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  • 01 Jun 2020
  • News

Inside Out

Boston's Faneuil Hall Marketplace. When he and his siblings sold it in 2006, Macomber started teaching at HBS, where he began some revelatory research into the Indian real estate market and its regulatory and environmental issues. “It... View Details
Keywords: Dan Morrell; Corporate, Subsidiary, and Regional Managing Offices; Management
  • 04 Dec 2012
  • First Look

First Look: December 4

incentives to invest in the face of potential holdup problems and also with the proposition that exclusive arrangements lead firms to seek contingent control rights to avoid lock-in when environmental uncertainty is high. Private Equity... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 01 Mar 2025
  • News

Heartland

Part of that comes from improved data management; another is nutrition science,” Lambert observes. “But the third is genetic progress, thanks to AI.” Technology is a positive lever in what she calls the planetary balance sheet—it allows us to View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna; photos by Vance Jacobs. OPEN CONCEPT: Lambert at Quail Ridge Dairy in Fort Morgan, Colorado.
  • 07 Apr 2003
  • Research & Ideas

Three Steps for Crisis Prevention

between a true surprise and one that should have been predicted? Anticipating and avoiding business disasters isn't just a matter of doing better environmental scanning or contingency planning. It requires a number of steps, from... View Details
Keywords: by Michael D. Watkins & Max H. Bazerman
  • 28 Jan 2014
  • First Look

First Look: January 28

practices have on the long-term stability of the economy and the interests of beneficiaries in financial, social, and environmental sustainability. This volume provides a global and multi-faceted commentary on the evolving standards... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 21 Feb 2007
  • Op-Ed

What a U.N. Partnership with Big Business Could Accomplish

access to local partners and opportunities in developing nations that could benefit their future activities. There is growing evidence that companies that have innovated to ensure effective environmental safeguards, greater... View Details
Keywords: by George C. Lodge & Craig Wilson
  • 10 Oct 2007
  • First Look

First Look: First Look: October 10

We investigate these research questions in the context of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's Audit Policy. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/08-021.pdf   Cases & Course... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 23 Dec 2002
  • Research & Ideas

Partnering and the Balanced Scorecard

protective stock in case delivery is not when expected. Late deliveries cause higher costs for expediting orders and rescheduling the plant around the missing items. Also, low-price suppliers may not be electronically connected to their... View Details
Keywords: by Robert S. Kaplan & David P. Norton
  • 01 Mar 2023
  • News

March 2023 Alumni and Faculty Books

goods, and protecting the environment. Baker illustrates how these realities further corrode the commonwealth, with specific, pragmatic measures to reset capitalism so that it once again contributes to shared prosperity and sustained... View Details
Keywords: Publishing Industries (except Internet); Information
  • Web

Leadership Execution and Action Planning (LEAP) - Course Catalog

Creating and communicating a turnaround narrative. Protecting the base business while changing direction and creating forward movement. Module 3: Crisis Building on the turnaround module, here we examine how the added elements of... View Details
  • 05 Feb 2008
  • First Look

First Look: February 5, 2008

clear differences in investor protections and financial development around the world today (La Porta et al., 1998, 1999 and passim). This paper examines the persistence of the effects of legal origins by examining new estimates of... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 22 Sep 2021
  • Blog Post

Student Spotlight: Jesse Lou (MBA 2022) – Working to Change the Food System

production, we can also reduce the amount of forests and grasslands that are cleared for traditional agriculture (and avoid releasing tons of carbon into the air), protecting our world’s carbon sequestration potential.[iv] What... View Details
  • 01 Mar 2012
  • News

Competitiveness at Risk

of Energy and Environmental Protection and Yale Law School; Robin Greenwood, HBS; Rosabeth Moss Kanter, HBS; Thomas Kochan, MIT Sloan School of Management; Robert Z. Lawrence, Harvard Kennedy School; Josh... View Details
Keywords: Roger Thompson; Educational Support Services; Educational Services
  • 12 Aug 2008
  • First Look

First Look: August 12, 2008

involves a one-issue, zero-sum negotiation concerning the advance on royalties that the publisher will pay to the author. Purchase the case: http://hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=908050 China's Environmental Challenge... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 19 Jun 2007
  • First Look

First Look: June 19, 2007

Levine, and Michael W. Toffel Abstract Ratings of corporations' environmental activities and capabilities influence billions of dollars of "socially responsible" investments as well as some consumers, activists, and potential... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 26 Jun 2007
  • First Look

First Look: June 26, 2007

increases US investors' equity FPI holdings by 21%, controlling for effects on FDI. This suggests that the residual tax on foreign multinational firm earnings biases capital flows to low corporate tax countries toward FPI. A one standard deviation increase in a foreign... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 16 Aug 2024
  • In Practice

Election 2024: What's at Stake for Business and the Workplace?

Kamala Harris was part of an administration that passed the largest climate combat bill in history, and Governor Tim Walz led Minnesota to declare a goal of zero carbon emissions by 2040. The other side features candidates who want to eliminate the View Details
Keywords: by Rachel Layne
  • 02 Jul 2024
  • Blog Post

Climate Story #19: Nicole Neeman Brady (MBA 2008): The Critical Role of Business in Tackling Water Challenges

aspects of water. For example, we have the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), and even the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA). This poses structural... View Details
  • 22 May 2007
  • First Look

First Look: May 22, 2007

http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/07-085.pdf Self-Regulatory Institutions for Solving Environmental Problems: Perspectives and Contributions from the Management Literature Authors:Andrew King and Michael W. Toffel Abstract Scholars of... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 16 Sep 2008
  • First Look

First Look: September 16, 2008

relationship between regulators and regulated firms. We investigate these research questions in the context of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's Audit Policy. View Details