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  • 21 Jun 2011
  • First Look

First Look: June 21

Moreover, there is something resembling "intelligent design" in finance, whereby regulators and legislators act in a quasidivine capacity, putting dinosaurs on life support. The danger is that such interventions in the natural... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • August 2023 (Revised January 2024)
  • Supplement

Arla Foods: Data-Driven Decarbonization (B)

By: Michael Parzen, Michael W. Toffel, Susan Pinckney and Amram Migdal
The case describes Arla’s history, in particular its climate change mitigation efforts, and how it implemented a price incentive system to motivate individual farms to implement scope 1 greenhouse gas emissions mitigation measures and receive a higher milk price. The... View Details
Keywords: Dairy Industry; Earnings Management; Environmental Accounting; Animal-Based Agribusiness; Mergers and Acquisitions; Decisions; Voting; Climate Change; Environmental Regulation; Environmental Sustainability; Green Technology; Pollution; Moral Sensibility; Values and Beliefs; Financial Strategy; Price; Profit; Revenue; Food; Geopolitical Units; Cross-Cultural and Cross-Border Issues; Global Strategy; Cooperative Ownership; Performance Efficiency; Performance Evaluation; Problems and Challenges; Natural Environment; Science-Based Business; Business Strategy; Commercial Banking; Cooperation; Corporate Strategy; Motivation and Incentives; Food and Beverage Industry; Agriculture and Agribusiness Industry; Europe; United Kingdom; European Union; Denmark; Sweden; Luxembourg; Belgium
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  • 29 Mar 2016
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March 29, 2016

is often ineffective unless backed by the power of the state, and that in some cases it serves rather to forestall government intervention or to reduce competition than as genuine self-regulation. Many observers doubt that accelerated private sector View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 11 Jun 2012
  • Research & Ideas

When Business Competition Harms Society

UCLA Anderson School, and Michael W. Toffel of Harvard Business School. In the quest to discover whether competition breeds unethical behavior, the researchers examined the vehicle emissions testing program in New York State, one of several states required by the... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Auto
  • 26 Feb 2008
  • First Look

First Look: February 26, 2008

Environmental Policy Making and Implementation Author:Alnoor S. Ebrahim Abstract This paper explores how "learning" occurs in the context of environmental policy formulation and implementation.... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 20 Jan 2017
  • Research & Ideas

Here’s How Businessman Trump Is Likely to Approach the Presidency

host of social and political issues, from labor practices to environmental policies. In this context, hard charging and “command and control” are perhaps overly blunt instruments. I write and teach about individual leaders concerned with... View Details
Keywords: by Christina Pazzanese
  • 22 Apr 2020
  • Research Event

How Investors Are Sizing Up Climate Change’s Risks—and Opportunities

Until a few years ago, climate change’s potential impact seemed abstract for many investors. Now, as sea levels rise, hurricanes intensify, and droughts threaten food supplies, many investors are confronting its financial realities. But it’s not a simple calculation.... View Details
Keywords: by Danielle Kost; Financial Services
  • 23 Aug 2010
  • Research & Ideas

The Drive to Acquire’s Impact on Globalization

inherently abusive; the citizens of the developed country are winners and the citizens of the undeveloped country may be getting a better or cheaper product. But when regulation is weak or nonexistent, this system can lend itself to... View Details
Keywords: by Paul R. Lawrence
  • 11 Jan 2011
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First Look: Jan. 11

areas. Nestlé, for example, redesigned its coffee procurement processes, working intensively with small farmers in impoverished areas who were trapped in a cycle of low productivity, poor quality, and environmental degradation. Nestlé... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 07 Aug 2000
  • Research & Ideas

The Business of Biotech

Although much of the debate focuses on the possible health hazards posed by genetically engineered crops, as well as their potential for causing environmental harm, some observers have also expressed ethical concerns regarding the medical... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Biotechnology; Health; Technology
  • 29 May 2012
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First Look: May 29

city government are seeking a development solution in the form of unique land use regulations and a resulting development strategy that weighs the financial, economic, aesthetic, and environmental impacts of... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 07 Jul 2009
  • First Look

First Look: July 7

corporate environmental ratings that guide investors to select "socially responsible," and avoid "socially irresponsible," companies. We examine how several hundred firms respond to corporate View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 21 Feb 2017
  • First Look

First Look at New Research: February 21

characterized by underdeveloped institutions and frequent environmental shifts. Yet they also contain many firms that have survived over generations. How are firms in weak institutional environments able to persist over time? Motivated by... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 13 Dec 2011
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First Look: Dec. 13

years. In this period, Norway was at the forefront with regard to implementing legislation regulating cartels, yet the legislation was not an antitrust legislation in the modern sense. It was aimed not only at protecting consumer... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 12 Dec 2017
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New Research and Ideas, December 12, 2017

education, and the arts—Forged in Crisis spotlights five masters of crisis: polar explorer Ernest Shackleton, President Abraham Lincoln, legendary abolitionist Frederick Douglass, Nazi-resisting clergyman Dietrich Bonhoeffer, and View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 08 Nov 2024
  • Op-Ed

How Private Investors Can Help Solve Africa's Climate Crisis

Center and a member of the executive committee of the Harvard University Center for African Studies. You Might Also Like: COP27: What Can Business Leaders Do to Fight Climate Change Now? The Climate Targets Leaders Need to Know as View Details
Keywords: by John Macomber; Green Technology; Energy
  • 18 Dec 2018
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New Research and Ideas, December 18, 2018

together, our results highlight how revealing failures encountered on the way to success can be a counterintuitive yet effective interpersonal emotion regulation strategy. Publisher's link:... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 03 Jun 2008
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First Look: June 3, 2008

and academics are focusing considerable attention on the concept of "corporate social responsibility" (CSR), particularly in the realm of environmental protection. Beyond complete compliance with View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 21 Feb 2012
  • First Look

First Look: Feb. 21

multinational, dispersed shareholder, and private-equity owned firms are typically well managed. Stronger product market competition and higher worker skills are associated with better management practices. Less regulated labor markets... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 20 Jan 2015
  • First Look

First Look: January 20

http://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Publication%20Files/15-057_22238ffa-00d7-4637-bd63-265fdfef9ccc.pdf Regulator Leniency and Mispricing in Beneficent Nonprofits By: Heese, Jonas, Ranjani Krishnan, and Frank Moers Abstract—We posit that... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

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