owl as an endangered species, and restrictions on exports of logs from state-owned lands, have disrupted the stumpage, log... View Details
Keywords: Science-Based Business; Natural Environment; Product Marketing; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Government and Politics; Environmental Sustainability; Corporate Strategy; Trade; Decisions; Management Teams; Forest Products Industry; North and Central America
Reinhardt, Forest L. "Champion International Corp.: Timber, Trade, and the Northern Spotted Owl." Harvard Business School Case 792-017, August 1991. (Revised March 1993.)
- Fast Answer
Qualitative statistical software for MBA students
How can MBA students use software such as SAS, Stata, NVivo, or Atlas TI? Institute for Quantitative Social Science (IQSS) Computer Labs Sign up for lab access ahead of time. IQSS provides Training &... View Details
- 15 Jun 2011 - 17 Jun 2011
- Conference Presentation
A multi-disciplinary process for assessing synthetic biology applications
By: Gautam Mukunda, Allen Lin and Kenneth Oye
Keywords: Science
- 1977
- Book
Cell Protein II
By: James E. Austin, Steven Tannenbaum and Daniel I. C. Wang
Keywords: Science
Austin, James E., Steven Tannenbaum and Daniel I. C. Wang, eds. Cell Protein II. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1977.
- June 1986
- Case
EcoScience Laboratories, Inc.
By: Ray A. Goldberg
Keywords: Science
Goldberg, Ray A. "EcoScience Laboratories, Inc." Harvard Business School Case 586-093, June 1986.
- 06 Feb 2012
- Research & Ideas
Kodak: A Parable of American Competitiveness
development. This concentration of expertise can be found in places like Silicon Valley, where clusters of experts and firms feed growth and spur innovation. Much of the damage to American competitiveness in the science and technology... View Details
- 19 May 2016
- Research Event
Crowdsourcing, Patent Trolls, and Other Research Insights Highlighted at Harvard Business School Symposium
Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS). SEAS is relocating its campus across the street from the business school in a few years, and the two organizations are discussing collaboration opportunities. Seeking answers from... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman & Carmen Nobel
- 01 Sep 2016
- News
Making Progress on Strategic Priorities
Administration, Chair, Gender Initiative In support of Harvard University President Drew Faust’s vision for “One Harvard,” HBS is helping to foster collaboration across the University. Allston The Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied View Details
- 01 Sep 2015
- News
Faculty Q&A: The Working World
patents. If you look at the PhD workforce for science and engineering, the immigrant share is even higher at roughly 50 percent. The math and science skills behind many of these innovations are relatively... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
Arthur D. Little
Little founded the largest unendowed commercial industrial research laboratory in the United States. Little, who was initially interested in chemistry of cellulose and its application in production, gradually expanded his interest to include other fields of applied... View Details
Keywords: Services
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The International Experience at HBS: Zoe Sun (MBA 2024) - MBA
Business & Environment Career Change Career and Professional Development Case Method Clubs Curriculum Digital Entrepreneurship FIELD Financial Aid Health Care Instagram Takeover JD/MBA Leadership Letters to Classmates MBA/MPP & MBA/MPA-ID MD/MBA MS/MBA Biotechnology:... View Details
- 28 Apr 2010
- Working Paper Summaries
Environmental Federalism in the European Union and the United States
- October–December 2023
- Article
A Practical Guide to Conversation Research: How to Study What People Say to Each Other
By: Michael Yeomans, Katelynn Boland, Hanne K. Collins, Nicole Abi-Esber and Alison Wood Brooks
Conversation—a verbal interaction between two or more people—is a complex, pervasive, and consequential human behavior. Conversations have been studied across many academic disciplines. However, advances in recording and analysis techniques over the last decade have... View Details
Yeomans, Michael, Katelynn Boland, Hanne K. Collins, Nicole Abi-Esber, and Alison Wood Brooks. "A Practical Guide to Conversation Research: How to Study What People Say to Each Other." Advances in Methods and Practices in Psychological Science 6, no. 4 (October–December 2023).
- Article
Targeting Weather Insurance Markets
By: Anita Mukherjee, Shawn Cole and Jeremy Tobacman
The suitability of insurance products often depends greatly on individual circumstances. This paper examines the challenges of heterogeneity in a relatively new product, weather‐indexed insurance. This index insurance product has been launched in over a dozen... View Details
Keywords: Index Insurance; Labor Markets; Self-insurance; Self-protection; Weather; Insurance; Markets; Household; Risk Management
Mukherjee, Anita, Shawn Cole, and Jeremy Tobacman. "Targeting Weather Insurance Markets." Journal of Risk and Insurance 88, no. 3 (September 2021): 757–784.
- January 2021 (Revised March 2021)
- Exercise
E-Commerce Analytics for CPG Firms (A): Estimating Sales
By: Ayelet Israeli and Fedor (Ted) Lisitsyn
The E-Commerce Analytics group at the traditional CPG firm was in charge of compiling various online sales reports, as well as making data-driven recommendations for sales and marketing tactics. In a series of exercises, students address different data challenges for... View Details
Keywords: Data Analysis; Data Analytics; CPG; Consumer Packaged Goods (CPG); Estimation; Online Channel; Retail Analytics; Retail; Retailing Industry; Data; Data Sharing; Bricks And Mortar; Ecommerce; Direct-to-consumer; DTC; Analytics and Data Science; Sales; Marketing; E-commerce; Retail Industry; Consumer Products Industry; United States
Israeli, Ayelet, and Fedor (Ted) Lisitsyn. "E-Commerce Analytics for CPG Firms (A): Estimating Sales." Harvard Business School Exercise 521-078, January 2021. (Revised March 2021.)
- May 2013
- Teaching Note
Launching Krispy Natural: Cracking the Product Management Code (Brief Case)
By: Frank V. Cespedes and Heather Beckham
This case study concerns a review and interpretation of test market results for a new packaged good product. The purpose of the case is to provide students with practice and guidelines in the analysis of quantitative test market data while illustrating the roles of... View Details
- April 2010 (Revised November 2010)
- Background Note
Moral Decision-Making: Reason, Emotion & Luck
By: Michael A. Wheeler and Julianna Pillemer
This extensive note synthesizes current psychological and neuroscientific research on how people make decisions with moral implications. Research summaries and scenarios illustrate critical issues. View Details
Wheeler, Michael A., and Julianna Pillemer. "Moral Decision-Making: Reason, Emotion & Luck." Harvard Business School Background Note 910-029, April 2010. (Revised November 2010.)
- October 1999
- Case
Agricultural Biotechnology Brief, 1999
By: Forest L. Reinhardt and Jennifer Burns
Keywords: Business and Government Relations; Environmental Sustainability; Agriculture and Agribusiness Industry; Biotechnology Industry
Reinhardt, Forest L., and Jennifer Burns. "Agricultural Biotechnology Brief, 1999." Harvard Business School Case 700-066, October 1999.
- September 1992 (Revised October 1994)
- Case
Pesticide Export Reform Act of 1990
By: Lynn S. Paine
Paine, Lynn S. "Pesticide Export Reform Act of 1990." Harvard Business School Case 393-039, September 1992. (Revised October 1994.)
- June 1990 (Revised July 1990)
- Case
Minneapolis Plastic Packaging Ban (A)
By: George C. Lodge and Jeffrey F. Rayport
Lodge, George C., and Jeffrey F. Rayport. "Minneapolis Plastic Packaging Ban (A)." Harvard Business School Case 390-221, June 1990. (Revised July 1990.)