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  • 23 Dec 2008
  • First Look

First Look: December 23, 2008

largest shareholder, Khazanah Nacional, the sovereign wealth fund, is tasked with helping to grow the Malaysian economy. Should Khazanah encourage job and route cuts at MAS, and how would the government react to them? Moreover, should... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 08 Apr 2008
  • First Look

First Look: April 8, 2008

Society to Create Competitive Advantage Harvard Business School Case 307-076 Focuses on the experience of China's largest shirt manufacturer in managing various aspects of government relations in China. Identifies a wide variety of social... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 05 May 2003
  • Research & Ideas

Greed, Fear, and The System Hinder Corporate Reform

Rakesh Khurana. Here are some of the challenges: Basic greed. Wayne M. Carlin, northeast regional director of the Securities and Exchange Commission, who clarified that he was speaking for himself and not on behalf of his organization, wondered whether greed could... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
  • February 2017 (Revised June 2017)
  • Supplement

ExxonMobil: Business as Usual? (B)

By: George Serafeim, Shiva Rajgopal and David Freiberg
The case presents ExxonMobil's response to growing pressure to disclose how climate change will impact their business. This includes multiple asset impairments and losing a proxy vote to shareholders to increase climate change related reporting. Supplements the (B)... View Details
Keywords: Oil ＆ Gas; Oil Prices; Oil Companies; Asset Impairment; Predictive Analytics; Sustainability; Environmental Impact; Innovation; Disclosure; Accounting; Valuation; Energy Sources; Ethics; Corporate Disclosure; Governance Compliance; Climate Change; Financial Reporting; Energy Industry; United States
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  • 05 Jun 2014
  • Research & Ideas

Fixing the ‘I Hate Work’ Blues

under intense operational pressure is nearly impossible. In addition, the heavy burden of compliance with government regulations and internal corporate requirements is taking a toll on people, limiting their... View Details
Keywords: by Bill George
  • 2003
  • Chapter

Designing Sustainability at BMW Group: The Designworks/USA Experience

By: Michael W. Toffel, Natalie Hill and Kellie McElhaney
This case study describes how an industrial design company developed a Sustainability Management System (SMS) standard, designed and implemented an SMS throughout its business, and then became the first company in the world to achieve third-party SMS certification. The... View Details
Keywords: Design; Governance Compliance; Management Practices and Processes; Standards; Environmental Sustainability; United States
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  • Web

RCP Terms of Service - Research Computing Services

anti-virus and anti-malware software installed and running; Has an activated firewall; Requires a strong password from users to log into; Complies with Institutional requirements as described here ; Adheres to additional security requirements as included in associated... View Details
  • October 2010
  • Supplement

Belco Global Foods: Spreadsheet Supplement (CW)

By: C. Fritz Foley and Matthew Johnson
This case introduces students to the fundamental issues that managers face when deciding what international trade finance terms to use when transacting with other firms. In late 2009, Pam Arnold, the Head of Global Credit at Belco Global Foods must decide which trade... View Details
Keywords: Customers; Decisions; Trade; Financial Strategy; Governance Compliance; Managerial Roles; Market Transactions
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  • Article

Designing Sustainability at BMW Group: The Designworks/USA Experience

By: Kellie McElhaney, Michael W. Toffel and Natalie Hill
This case study describes how an industrial design company developed a sustainability management system (SMS) standard, designed and implemented an SMS throughout its business, and then became the first company in the world to achieve third-party SMS certification by a... View Details
Keywords: Design; Governance Compliance; Management Practices and Processes; Standards; Environmental Sustainability; Auto Industry; United States
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  • Web

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
  • 2013
  • Working Paper

Testing Coleman's Social-Norm Enforcement Mechanism: Evidence from Wikipedia

By: Mikolaj J. Piskorski and Andreea Gorbatai
Since Durkheim, sociologists have believed that dense network structures lead to fewer norm violations. Coleman (1990) proposed one mechanism generating this relationship and argued that dense networks provide an opportunity structure to reward those who punish norm... View Details
Keywords: Governance Compliance; Governance Controls; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Information Publishing; Social and Collaborative Networks; Social Issues; Societal Protocols
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  • Web

Security & Privacy | Information Technology

risk. Policies & Governance Policies and guidelines are in place at Harvard Business School and across Harvard to help the community ensure compliance and understanding of how to use technology and devices... View Details
  • 05 Nov 2013
  • First Look

First Look: November 5

global supply chains, but little is known about the factors that predict when supplier factories will comply with them. Regulation and governance scholarship suggests that factories' compliance with global... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 10 Jun 2014
  • First Look

First Look: June 10

disproportionate share of power. In the past few decades, as legislation that put controls on Wall Street was largely undone, the size and profits of the financial sector grew enormously. That increased its influence, particularly its ability to sway the View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • February 2002
  • Case

Strategy of the Firm Under Regulatory Review: The Case of Chilectra

By: Rafael M. Di Tella and Alexander Dyck
Discusses the largest electric distribution company in Chile and one of the five largest private Chilean companies. Introduces the exercise of operating control in order to improve the profitability of the investments, privatization, and international expansions. View Details
Keywords: Corporate Governance; Corporate Accountability; Growth and Development Strategy; Privatization; Emerging Markets; Competitive Strategy; Expansion; Global Strategy; Governance Compliance; Utilities Industry; Chile
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  • 07 Oct 2002
  • Research & Ideas

What Leaders Need to Do To Restore Investor Confidence

systems, compliance systems. [Markets] do not punish with sufficient speed and force to eliminate the incentive for misconduct. Q: So the problem was making the maximization of shareholder wealth the primary goal? A: The idea of... View Details
Keywords: by Harvard Management Update
  • 03 Jul 2012
  • Research & Ideas

HBS Faculty on Supreme Court Health Care Ruling

McPherson Professor of Business Administration and author of Who Killed Health Care? Although many conservatives are gnashing their teeth about the Supreme Court's upholding the individual mandate, had it not been upheld, their worst nightmares would have occurred.... View Details
Keywords: Re: Multiple Faculty; Health
  • 16 Jul 2008
  • Op-Ed

What Should Employers Do about Health Care?

ignored health care altogether, leaving it to government or dutifully paying their mandated health contributions. Many U.S. employers are dropping health benefits or hoping for reforms that will transfer responsibility for health... View Details
Keywords: by Michael E. Porter, Elizabeth O. Teisberg & Scott Wallace; Health
  • 22 Nov 2016
  • First Look

November 22, 2016

the Foxwoods story. The true story is one of strategic negotiation and the leveraging of tribal sovereignty into economic opportunity. Using a close analysis of the Foxwoods-Connecticut negotiations as a point of departure, this chapter also discusses the sovereign... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 10 Aug 2010
  • First Look

First Look: August 10

article theorizes and tests empirically the conditions under which organizations' internal compliance structures are particularly likely to shape their compliance practices and outcomes. We argue that the... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace