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- 05 May 2022
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Like-Minded
continued to connect with one another along the way. Murakami was with OECD Tokyo Center, leading discussions on economic policy issues with government and business leaders in Asia, after 20 years in... View Details
- 01 Sep 2015
- News
Faculty Q&A: The Working World
Policy is a tremendously powerful lever when it works. With that said, I’m not a fan of forever sitting on the sidelines, waiting for policy to make change. Business needs to strategize to ensure it has... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- August 2002 (Revised February 2005)
- Case
Gillette Company (B): Leadership for Change
By: Rosabeth M. Kanter and James Weber
Describes the actions and behavior of a new CEO in his first days and weeks as he sets expectations for his top management team and introduces processes and disciplines to begin the turnaround of a global consumer products company. View Details
Keywords: Business Strategy; Policy; Change Management; Leading Change; Motivation and Incentives; Strategic Planning; Retail Industry
Kanter, Rosabeth M., and James Weber. "Gillette Company (B): Leadership for Change." Harvard Business School Case 303-033, August 2002. (Revised February 2005.)
- 03 Jun 2014
- First Look
First Look: June 3
Publications August 2013 University of Chicago Press Innovation Policy and the Economy By: Lerner, Josh, and Scott Stern Abstract—No abstract available. Publisher's link:... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- Web
Road to the White House 2024, a Private Sector Perspective on Presidential Politics - Course Catalog
Presidential Transition & Governing in Polarized America 9. Leadership Models Around the World 10. Election Issues – Election Integrity, Voter Suppression, Gerrymandering 11. Role of Business Leaders in Preserving and Strengthening... View Details
- 13 Apr 2023
- Blog Post
Grolsch Brewing Company: Drink Sustainably
companies we visited were supportive of market interventions by government policy and regulation to encourage sustainable investments. For example, Grolsch shared that taxes on landfilling (which is now... View Details
- 10 Mar 2009
- First Look
First Look: March 10, 2009
Paranoid Style in the Study of American Politics Authors: David Moss and Mary Oey Publication: In Government and Markets: Toward a New Theory of Regulation, edited by Edward Balleisen and David Moss. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press,... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
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Strategic Plan | Information Technology
advances. We’re excited to share progress and developments on the plan with the HBS community. Developing the Plan Hear from Beth Clark, CIO, and Rachel Noiseux, Senior Director, Strategy, Planning and Governance on the Building of the IT... View Details
- 05 Dec 2016
- News
The Dragon’s Tale
loose and left to go bankrupt and be restructured—while the government focused on larger enterprises. The transition to an export-driven, low labor-cost country was well under way by the turn of the century, as millions of workers moved... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg
- December 2009 (Revised March 2013)
- Case
Woolf Farming and Processing
By: David E. Bell, Laura Winig and Mary Louise Shelman
Woolf Farming Company, a privately owned family farming business in California's Central Valley, found its business threatened by a lack of water, brought on by a combination of drought, poor quality well water and unavailability of surface water due to federally... View Details
Keywords: Family Business; Resource Allocation; Quality; Business and Government Relations; Decision Choices and Conditions; Infrastructure; Investment; Growth and Development Strategy; Climate Change; Agriculture and Agribusiness Industry; California
Bell, David E., Laura Winig, and Mary Louise Shelman. "Woolf Farming and Processing." Harvard Business School Case 510-033, December 2009. (Revised March 2013.)
- 01 Mar 2009
- News
Model Patient
insurance (for such individuals, another function of the Connector is deciding “affordability,” that is, how much those individuals should be subsidized and how much they should pay out-of-pocket). This uninsured-care fund previously had been bankrolled by the state... View Details
- 31 Aug 2009
- Research & Ideas
Why Competition May Not Improve Credit Rating Agencies
and debt markets. “These findings throw some doubt on the policy that has been pursued pretty much unanimously by decision-makers in Washington, D.C. to increase competition among raters.” Credit rating agencies provide an assessment of... View Details
- 01 Jun 2003
- News
Bottom-Line Discrepancies
Desai, who is studying the gap between book income — what companies report to shareholders — and tax income — what companies report to the IRS. In a paper titled “The Divergence between Book and Tax Income” published in the forthcoming volume 17 of the National Bureau... View Details
- 19 May 2003
- Research & Ideas
Expensing Options Won’t Hurt High Tech
for creating public policies that actively assist these companies in their early stages, or even in their more-established stages. The nation should definitely consider a regulation that makes entrepreneurial, job-creating companies... View Details
- 31 Mar 2009
- First Look
First Look: March 31, 2009
and local governments should invest in it. But the idea of investing in ECD for economic development was new and had never been tested on a large scale, particularly in the way that Rolnick and Grunewald recommended in a later paper—using... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Sep 2012
- News
What’s the Big Idea?
and governance dimensions. Critics of the One Report concept maintain that it destroys shareholder value by diverting attention from short-term profit maximization. But Eccles and two colleagues found just the opposite. In a recent paper... View Details
- 01 May 2006
- Research & Ideas
What Companies Lose from Forced Disclosure
Increased financial disclosure standards on such issues as executive compensation should provide more useful information for investors, policy makers, and regulators. But do the companies themselves benefit? What researchers are now... View Details
- 1987
- Book
Business Policy: Text and Cases
By: C. Roland Christensen, Kenneth R. Andrews, Joseph L. Bower, Richard G. Hamermesh and Michael E. Porter
Christensen, C. Roland, Kenneth R. Andrews, Joseph L. Bower, Richard G. Hamermesh, and Michael E. Porter. Business Policy: Text and Cases. 6th ed. Richard D. Irwin, 1987.
- November 1985 (Revised July 1989)
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Signode Industries, Inc. (D)
Signode's packaging division president makes a final decision on the price-flex policy. View Details
Moriarty, Rowland T., Jr., and Gordon Swartz. "Signode Industries, Inc. (D)." Harvard Business School Supplement 586-062, November 1985. (Revised July 1989.)
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Buy Now, Pay Later: Research Links - Secondary Resources
Mortgage Debt on Homes Other Than Farm Homes at the Fourteenth Census, 1920 (Washington, D.C.: Government Printing Office, 1923). Ham, Arthur H. A Credit Union Primer; an Elementary Treatise on Cooperative Banking (New York City: Division... View Details