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  • 26 Apr 2011
  • Op-Ed

HBS Faculty Comment on Environmental Issues for Earth Day

Earth Day focuses the world's attention on the both the dangers and opportunities facing the planet. But sustainability and the intersection between business and the environment are issues that need to be addressed all the time, as cities grow, resources diminish, and... View Details
Keywords: by Staff; Energy; Utilities
  • 26 Feb 2019
  • First Look

New Research and Ideas, February 26, 2019

dollars. This creates a direct connection between U.S. monetary policy and EME credit cycles. We estimate that over a typical U.S. monetary easing cycle, EME borrowers experience a 32-percentage-point greater increase in the volume of loans issued by foreign View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 01 Jun 2018
  • News

June 2018 Alumni and Faculty Books

Publishing The 2008 financial crisis triggered a worldwide recession. Unlike the American banking system, which experienced massive losses, takeovers, and taxpayer-funded bailouts, Canada’s banking system... View Details
  • 15 Jan 2013
  • First Look

First Look: January 15

Structure in Small-Scale Finance Authors:Carpena, Fenella, Shawn Cole, Jeremy Shapiro, and Bilal Zia Publication:The World Bank Economic Review Abstract Microfinance, the provision of small individual and business loans, has experienced... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 13 Nov 2012
  • First Look

First Look: November 13

Relationship Management, Fontana is entertaining the possibility of commercializing his innovation. Doing so may provide a welcome new source of income during the greatest economic slowdown in recent history, and it would help in keeping... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 07 Apr 2009
  • First Look

First Look: April 7, 2009

multinational firms requires a similar fortitude. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/09-107.pdf Corporate Misgovernance at the World Bank Authors:Ashwin Kaja and Eric Werker Abstract We test for evidence of corporate... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 10 Sep 2013
  • First Look

First Look: September 10

of physical infrastructure and workforce education are the strongest predictors of entry, with labor laws and household banking quality also playing important roles. Looking at the district-industry level, we find extensive evidence of... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 01 Mar 2009
  • News

Your Taxi Is Waiting

less than 10,000 pounds, VLJs typically have a range of about 1,200 nautical miles before refueling, accommodate three or four passengers, cruise at about the same altitudes as commercial airliners, and have the capacity to land on... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna; Air Transportation; Transportation
  • 08 Apr 2014
  • First Look

First Look: April 8

Almandoz Abstract—A case study is presented on business ethics and bank management. The situation facing the president of a community bank established to operate as a green business and to consider ethical... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 14 Nov 2024
  • News

How the Insurance Industry Can Weather the Storms

prevent those types of things with our risk management, risk advisory services. So it's not just about premium. And that loss, all those being paid when claims occur. It's about the services that we can provide. That's on the commercial... View Details
  • 25 Aug 2003
  • Research & Ideas

Studying Japan from the Inside

governance system from U.S. companies; banks acted as monitors for Japanese companies, and the boards of Japanese companies had been dominated by insiders. In April this year, however, the commercial code... View Details
Keywords: by Cynthia Churchwell
  • August 2023 (Revised January 2024)
  • Supplement

Arla Foods: Data-Driven Decarbonization (B)

By: Michael Parzen, Michael W. Toffel, Susan Pinckney and Amram Migdal
The case describes Arla’s history, in particular its climate change mitigation efforts, and how it implemented a price incentive system to motivate individual farms to implement scope 1 greenhouse gas emissions mitigation measures and receive a higher milk price. The... View Details
Keywords: Dairy Industry; Earnings Management; Environmental Accounting; Animal-Based Agribusiness; Mergers and Acquisitions; Decisions; Voting; Climate Change; Environmental Regulation; Environmental Sustainability; Green Technology; Pollution; Moral Sensibility; Values and Beliefs; Financial Strategy; Price; Profit; Revenue; Food; Geopolitical Units; Cross-Cultural and Cross-Border Issues; Global Strategy; Cooperative Ownership; Performance Efficiency; Performance Evaluation; Problems and Challenges; Natural Environment; Science-Based Business; Business Strategy; Commercial Banking; Cooperation; Corporate Strategy; Motivation and Incentives; Food and Beverage Industry; Agriculture and Agribusiness Industry; Europe; United Kingdom; European Union; Denmark; Sweden; Luxembourg; Belgium
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  • 18 Feb 2009
  • First Look

First Look: February 18, 2009

linking fat cells, inflammation, and diabetes. He now wants to form a company to commercialize these discoveries. At the same time, Isaac Kohlberg, the head of Harvard's Office of Technology Development (OTD), is eager to improve... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 21 May 2013
  • First Look

First Look: May 21

https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=44800 Do Strict Capital Requirements Raise the Cost of Capital? Banking Regulation and the Low Risk Anomaly By: Baker, Malcolm, and Jeffrey Wurgler Abstract—Minimum capital requirements are a central... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 01 Feb 2002
  • News

Redefining Success: Women & Work.

issue sounds a familiar chord for Edee Simon-Israel (MBA '81), who worked in business development in commercial banking after graduation, but decided she didn't find a "corporate lifestyle" fulfilling. She... View Details
Keywords: Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services; Professional Services
  • 02 Oct 2015
  • News

The ‘F’ Word

founded Alibris, an e-commerce company that sells used, rare, and out-of-print books. We failed, a lot—HBS has a case on our more interesting failures. Our biggest setback came early. We planned to launch our commercial website and close... View Details
Keywords: Walt Disney Studios
  • 15 Feb 2017
  • Op-Ed

What Africa Can Teach the United States About Funding Infrastructure Projects

telecoms, commercial real estate, and more. Harvard Business School students visit the Reppie Waste to Energy Plant, the first waste-to-energy project in Africa, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia Credit: John Macomber We have conducted several... View Details
Keywords: by John Macomber; Construction
  • 01 Sep 2017
  • News

City of Dreams

of the election, Mawilmada had left the Asian Development Bank and was operating an independent development consultancy in Colombo. In addition, he and classmate Hiran Embuldeniya had started York Street Partners, the country’s first... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna; photographed by Alice Carfrae; Sri Lanka; Construction of Buildings; Construction; Administration of Housing Programs, Urban Planning, and Community Development; Government
  • 12 Oct 2011
  • First Look

First Look: October 12

and the world economy generally. This case involved two decisions CIC faced in early 2011. The first was how to best and accurately articulate the relationship between CIC, Huijin, and Industrial and Commercial View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 02 Mar 2016
  • News

On Credit

also be a bank cashier, postmaster, sheriff, or even another businessperson. Each was known by a number or initials. While no key exists to their identities, it’s believed that Abraham Lincoln, Ulysses S. Grant, Grover Cleveland, and... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna