Publications

May 2000 (Revised July 2000)
Case

U.S. Export-Import Bank and the Three Gorges Dam (B), The

By: George C. Lodge and Cate Reavis

Supplements the (A) case. View Details

Keywords: Construction Industry; Energy Industry; China; United States

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January 1999 (Revised September 1999)
Supplement

Brazil Confronts an Interdependent World: Supplement

By: George C. Lodge and Cate Reavis

Supplements the case. View Details

Keywords: Brazil

September 1996 (Revised January 1997)
Case

Zambia's Agricultural Sector Investment Program

By: George C. Lodge and Carin-Isabel Knoop

Keywords: Agribusiness; Investment; Business and Government Relations; Agriculture and Agribusiness Industry; Zambia

September 1996 (Revised November 1996)
Case

World Bank (A): Under Siege

By: George C. Lodge and Carin-Isabel Knoop

Describes the issues that James Wolfensohn faces when he takes over the World Bank as president in June 1995. Presents several lines of criticism of the bank's strategy, structure, and relevance. View Details

Keywords: Financial Institutions; International Finance; Organizational Structure; Leading Change; Situation or Environment; Decision Choices and Conditions; Strategy; Management Teams; Value; Banking Industry

Article

Multinational Corporations: A Key to Global Poverty Reduction—Part II

By: George C. Lodge and Craig Wilson

Keywords: Business Ventures; Poverty

Article

Multinational Corporations: A Key to Global Poverty Reduction—Part I

By: George C. Lodge and Craig Wilson

Keywords: Business Ventures; Poverty

12 Mar 2013
First Look

First Look: March 12

blend the two models? Paper: http://hbr.org/2013/03/do-you-really-want-to-be-an-ebay/ar/1 Prize-based Contests Can Provide Solutions to Computational Biology Problems Authors:Lakhani, Karim R., Kevin J. Boudreau, Eva C. Guinan, Carliss Y.... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

Web

Research Links - A Concrete Symbol: The Building of Harvard Business School 1908-1927 – Baker Library | Bloomberg Center, Historical Collections

Buildings,” Harvard Business School Alumni Bulletin vol. 21, no. 3 (1945). “Harvard Graduate School of Business Administration,” The Architectural Forum vol. XLVII, no. 4 (October, 1927). Lawrence, William. Memorandum About the Gift by... View Details

February 1979 (Revised December 1983)
Case

Allied Chemical Corp. (A)

By: George C. Lodge and Joseph L. Badaracco Jr.

Describes Allied, the chemical industry, and the effects of the Kepone problem (a toxic pesticide dumped into the James River) as of 1976. The executive in the case must decide whether the company should support the passage of the Toxic Substances Control Act and an... View Details

Keywords: Pollutants; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Decision Making; Laws and Statutes; Welfare; Legal Liability; Business and Government Relations; Chemical Industry

01 Mar 2008
News

HBS Career Highlights

full professor 1963 Named the first George F. Baker, Jr. Professor of Business Administration 1965 Coauthors Business Policy: Text and Cases 1981 Authors Teaching by the Case Method (Teaching and the Case... View Details

Keywords: Roland Christensen; Business Schools & Computer & Management Training; Educational Services

September–October 1991
Article

Knee-Deep and Rising: America's Recycling Crisis

By: George C. Lodge and Jeffrey F. Rayport

Keywords: Environmental Sustainability; Crisis Management

September 1992 (Revised July 1998)
Case

Germany in the 1990s: Managing Reunification

By: George C. Lodge and James W. Ragsdale

In October 1990, eastern Germany was incorporated into the Federal Republic of Germany. The German people rewarded the architect of these changes, Helmut Kohl, with an enhanced majority in national elections. But only two years later it was hard to remember these heady... View Details

Keywords: Economy; Inflation and Deflation; Central Banking; Interest Rates; Political Elections; Situation or Environment; Integration; Europe; Germany; Italy; United Kingdom

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1987
Book

Ideology and National Competitiveness : An Analysis of Nine Countries

By: George C. Lodge and Ezra F. Vogel

Keywords: Competition; Government and Politics; Theory

June 1990 (Revised July 1990)
Case

Minneapolis Plastic Packaging Ban (B)

By: George C. Lodge and Jeffrey F. Rayport

Keywords: Business and Government Relations; Environmental Sustainability; Minneapolis

04 Sep 2018
First Look

New Research and Ideas, September 4, 2018

https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=54036 August 23, 2018 NEJM Catalyst Using a New EHR System to Increase Patient Engagement, Improve Efficiency, and Decrease Cost By: French, Katy, Barbra Bryce Speer, Alexis B. Guzman, Tayab Andrabi, Iris Recinos, Keith... View Details

Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

1996
Working Paper

Global Friction Among Information Infrastructures

By: Jeffrey F. Rayport, George C. Lodge and Afroze Mohammed

02 Feb 2010
First Look

First Look: Feb. 2

achieve actionable transparency by embedding their design in a centralized system with a shared design language and near-real-time updating, where everyone with an interest in improving the design has the right and the means to act on it.... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

01 Dec 2007
News

The Wise Men

seized power in Nicaragua, Daniel Ortega and other Sandinista leaders — still dressed in their jungle greens — marched into the HBS Faculty Club. Over breakfast, we discussed INCAE’s future.” “Traveler, there is no path. Paths are made by... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons;Julia Hanna

March 1979 (Revised December 1982)
Case

Allied Chemical Corp. (B)

By: George C. Lodge and Joseph L. Badaracco Jr.

Describes Allied's cooperative approach to government relations and the approach of some of the regulatory agencies Allied deals with. Based mainly on quotes from Allied and government officials. Asks the student to evaluate Allied's government relations--in general... View Details

Keywords: Business and Government Relations; Cooperation; Chemical Industry

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