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  • June 2014
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The Kursk Submarine Rescue Mission — Short Film

By: Anette Mikes and Tom Ryder
During a military exercise in August 2000, a state-of-the-art Russian nuclear submarine, the Kursk, sank in the Barents Sea, triggering global media attention and an international rescue effort.
In addition to Russia's Northern Fleet, two other organizations got... View Details
Keywords: Risk Management; Groups and Teams; Crisis Management
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  • October 2015
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Clearwater Seafoods

By: Forest L. Reinhardt
Clearwater sought to market value-added shellfish products in a traditionally commodities based industry, while facing supply uncertainties and regulatory, environmental, and foreign exchange challenges. Clearwater harvested lobsters, clams, scallops, shrimp, and other... View Details
Keywords: Agribusiness; Profit; Goods and Commodities; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Product Marketing; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Environmental Sustainability; Agriculture and Agribusiness Industry; Canada
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  • July 9, 2014
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A Great Negotiator's Essential Advice

By: James K. Sebenius
The Program on Negotiation (PON), an active Harvard-MIT-Tufts consortium, honored View Details
Keywords: Negotiation Process; Negotiation Tactics; Personal Development and Career; Negotiation Style; Singapore
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  • June 2014
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The Kursk Submarine Rescue Mission (Multimedia)

By: Anette Mikes and Tom Ryder
During a military exercise in August 2000, a state-of-the-art Russian nuclear submarine, the Kursk, sank in the Barents Sea, triggering global media attention and an international rescue effort.
In addition to Russia's Northern Fleet, two other organizations got... View Details
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  • 2015
  • Article

Free at Last, Now What: The Soviet and Chinese Attempts to Offer a Roadmap for the Post-Colonial World

By: Jeremy Friedman
This article seeks to understand the motivations behind the People's Republic of China's attempt to present an alternative development model for the post-colonial world and challenge Soviet leadership in the international communist movement in mid-1960s. When the wave... View Details
Keywords: Development Economics; Business and Government Relations; China; United States; Soviet Union
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    W. Carl Kester

    Carl Kester is a Baker Foundation Professor and the George Fisher Baker Jr. Professor of Business Administration, Emeritus at Harvard Business School. He is a member of the Finance Unit. He served as Deputy Dean for Academic Affairs (2006-2010), Chairman of the... View Details

    Keywords: asset management; banking; education industry; financial services; investment banking industry; pharmaceuticals; private equity (LBO funds)
    • November 2010 (Revised August 2011)
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    Australian Vintage Ltd.

    By: David F. Hawkins
    Following International Financial Reporting Standards guidance company records a number of significant losses and a related deferred tax asset. View Details
    Keywords: Accounting; International Accounting; Financial Statements; Financial Reporting; Taxation; Business or Company Management; Asset Management; Assets; Financial Management; Standards; Australia
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    • 19 Aug 2011
    • Working Paper Summaries

    The Globalization of Corporate Environmental Disclosure: Accountability or Greenwashing?

    Keywords: by Christopher Marquis & Michael W. Toffel

      Robert C. Merton

      Robert C. Merton is the School of Management Distinguished Professor of Finance at the MIT Sloan School of Management.

      Merton is University Professor Emeritus at Harvard University and was the George Fisher Baker Professor of... View Details

      Keywords: banking; brokerage; financial services; insurance industry; investment banking industry; retail financial services
      • August 2010 (Revised September 2010)
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      Paul Bremer at the Coalition Provisional Authority in Iraq

      By: Robert Steven Kaplan and Nicholas Henri Taranto
      Since becoming the President's envoy responsible for post-war Iraq, Paul Bremer endured many sleepless nights, struggling with the decision of how to hand over sovereignty to the Iraqi people. Despite daily assassination attempts, tribal warfare, growing violence, and... View Details
      Keywords: Government Administration; International Relations; National Security; Leadership; Crisis Management; Iraq; District of Columbia
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      • March 1997 (Revised November 1997)
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      Incidents in Foreign Direct Investment

      By: Louis T. Wells Jr. and Courtenay Sprague
      Presents seven examples (i.e., incidents) of conflict concerning foreign direct investment. The incidents lay the framework for discussion of issues such as the jurisdiction of the WTO and the U.S. position, the Helms-Burton Act of 1996 and its political implications,... View Details
      Keywords: Trade; International Finance; Foreign Direct Investment; Laws and Statutes; United States
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      • 26 Dec 2012
      • Working Paper Summaries

      Reinforcing Regulatory Regimes: How States, Civil Society, and Codes of Conduct Promote Adherence to Global Labor Standards

      Keywords: by Michael W. Toffel, Jodi L. Short & Melissa Ouellet
      • 2024
      • Report

      Overcoming Barriers to Resolving Gaza and Beyond

      By: James K. Sebenius
      As of early January 2024, discussion of the Gaza war heavily focuses on its humanitarian costs, cease fire possibilities, hostage prospects, and “day after” options. Yet what longer-term strategy guides actions on these vital issues while offering a more positive... View Details
      Keywords: Negotiation; War; International Relations; Israel; Middle East
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        Michael E. Porter

        Michael Porter is an economist, researcher, author, advisor, speaker and teacher. Throughout his career at Harvard Business School, he has brought economic theory and strategy concepts to bear on many of the most challenging problems facing corporations, economies... View Details

        Keywords: biotechnology; e-commerce industry; health care; information; information technology industry; internet; nonprofit industry; service industry; state government
        • Teaching Interest

        Social Entrepreneurship and Innovation

        By: Brian L. Trelstad
        Combining the tools of philanthropy, business and advocacy (or mission, margin and mandate), social entrepreneurs have tackled long-standing societal issues like teacher training, college access, global public health, renewable energy and sanitation.  Social... View Details
        Keywords: Innovation and Invention; Organizations; Social Enterprise; Civil Society or Community; System
        • July 2005 (Revised August 2011)
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        Jesse Holman Jones and the Reconstruction Finance Corporation

        By: Nitin Nohria, Anthony Mayo and Bridget Gurtler
        Jesse Holman Jones is regarded as one of the most influential men in reviving the American economy from the Great Depression. With only an 8th grade education, he rose to the top of the banking, real estate, and lumber industries, as well as the upper echelons of... View Details
        Keywords: Financial Crisis; Financial Strategy; Business History; Leading Change; Managerial Roles; Business and Government Relations; Power and Influence
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        • August 2008 (Revised July 2009)
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        Gazprom (A): Energy and Strategy in Russian History

        By: Rawi E. Abdelal, Sogomon Tarontsi and Alexander Jorov
        Critics have accused Gazprom, the world's largest natural gas producer, of eschewing market principles in favor of the foreign policy priorities of the Russian government, ever since the energy giant cut off the supply to Ukraine in January of 2006. The purported... View Details
        Keywords: History; International Relations; Trade; Energy Industry; Russia; Soviet Union; Ukraine; Europe
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        • January 2002 (Revised March 2006)
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        Democracy

        By: Rawi E. Abdelal
        Surveys scholarship on democracy and democratization. Describes the relationship between democracy and the environment of business, including capitalist economic institutions, economic growth, economic reform, and international relations. View Details
        Keywords: Economic Systems; Situation or Environment; Business and Government Relations; Economic Growth; International Relations; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms
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        • 2022
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        Indonesia and the Third Indochina War: The End of Containment

        By: Mattias Fibiger
        The Third Indochina War called forth dramatic changes in the international relations of Southeast Asia. Foremost among these changes was a shift in the geopolitical orientation of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN). The organization’s founders... View Details
        Keywords: Cold War; War; National Security; Southeast Asia; Indonesia; China
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        • April 2003 (Revised November 2003)
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        Creation of the European Union, The

        By: J. Gunnar Trumbull
        Describes the emergence of the European Union (EU). Focuses on a critical stage in European integration--the period in the early 1990s when member states negotiated the terms of the Maastricht Treaty. This agreement set in motion the project that would eventually lead... View Details
        Keywords: International Relations; Alliances; System; Negotiation Participants; Government and Politics; Agreements and Arrangements; Money; Cooperation; European Union
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