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  • 20 Apr 2021
  • Blog Post

Leadership In Challenging Times: Thierry Ibri (MBA 1997)

and healthy, and ensuring we didn’t close down. After a dizzying first few weeks of response and adaptation, we took a breath and reached out to McKinsey & Company to help us forecast demand . We needed... View Details
  • 16 Dec 2014
  • First Look

First Look: December 16

individuals, as in a team) and gave them collective responsibility for a whole task. We conceptualized the mesolevel structures as team scaffolds and found that they embodied the logic of both role and team... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • June 2022
  • Case

PFA Pensions: The Climate Plus Product

By: Daniel Green, Victoria Ivashina and Alys Ferragamo
The case explores whether alternative investments play a unique role in achieving low carbon dioxide emissions at the portfolio level. This case is set in April of 2020 and follows Kasper Ahrndt Lorenzen, Chief Investment Officer, and Peter Tind Larsen, Head of... View Details
Keywords: Carbon Emissions; Carbon Footprint; Alternative Assets; Alternative Investment Vehicles; Pension Fund Investing; Private Equity; Renewable Energy; Investment Portfolio; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Environmental Sustainability; Denmark
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Green, Daniel, Victoria Ivashina, and Alys Ferragamo. "PFA Pensions: The Climate Plus Product." Harvard Business School Case 222-088, June 2022.
  • December 2004
  • Article

Market Valuation and Merger Waves

By: Matthew Rhodes-Kropf and S. Viswanathan
Does valuation affect mergers? Data suggest that periods of stock merger activity are correlated with high market valuations. The naïve explanation that overvalued bidders wish to use stock is incomplete because targets should not be eager to accept stock. However, we... View Details
Keywords: Mergers and Acquisitions; Valuation; Market Transactions; Value; Cash; Stocks; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Bids and Bidding; Market Design; Stock Shares; Accounting Audits; Performance Evaluation
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Rhodes-Kropf, Matthew, and S. Viswanathan. "Market Valuation and Merger Waves." Journal of Finance 59, no. 6 (December 2004): 2685–2718.
  • 17 Sep 2024
  • HBS Case

The Climate Targets Leaders Need to Know as Regulations Loom

As investor pressure mounts on companies to show their environmental impacts, leaders are encountering an unwieldy tangle of terms and approaches. Climate accounting basics and a dictionary of sorts can help demystify the calculations and voluntary targets that... View Details
Keywords: by Rachel Layne
  • 20 Feb 2006
  • HBS Case

Oprah: A Case Study Comes Alive

justice that Winfrey's example is stoking. "So it was clear that one of the things that's really a big part of Harpo is the responsibility that that organization and its... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Media & Broadcasting; Consumer Products; Entertainment & Recreation
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Kaki Ettinger

experienced. How has Harvard Business School prepared you for your current role and your long term career? Every aspect of HBS, from my classmates and professors to Career & Professional Development and the amazingly View Details
Keywords: Entertainment / Media; Technology; Entrepreneurship
  • 02 Oct 2013
  • What Do You Think?

Is Leadership an Increasingly Difficult Balancing Act?

one with fewer answers? Those were the questions implied by this month's column. The predominance of responses suggested that the answers to the questions are "yes, yes, and maybe." Adam Hartung... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
  • September 2018 (Revised August 2019)
  • Case

The Progressive Corporation, 2018

By: John R. Wells and Benjamin Weinstock
In early 2019, The Progressive Corporation (Progressive), the USA’s third-largest auto insurance writer, reported earned premiums were up 20% in 2018 compared to the previous year, and net income was up 64%. Direct sales of personal auto policies rose 21%, while agent... View Details
Keywords: Insurance Companies; Strategic Analysis; Strategic Decisions; Customer Acquisition; Customer Experience; Customer Lifetime Value; Policy Implementation; Competitors; Auto Insurance; Vehicle; Progressive; Allstate; State Farm; GEICO; Implementation; Insurance; Customer Value and Value Chain; Growth Management; Competitive Strategy; Insurance Industry
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Wells, John R., and Benjamin Weinstock. "The Progressive Corporation, 2019." Harvard Business School Case 719-413, September 2018. (Revised August 2019.)
  • 04 Mar 2009
  • Op-Ed

Credit is Not the Bogey

In this recession, we seek the bogey. If we can identify a villain, the recourse is simple: slay (or neutralize, or bail out) it. The search harks back to a management primer: identify the problem; find the solution. The search has centered on the credit industry: the... View Details
Keywords: by Nicolas P. Retsinas & Eric S. Belsky; Construction; Real Estate; Financial Services
  • Summer 2025
  • Article

Are ESG Improvements Recognized? Perspectives from the Public Sentiments

By: Shaolong Wu
While Environment, Social, and Governance (ESG) increasingly guides investment management and corporate agendas nowadays, public reactions to firms' ESG performance remain under-studied. This paper fills this gap by investigating whether the public picks up firms' ESG... View Details
Keywords: Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Public Opinion; Environmental Sustainability; Corporate Governance; Investment
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Wu, Shaolong. "Are ESG Improvements Recognized? Perspectives from the Public Sentiments." Journal of Impact and ESG Investing 5, no. 4 (Summer 2025): 24–51.
  • 02 Sep 2019
  • What Do You Think?

Are Overlooked Forces Shielding the US from Severe Economic Downturns?

will be very important in determining the length of the current US economic expansion. Those were the messages from responses to this month’s column. Steve Adcock was optimistic about the influences View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett; Service
  • 12 Apr 2018
  • Op-Ed

Op-Ed: The Trouble with Tariffs

issue here is industrial policy (on the Chinese side) competing with a lack of an industrial policy (on the US side)" This equally calibrated response from China suggests we are witnessing preparation... View Details
Keywords: by Willy C. Shih; Manufacturing; Auto; Steel; Air Transportation; Technology; Telecommunications
  • 19 Jun 2012
  • First Look

First Look: June 19

The alleged benefits of flattening flow primarily from pushing decisions downward to enhance customer and market responsiveness and to improve accountability and morale. Has flattening delivered on its... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 01 Sep 2014
  • News

HBS Faculty Explore Ideas Around the World

Building an Evidence Base for Emerging Markets It’s one thing to research the history of companies in Europe, the United States, or Japan, where libraries, archives, and public records are abundant. But what about emerging markets, where... View Details
Keywords: faculty research
  • 12 Oct 2011
  • First Look

First Look: October 12

form of corporate social responsibility (CSR) through a sustainable business model that also generates superior financial performance. Read the paper: http://www.europeanbusinessreview.com/?p=4538 An... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 10 Jan 2018
  • Research & Ideas

Working for a Shamed Company Can Hurt Your Future Compensation

bear more responsibility for whatever scandal occurred. And executives are penalized more if the infractions were recent. For companies in the market to hire, taking a closer look at these candidates could represent a hidden opportunity,... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Financial Services
  • 06 Dec 2004
  • What Do You Think?

Why Do Managers Fail to Act on Their Predictions?

assessment of, and response to, predictions, particularly those involving substantial future risks? What role should corporate boards play in this process? Is such assessment the first step toward the ultimate test View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
  • 02 Aug 2021
  • What Do You Think?

Can Companies with Remote Management Succeed?

probably at Level 2, Medium, March 29, 2020. Your feedback to last month’s column Last month’s column asked whether chief/customer experience officers (CXOs) were critical to the task of knowing customers. A summary View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
  • 11 May 2010
  • First Look

First Look: May 11

private equity firm, address strategic and organizational challenges in response to turbulent market conditions, rapid firm growth, and the transition of leadership from its founding partners to the next... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
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