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- January 2002
- Case
Noranda Inc.: Mining, Smelting, and Sustainability?
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
Vietor, Richard H.K. "Noranda Inc.: Mining, Smelting, and Sustainability?" Harvard Business School Case 702-009, January 2002.
- 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
Keywords: Whistleblower; Whistleblowing; Mutual Funds; Conflicts Of Interest; Decision Making; Decisions; Judgments; Ethics; Moral Sensibility; Values and Beliefs; Finance; Financial Institutions; Banks and Banking; Financial Management; Investment; Investment Funds; Governance; Corporate Accountability; Corporate Disclosure; Corporate Governance; Governance Compliance; Governance Controls; Policy; Law; Legal Liability; Social Psychology; Motivation and Incentives; Perception; Perspective; Trust; Financial Services Industry; North and Central America; United States
Heese, Jonas. "Conflicts of Interest at Uptown Bank." Harvard Business School Case 122-022, April 2022. (Revised August 2022.)
- 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
Kester, W. Carl. "Gaz de France." Harvard Business School Case 288-030, April 1988. (Revised May 1992.)
- 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
Bohmer, Richard M.J., Jeffrey D. Street, and Laura Feldman. "Evolution of Treatment, The: The Case of Diabetes." Harvard Business School Case 302-023, November 2001. (Revised September 2004.)
- 05 Sep 2012
- First Look
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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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