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  • 2007
  • Other Unpublished Work

Effects of Inventory on Demand for Rentals in the Home Video Market

By: Ioannis Ioannou, Julie Mortimer and Richard Mortimer
Retailer inventory decisions can greatly influence observed demand for a product by affecting, among other things, product availability (stock-outs) and product visibility in the store. These inventory decisions are affected by numerous factors including vertical... View Details
Keywords: Decisions; Demand and Consumers; Supply Chain Management; Competition; Contracts; Entertainment and Recreation Industry; United States
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  • 04 Feb 2025
  • HBS Seminar

Anocha Aribarg, University of Michigan

    How Do Drug Copayment Coupons Affect Branded Drug Prices and Quantities Purchased?

    Drug copayment coupons to reduce patient cost-sharing have become nearly ubiquitous for high-priced brand-name prescription drugs. Medicare bans such coupons on the grounds that they are kickbacks that induce utilization, but they are commonly used by... View Details
    • March 2023
    • Teaching Note

    Sustainability Reporting at Dollar Tree, Inc.

    By: Suraj Srinivasan and Li-Kuan Ni
    Teaching Note for HBS Case No. 122-044. The case discusses the ESG strategy of Dollar Tree Inc., a U.S. Fortune 500 company in the deep discount retail industry and the shareholder pressure faced by the company. In 2022, the company faced a shareholder resolution from... View Details
    Keywords: ESG; Sustainability; Shareholder Activism; Dollar Tree; Sustainability Reporting; ESG Reporting; Board Of Directors; Shareholder Engagement; GHG; Environmental Accounting; Integrated Corporate Reporting; Trends; Communication; Announcements; Voting; Environmental Management; Climate Change; Environmental Sustainability; Values and Beliefs; Corporate Accountability; Corporate Disclosure; Corporate Governance; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Policy; Reports; Business or Company Management; Risk Management; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Outcome or Result; Strategic Planning; Business and Stakeholder Relations; Situation or Environment; Opportunities; Civil Society or Community; Social Issues; Public Opinion; Strategy; Adaptation; Alignment; Business Strategy; Corporate Strategy; Value Creation; Retail Industry; United States; Virginia
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    • 2011
    • Working Paper

    Historical Trajectories and Corporate Competences in Wind Energy

    By: Geoffrey Jones and Loubna Bouamane
    This working paper surveys the business history of the global wind energy turbine industry between the late nineteenth century and the present day. It examines the long-term prominence of firms headquartered in Denmark, the more fluctuating role of U.S.-based firms,... View Details
    Keywords: Business History; Renewable Energy; Competitive Advantage; Technology Adoption; Policy; Business and Government Relations; Energy Industry; United States; Denmark
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    • January 2020 (Revised December 2024)
    • Case

    Governing PG&E

    By: Lynn S. Paine and Will Hurwitz
    The five commissioners of the California Public Utilities Commission (CPUC) listened intently at a public forum in April 2019 as PG&E Corporation’s out-going chairman Richard Kelly described the company’s proposed new board. PG&E, which provided electricity and natural... View Details
    Keywords: Bankruptcy; Board Of Directors; Board Dynamics; Business Ethics; Business Model Innovation; Corporate Boards; Energy Efficiency; Environmental And Social Sustainability; Government And Business; Hedge Funds; Institutional Investors; Legal Aspects Of Business; Regulated Monopolies; Regulation; Shareholders; Stakeholder Management; Strategy And Execution; Utilities; Insolvency and Bankruptcy; Governing and Advisory Boards; Ethics; Capital Structure; Climate Change; Corporate Accountability; Corporate Governance; Environmental Sustainability; Executive Compensation; Leadership; Management; Safety; Business and Government Relations; Energy Industry; Utilities Industry; California; United States
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    • January–February 2018
    • Article

    The New CEO Activists

    By: Aaron K Chatterji and Michael W. Toffel
    Though corporations have been lobbying the government and making campaign donations for a long time now, in recent years a dramatic new trend has emerged in U.S. politics: CEOs are taking very public stands on thorny political issues that have nothing to do with their... View Details
    Keywords: Government Policy; Rights; Leadership & Corporate Accountability; Sustainability; Leadership; Corporate Accountability; Policy; Social Issues; Communication Intention and Meaning; United States
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    • 2013
    • Working Paper

    Historical Origins of Environmental Sustainability in the German Chemical Industry, 1950s-1980s

    By: Geoffrey Jones and Christina Lubinski
    This working paper examines the growth of corporate environmentalism in the West German chemical industry between the 1950s and the 1980s. German business has been regarded as pioneering corporate environmentalism after World War II. In contrast, this study reveals... View Details
    Keywords: Sustainability; Green Business; Pollution; Environmental Sustainability; Business History; Chemical Industry; Germany; United States
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    • 10 Oct 2023
    • Blog Post

    Policy Drivers for Environmental Justice: What Businesses Need to Know

    environmental justice defined? Looking at policy and business definitions to understand what terms mean for productive action. Policy: What policy is in place in the U.S to drive environmental justice action by businesses? Breaking down the primary environmental... View Details
    • Web

    Cases & Teaching Notes - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness

    Landman In 2014, Dr. Charles D. Fraser Jr., Surgeon-in-Chief of Texas Children's Hospital in Houston, was contemplating the future direction of the congenital heart disease program. The nation's largest pediatric hospital, Texas Children's was ranked by View Details
    • 28 Nov 2005
    • Research & Ideas

    Unilever: Transformation and Tradition

    negotiation of safe paths through the complexities of official regulations and government. The easiest way to understand the Unilever organization, observed an article in the U.S. business magazine Fortune in 1947, was "to think of... View Details
    Keywords: by Geoffrey Jones; Consumer Products
    • 15 Oct 2013
    • First Look

    First Look: October 15

    innovation, our results also help to explain why technological development was still robust following one of the largest shocks in the history of the U.S. banking system. Working Papers Team Scaffolds: How Minimal Team Structures Enable... View Details
    Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
    • Web

    Leadership Transitions | Baker Library | Bloomberg Center | Harvard Business School

    concern took its place as the fourth-largest investment bank in the country. [13] Lehman Brothers, Kuhn, Loeb & Co. expanded its global financial markets, opening offices in Europe and Asia and serving in a financial advisory capacity in View Details
    • 16 Mar 2009
    • Research & Ideas

    When the Internet Runs Out of IP Addresses

    from the various other standards transitions we've faced before. For example, the digital TV transition benefited from a strong central authority, the U.S. government, that could order transition on a particular date certain. Not so here,... View Details
    Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Telecommunications
    • 01 Feb 1999
    • News

    Too Much of a Good Thing?

    extremely difficult to deal with for a variety of reasons. Bower, for his part, believes that enlightened management and intra-industry cooperation (with government playing a positive support role where needed) - an approach that he says the View Details
    Keywords: Garry Emmons
    • Web

    Historical Data & Sources - Business History

    Ships and Sea Transport (London: George Routledge and Sons, Ltd., 1931), opp. p. 8, map. Distances Between Ports U.S. Navy, Hydrographic Office, Table of Distances Between Ports (Washington: GPO, 1942), opp. p. 4, map. Ford: Countries of... View Details
    • Web

    Cluster Studies - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness

    foundational work on cluster mapping that Prof. Michael E. Porter has led at the Institute for Strategy and Competitiveness (ISC), Harvard Business School over the last two decades. He launched the U.S. Cluster Mapping Initiative in the... View Details
    • June 2025
    • Article

    What Board-level Control Mechanisms Changed in Banks Following the 2008 Financial Crisis? A Descriptive Study

    By: Shelly Li, Shivram Rajgopal, Suraj Srinivasan and Yu Ting Forester Wong
    Following the 2008 financial crisis, the Financial Crisis Inquiry Commission (FCIC) identified major shortcomings in bank board governance, contributing to systemic risk management failures. This study adapts a management control framework and empirically examines... View Details
    Keywords: Board Of Directors; Management Control; Governing and Advisory Boards; Governance Controls; Risk Management; Change Management; Banks and Banking; Financial Crisis
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    • Forthcoming
    • Article

    Beefing IT Up for Your Investor? Engagement with Open Source Communities, Innovation, and Startup Funding: Evidence from GitHub

    By: Annamaria Conti, Christian Peukert and Maria P. Roche
    We study the engagement of nascent firms with open source communities and its implications for innovation and attracting funding. To do so, we link data on 160,065 U.S. startups from Crunchbase to their activities on the open source software development platform... View Details
    Keywords: Startups; Knowledge; Open Source Communities; GitHub; Machine Learning; Innovation; Business Startups; Venture Capital; Information Technology; Strategy
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    • October 2020
    • Article

    Corporate Legal Structure and Bank Loan Spread

    By: Anywhere (Siko) Sikochi
    This study examines how a corporate legal structure may affect borrowing costs. Corporate legal structure refers to the legal fragmentation of a firm into multiple, separately incorporated entities. This fragmentation is bound to be a factor when lenders determine the... View Details
    Keywords: Corporate Legal Structure; Subsidiaries; Bank Loans; Minority Interest; Credit Risk; Organizational Structure; Business Subsidiaries; Financing and Loans
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