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  • 29 Jul 2014
  • First Look

First Look: July 29

movement morphed into a violent, deadly confrontation in January, culminating in February in mass slaughter, an overthrow of government, foreign invasion, and international crisis. The four months that shook Ukraine is a case study on the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 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
    • 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
    • August 2010 (Revised September 2010)
    • Case

    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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    • November 2010 (Revised August 2011)
    • Case

    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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      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
      • March 1997 (Revised November 1997)
      • Case

      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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      • 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)
      • Case

      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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      • December 1988 (Revised December 1989)
      • Background Note

      Country Analysis Framework

      By: James E. Austin
      Presents basic framework for country analysis as used in Business, Government, and the International Economy course. View Details
      Keywords: Framework; Government and Politics; Globalization
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        Reinventing State Capitalism

        In this book we study the evolution of corporate governance arrangements that governments have adopted for their state-owned enterprises (SOEs) in the last 20 years. We show that the process of privatization and liberalization of the 1990s and early 2000s created... View Details

        • August 2008 (Revised July 2009)
        • Case

        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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        • June 2014
        • Case

        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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        • 2022
        • Article

        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)
        • Case

        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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        • January 2002 (Revised March 2006)
        • Background Note

        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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        • 23 Dec 2014
        • First Look

        First Look: December 23

          Publications December 2014 Journal of Political Economy Transition to Clean Technology By: Acemoglu, Daron, Ufuk Akcigit, Douglas Hanley, and William R. Kerr Abstract—We develop a microeconomic model of endogenous growth where clean and... View Details
        Keywords: Carmen Nobel
        • 23 Nov 2010
        • First Look

        First Look: November 23

        Commission issued its recommendations, many of which were consistent with domestic and international trends in taxation, legislative leaders were highly critical and the prospects for reform dimmed. The case describes the View Details
        Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
        • June 2007 (Revised November 2007)
        • Case

        Italy: If not now, when?

        By: Richard H.K. Vietor and Julia Galef
        Describes Italy's main macroeconomic problems: low productivity growth, stagnant GDP growth, and high public debt. As of early 2007, the country's global competitiveness has plummeted and its debt remains well above the level allowed by the EU's Maastricht treaty.... View Details
        Keywords: Economic Slowdown and Stagnation; Macroeconomics; Borrowing and Debt; International Relations; Competition; Italy
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