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  • 2023
  • Working Paper

Do Third-Party Guarantors Reassure Foot Soldiers?

By: Natalia Garbiras-Díaz, Michael Weintraub, Leopoldo Fergusson, Juana Catalina Garcia Duque and Laia Balcells
Since the end of the Cold War, international third parties such as the United Nations (UN) have become frequent guarantors of peace agreements. Existing studies document that third parties provide assurances that help maintain peace, yet these studies nearly... View Details
Keywords: United Nations; Colombia; Peacemaking; Peace Process; Peace; Civil Unrest; Civil Society; Political Leadership; Policy; Civil Society or Community; Governance; Government and Politics; Economy; Economic Growth; Latin America; South America; Colombia
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  • October 2007
  • Teaching Note

Rovna Dan: The Flat Tax in Slovakia (TN)

By: Laura Alfaro, Rafael M. Di Tella and Renee Kim
Teaching Note to 707043. View Details
Keywords: Policy; Taxation; System; Labor; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Slovakia
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  • December 1999 (Revised December 2012)
  • Background Note

Measuring Interim Period Performance

By: David F. Hawkins
Covers interim period accounting objectives, theories, and practices. Special financial analysis concerns related to this topic are discussed. A rewritten version of an earlier note. View Details
Keywords: Accounting; Business Ventures; Policy; Management Practices and Processes; Measurement and Metrics; Performance Evaluation
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  • 01 Dec 2008
  • News

Back to the Future

ON THE PRIZE: U.S. dependency on Middle East oil will be long term, Stobaugh says; about one-fifth of U.S. imports are from the region. YASSER AL-ZAYYAT/AFP/GETTY IMAGES Energy Future argues that U.S. energy policy should focus on... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons; Transportation Equipment Manufacturing; Manufacturing; Oil and Gas Extraction; Mining
  • Web

2.1.4 Academic Retaliation | MBA

2.1.4 Academic Retaliation Policy Using an academic assessment or other academic action as a means to retaliate against a student for engaging in conduct protected by the HGSU-UAW bargaining agreement is unacceptable and prohibited.... View Details
  • 19 Jan 2022
  • In Practice

7 Trends to Watch in 2022

As 2022 gets underway we asked our faculty to highlight some trends worth watching in the coming year. Ariel Stern: A new future for digital health care While 2020 and 2021 were years of rapid innovation and deployment of new health care technologies and delivery... View Details
Keywords: by HBS News
  • 14 May 2019
  • Research & Ideas

Ethics Bots and Other Ways to Move Your Code of Business Conduct Beyond Puffery

geographical area are asking lots of questions about the policy on taking gifts from certain ministers, then this would help compliance leaders appreciate that maybe it’s time to go back and make sure people understand our gifts View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
  • November 2010 (Revised December 2010)
  • Case

Mid-Missouri Energy: Ethanol from Corn

By: Forest L. Reinhardt, Noel Michele Holbrook, James Weber and Karla Sartor
Mid-Missouri Energy (MME) is a farmer-owned cooperative that produces ethanol from corn. The cooperative has performed well in comparison to other producers, but margins in the industry had declined as industry production levels neared market demand limits. MME farmers... View Details
Keywords: Agribusiness; Renewable Energy; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Policy; Growth and Development Strategy; Cooperative Ownership; Business and Government Relations; Agriculture and Agribusiness Industry; United States
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  • November 2007
  • Class Lecture

The Baby Business (FSS)

By: Debora L. Spar
In vitro fertilization and genetic screening are possible with the advent of biotechnology. International adoptions, surrogacy, and other approaches to family planning are on the rise. But few rules govern these measures, medical costs can be prohibitive, and... View Details
Keywords: Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Policy; Demand and Consumers; Business and Government Relations; Business and Stakeholder Relations; Genetics; Societal Protocols; Commercialization; Biotechnology Industry; Health Industry
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  • 13 Feb 2024
  • Blog Post

Harvard Students Reflect on COP28

around the world. Harvard Business School students attending COP28 take a selfie in Dubai. Abdullah Al-Sharkarchi, Harvard Business School “As someone actively working in early stage climate tech, this presented great opportunities to meet thought leaders, View Details
  • 20 May 2019
  • Research & Ideas

Activist CEOs Are Rising Up—and Their Customers Are Listening

When former Starbucks CEO Howard Schultz announced earlier this year he was thinking about running for president of the United States, it wasn’t a new idea. Past CEOs seeking the White House have included Carly Fiorina, Ross Perot, Herman Cain, Steve Forbes, Mitt... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
  • 01 Sep 2009
  • News

Jesse Markham Dies at 93

federal antitrust laws. The author of 12 books and more than 150 articles, Markham arrived at HBS from Princeton University. “I came here because the theories on which public policy was being built in economics didn’t square with the... View Details
Keywords: faculty; obituary; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services
  • 01 Jun 2005
  • News

Change of Pace

policy and the expression of faith in public life. He will also lend his expertise to nuts-and-bolts issues, such as assessing the financial risks involved in the diocese’s possible support for a housing project in the West Bank city of... View Details
Keywords: GOP; Catholic; Religious, Grantmaking, Civic, Professional, and Similar Organizations; Personal Services
  • Portrait Project

JJ Singh

ballooning national debt and a financial system in disarray. *** I want to change attitudes and the way we imagine our future. I want to influence policy so that we invest in tomorrow. But most of all, I want to rebuild an America that... View Details
  • 23 Mar 2003
  • Research & Ideas

Globalization: Little Impact on the Continent

he added, Africa really needs the investment of its own people in order to attract healthy global investment. Utomi said countries cooperating on a regional basis would also be a step forward for Africa. Kibuka noted that other countries' trade View Details
Keywords: by Julie Jette
  • 26 Sep 2023
  • Blog Post

Climate Week NYC 2023

many events with waitlists of over 250 people) organized in-part by Roxanne Tully (MBA 2020) at Piva Capital: Policy Update: IRA and Beyond and to bump into Megan Murday (MBA 2020) there, to hear of the momentum around her venture,... View Details
  • Web

1.2 MBA Honor Code | MBA

1.2 MBA Honor Code 1.0 Academic Information & Policies The MBA Program at HBS educates leaders through a learning model in which students and faculty teach and learn from one another. This process of active participation and shared... View Details
  • 22 Mar 2023
  • News

Dean Datar Meets with Alumni in Los Angeles

sharing that research with students, practitioners, policy makers, and the general public to affect meaningful change. Addressing society's rapid move to digital platforms, Dean Datar said, "As you look at some of the challenges that... View Details
  • 01 Feb 2001
  • News

New Fitzhugh Professorship Celebrated

actively pursued his white classmates. His first job after graduation was as an independent salesman in his native Washington, D.C., working for several firms serving the black community. In Washington, Fitzhugh helped to establish the New Negro Alliance, which worked... View Details
Keywords: H. Naylor Fitzhugh (MBA '33); Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services
  • 01 Sep 2010
  • News

Alumni Books

collapse, reveal how botched policy responses made a bad situation worse, and focus on lessons that the practice of finance must learn to avoid a repeat in the future. How to Be a Fierce Competitor: What Winning Companies and Great... View Details