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- October 2012
- Teaching Plan
Vertex Pharmaceuticals and the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation: Venture Philanthropy Funding for Biotech (TP)
By: Robert F. Higgins
This is the teaching note related to HBS case 808005. In 2001, Vertex Pharmaceuticals Incorporated acquired the San Diego-based biotech company, Aurora Biosciences. The combination of Vertex's and Aurora's technologies would improve the flow of novel drug candidates...
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Keywords:
Venture Philanthropy;
Biotechnology;
Funding Philanthropy Venture;
Cystic Fibrosis;
Foundations;
Pharmaceuticals;
Mergers and Acquisitions;
For-Profit Firms;
Venture Capital;
Philanthropy and Charitable Giving;
Science-Based Business;
Nonprofit Organizations;
Pharmaceutical Industry;
Biotechnology Industry;
United States;
San Diego
- September 2011
- Article
The Empire Struck Back: Sanctions and Compensation in the Mexican Oil Expropriation of 1938
By: Noel Maurer
The Mexican expropriation of 1938 was the first large-scale non-Communist expropriation of foreign-owned natural resource assets. The literature makes three assertions: the U.S. did not fully back the companies, Mexico did not fully compensate them for the value of...
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Keywords:
Natural Environment;
Assets;
Value;
Motivation and Incentives;
Government and Politics;
Strategy;
Interests;
Revenue;
Non-Renewable Energy;
Energy Industry;
Mexico;
United States
Maurer, Noel. "The Empire Struck Back: Sanctions and Compensation in the Mexican Oil Expropriation of 1938." Journal of Economic History 71, no. 3 (September 2011): 590 – 615.
- August 2010 (Revised September 2011)
- Case
Driving Sustainability at Bloomberg L.P.
By: Christopher Marquis, Daniel Beunza, Fabrizio Ferraro and Bobbi Thomason
Describes the addition of environmental, social, and governance (ESG) performance indicators to the Bloomberg terminal. The initiative grew out of Bloomberg's broader sustainability initiatives and is an example of how committed employees can create positive social...
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Keywords:
Corporate Entrepreneurship;
Knowledge Dissemination;
Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact;
Organizational Culture;
Business and Stakeholder Relations;
Environmental Sustainability;
Publishing Industry;
New York (city, NY)
Marquis, Christopher, Daniel Beunza, Fabrizio Ferraro, and Bobbi Thomason. "Driving Sustainability at Bloomberg L.P." Harvard Business School Case 411-025, August 2010. (Revised September 2011.)
- February 1997 (Revised May 1998)
- Case
3M: Negotiating Air Pollution Credits (A)
By: Michael A. Wheeler and Thomas Dretler
A proposed trade of air pollution emission credits between 3M (now Imation) and Procter and Gamble is described. Though such trading is encouraged under federal environmental laws, 3M had adopted a company-wide policy against such deals. Procter and Gamble needs the...
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Keywords:
Conflict of Interests;
Negotiation Types;
Pollutants;
Negotiation Participants;
Laws and Statutes;
Policy;
Government and Politics;
United States
Wheeler, Michael A., and Thomas Dretler. "3M: Negotiating Air Pollution Credits (A)." Harvard Business School Case 897-134, February 1997. (Revised May 1998.)
- January 2020 (Revised April 2020)
- Case
Fossil Fuel Divestment (Abridged)
By: Michael W. Toffel and Sarah Gulick
The president of Harvard University is facing growing pressure from students, alumni, and other climate change activists that are urging the university to divest its multi-billion dollar endowment from fossil fuel companies. The case summarizes the arguments for and...
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Keywords:
Divestment;
Harvard University;
Higher Education;
Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact;
Environmental Sustainability;
Climate Change;
Public Opinion;
Ethics;
Education Industry
Toffel, Michael W., and Sarah Gulick. "Fossil Fuel Divestment." Harvard Business School Case 620-093, January 2020. (Revised April 2020.)
- September 2006 (Revised November 2008)
- Case
Supergrid
Supergrid is a mammoth wind-power development scheme for Europe, recently proposed by Airtricity. This firm, founded in 1997, is a fast-growing power-development company focused on wind. Already having built about 600 megawatts of wind turbines in Scotland and Ireland,...
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Keywords:
Energy Generation;
Renewable Energy;
Entrepreneurship;
Performance Capacity;
Business and Government Relations;
Environmental Sustainability;
Energy Industry;
Europe;
United States
Vietor, Richard H.K. "Supergrid." Harvard Business School Case 707-016, September 2006. (Revised November 2008.)
- October 2009 (Revised January 2014)
- Teaching Note
Sustainability at Millipore (TN)
Teaching Note for [610012].
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- 22 Jan 2019
- Working Paper Summaries
Corporate Sustainability: A Strategy?
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by Ioannis Ioannou and George Serafeim
- April 1999
- Background Note
Note on the Caspian Oil Pipelines
By: Benjamin C. Esty and Mathew M Millett
The Caspian region may become one of the world's next major energy producers. Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan, Turkmenistan, and Uzbekistan-all former Soviet republics--hold vast and largely undeveloped reserves of oil and gas, but the region's export infrastructure is nearly...
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Keywords:
Economics;
Non-Renewable Energy;
Investment;
Government and Politics;
Infrastructure;
Outcome or Result;
Projects;
Natural Environment;
Azerbaijan;
Kazakhstan;
Uzbekistan
Esty, Benjamin C., and Mathew M Millett. "Note on the Caspian Oil Pipelines." Harvard Business School Background Note 299-044, April 1999.
- 2022
- Chapter
Measuring Compliance Risk and the Emergence of Analytics
By: Eugene F. Soltes
Corporate compliance manages a diverse set of regulatory and reputational concerns ranging from fraud to privacy to discrimination. However, effectively managing such risks has often been hampered by a lack of adequate information about when, where, and why misconduct...
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Keywords:
Compliance;
Risk;
Analytics;
Governance Compliance;
Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms;
Risk Management;
Analytics and Data Science
Soltes, Eugene F. "Measuring Compliance Risk and the Emergence of Analytics." Chap. 8 in Measuring Compliance: Assessing Corporate Crime and Misconduct Prevention, edited by Melissa Rorie and Benjamin van Rooij, 137–152. Cambridge University Press, 2022.
- 2020
- Working Paper
Updating the Balanced Scorecard for Triple Bottom Line Strategies
By: Robert S. Kaplan and David McMillan
Many companies are now attempting to achieve triple bottom line performance on financial, environmental, and societal metrics. Successful strategies for such performance, however, generally require new relationships among multiple players in multiple sectors across a...
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Keywords:
Balanced Scorecard;
Adaptation;
Environmental Sustainability;
Social Issues;
Performance;
Strategy
Kaplan, Robert S., and David McMillan. "Updating the Balanced Scorecard for Triple Bottom Line Strategies." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 21-028, August 2020.
- 2015
- Case
Advanced Leadership Pathways: Issa Baluch and the African Agribusiness Knowledge and Innovation Leadership Initiative (AKILI)
By: Rosabeth M. Kanter and Renee Vuillaume
A veteran of the freight forwarding industry, Issa Baluch wanted to transform the education space in Africa by introducing hands-on practical teaching in agriculture and agribusiness. In the summer of 2015 his vision of a practical learning institute for African...
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Keywords:
Agriculture;
Institutions For Collaboration;
Innovation;
Innovation And Strategy;
Farming;
International Development;
Stakeholder Engagement;
Youth;
Environmental And Social Sustainability;
Environment;
Social Impact Investment;
Agribusiness;
Education;
Training;
Leadership;
Knowledge;
Environmental Sustainability;
Innovation Strategy;
Knowledge Management;
Finance;
Africa
Kanter, Rosabeth M., and Renee Vuillaume. "Advanced Leadership Pathways: Issa Baluch and the African Agribusiness Knowledge and Innovation Leadership Initiative (AKILI)." Harvard Business Publishing Case 316-056, 2015. (Harvard Advanced Leadership Initiative.)
- 2015
- Case
Advanced Leadership Pathways: Howard Fischer, Eric Jacobsen, and Gratitude Railroad's Impact Investing
By: Rosabeth M. Kanter and Daniel Lennox-Choate
In 2013, Howard Fischer (hedge fund founder) and Eric Jacobsen (serial entrepreneur and private equity investor) established Gratitude Railroad as a community of impact investors in nine different "tracks." Each track represented a different concept for using...
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Keywords:
Impact Investing;
Environmental And Social Sustainability;
Social Change;
Sustainable Business And Innovation;
Investment;
Social Issues;
Environmental Sustainability;
Venture Capital;
Business Startups;
Entrepreneurship;
Leadership;
United States
Kanter, Rosabeth M., and Daniel Lennox-Choate. "Advanced Leadership Pathways: Howard Fischer, Eric Jacobsen, and Gratitude Railroad's Impact Investing." Harvard Business Publishing Case 316-047, 2015.
- 2017
- Casebook
Public Health Preparedness: Case Studies in Policy and Management
By: Arnold M. Howitt, Dutch Leonard and David W. Giles
This book provides detailed accounts of a range of public health emergencies. Topics range from natural disasters, to infectious diseases, to pandemics, and more. With chapters on Superstorm Sandy, H1N1, the Ebola virus, and bioterrorism, these cases cover major areas...
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Keywords:
Health Care and Treatment;
Health Pandemics;
Natural Disasters;
Safety;
Public Sector;
Policy;
Management
Howitt, Arnold M., Dutch Leonard and David W. Giles, eds. Public Health Preparedness: Case Studies in Policy and Management. Washington, DC: American Public Health Association, 2017.
- October 2013
- Article
How Firms Respond to Mandatory Information Disclosure
By: Anil R. Doshi, Glen W.S. Dowell and Michael W. Toffel
Mandatory information disclosure regulations seek to create institutional pressure to spur performance improvement. By examining how organizational characteristics moderate establishments' responses to a prominent environmental information disclosure program, we...
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Keywords:
Information Disclosure;
Institutional Theory;
Environmental Strategy;
Mandatory Disclosure;
Environmental Performance;
Information;
Corporate Disclosure;
Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms;
Performance Improvement;
Environmental Sustainability;
Manufacturing Industry;
United States
Doshi, Anil R., Glen W.S. Dowell, and Michael W. Toffel. "How Firms Respond to Mandatory Information Disclosure." Strategic Management Journal 34, no. 10 (October 2013): 1209–1231. (Featured in The Regulatory Review.)
- 2012
- Working Paper
An Exploration of Luxury Hotels in Tanzania
By: Diego A. Comin
Tourism is a tradable service activity that could allow some African countries to generate significant growth. Tanzania, given its unique natural assets, is an ideal candidate. However, despite being so richly endowed in touristic resources, Tanzania receives very few...
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Keywords:
Natural Environment;
Business Ventures;
Luxury;
Revenue;
Price;
Developing Countries and Economies;
Accommodations Industry;
Tourism Industry;
Tanzania
Comin, Diego A. "An Exploration of Luxury Hotels in Tanzania." NBER Working Paper Series, No. 17902, March 2012.
- August 2009 (Revised August 2010)
- Case
Calera Corporation
By: Joseph B. Lassiter III, Thomas J. Steenburgh and Lauren Barley
Brent Constantz, founder, CEO, and president of Calera Corporation, felt a surge of optimism as he gazed at the recently commissioned prototype flue gas processing line at Calera's R&D facility in Moss Landing, California. It was late May 2009, and Calera was an...
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Keywords:
Business Startups;
Entrepreneurship;
Product Design;
Product Development;
Environmental Sustainability;
Commercialization;
Green Technology Industry
Lassiter, Joseph B., III, Thomas J. Steenburgh, and Lauren Barley. "Calera Corporation." Harvard Business School Case 810-030, August 2009. (Revised August 2010.)
- May 1999 (Revised November 2000)
- Case
AES Global Values
By: Lynn S. Paine
Members of the development team for the AES Corp.'s power plant project in India must decide what plant technology to specify in their application for techno-economic clearance from the government of India's Central Electric Authority. Their choice is between more...
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Keywords:
Business Ventures;
Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact;
Environmental Sustainability;
Energy Generation;
Technology Adoption;
Energy Industry;
India;
United States
Paine, Lynn S. "AES Global Values." Harvard Business School Case 399-136, May 1999. (Revised November 2000.)
- January 1995 (Revised November 1996)
- Case
Avalon Information Services, Inc.
By: Lynn S. Paine and Wilda White
The Privacy Review Committee of Avalon Information Services must decide how to deal with concerns voiced by its retail supermarket customers about the privacy of consumer data collected through Avalon's point-of-sale data collection program. One customer is proposing...
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Keywords:
Mission and Purpose;
Safety;
Demand and Consumers;
Rights;
Analytics and Data Science;
Information Technology;
Ethics;
Information Industry
Paine, Lynn S., and Wilda White. "Avalon Information Services, Inc." Harvard Business School Case 395-036, January 1995. (Revised November 1996.)
- 12 Apr 2018
- Op-Ed
Op-Ed: The Trouble with Tariffs
don’t believe government is good at, nor should engage in picking winners and losers. I don’t disagree with that, but perhaps it would be constructive for us to have a national conversation about what has made us so successful in the past—investments in the View Details
Keywords:
by Willy C. Shih;
Manufacturing;
Auto;
Steel;
Air Transportation;
Technology;
Telecommunications