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  • September 2006
  • Case

IR at BP: Investor Relations and Information Reconnaissance

By: Gregory S. Miller, Daniela Beyersdorfer and Anders Sjoman
BP's IR director has begun a program to use information regarding external views of BP and the industry as part of the firm's planning and operational activities. This information is generated as a portion of their award winning investor relations program, and had... View Details
Keywords: Knowledge Use and Leverage; Operations; Information Management; Business and Shareholder Relations; Planning
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  • 2015
  • Working Paper

Client Service, Compensation, and the Sell-Side Analyst Objective Function: An Empirical Analysis of Relational Incentives in the Investment-Research Industry

By: David A. Maber, Boris Groysberg and Paul M. Healy
This paper investigates how sell-side analysts build and sustain their client networks; the economic gains to successfully managing this challenge; and the metrics through which these incentives are delivered. In a typical semiannual period, the average analyst... View Details
Keywords: Networks; Measurement and Metrics; Operations; Customer Focus and Relationships; Jobs and Positions
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  • October 2012 (Revised August 2013)
  • Case

Russia and China: Energy Relations and International Politics

By: Rawi Abdelal and Sogomon Tarontsi
Russia and China are neighbors with complementary needs: Russia has an abundance of energy resources, which China needs to fuel its industry. The case analyzes the evolution of the China-Russia energy relations in the post-Cold War period, with an emphasis on the... View Details
Keywords: Strategy; International Relations; Energy; Cross-Cultural and Cross-Border Issues; Globalized Markets and Industries; Business and Government Relations; Energy Industry; China; Russia
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  • February 2009 (Revised December 2010)
  • Case

Upgrading the Economy: Industrial Policy and Taiwan's Semiconductor Industry

By: Willy C. Shih and Jyun-Cheng Wang
The government-led creation and incubation of the semiconductor industry in Taiwan is a striking success for advocates of strong industrial policy. It has led to the island nation's domination of the global "foundry" business in which firms like Taiwan Semiconductor... View Details
Keywords: Economic Growth; Industry Structures; State Ownership; Business and Government Relations; Competition; Semiconductor Industry; Taiwan
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  • March 2009 (Revised December 2009)
  • Supplement

Relational Investors and Home Depot (B)

By: Jay W. Lorsch and Kaitlyn Simpson
Keywords: Investment; Retail Industry; Retail Industry
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  • August, 2024
  • Article

Absenteeism, Productivity, and Relational Contracts Inside the Firm

By: Achyuta Adhvaryu, Jean-François Gauthier, Anant Nyshadham and Jorge Tamayo
We study relational contracts among managers using a unique dataset that tracks transfers of workers across teams in Indian ready-made garment factories. We focus on how relational contracts help managers cope with worker absenteeism shocks, which are frequent, often... View Details
Keywords: Implicit Contracts; Productivity; Misallocation; Absenteeism; Supervisors; Readymade Garments; Performance Productivity; Employees; Relationships; Fashion Industry; India
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  • February 18, 2022
  • Article

Transparency as a Solution for COVID-19 Related Hospital Capacity Issues

By: Regina E. Herzlinger and Richard Boxer
In the initial phases of the COVID-19 pandemic, many U.S. hospitals could not provide an adequate supply of beds to meet demand. Solving the problem of hospital bed capacity is of great importance in the “new normal,” which requires recognizing that SARS-CoV-2 is but... View Details
Keywords: COVID; COVID-19 Pandemic; Health Care; Health Care Demand; Health Care Delivery; Health Care Industry; Health Care Operations; Health Care Policy; Transparency; Hospital; Hospital Management; Hospitals; Health Pandemics; Health Care and Treatment; Service Delivery; Operations; Performance Capacity; Policy; Health Industry
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  • April 1985 (Revised November 1987)
  • Case

American Express Travel Related Services Co.

Describes the company's new focus on entrepreneurship during the era of Lou Gerstner, chairman and CEO since 1982. View Details
Keywords: Change Management; Corporate Entrepreneurship; Financial Services Industry; Financial Services Industry
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  • February 1987
  • Case

Air Canada: Organizing for Public Relations and Media Relations (B): The Manager and the Media

By: Stephen A. Greyser
Keywords: Business Organization; Strategy; Air Transportation Industry
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  • 2009
  • Other Unpublished Work

When Does Industrial Policy Work? Evidence from the Brazilian Ethanol Fuel Industry

By: Santiago Mingo and Tarun Khanna
What is the impact of a state-led industrial policy program on entrepreneurial activity, industry evolution, and firm competitiveness? How and when is industrial policy an effective tool to spur the development of an emerging industry? To address these questions, we... View Details
Keywords: Economic Growth; Entrepreneurship; Policy; Industry Growth; Business and Government Relations; Competition; Energy Industry; Brazil
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  • 06 Oct 2016
  • Blog Post

An Interview with Corporate Relations Director, Cathy Hutchinson

Tell us about your background before coming to HBS. I’m a born and raised New Englander. I grew up in the suburbs of Boston and then headed to Yale for college. I continued west to Los Angeles, where I worked in the media industry for 6... View Details
Keywords: Technology; Entertainment / Media / Sports
  • September 1991 (Revised August 1994)
  • Background Note

Note on Pharmaceutical Industry Regulation

By: Willis M. Emmons III
Traces the evolution of U.S. regulatory policy towards the pharmaceutical industry over the course of the twentieth century. A major theme is the steady shift away from a policy of 'let the buyer beware' to the creation of a complex and time-consuming review process,... View Details
Keywords: Safety; Industry Growth; Marketing; Research and Development; Health Testing and Trials; Economics; Pharmaceutical Industry; United States
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  • Web

Human Relations and Harvard Business School – The Human Relations Movement – Baker Library | Bloomberg Center, Historical Collections

Business School The subject of human relations in industry is one of the most important things in the whole field of business and one which we must investigate and teach. Wallace B. Donham, Dean of Harvard... View Details
  • Article

How Much Does Industry Matter, Really?

By: A. M. McGahan and M. E. Porter
In this paper, we examine the importance of year, industry, corporate-parent, and business-specific effects on the profitability of U.S. public corporations within specific 4-digit SIC categories. Our results indicate that year, industry, corporate-parent, and... View Details
Keywords: Supply and Industry; Strategy
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  • 10 Jun 2002
  • Research & Ideas

Reinventing the Industrial Giant

In an effort to survive in the new economy, some-industrial giants have tried to chart an evolutionary path that combines their industrial core with new post-industrial businesses. The companies from our study that are most clearly... View Details
Keywords: by Nitin Nohria, Davis Dyer & Frederick Dalzell; Manufacturing
  • April 1990
  • Case

Mazda: Corporate Public Relations in the United States

By: Stephen A. Greyser and Norman Klein
Keywords: Reputation; Business and Stakeholder Relations; Auto Industry; United States
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  • 2013
  • Article

Local Industrial Structures and Female Entrepreneurship in India

By: Ejaz Ghani, William R. Kerr and Stephen O'Connell
We analyze the spatial determinants of female entrepreneurship in India in the manufacturing and services sectors. We focus on the presence of incumbent female-owned businesses and their role in promoting higher subsequent female entrepreneurship relative to male... View Details
Keywords: Entrepreneurship; Gender; Manufacturing Industry; Manufacturing Industry; India
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  • 26 Sep 2016
  • Blog Post

An Interview with Corporate Relations Director, Kurt Piemonte

reinventing itself. There have also been recent efforts among the civic leaders to offer incentives to encourage new industries to grow, and that is one of the reasons we are seeing a growing number of entrepreneurs in a place that had... View Details
Keywords: All Industries
  • March 2015
  • Case

The Sino-Russian Rapprochement: Energy Relations in a New Era

By: Rawi Abdelal, Morena Skalamera and Sogomon Tarontsi
The United States could enhance or threaten China's energy security but China was unsure of the U.S. intentions. China and the United States were both friends and potential foes. In the meantime, Russia's own ambivalent relationship with the United States and its... View Details
Keywords: International Relations; Energy; Trade; Conflict and Resolution; Business and Government Relations; Energy Industry; China; United States; Russia
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  • 1978
  • Chapter

Issues and Policies Related to Mining Tax Reform

By: Malcolm Gillis, Louis T. Wells and Ulrich Petersen
Keywords: Mining; Taxation; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Policy; Mining Industry
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