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Harvard Environmental Centers - Business & Environment
Kennedy School Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs The Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs is the hub of Harvard Kennedy School's research, teaching, and training in View Details
- 31 Mar 2022
- Op-Ed
Navigating the ‘Bermuda Triangle’ in Professional Services
drive costs down and benefit from specialization because of its high volume of activities. "With growth, the way a firm is managed has to change, and that change is not easy." Among law firms, Wachtell Lipton maintains a premium market... View Details
Keywords: by Ashish Nanda
- 2012
- Chapter
Integrated Reporting Requires Integrated Assurance
By: Robert G. Eccles, Michael P. Krzus and Liv A. Watson
In the wake of the recent financial crisis, increasing the effectiveness of auditing has weighed heavily on the minds of those responsible for governance. When a business is profitable and paying healthy dividends to its stockholders, fraudulent activities and... View Details
- November 2019 (Revised January 2025)
- Case
Russia: A Drama In Three Acts
By: Rawi Abdelal, Rafael Di Tella, Galit Goldstein, Sogomon Tarontsi and Lavinia Teodorescu
The collapse of central authority in the Soviet Union in 1991 ushered in a period of revolutionary transformations for the states that emerged in its wake. The leaders of Russia, the USSR's successor, struggled to reestablish central authority while also seeking to... View Details
Keywords: Government Policy; Policy Change; Policy Making; Economic Systems; Economics; Globalization; Emerging Markets; Privatization; Non-Renewable Energy; Governance; Global Strategy; Corporate Governance; Policy; Business History; Lawfulness; Problems and Challenges; Business and Government Relations; Risk and Uncertainty; Strategy; Change Management; Developing Countries and Economies; Russia; Moscow
Abdelal, Rawi, Rafael Di Tella, Galit Goldstein, Sogomon Tarontsi, and Lavinia Teodorescu. "Russia: A Drama In Three Acts." Harvard Business School Case 720-020, November 2019. (Revised January 2025.)
- 17 Jan 2023
- Book
Good Companies Commit Crimes, But Great Leaders Can Prevent Them
In a fraught ethics and legal climate, leaders need to know how to steer clear of trouble more than ever. Corporate Criminal Investigations and Prosecutions, released in September, offers a comprehensive resource on everything from the history of corporate criminal... View Details
Keywords: by Lane Lambert
- Web
Teacher Profiles - Case Method Project
History, Business Law NJ Genny Allard Bergen County Technical School, Teterboro Teterboro, NJ Subjects: Introduction to Law and Justice, Constitutional Law NJ George Alvarez... View Details
- 20 Mar 2007
- First Look
First Look: March 20, 2007
numerical tests, sales forecasts from our model are more accurate than forecasts from time-series models that ignore inventory and price as well as forecasts from financial analysts. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/07-056.pdf View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- June 2011
- Article
Watch What I Do, Not What I Say: The Unintended Consequences of the Homeland Investment Act
By: Dhammika Dharmapala, C. Fritz Foley and Kristin J. Forbes
This paper analyzes the impact of the Homeland Investment Act of 2004, which provided a one-time tax holiday for the repatriation of foreign earnings and thereby reduced the cost to U.S. multinationals of accessing a source of internal capital. Lawmakers and lobbyists... View Details
Keywords: Investment; Performance Effectiveness; Code Law; Taxation; Cost; Capital; Financial Strategy; Research and Development; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Business and Shareholder Relations; United States
Dharmapala, Dhammika, C. Fritz Foley, and Kristin J. Forbes. "Watch What I Do, Not What I Say: The Unintended Consequences of the Homeland Investment Act." Journal of Finance 66, no. 3 (June 2011): 753–787.
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Accounting & Management Awards & Honors - Faculty & Research
Gerardo Pérez-Cavazos and Caspar David Peter. Jonas Heese : Runner-up for the 2022 International Corporate Governance Society (ICGS) Annual Conference Best Paper Award for “Does Information Technology Reduce Corporate Misconduct?” with... View Details
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Advisory Board - Entrepreneurship
(acquired by TimesMirror). He also negotiated TN's investment in the consolidation of ProMark Teleservices and S&P Data to form International Data Response Corporation (acquired by Telespectrum; NASDAQ TLSP). Prior to founding TN... View Details
- 07 Jul 2021
- Book
Good News for Disgraced Companies: You Can Regain Trust
labor protests and a federal law to prevent a repeat of “L’affaire Michelin.” Generations of trust evaporated. The company regained it with a 10-year turnaround and a commitment to closely collaborating with workers at every step. "Trust... View Details
Keywords: by Lane Lambert
- 21 Jul 2009
- First Look
First Look: July 21
communication but also to less experimentation and less information collection. When two firms that are each internally homogenous but different from each other, merge, the above results translate to specific predictions how the change in... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Oct 2001
- Research & Ideas
How To Make Restructuring Work for Your Company
attracting new business from corporate and retail customers. The merger was therefore also viewed as a vehicle for increasing top-line revenue growth. Internal cost cutting alone would not have enabled either bank to achieve this second... View Details
Keywords: by Stuart C. Gilson
- 15 Jul 2008
- First Look
First Look: July 15, 2008
open up within them, giving companies a powerful mechanism for arbitrage across national financial markets. Managing these internal markets to build an advantage requires that CFOs must balance new financial opportunities with the... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 11 Mar 2024
- Blog Post
A Day in the Life: Ben Hsieh
active debate on whether companies have primary responsibility to their shareholders (as in the U.S.) or a multi-faceted responsibility to employees, customers, the broader community (as written into the law to varying degrees in the UK... View Details
- March 2024
- Case
Nomad: A License to Bank
By: Paul A. Gompers and Pedro Levindo
In late 2023, Lucas Vargas, CEO and co-founder of Nomad, a fintech that offered financial services in the United States for Brazilian residents, had to decide what to do to ensure the company’s continued expansion. Nomad launched its first product, a U.S. digital bank... View Details
Keywords: Mergers and Acquisitions; Business Startups; Customer Satisfaction; Decision Making; Entrepreneurship; Banks and Banking; Initial Public Offering; Global Strategy; Growth and Development Strategy; Brands and Branding; Marketing Strategy; Product Launch; Organizational Culture; Going Public; Ownership Stake; Innovation and Invention; Strategic Planning; Business and Government Relations; Business and Stakeholder Relations; Risk and Uncertainty; Business Strategy; Competitive Advantage; Corporate Strategy; Diversification; Expansion; Vertical Integration; Leadership; Law; Banking Industry; Technology Industry; Service Industry; Brazil; United States; North America; Latin America
Gompers, Paul A., and Pedro Levindo. "Nomad: A License to Bank." Harvard Business School Case 824-144, March 2024.
- 19 Oct 2022
- Op-Ed
Cofounder Courtship: How to Find the Right Mate—for Your Startup
is highly dependent on the chemistry, the experience each brings into the relationship, leadership styles and many other internal and external factors. While having cofounders can reduce business risk and/or bring complementary skills,... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Austin
- Web
Building Iconic Brands and Brighter Futures: Interview with Glossier CEO, Kyle Leahy - Recruiting
didn’t plan out a career in beauty. Instead, she tested out different hypotheses and followed her curiosity. Some early stops in her career included internships at Merrill Lynch and Putnam, consideration of joining Teach for America or View Details
- Web
Events - Business History
Financial Cooperation from International Organizations (1960s-1970s)" 3:30 pm - 5:00 pm. Part of the 2025 Business History Seminar, "Rethinking Entrepreneurial History," co-organized by Geoffrey Jones and Christina Lubinski. Nov 10 10 Nov... View Details
- 16 Apr 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, April 16, 2019
brings together a prestigious group of international experts who were tasked with choosing, introducing, and commenting on seminal texts focused on creativity, invention, genius, and imagination from the period of 1850 to 1950. This... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman