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  • November 2010 (Revised December 2011)
  • Supplement

Oriflame S.A. (C)

By: David F. Hawkins and Karol Misztal
Notes from Oriflame's 2009 annual report relevant to the assessment of the monetary impact of Oriflame's FX risk management actions. View Details
Keywords: Financial Reporting; Financial Statements; International Accounting; Currency Exchange Rate; Annual Reports; Management Analysis, Tools, and Techniques; Risk Management; Standards; Beauty and Cosmetics Industry
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  • July 2020
  • Background Note

Gender Diversity on Boards: Views from Norway

By: Aiyesha Dey
The issue of gender diversity on boards has received increased attention in U.S markets over the past few years. In 2018, California introduced a law which required boards of U.S-listed firms with headquarters in California to include at least one female director by... View Details
Keywords: Board Of Directors; Board Decisions; Gender; Diversity; Governing and Advisory Boards; Norway; United States
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  • 20 Nov 2012
  • First Look

First Look: November 20

the firms they regulate, but not exclusively via dyadic exchanges as is traditionally argued in the regulatory capture and business-government literatures. Instead, regulatory decisions are indirectly shaped via third-party actors who... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • May 2017
  • Teaching Note

Partners Group: Ain't No Mountain High Enough

By: Nori Gerardo Lietz
Partners Group (PG), a Swiss-based PE manager, initiated a series of strategic shifts and evolved from a predominately fund-of-funds manager into a large, multi-asset class PE firm focused on direct investments. PG was the first PE firm to go public in 2006. A number... View Details
Keywords: Business Model; Entrepreneurship; Management Practices and Processes; Private Equity
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  • Program

Strategic Perspectives in Nonprofit Management

policies, and major programs of their organizations Participating organizations must be public-serving nonprofits, fully operational, and out of the startup phase; they typically have operating budgets in excess of $1 million Not appropriate for: Industry or View Details
  • July 2017 (Revised September 2017)
  • Case

Donald Trump Calls Carrier Corporation

By: Andy Zelleke and Brian Tilley
This case examines the influence of political pressure on corporate decision-making. It questions whether fidelity to domestic operations ought to be a corporate social responsibility, and thus it challenges the limits of “social responsibility” as a corporate ideal.... View Details
Keywords: Corporate Social Responsibility; Board Decisions; Political Influence; Layoffs; Offshoring And Outsourcing; Manufacturing; United States; Mexico; Governing and Advisory Boards; Decision Making; Job Cuts and Outsourcing; Political Elections; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Corporate Governance; Technology Industry; Manufacturing Industry; Connecticut; Indiana; Mexico
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  • Web

Live from Klarman Hall - Alumni

Nasdaq US Exchanges Jonathan Zittrain George Bemis Professor of International Law Harvard Law School Creativity in AI with Music Explore the transformative impact of AI on music in this session, which offers an inside look at the creative... View Details
  • Program

Growing as a Purposeful Leader

purpose-driven journey. (Please note that executives from the same company will be placed into different discussion groups.) Related Programs Executives who wish to strengthen their global business acumen on top of the themes of this... View Details
  • 25 Nov 2008
  • First Look

First Look: November 25, 2008

http://papers.nber.org/papers/w14483 The Flattening Firm and Product Market Competition: The Effect of Trade Liberalization Authors: Maria Guadalupe and Julie M. Wulf Abstract This paper establishes a causal effect of competition from... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace

    Robert J. Dolan

    Robert J. Dolan is the Baker Foundation Professor at Harvard Business School. He received his Ph.D. from the University of Rochester and began his academic career in 1976 as a faculty member at the Graduate School of Business of the University of Chicago. He joined... View Details

    • Program

    Agribusiness Seminar

    deepen their understanding of the food and agriculture landscape, exchange perspectives, strengthen their networks, and cultivate ideas to shape this vital industry. In our upcoming seminar, you will explore current and future industry... View Details
    Keywords: Agriculture; Agriculture
    • Research Summary

    Unintended Consequences of Fundraising Tactics

    Charity fundraisers use a variety of methods to increase donations, with three of the most common being matching funds, seed money, and thank you gifts. Field experiments have shown that matching funds (Eckel and Grossman, 2008) and seed money (List and Lucking-Reiley,... View Details
    • July 2018 (Revised August 2018)
    • Case

    Rocky Mountain Condiments: Close Encounters with the Legal System for the First Time

    By: Lena G. Goldberg
    The founder of a Colorado start-up focused on developing a line of condiments confronts a host of legal issues that threaten the viability of her young enterprise. She is suing a co-packer for, among other things, breach of contract, theft of recipes and trade secrets,... View Details
    Keywords: Law And Regulation; Start-ups; Founders' Agreements; Cross-Border Jurisdiction; Torts; Consumer Protection; Non-disclosure Agreements; Intellectual Property Protection; Fraud; Legal Remedies; Law; Lawsuits and Litigation; Laws and Statutes; Business Startups; Contracts; Intellectual Property; Food and Beverage Industry
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    Making Corporate Boards More Effective

    into your business challenges and career decisions Who Should Attend This program is designed to meet the needs of board members, chairs, and directors of publicly traded and other established companies. This program is not a fit for... View Details
    • 18 Apr 2022
    • HBS Case

    Dick’s Sporting Goods Followed Its Conscience on Guns—and It Paid Off

    move, built consensus, and communicated effectively, Riedel says. The company undoubtedly benefited from the fact that Stack controlled nearly two-thirds of the company’s common share votes and had the personal authority to take a moral stand and risk the consequences,... View Details
    Keywords: by Jay Fitzgerald
    • Web

    Business, Government & the International Economy - Faculty & Research

    By linking daily prices from major U.S. retailers to Harmonized System (HS) codes and import origins, we construct custom price indices that isolate the direct effects of tariff changes across product categories and trading partners. Our... View Details
    • Web

    Entrepreneurial Management - Faculty & Research

    | Teaching Note | Faculty Research Teaching Note for HBS Case No. 825-097. Citation Purchase Related Rayport, Jeffrey F., and Nicole Tempest Keller. "Duolingo: On a 'Streak'." Harvard Business School... View Details
    • Program

    Leading Global Businesses

    of your organization will foster teamwork and enhance the program's impact. (Please note that executives from the same company will be placed into different groups for the personal development portion of the curriculum.) Learning and... View Details
    • Web

    Accounting & Management - Faculty & Research

    organizational tensions at cryptocurrency exchange Coinbase as executives Brian Armstrong, Emilie Choi, and L.J. Brock implemented controversial talent management strategies to support their mission of increasing economic freedom through... View Details
    • 07 Aug 2018
    • First Look

    New Research and Ideas, August 8, 2018

    based on a large panel dataset of countries between 1950 and 2014. We instrument actual trade with predicted trade constructed by estimating a time-varying gravity equation similar to Feyrer (2009). We find... View Details
    Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne