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- 11 Jan 2019
- Blog Post
The ABCs of Recruiting at HBS
collaboration with the Harvard School of Engineering and Applied Sciences. We also offer joint degree programs with the Harvard Law School, Harvard Kennedy School of Government, View Details
- 15 Jan 2019
- News
Working to Improve the End of Life
educate the public and medical professionals about end-of-life issues, like advance directives, palliative care, and hospice. We provide individual counseling to patients who are dying View Details
- 17 Mar 2008
- Research & Ideas
The Lessons of Business History: A Handbook
“The history of globalization warns against easy assumptions on the linearity of globalization.” Another instance is the highly influential "law and economics" literature, which emphasizes the importance of the common View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 15 Jun 2021
- News
The Path out of Polarization
changing media landscape is going to be resolved in the United States, and I think the interest in trying to regulate the big social media companies is all related to this part: We don’t know exactly how to... View Details
- 24 May 2004
- Research & Ideas
Becoming an Ethical Negotiator
The book What's Fair: Ethics of Negotiators is a rich collection of pointers from professional dealmakers, attorneys, academic specialists, and, not least, ethicists. Michael Wheeler, an HBS professor and editor of Negotiation Journal,... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 01 Apr 2002
- News
Insights into Business in Islamic World
in Western colleges and universities." Hayes's comments, together with those of Harvard Law School adjunct professor Frank Vogel, were delivered as part of the School's "Rising to the Challenge" program,... 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
- 16 Feb 2016
- First Look
February 16, 2016
Rather than flouting the new ideas of institutional economics, which favored federal regulators overseeing data collection and dissemination among businesses so as to stabilize prices View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 02 Oct 2000
- Research & Ideas
The Dubious Logic of Global Megamergers
may actually hurt you, and if you can't respond adequately on your own, you can put a spanner in the works by forcing regulators in your industry to institute antitrust proceedings. For example, among... View Details
Keywords: by Pankaj Ghemawat & Fariborz Ghadar
- 20 Jun 2016
- Blog Post
Exploring Cleantech at HBS
you’re interested in within cleantech. It’s a good way to learn about the companies and organizations in the space, and have an excuse to invite people you admire to campus. Keep tabs on study groups View Details
- 13 May 2008
- First Look
First Look: May 13, 2008
search for solutions. BP successfully reduced its own carbon emissions, and championed cap-and-trade style regulation over taxation or command-and-control. Despite this progress, as the climate issue gains... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 05 Aug 2008
- First Look
First Look: August 5, 2008
Zones: Side Productions, Identity, and Regulation in an Aeronautic Plant Author:Michel Anteby Publication:Princeton University Press, 2008 Publisher's Abstract Anyone who has been employed by an organization... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Mar 2011
- News
A Man without a Pause
Between the ages of 30 and 40, James Wolfensohn (MBA ’59) lived a life most would find enviable. An Olympic fencer and graduate of both law and... View Details
- November 2007 (Revised June 2011)
- Case
ISS A/S (A)
By: Clayton S. Rose
Provides the opportunity to examine the nature and extent of a company's responsibilities to its bondholders, and to develop an enhanced understanding of the challenges in managing contractual obligations, and circumstances under which business leaders might agree to... View Details
Keywords: Risk and Uncertainty; Bonds; Contracts; Private Equity; Leveraged Buyouts; Privatization; Business and Stakeholder Relations; Borrowing and Debt; Cross-Cultural and Cross-Border Issues; Europe
Rose, Clayton S. "ISS A/S (A)." Harvard Business School Case 308-054, November 2007. (Revised June 2011.)
- June 2022 (Revised October 2022)
- Case
Can Goodr Fight Food Insecurity at Scale?
By: Daniel Isenberg and William R. Kerr
Jasmine Crowe founded Goodr to redirect food waste to people in need. Now a profitable enterprise, she’s searching for Series A funding and encountering pushback. Scaling and contract concerns are also at the forefront of her mind, but so are her values. Feeding... View Details
Keywords: Entrepreneurship; Investor Demand; Food; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Values and Beliefs; Social Issues; Race; Opportunities; Contracts; Mission and Purpose; Financing and Loans
Isenberg, Daniel, and William R. Kerr. "Can Goodr Fight Food Insecurity at Scale?" Harvard Business School Case 822-143, June 2022. (Revised October 2022.)
- 09 May 2005
- Research & Ideas
Hold or Fold? Sizing Up Business Risk
divest a recent acquisition or buy other assets to build this business area would check the same column. The law partner who is thinking about retirement from a lucrative law practice View Details
- 01 Sep 2003
- What Do You Think?
To Whom Should Boards be Accountable?
Summing Up "It is pretty clear to me to whom the board is accountable: the shareholders."—J. W. Penland "When the board deviates from long- and short-term shareholder interests as it has recently done in some instances, it... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- March 2024
- Case
Funderbeam: Teaming Up or Going Alone?
By: Paul A. Gompers, Elena Corsi and Orna Dan
Funderbeam, a global platform founded in Estonia to enable start-ups to run private syndications and secondaries while offering liquidity for private equity investors, was at a crossroads. Over its ten-year run, the company had expanded its services and areas of... View Details
Keywords: Decision Making; Business Exit or Shutdown; Transition; Leading Change; Business or Company Management; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Law; Mergers and Acquisitions; Financing and Loans; Cross-Cultural and Cross-Border Issues; Ownership Stake; Expansion; Business Startups; Venture Capital; Financial Services Industry; Estonia; Republic of Ireland; United Kingdom; Singapore
- 29 Oct 2013
- First Look
First Look: October 29
Publications August 2013 Harvard Business Review Press The Good Struggle: Responsible Leadership in an Unforgiving World By: Badaracco, Joseph L., Jr. Abstract—The question of how to lead successfully and responsibly is crucially... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne