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02 Jun 2011
What Do You Think?

Is it Time for a National Bankruptcy?

penalties on the country and its economy. But how enlightening would it be for a country like Greece—small enough to serve as a kind of laboratory for the rest of us—to fail? I assume it would be a Chapter 11 bankruptcy, a workout, as we say in US law. Quite likely,... View Details

Keywords: by Jim Heskett

26 Nov 2001
Research & Ideas

Women Entrepreneurs Use Springboard for Funding

personalize healthcare and benefits, and Carol Nacy of Sequella, Inc., a biotech firm focused on controlling global infectious diseases, especially tuberculosis. Most of the companies were already up and running. Their funding to date has... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

10 Jul 2000
Research & Ideas

The State of the Markets

that the back end of the operation keeps pace with the front end to avoid the costly control issues that exist today." Looking ahead, Seifert sees the Internet as a force to be reckoned with in terms of costs and productivity.... View Details

Keywords: by James E. Aisner

09 May 2000
Research & Ideas

Stock Options Are Not All Created Equal

enable companies to carefully control the compensation of executives and the percentage of that compensation derived from option grants. Fixed value plans are therefore ideal for the many companies that set executive pay according to... View Details

Keywords: by Brian Hall

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Angela R. Hicks Bowman

“and be very picky who you take money from because they are going to end up helping to drive your business.” Not many founders are as quick to turn over the controls to someone, even a co-founder, as Hicks did with Oesterle.... View Details

06 Apr 2023
Blog Post

Circularity in Denmark

there were two main takeaways: the use of a foundation and co-op corporate structures to better enable progress towards sustainability goals, and the distribution of sustainability roles across multiple departments within companies. Foundations View Details

19 Mar 2024
Blog Post

IFC India: Tata Power - Trombay Thermal Power Plant Takeaways

most advanced air pollution control mechanisms in the world could not stop that plant from pouring CO2 into the air at astonishing rates. Despite a few usages of the term “green coal” by our gracious hosts, that term is nothing more than... View Details

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1.16 Student Educational Records | MBA

both Harvard policy and FERPA, students and former students may inspect and review certain of their education records that are maintained by Harvard. They also have the right to: Exercise limited control over other people's access to... View Details

January 2025
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Constitutional Fiction: John Miller & the Legitimacy of Family Constitutions

By: Lauren Cohen, Octavian Graf Pilati and Sophia Pan

John Miller sat reviewing his family’s Constitution, grappling with how best to implement and enforce its provisions. Designed to prevent ambiguity in governance, the Family Constitution set out core values and guidelines to promote harmony and cohesion among family... View Details

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Regulatory Uncertainty and Corporate Responses to Environmental Protection in China

By: Christopher Marquis, Jianjun Zhang and Yanhua Zhou

We develop a framework to analyze the closing gap between regulation and enforcement of environmental protection in China and present a number of resulting implications for doing business there. We identify three major dimensions that characterize change in regulatory... View Details

Keywords: Framework; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Law Enforcement; Growth and Development Strategy; Emerging Markets; Business Ventures; Alignment; Risk and Uncertainty; Natural Environment; Motivation and Incentives; Management Practices and Processes; Competitive Strategy; China

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28 Jul 2009
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First Look: July 28

report, new CEO Hank McKinnell discusses Pfizer's performance goals and its acquisition of Pharmacia, which gave it control of the anti-arthritis drug Celebrex. In the 2005 report, McKinnell discusses his decision to keep Celebrex on the... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

01 Dec 2013
News

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control and involvement and argue that its impact on business performance will be positive. They offer a road map to help CEOs and directors better balance board oversight with the firm's daily operations and to give directors a better... View Details

Keywords: Publishing Industries (except Internet); Information; Professional Services; Management of Companies and Enterprises; Management

Portrait Project

Jeff Norton

company, along with a fellow HBS graduate, to create a new kind of film experience for children: an interactive movie that allows kids to control the story. I worked obsessively on the project, sometimes to my own detriment, but in this... View Details

01 Apr 2001
News

Khoo Teng Chye: Technology Turnaround in Singapore

At the PSA Corporation’s Pasir Panjang container terminal in Singapore, the cranes operate automatically: no drivers, just operators remotely controlling up to six of the lifting machines with a single joystick. Welcome to the most... View Details

Keywords: Alejandro Reyes; Transportation

01 Apr 2001
News

Edwin Yu: Bidding on the Future

The conventional wisdom is that Asian businesspeople tend to avoid confrontation and take only calculated risks. Edwin Yu is clearly breaking that mold. Last April he came out on top in the first boardroom proxy fight in South Korean history, winning View Details

Keywords: Alejandro Reyes; Telecommunications; Information

01 Sep 2010
News

Start-Ups Make Their Pitch

today goes to telecom, high tech, or software,” said Mahesh, founder and CEO of Sundaram Medical Devices in Chennai. Mahesh trained at Stanford as an engineer and worked for McKinsey and Toyota before attending HBS. He plans to apply engineering and cost View Details

Keywords: awards; Furniture and Related Product Manufacturing; Manufacturing

13 Oct 2015
Research & Ideas

Does Business Get Done the Same Way in Emerging and Developed Countries?

in the family affairs of its most senior executives, family or not. Akfen Holding, founded 50 years after Koç in Ankara, holds a variety of construction, engineering and other firms related to infrastructure development. It has about 36,000 employees. The company is... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

16 Nov 2010
First Look

First Look: November 16, 2010

We develop a framework to empirically examine how politicians with electoral pressures control bureaucrats with career concerns as well as the consequences for bureaucrats' career investments. Unique micro-level data on Indian bureaucrats... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

16 Jan 2019
Research & Ideas

What Football Firings Teach Managers About Staying Relevant

explanatory variables, controlling for player quality, total team salary, total number of players used by the team during the season (a proxy for team injuries over the course of a season), and team control... View Details

Keywords: by Boris Groysberg, Evan M.S. Hecht, and Abhijit Naik; Sports

2022
Book

Les multinationales suisses dans l'arène politique (1942–1993) [Swiss Multinationals in the Political Arena (1942–1993)]

By: Sabine Pitteloud

En décembre 2020, les Suisses votaient sur l’initiative populaire « pour des multinationales responsables ». Cet épisode récent a rappelé que la régulation de l’activité des sociétés multinationales fait l’objet de luttes politiques, auxquelles participent les... View Details