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Research - Global

Working Paper Public Displays of Alignment: Firm Speech in Autocratic Regimes By: Joris Mueller, Jaya Y. Wen and Cheryl Wu Political speech by firms is increasingly common around the world. This paper examines the government as an... View Details
  • 29 Jul 2014
  • First Look

First Look: July 29

movement morphed into a violent, deadly confrontation in January, culminating in February in mass slaughter, an overthrow of government, foreign invasion, and international crisis. The four months that shook Ukraine is a case study on the interrelated problems of... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • July 2019
  • Article

Market Reaction to Mandatory Nonfinancial Disclosure

By: Jody Grewal, Edward J. Riedl and George Serafeim
We examine the equity market reaction to events associated with the passage of a directive in the European Union (EU) mandating increased nonfinancial disclosure. These disclosures relate to firms’ environmental, social, and governance (ESG) performance and would be... View Details
Keywords: Nonfinancial Information; Nonfinancial Performance; ESG; ESG (Environmental, Social, Governance) Performance; Investor Behavior; Disclosure; Disclosure Regulation; Regulation; Sustainability; Corporate Performance; Information; Corporate Disclosure; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Performance; Environmental Sustainability; Corporate Governance; Outcome or Result
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2023 Reunion Presentations - Alumni

to go along with the plan. China, The United States, and The Quest for Global Leadership Professor Bill Kirby + More Info – Less Info In an era of growing geopolitical tension between the United States and China, how do companies--and... View Details

    Robert C. Merton

    Robert C. Merton is the School of Management Distinguished Professor of Finance at the MIT Sloan School of Management.

    Merton is University Professor Emeritus at Harvard University and was the George Fisher Baker Professor of... View Details

    Keywords: banking; brokerage; financial services; insurance industry; investment banking industry; retail financial services
    • April 2025
    • Case

    The CHIPS Program Office (Abridged)

    By: Mitch Weiss and Sebastian Negron-Reichard
    In February 2023, U.S. Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo weighed signing off on a Notice of Funding Opportunity (“NOFO”) with at least one unconventional provision: a pre-application (“pre-app”) to the actual application for parts of $39 billion in direct semiconductor... View Details
    Keywords: Entrepreneurship; Public Sector; Government Administration; Government Legislation; Motivation and Incentives; Semiconductor Industry; Public Administration Industry; United States
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    Topics - HBS Working Knowledge

    Government and Politics (455) Groups and Teams (37) Growth Management (12) Growth and Development Strategy (40) Growth and Development (16) Happiness (29) Health Care and Treatment (96) Health Disorders (3) Health Pandemics (32) Health... View Details
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    Business History - Faculty & Research

    and traces the evolution of their environmental strategies in response to growing evidence of pollution and resulting political pressures. The variety of capitalism literature has suggested that the German coordinated market economy model... View Details
    • May 2016 (Revised April 2019)
    • Case

    Olivia Lum: Wanting to Save the World

    By: Geoffrey Jones and Essie Alamsyah
    This case considers the entrepreneurial career of Olivia Lum, who founded the Singaporean water company Hyflux in 1989. An orphan born in Malaysia, Lum provides a rare case of an entrepreneurial success in a country whose economic success has primarily rested on... View Details
    Keywords: Industrial Organization; Chinitz; Agglomeration; Clusters; Cities; Mine; Environmental Management; Operations Management; Sustainable Operations; Environmental Regulation; Entrepreneurship; Globalization; History; Operations; Management; Environmental Sustainability; Green Technology Industry; Utilities Industry; China; Singapore
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    • July 2005 (Revised August 2011)
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    Jesse Holman Jones and the Reconstruction Finance Corporation

    By: Nitin Nohria, Anthony Mayo and Bridget Gurtler
    Jesse Holman Jones is regarded as one of the most influential men in reviving the American economy from the Great Depression. With only an 8th grade education, he rose to the top of the banking, real estate, and lumber industries, as well as the upper echelons of... View Details
    Keywords: Financial Crisis; Financial Strategy; Business History; Leading Change; Managerial Roles; Business and Government Relations; Power and Influence
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    • 12 Sep 2023
    • What Do You Think?

    Who Gets the Loudest Voice in DEI Decisions?

    social, and governance issues at the heart of so-called “stakeholder capitalism.” Corporations that become too visible in support of stakeholder capitalism run the risk of losing public investors, such as pension funds in states in which ESG runs afoul of current View Details
    Keywords: by James Heskett
    • 03 Sep 2024
    • Cold Call Podcast

    How the US Government Is Innovating in Its Efforts to Fund Semiconductor Manufacturing

    Keywords: Re: Mitchell B. Weiss; Semiconductor; Public Administration
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    Skydeck - Alumni

    a leadership crisis Skydeck Live: Galactic Returns Space entrepreneur and investor Laetitia Garriott de Cayeux (MBA 2004) on how to search the skies for profits Skydeck Voices: Finding My Muse Where and when alumni do their best thinking... View Details
    • April 2017
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    The Effectiveness of U.S. Energy Efficiency Building Labels

    By: Omar Isaac Asensio and Magali A Delmas
    Information programs are promising strategies to encourage investments in energy efficiency in commercial buildings. However, the realized effectiveness of these programs has not yet been estimated on a large scale. Here we take advantage of a large sample of monthly... View Details
    Keywords: Energy Conservation; Green Building; Energy Policy
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    Entrepreneurship - Faculty & Research

    100 artists and designers to present 87 art exhibitions and 1,826 public programs to over 1.8 million visitors, including many important leaders from all over the world. Given the context of the economic and political environment in the... View Details
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    Business, Government & the International Economy Curriculum - Faculty & Research

    about the broad economic and political context in which business operates. Throughout their careers, business leaders are asked to formulate and lead their firm's responses to the external environment. They may also have the chance to... View Details
    • 07 Apr 2015
    • First Look

    First Look: April 7

    Path-Breakers? Women's Electoral Success and Future Political Participation By: Bhalotra, Sonia, Irma Clots-Figueras, and Lakshmi Iyer Abstract—This paper investigates whether the event of a woman winning office in a competitive election... View Details
    Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
    • 2015
    • Working Paper

    Making a Difference: Leader Evaluation, Selection, and Impact

    By: Gautam Mukunda
    The relationship between leader selection and impact is important to both researchers and practitioners. This paper introduces Leader Filtration Theory (LFT)—a theory from political science—to managerial audiences, applies it to organizations, and uses it to improve... View Details
    Keywords: Leaders; Leader Selection; Individual Impact; Leadership; Selection and Staffing
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    • February 2014
    • Case

    Tommy Koh: Background and Major Accomplishments of the 'Great Negotiator, 2014'

    By: James K. Sebenius and Laurence A. Green
    Significant negotiation-related achievements from the career of Ambassador Tommy Koh of Singapore are highlighted in brief form along with elements of his background and career. In light of these accomplishments, Koh was selected as the recipient of the 2014 Great... View Details
    Keywords: Multiparty Negotiations; Dispute Resolution; Conference Diplomacy; Free Trade Agreements Environment; Environment; Singapore; ASEAN; United Nations; Negotiation; International Relations; Personal Development and Career; Trade; Conflict and Resolution; Singapore
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    • 01 Jan 2007
    • News

    Jaime Augusto Zobel de Ayala, MBA 1987

    entrepreneurial style of management has benefited both Ayala and an island nation that faces significant social and economic challenges. At least once a year, Jaime Zobel, his brother Fernando (who shares leadership of the Ayala... View Details