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- December 2024
- Supplement
Northvolt: Building Batteries to Fight Climate Change (B)
The (B) case explores Northvolt’s Chapter 11 bankruptcy filing on November 21, 2024, highlighting the company’s
struggles to scale operations amid a global EV market slowdown and internal production challenges. While the (A) case detailed
Northvolt’s ambitious... View Details
Keywords: Batteries; Electric Vehicles; Climate Change; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Energy; Green Technology; Insolvency and Bankruptcy; Investment; Technological Innovation; Risk Management; Failure; Business and Government Relations; Business and Shareholder Relations; Transportation; Green Technology Industry; Europe; Sweden
- 04 Apr 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research, April 4
votes receive relatively little media attention yet may foster investor risk perceptions. This research presents a multifaceted view of activists and their tactics and suggests that this approach in examining activists and their tactics... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 02 Jun 2011
- What Do You Think?
Is it Time for a National Bankruptcy?
question this raises is which lenders, nations or commercial institutions? Shann Turnbull, citing some of his own work on the subject, argued that the risks of allowing insolvency "can no longer be reliably managed because they have... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Heskett
- 22 Jul 2014
- First Look
First Look: July 22
unrelated to the allegedly infringing patents. We next show that NPEs target firms irrespective of the closeness of those firms' patents to the NPEs', and that NPEs typically target firms that are busy with other (non-IP related) lawsuits or are likely to settle.... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 12 Feb 2014
- Research & Ideas
Private Sector, Public Good
shareholder funds or as trying to subvert democratic institutions, she said. She suggested, however that there are three reasons to at least explore the topic including: Growing global corruption, particularly when business gets close to... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 20 Jan 2003
- Research & Ideas
Fixing Corporate Governance: A Roundtable Discussion at Harvard Business School
the issue of top-management compensation? Brian Hall: As you all know, stock options were intended to give executives incentives to get share prices to rise, which in theory would create value for shareholders and society alike. That... View Details
Keywords: by Garry Emmons
- 19 Jun 2007
- First Look
First Look: June 19, 2007
Steam Navigation Company (P&O). Because P&O operated some port terminals in the United States, DP World obtained clearance from the Committee on Foreign Investments in the United States before P&O shareholders approved the... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 26 Jan 2016
- First Look
January 26, 2016
when cities can tolerate risk and when there is enough labor with low opportunity costs. We also report on an inexpensive Boston-based restaurant tournament, which yielded algorithms that proved reasonably accurate when tested... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 10 Jun 2014
- First Look
First Look: June 10
Wall Street. Though many believe this happens because firms have a "fiduciary duty" to maximize shareholder returns, U.S. executives do not, as a matter of law, have any such obligation. Yet it's hard for them to resist demands... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 18 Sep 2007
- First Look
First Look: September 18, 2007
2006. Examines the possible impact that public litigation will have on the two firms. The impact of the litigation will be different for each firm because they are at dissimilar development stages and plan... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 24 Apr 2012
- First Look
First Look: April 24
PublicationsBarriers to Household Risk Management: Evidence from India Authors:Shawn A. Cole, Xavier Giné, Jeremy Tobacman, Petia Topalova, Robert M. Townsend, and James Vickery Publication:American Economic Journal: Applied Economics... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 20 Jan 2015
- First Look
First Look: January 20
over the first thirty-four years of the FASB (1973-2006). We examine the influence of auditors' lobbying incentives arising from three basic factors: managing expected litigation and regulatory costs; catering to clients' preferences for... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 29 Apr 2014
- First Look
First Look: April 29
stringent inspections and enforcement of safety standards in Bangladesh's garment factories. The proposal was met by opposition from several U.S. firms, which claimed the proposal carried too a high a risk of View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 18 Sep 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, September 18, 2018
Games, and can earn enough revenue to cover large ongoing costs, their owners—local governments and taxpayers—must pay off the deficits. Summer Olympics stadiums, normally built to seat over 70,000 people, are particularly at risk of... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 08 Jan 2001
- Research & Ideas
Can Japan Compete? [Part Two]
new industries in Japan are things like highly skilled specialist personnel; a lack of risk capital because of heavily controlled financial markets; barriers to commercializing university research; and limited incentives for View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace & Hilah Geer
- 23 Oct 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, October 23, 2018
order to reduce the technological and market risks, where reducing technological risk is of paramount importance. As a reward, pioneers ultimately realize a higher likelihood of acquisition, but among acquired firms, early entrants wait... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 06 Feb 2006
- Research & Ideas
The Trouble Behind Livedoor
Takafumi Horie, the thirty-three-year-old CEO of Livedoor, had become Japan's anti-establishment enfant terrible: rich, hard charging, willing to take big risks such as the ultimately failed attempt to acquire a controlling interest in... View Details
- 03 Mar 2008
- First Look
First Look: March 4, 2008
help improve saving and financial decision-making, but much more can be done to improve the effectiveness of these programs. Download the paper from SSRN.com ($5): http://papers.nber.org/papers/w13824 Contract Rights and Risk Aversion:... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 05 Jan 2010
- First Look
First Look: January 5
holding out as a strategic but minority shareholder in Endesa; or negotiating an agreement with Enel and/or E.ON. Purchase this case: http://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cb/product/210029-PDF-ENG AME Learning Inc. Thomas Eisenmann and Ann... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 28 May 2013
- First Look
First Look: May 28
in conjunction with debt, to be the best policy alternative under real external shocks for emerging nations. Download working paper: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=44340 How Do Staggered Boards Affect Shareholder Value? Evidence from... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne