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  • 11 Mar 2001
  • Research & Ideas

Merchants to Multinationals: British Trading Companies in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries

pioneered new industries, from jute manufacture in India and cotton textile manufacture in China, to the oil industry in California."The improvements in transport and communications from the 1870s resulted in opportunities and threats for merchants, both of which... View Details
Keywords: by Geoffrey Jones
  • 14 Aug 2012
  • First Look

First Look: August 14

  Working PapersLegislating Stock Prices Authors:Lauren Cohen, Karl Diether, and Christopher Malloy Abstract In this paper we demonstrate that legislation has a simple, yet previously undetected impact on firm stock prices. While it is understood that the View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 10 Jan 2022
  • Research & Ideas

How to Get Companies to Make Investments That Benefit Everyone

Regulators often punish companies for bad behavior—for instance, by fining them if they pollute the environment. But instead of focusing on what business leaders are doing wrong and constantly slapping their hands, government officials... View Details
Keywords: by Lane Lambert
  • November 1999
  • Case

Long-Term Capital Management, L.P. (C)

By: Andre F. Perold
Long-Term Capital Management, L.P. (LTCM) was in the business of engaging in trading strategies to exploit market pricing discrepancies. Because the firm employed strategies designed to make money over long horizons--from six months to two years or more--it adopted a... View Details
Keywords: Fluctuation; Capital; Financial Liquidity; Financing and Loans; Investment Funds; Investment Portfolio; Corporate Governance; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Management; Risk Management; Markets; Motivation and Incentives; Financial Services Industry
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  • 24 Apr 2012
  • First Look

First Look: April 24

in external auditing, and 6) auditing management information systems.   Working PapersEmployee Selection as a Control System Author:Dennis Campbell Abstract Theories from the economics, management control, and organizational behavior literatures predict that when it is... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 03 Jun 2022
  • Research & Ideas

In a Work-from-Anywhere World, How Remote Will Workers Go?

work-from-anywhere companies adjust compensation to reflect the local cost of living, while others don’t. Helping work-from-anywhere succeed Despite those frictions, the movement is gaining momentum. Choudhury outlined three ways View Details
Keywords: by Kara Baskin
  • 12 Jul 2011
  • First Look

First Look: July 12

experiment to examine the effect of management fiduciary duties on equity‐debt conflicts. A 1991 Delaware bankruptcy ruling changed the nature of corporate directors' fiduciary duties in firms incorporated in that state. This change limited managers' View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 28 Mar 2024
  • Blog Post

IFC India: RMZ EcoWorld

premium on green real estate or government incentives. In-house sewage treatment plant Figure 5: Importance of downstream pressure to incent sustainable investment:Throughout our site visit, it was clear... View Details
  • 01 Jun 2015
  • Research & Ideas

The Surprising Benefits of Oversharing

effect," Luca says. In this case, however, it took the direct intervention of government to persuade restaurants to reveal this information which hadn't been done voluntarily. According to game theory, however, that shouldn't be... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
  • 18 Dec 2012
  • First Look

First Look: December 18

case:http://hbr.org/search/813020-PDF-ENG The Role of the Government in the Early Development of American Venture Capital Lerner, Josh, and Tom NicholasHarvard Business School Note 813-096 Whether the View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 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
  • Web

Effects of Climate Change - Business & Environment

vulnerable areas more resilient and decide when to rebuild, restrict development, or retreat Economic development and innovative technologies have contributed to climate change—and are also essential to address it. Government policies can... View Details
  • Web

Sustainable Investing Course | HBS Online

environmental, social, and governance (ESG) factors, and learn how to incorporate them into investment decisions and measure and manage their impact. 6 weeks 5 hours per week 6 modules Self-Paced with regular deadlines This course earns... View Details
  • 09 Jun 2008
  • Lessons from the Classroom

Monetizing IP: The Executive’s Challenge

incentives among pool members. This seems to have greatly facilitated the adoption of the MPEG-2 standard. A number of firms have taken the radical step of adopting a code release strategy, where companies release some existing... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Video Game; Web Services
  • 16 Mar 2020
  • Research & Ideas

How the Coronavirus Is Already Rewriting the Future of Business

making their own self-selection to continuously work from home. So companies should have the right processes and incentives in place to allow for that flexibility. Prithwiraj (Raj) Choudhury (@prithwic) is the Lumry Family Associate... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
  • 19 May 2021
  • Op-Ed

Why America Needs a Better Bridge Between School and Career

Over a year into the COVID-19 pandemic, there are hints of optimism as more people gain access to vaccines and the federal government injects more stimulus money into the economy. Yet, the outlook for workers remains mixed. The crisis has... View Details
Keywords: by Joseph B. Fuller and Rachel Lipson
  • 06 Mar 2012
  • First Look

First Look: March 6

twentieth century because of communications improvements, this article shows that the challenges of managing governments and political risk grew sharply. Read the paper: http://www.people.hbs.edu/gjones/papers/Jones Lubinski Managing... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 12 Nov 2021
  • News

Alumni Business Leaders on Confronting the Climate Change Challenge

civil disobedience. This really matters—as Erica Chenworth’s research has shown, no government can withstand a challenge of 3.5 percent of its population without either accommodating the movement or (in extreme cases) disintegrating. How... View Details
  • October 2002
  • Case

A Father's Love: Novazyme Pharmaceuticals, Inc.

By: Richard M.J. Bohmer and Bradley Campbell
John Crowley, CEO of Novazyme Pharmaceuticals, a start-up biotechnology firm developing an orphan drug to treat a rare lysosomal storage disorder from which his children suffer, must choose between a partnership and a buyout to have sufficient funds and support to get... View Details
Keywords: Technological Innovation; Business Startups; Partners and Partnerships; Financing and Loans; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Sales; Price; Product Development; Motivation and Incentives; Decision Choices and Conditions; Biotechnology Industry; Pharmaceutical Industry
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  • 01 Dec 2022
  • News

Singing to the Corn

trainee. “The first thing they told us was, ‘The good news is that despite the big reengineering effort, you guys are safe. The bad news is that you’re going to help us do it, and get to our number.’” Keen wanted to prove himself to fit in, he says. When an View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna; photographed by Vance Jacobs; Agriculture