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January 2002
Case

Noranda Inc.: Mining, Smelting, and Sustainability?

By: Richard H.K. Vietor

Noranda is a $7 billion international mining and smelting company headquartered in Canada. It has been cited for its fine environmental record. This case explores the issue of sustainability--in this case, for a mining company. Over time, and under nongovernmental... View Details

Keywords: Cost vs Benefits; Mining; Cost Management; Multinational Firms and Management; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Policy; Environmental Sustainability; Mining Industry

02 May 2017
First Look

First Look at New Research: May 2, 2017

And an audience of customers standing by with their smartphones to record any spectacle seems to have had, until now, unfortunately, no discernable impact on corporate policy guidelines for dealing with uncooperative customers. Companies... View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

April 2022 (Revised August 2022)
Case

Conflicts of Interest at Uptown Bank

By: Jonas Heese

In 2013, two employees debated whether to blow the whistle on their employer, Bell Bank, after completing an internal review that revealed undisclosed conflicts of interest. Bell Bank’s Asset Management business disproportionately invested clients’ money in Bell Bank’s... View Details

15 Aug 2006
First Look

First Look: August 15, 2006

joint decision of holding sovereign debt and reserves, we construct a stochastic dynamic equilibrium model calibrated to a sample of emerging markets. We obtain that the optimal policy is not to hold reserves at all. This finding is... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

01 Jan 2005
News

Nancy M. Barry, MBA 1975

impact of business and government on society. After graduating from Stanford University in 1971 in the midst of demonstrations against the Vietnam War, she took a freighter to Peru to work for a government... View Details

24 Mar 2015
First Look

First Look: March 24

agriculture and how it has been affected by government policies and new technologies. Purchase this case: https://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cbmp/product/515069-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 515-069 Burberry... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

April 1988 (Revised May 1992)
Case

Gaz de France

By: W. Carl Kester

The treasurer of Gaz de France is an aggressive, proactive manager of his company's liability structure, running one of the largest swap books of any non-financial corporation in the world. Currency futures, interbank forwards, and currency options are also frequently... View Details

Keywords: Decisions; Borrowing and Debt; Currency Exchange Rate; Credit Derivatives and Swaps; Policy; Management; Organizational Structure; Energy Industry; Europe

November 2001 (Revised September 2004)
Case

Evolution of Treatment, The: The Case of Diabetes

By: Richard M.J. Bohmer, Jeffrey D. Street and Laura Feldman

Scientific knowledge surrounding diabetes mellitus has grown over the last century to include its cause, treatment, and prevention strategies. However, the type and level of care that patients receive is suboptional. This case examines the forces in industry,... View Details

Keywords: Policy; Health Care and Treatment; Innovation and Management; Knowledge Use and Leverage; Management; Management Analysis, Tools, and Techniques; Health Industry

05 Sep 2012
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First Look: September 5

governments rely on honest reporting. Proof of honest intent is typically provided through signature at the end of the document, e.g., tax returns or insurance policy forms. Still, people sometimes cheat to... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

23 Jan 2008
Op-Ed

A House Divided: Investment or Shelter?

term's end. A family needed to amass a 50 percent down payment; few Americans could. So homeownership was neither a plausible individual aspiration nor a policy prescription. The word home had no investment connotations. The ultrarich... View Details

Keywords: by Nicolas P. Retsinas; Banking; Construction; Real Estate

Web

Mapping the Salt Tax That Helped Shatter a Monarchy | Working Knowledge

Business and Economics at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam Article By : Ana Elena Azpúrua Topics: Business History Economics and Global Commerce Government and Politics Policy Taxation Share: Facebook LinkedIn... View Details

02 Mar 2020
News

Educating the Whole Student

the work and seeing what the needs are, every day, of teachers, students, and families—then you just don’t understand,” says Liu, who later worked on education policy in the government and nonprofit sectors.... View Details

Keywords: April White; Elementary and Secondary Schools; Educational Services

Web

IFC: India; Development While Decarbonizing - India’s Path to Net Zero - Course Catalog

Refer to the GEO website for full details on IFCs and be sure you understand the Course Policies and Course Fee & Financial Aid . Visit IFC Financial Aid for a quick assessment to determine your eligibility and process or contact... View Details

26 Nov 2013
First Look

First Look: November 26

Bioethanol Industry By: Khanna, Tarun, and Santiago Mingo Abstract—Industrial policy programs are frequently used by governments to stimulate economic activity in particular sectors of the economy. This... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

07 Feb 2017
News

Shaping Singapore

Development. “Singapore’s story is about how a land- and resource-poor city-state has managed to develop a highly livable, high-density city,” she said in her acceptance remarks last October. “Doing this has not come easy. It requires collective effort, innovative... View Details

12 Mar 2014
Research & Ideas

Entrepreneurship and Multinationals Drive Globalization

Excerpt Second, I wanted to demonstrate the relative importance of business compared to governments and other institutional actors in building global capitalism. In both the historical and economics literatures, firms are typically... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Beauty & Cosmetics; Manufacturing; Consumer Products; Pharmaceutical

01 Dec 2011
News

Faculty Books

cost-effective responses to climate change. The studies are part of a discussion of how such acceleration might best be accomplished and the role that public policy and government might play in supporting... View Details

Keywords: Utilities

07 Dec 2015
Research & Ideas

Why Immigrant Workers Cluster in Particular Industries

economists predict the effects of changes in immigration of specific ethnic groups. “This notion that if you opened up the immigration spigot then entrepreneurship would happen everywhere is probably not true,” he says. “But if you were to adjust immigration View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Transportation; Beauty & Cosmetics; Retail

20 Sep 2021
Blog Post

Student Spotlight: Summer Internships in Business and Environment

professionals and institutions in building better financial futures. The Sustainable Investing team is focusing on a variety of environmental, social, and governance projects, including the launch of a new $1B fund called Decarbonization... View Details

24 Oct 2005
Research & Ideas

IPR: Protecting Your Technology Transfers

implications for both of these audiences. Governments, especially governments in emerging markets, have exerted considerable effort devising programs to facilitate the transfer of technology. Often these View Details

Keywords: by Cynthia Churchwell

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