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  • 14 Nov 2006
  • First Look

First Look: November 14, 2006

currency. This reduced profitability because Clearwater's costs were in Canadian currency while its sales where largely in other currencies. The case also discusses the challenges of maintaining a sustainable fishery and uses the collapse... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • May 1995 (Revised April 1998)
  • Case

AT&T Paradyne

By: Robert S. Kaplan
A company making data communication devices has adopted a Total Quality philosophy for working with suppliers, employees, and customers. The finance group finds its existing cost system has become obsolete because of a shift from manual to automatic production... View Details
Keywords: Decisions; Product; Corporate Accountability; Activity Based Costing and Management; System; Performance Efficiency; Financial Reporting; Operations; Technology Industry; Telecommunications Industry
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  • 04 Oct 2010
  • Research & Ideas

Introverts: The Best Leaders for Proactive Employees

We often expect corporate executives to conform to certain extroverted CEO stereotypes: C for charismatic, E for effusive, and O for outgoing. To wit: Virgin Group chairman Richard Branson, who very publicly flew around the world in a hot... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
  • February 2023
  • Article

Climate Solutions Investments

By: Alex Cheema-Fox, George Serafeim and Hui (Stacie) Wang
An increasing number of companies are providing products and services that help reduce carbon emissions in the economy. We develop a methodology to identify those companies and create a sample of publicly listed climate solutions companies allowing us to study their... View Details
Keywords: Decarbonization; Climate Finance; Climate Impact; Climate Risk; Environment; Sustainability; Carbon Emissions; Electric Vehicles; Energy; Renewables; Climate Change; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Environmental Sustainability; Emerging Markets; Investment Portfolio
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  • 08 Jun 2010
  • First Look

First Look: June 8

Retailing, supply chain experts Marshall Fisher and Ananth Raman explain how to use analytics to better manage your inventory for faster turns, fewer discounted offerings, and fatter profit margins. Featuring case studies of retailing... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • June 2016
  • Supplement

FANUC Corporation: Reassessing the Firm's Governance and Financial Policies Spreadsheet Supplement

By: Benjamin C. Esty and Akiko Kanno
In February 2015, Daniel Loeb (a US-based activist investor) announced his firm had a large investment in FANUC Corporation, a leading producer of industrial robots and software for machine tools. Loeb was demanding that the Japanese firm change its financial and... View Details
Keywords: Financial Management; Valuation; Investment Funds; Policy; Corporate Governance; Macroeconomics; Investment Activism; Change Management; Financial Strategy; Cross-Cultural and Cross-Border Issues; Japan; United States
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  • 23 Nov 2021
  • Book

What It Takes to Build an Organizational Culture That Wins

including how to lead with passion and how to create an inspirational mission. In this excerpt from the book, Heskett takes on the corporate adage that “culture eats strategy for lunch.” Culture and strategy don’t have to be in conflict,... View Details
Keywords: by Avery Forman
  • November 2005 (Revised September 2007)
  • Case

Beijing Hualian

By: David E. Bell and Mary L. Shelman
China's fifth largest domestic retailer faced intensifying competition from Wal-Mart and Carrefour with the opening of China's fast-growing retail market in January 2005. In response, Beijing Hualian developed a new "Family Store" format targeted at the nation's... View Details
Keywords: Marketing Strategy; Product Positioning; Consumer Behavior; Competition; Corporate Strategy; Retail Industry; China
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Behavioral Finance & Financial Stability

Greenwood & Samuel G. Hanson Robin Greenwood and Samuel G. Hanson describe a methodology to measure sentiment in the market for US Corporate Credit More Info Equity Market Sentiment By: Malcolm P. Baker & Jeffrey Wurgler Malcolm P. Baker... View Details
  • 30 Nov 2021
  • In Practice

What's the Role of Business in Confronting Climate Change?

The 26th annual United Nations Climate Change Conference of the Parties, also known as COP26, ended with a hard-fought pact that called on businesses and governments to meet their climate change goals faster. The event followed an August report by the Intergovernmental... View Details
Keywords: by Lynn Schenk and Dina Gerdeman

    Chip Bergh

    Chip Bergh is a Senior Lecturer at Harvard Business School. Prior to joining HBS, Chip served as president and chief executive officer of Levi Strauss & Co. (LS&Co.) from September 2011 until January 2024. He also served on the Company’s Board of Directors... View Details

    • 12 Oct 1999
    • Research & Ideas

    It Came in the First Ships: Capitalism in America

    business corporation. There are several million corporations in the United States today, and a handful existed at the nation's official birth in 1776. The device became integral to the American economy only in the middle nineteenth... View Details
    Keywords: by Thomas K. McCraw
    • 21 Oct 2022
    • Research & Ideas

    People Trust Business, But Expect CEOs to Drive Social Change

    Public trust in business remains relatively unshaken amid economic turbulence and a lingering pandemic, even as faith in the media and government falters, but leaders could do more to address social issues, a new global opinion survey shows. However, not everyone... View Details
    Keywords: by Scott Van Voorhis
    • 06 Aug 2013
    • First Look

    First Look: August 6

    industry around carbon capture and sequestration (CCS). "You change the world by building a market, and you build a market by building a profitable company that other people copy," said Dawe, C12 Energy's CEO. "In the... View Details
    Keywords: Anna Secino
    • 23 Aug 2010
    • Research & Ideas

    The Drive to Acquire’s Impact on Globalization

    corporate abuses or (2) less-developed nations roughly equal in power and with some control of corporate abuses. Unfortunately, much of today's international trade does not meet these conditions. Under the... View Details
    Keywords: by Paul R. Lawrence
    • 16 Feb 2023
    • HBS Case

    ESG Activists Met the Moment at ExxonMobil, But Did They Succeed?

    The impact-investment hedge fund Engine No. 1 made a big splash in May 2021 when it managed to get three nominees elected to the ExxonMobil board of directors. It was an open effort to prod the oil giant toward renewable energy and test whether activist investing could... View Details
    Keywords: by Lane Lambert; Financial Services
    • 07 Feb 2022
    • Research & Ideas

    Digital Transformation: A New Roadmap for Success

    their customers and other stakeholders. As one executive put it, "We must explain how digital assets will help us become a sustainable enterprise, both profitable and a force for good in the broader society." Attention to purpose... View Details
    Keywords: by Linda A. Hill, Ann Le Cam, Sunand Menon, and Emily Tedards
    • 15 Aug 2023
    • HBS Case

    (Virtual) Reality Check: How Long Before We Live in the 'Metaverse'?

    Business School researchers concludes that the decades-old “pendulum of metaverse hype” began to swing toward skepticism in early 2023, as major tech corporations announced massive layoffs and cutbacks in virtual-reality development.... View Details
    Keywords: by Jay Fitzgerald; Technology; Computer; Information Technology
    • 04 Apr 2023
    • Book

    Two Centuries of Business Leaders Who Took a Stand on Social Issues

    While shareholders still reign supreme at many companies, a widespread shift toward more responsible business practices is driving more leaders to take a stand on social and environmental issues today, says Harvard Business School Professor Geoffrey Jones. Jones... View Details
    Keywords: by Lane Lambert; Consumer Products; Fashion; Retail; Green Technology
    • Web

    Business & Environment - Faculty & Research

    Responsible Investments That Make Firms More Profitable By: George Serafeim Article Transition to Clean Technology By: Daron Acemoglu, Ufuk Akcigit, Douglas Hanley and William R. Kerr We develop a microeconomic model of endogenous growth... View Details