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  • 08 Sep 2008
  • HBS Case

The Value of Environmental Activists

There are many methods, most financial, to measure the success of companies in meeting goals. But the question becomes a lot harder at Harvard Business School when MBAs are challenged to measure the efforts of environmental organizations like Greenpeace and the World... View Details
Keywords: by Sarah Jane Gilbert; Energy; Utilities
  • September 2013 (Revised August 2015)
  • Background Note

Leadership and Teaming

By: Ethan Bernstein
Small differences in the leadership of teams can have large consequences for the success of their efforts. Many initiatives fail not because of a fatal error in judgment or insufficient ideas, knowledge, motivation, or capabilities to deliver a solution. They fail... View Details
Keywords: Teams; Teaming; Leadership And Managing People; Leadership; Team Effectiveness; Team Performance; Team Design; Team Leadership; Teamwork; Team Process; Team Function; Team Launch; 60/30/10 Rule; Team Boundary; Distribution Of Leadership Authority; Self-Managed Teams; Virtual Teams; Unbounded Teams; Acts Of Leadership; Execution Teams; Decision Making Teams; Creativity Teams; Team Size; Task Design; Team Timeline; Team Roles; Team Representation; Diversity; Team Familiarity; Collective Intelligence; Team Stages Of Development; Team Coaching; Performance Pressure; X-Teams; Team Focus; Interaction; Management Teams; Managerial Roles; Management Systems; Management Style; Management Skills; Management Practices and Processes; Organizational Design; Organizational Structure; Performance Effectiveness; Performance Efficiency; Performance Productivity; Groups and Teams; Networks; Social Psychology; Behavior; Conflict and Resolution; Creativity; Social and Collaborative Networks; Satisfaction; Prejudice and Bias; Power and Influence; Personal Characteristics; Familiarity; Cognition and Thinking; Attitudes; Projects; Organizational Culture; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Leadership Development; Leadership Style; Leading Change; Knowledge Use and Leverage; Knowledge Sharing; Collaborative Innovation and Invention; Innovation and Management; Innovation Leadership; Design; Interpersonal Communication; Forestry Industry; Forestry Industry; Forestry Industry; Forestry Industry; Forestry Industry; Forestry Industry; Forestry Industry; Forestry Industry; Forestry Industry; Forestry Industry; Forestry Industry; Forestry Industry; Forestry Industry; Forestry Industry; Forestry Industry; Forestry Industry; Forestry Industry; Forestry Industry; Forestry Industry; Forestry Industry; Forestry Industry; Forestry Industry; Forestry Industry; Forestry Industry; Forestry Industry; Forestry Industry; Forestry Industry; Forestry Industry; Forestry Industry; Forestry Industry; Forestry Industry; Forestry Industry; Forestry Industry; Forestry Industry; Forestry Industry; Forestry Industry; Forestry Industry; Forestry Industry; Forestry Industry; Forestry Industry; Forestry Industry; Forestry Industry; Forestry Industry; Forestry Industry; Forestry Industry; Forestry Industry; Forestry Industry; Forestry Industry; Forestry Industry; Forestry Industry; Forestry Industry; Forestry Industry; Forestry Industry; Forestry Industry; Forestry Industry; Forestry Industry; Forestry Industry; Forestry Industry; Forestry Industry; Forestry Industry; Forestry Industry; Forestry Industry; Forestry Industry; Forestry Industry; Forestry Industry; Forestry Industry; Forestry Industry; Forestry Industry; Asia; North and Central America; South America; Atlantic Ocean; Central Asia; Europe; Latin America; Middle East; Oceania; West Indies
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  • 24 Oct 2024
  • Blog Post

Trailblazing Success with Global Reach and Impact: Scott Wallinger (AMP 82, 1979)

including a Master of Forestry from Yale. I had some exposure to economics and business through my work, but I knew an HBS program would likely set me on the course for advancement, so I wanted to make the most of it, even if it seemed an... View Details
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Thaddeus Mosley Illusory Progression 2020 | About

materials and local sawmills, as well as fallen logs sourced from Pittsburgh’s Forestry Division, Mosley’s carved abstractions, or “sculptural improvisations,” as he calls them, show the influence of jazz on his artistic process. He often... View Details
  • July 1992
  • Case

Riverside and DEC: Riverside Lumber Confidential Instructions

By: Howard Raiffa and Thomas T. Weeks
A two-party, integrative, negotiation exercise involving several pre-specified issues to be resolved. Each party is given a pre-specified scoring system in monetary units. Side payments, within limits are possible. Face-to-face negotiations take place with no... View Details
Keywords: Natural Environment; Government and Politics; Pollutants; Negotiation Types; Negotiation Process; Forestry Industry
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  • September 2001 (Revised October 2001)
  • Teaching Note

Tree Values TN

By: Richard S. Ruback and Kathleen Luchs
Teaching Note for (9-201-031). View Details
Keywords: Forestry Industry
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  • May 2006
  • Teaching Note

Forest Stewardship Council (TN)

By: James E. Austin and Ezequiel Reficco
Keywords: Forestry Industry
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  • October 2000
  • Case

Tree Values

By: Richard S. Ruback and Kathleen Luchs
Describes two alternative tree cutting strategies. The first is to cut all trees that are at least 12 inches in diameter at breast height. The second is to thin the forest by cutting less desirable trees immediately and harvesting the crop trees later. The case... View Details
Keywords: Strategy; Decision Making; Cash Flow; Decision Choices and Conditions; Management Practices and Processes; Value Creation; Forestry Industry
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  • 15 Feb 2023
  • Blog Post

Creating Emerging Markets Sustainability Series - Closing the ‘Intention-Action’ Gap

Renewable Forestry Clause. This means that for any tree they cut to produce our pulp, they have to plant a minimum of five. It’s between five and seven, but the minimum is five. If you hold our tissue box and turn it upside down, you will... View Details
  • 16 Sep 2019
  • News

Smarter Farming

Zealand forestry and turn it into farming for animals. That involved cutting down a lot of trees, putting up a lot of fences, and putting lots of animals across some of New Zealand's most pristine country. Today, our mission is very... View Details
Keywords: meat; dairy; cattle; Agriculture
  • 01 Mar 2010
  • News

Sole Mates

firsthand as CFO of Liberia’s Forestry Development Authority (FDA). An American citizen, I came here in 2006 to work in a USAID-sponsored project aimed at combating corruption in state-owned enterprises. Here’s one case I encountered: A... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons; Forestry and Logging; Forestry and Logging; Forestry and Logging; Forestry and Logging; Forestry and Logging; Forestry and Logging

    Richard J. Cullen

    Cullen pioneered both the development of Kraft paper, as well as the paper industry as a whole in the South. Cullen was a leader in exploiting the resources of the southern woodlands as the raw material for making Kraft paper. Cullen was also one of the early advocates... View Details
    Keywords: Wood, Paper & Forestry

      Thomas B. McCabe

      McCabe transformed Scott Paper from a sleepy 500 person paper mill company in Chester, Pennsylvania, into a multinational concern with over 60 manufacturing plants throughout the world employing over 40,000 people. By his retirement from the Board in 1980, Scott Paper... View Details
      Keywords: Wood, Paper & Forestry
      • 13 Apr 2014
      • News

      India's Johnny Appleseed

      Keywords: Forestry and Logging; Forestry and Logging
      • 01 Mar 2017
      • News

      The Middle Way

      for the environmental groups at the table. “Their job is to stay there and not make too many waves.” But Eamer got it, she says. “He was the sane one, trying to actually find solutions.” Rick Jeffery, CEO of Coast Forest Products—a View Details
      Keywords: Dan Morrell; photos by Kamil Bialous

        John P. Weyerhaeuser

        The eldest son of Frederick Weyerhaeuser, John P. Weyerhaeuser continued to build the empire his father had begun. When John assumed the presidency, the family holdings numbered well over a dozen companies, ranging from sales entities to actual lumbering firms, and he... View Details
        Keywords: Wood, Paper & Forestry

          George H. Weyerhaeuser

          George Weyerhaeuser, the youngest heir to the Weyerhaeuser timber empire, assumed control of the timber giant after a strong career as a mill foreman and general manager. Under his leadership, the Weyerhaeuser Corporation, as it is now known, has absorbed several new... View Details
          Keywords: Wood, Paper & Forestry

            George H. Mead

            Mead, who started his career as a chemist and pulp mill foreman, built a paper mill empire. His knowledge of the manufacturing process and the paper market resulted in a steady expansion of the business. Mead was also active in the development of the Canadian paper... View Details
            Keywords: Wood, Paper & Forestry

              Hugh J. Chisholm

              Chisholm was widely considered to be the most powerful man of his time in the American pulp and paper industry. He was the primary founder of International Paper Company that brought together 30 pulp and paper mills in various parts of the US and Canada. In addition to... View Details
              Keywords: Wood, Paper & Forestry

                Floyd L. Carlisle

                Carlisle purchased Northern New York Utilities with a group of paper manufacturers, which allowed St. Regis Paper and the other involved paper mills to control their own supply of electric power. Acquiring Hanna Paper Corporation in 1921, Carlisle’s St. Regis Paper... View Details
                Keywords: Wood, Paper & Forestry