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    John D. Macomber

    John Macomber is a Senior Lecturer in the Finance unit at Harvard Business School. His professional background includes leadership of real estate, construction, and information technology businesses. At HBS, Mr. Macomber's work focuses on climate adaptation and the... View Details

    Keywords: building materials; building materials; building materials; building materials; building materials; building materials; building materials; building materials; building materials; building materials
    • 11 Dec 2023
    • Research & Ideas

    Doing Well by Doing Good? One Industry’s Struggle to Balance Values and Profits

    Is it still possible to build a career that is both morally satisfying and materially rewarding? To do well by doing good? Professionals and executives in a range of fields grapple with this question as rapid technological change and... View Details
    Keywords: by Scott Van Voorhis
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    My research aims to understand how prosperity is created in poor countries. My first “chapter” in this larger quest has focused on how rich-country actors have managed to be a force for change in poor-country economies. I have investigated the various attempts of... View Details
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    Changes in Negative Reciprocity as a Function of Age

    By: Yoella Bereby-Meyer and Shelly Fiks
    Standard economic models assume people exclusively pursue material self-interests in social interactions. However, people exhibit social preferences; that is, they base their choices partly on the outcomes others obtained in a social interaction. People care about... View Details
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    Bereby-Meyer, Yoella, and Shelly Fiks. "Changes in Negative Reciprocity as a Function of Age." Journal of Behavioral Decision Making 26, no. 4 (October 2013): 397–403.
    • 2012
    • Working Paper

    Unobserved State Fragility and the Political Transfer Problem

    By: Faisal Z. Ahmed and Eric Werker
    Autocrats experiencing a windfall in unearned income may find it optimal to donate to other countries some of the windfall in order to make the state a less attractive prize to potential insurgents. We put forward a model that makes that prediction, as well as the... View Details
    Keywords: International Finance; Non-Renewable Energy; International Relations; Economics
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    Ahmed, Faisal Z., and Eric Werker. "Unobserved State Fragility and the Political Transfer Problem." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 13-009, July 2012.
    • April 2002 (Revised February 2003)
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    Teaching Project Finance: An Overview of the Large-Scale Investment Course

    By: Benjamin C. Esty
    Large-Scale Investment is a case-based course about project finance for second-year MBA students. Project finance involves the creation of a legally independent project company financed with nonrecourse debt for the purpose of investing in a single-purpose industrial... View Details
    Keywords: Projects; Financing and Loans
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    Esty, Benjamin C. "Teaching Project Finance: An Overview of the Large-Scale Investment Course." Harvard Business School Module Note 202-086, April 2002. (Revised February 2003.)
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    Faculty & Research - Business & Environment

    evaluates a low-cost, customized soil nutrient management advisory service in India. As a methodological contribution, we examine whether and in which settings satellite measurements may be effective at estimating both agricultural yields and treatment... June 2025... View Details
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    The Founding of U.S. Steel and the Power of Public Opinion | Baker Library | Bloomberg Center | Harvard Business School

    total capitalization of $1.4 billion, inspired the Wall Street Journal to write of its “uneasiness over the magnitude of the affair.” 2 Through its combined subsidiaries, U.S. Steel’s integrated system held control over the mines and View Details
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    Mutiny in the Workplace: When Leaders Are Challenged From Within

    My dissertation focuses on the rarely studied phenomenon of mutiny in organizations. Based on three recent cases of mutiny in professional organizations, I examine the process by which employee dissatisfaction transforms into collective mobilization... View Details

    • 19 Jul 2011
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    First Look: July 19

      PublicationsBroadening Focus: Spillovers, Complementarities and Specialization in the Hospital Industry Authors:Jonathan R. Clark and Robert S. Huckman Publication:Management Science (forthcoming) Abstract The long-standing argument that focused operations outperform... View Details
    Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
    • 2013
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    Business and the Environment: Critical Perspectives in Business and Management

    By: Susse Georg and Andrew J. Hoffman
    Over the past four decades, the concept of corporate environmentalism has passed through multiple iterations. Prompted by landmark environmental events such the publication of Rachel Carson’s Silent Spring (1962), the Santa Barbara oil spill, the Cuyahoga River fire,... View Details
    Keywords: Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Environmental Management; Natural Environment
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    Georg, Susse, and Andrew J. Hoffman, eds. Business and the Environment: Critical Perspectives in Business and Management. 4 vols. Routledge, 2013.
    • March 2021 (Revised December 2021)
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    Cedar Environmental: Innovation vs. Corruption in Lebanon?

    By: Nien-hê Hsieh and Youssef Abdel Aal
    The case follows Ziad Abi Chaker, founder and CEO of Cedar Environmental, as he weighs options for how to grow the company in the face of growing economic and political instability in Lebanon in 2019.

    Founded after the Lebanese civil war, Cedar... View Details
    Keywords: Waste Management; Recycling; Corruption; Leadership & Corporate Accountability; Business And Government; Social Entrepreneurship; Environmental Sustainability; Green Technology; Pollution; Entrepreneurship; Business and Government Relations; Crime and Corruption; Technological Innovation; Growth and Development Strategy; Business Strategy; Expansion; Corporate Accountability; Green Technology Industry; Middle East; Lebanon
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    Hsieh, Nien-hê, and Youssef Abdel Aal. "Cedar Environmental: Innovation vs. Corruption in Lebanon?" Harvard Business School Case 321-114, March 2021. (Revised December 2021.)
    • 2011
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    Juner New Materials: On the Road to IPO (TN)

    By: F. Warren McFarlan, Donglin Xia, Ning Jia and Ziqian Zhao
    Juner New Materials (Juner) is a private China-based company that develops, produces, and distributes modified plastic compounds. Founded in 1995 by female serial entrepreneur Xiaomin Chen, Juner has exhibited strong performance and growth potential in the past fifteen... View Details
    Keywords: Emerging Markets; Entrepreneurship; Financial Statements; IPO; Valuation; Women Executives; China; Plastics; China
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    McFarlan, F. Warren, Donglin Xia, Ning Jia, and Ziqian Zhao. "Juner New Materials: On the Road to IPO (TN)." Tsinghua University Teaching Note, 2011.
    • 2012
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    The Excess Burden of Government Indecision

    By: Francisco J. Gomes, Laurence J. Kotlikoff and Luis M. Viceira
    Governments are known for procrastinating when it comes to resolving painful policy problems. Whatever the political motives for waiting to decide, procrastination distorts economic decisions relative to what would arise with early policy resolution. In so doing, it... View Details
    Keywords: Saving; Risk and Uncertainty; Investment Portfolio; Decision Choices and Conditions; Retirement; Policy; Government and Politics
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    Gomes, Francisco J., Laurence J. Kotlikoff, and Luis M. Viceira. "The Excess Burden of Government Indecision." Tax Policy and the Economy 26 (2012): 125–163.
    • March 2006
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    Managing Innovation in an Uncertain World: Module 3: Expanding Diversity

    By: Alan D. MacCormack
    Describes the third module of the 30-session Harvard Business School elective course Managing Innovation in an Uncertain World. The course helps students understand the challenges that uncertainty implies for innovation and how to overcome them. The course emphasizes... View Details
    Keywords: Innovation and Management; Business Processes; Projects; Risk and Uncertainty; Product Development; Managerial Roles; Opportunities; Perspective; Expansion; Goals and Objectives
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    MacCormack, Alan D. "Managing Innovation in an Uncertain World: Module 3: Expanding Diversity." Harvard Business School Module Note 606-126, March 2006.
    • 27 Oct 2016
    • HBS Seminar

    Andrea Pratt, Richard Paul Richman Professor of Business and Professor of Economics, Columbia University

    • January 2024 (Revised May 2024)
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    Pioneer Natural Resources: Enhancing the Capital Return Strategy with Variable Dividends

    By: Benjamin C. Esty, Elisabeth Kempf and E. Scott Mayfield
    In February 2021, Scott Sheffield, the CEO of Pioneer Natural Resources (an independent oil and gas company based in Texas), was considering the possibility of enhancing the firm’s capital return strategy by introducing a variable dividend tied to cash flows in... View Details
    Keywords: Corporate Finance; Cash Flow; Financial Management; Financial Strategy; Value Creation; Decision Choices and Conditions; Investment Return; Profit; Policy; Business and Shareholder Relations; Energy Industry; United States; North America; Texas
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    Esty, Benjamin C., Elisabeth Kempf, and E. Scott Mayfield. "Pioneer Natural Resources: Enhancing the Capital Return Strategy with Variable Dividends." Harvard Business School Case 224-001, January 2024. (Revised May 2024.)
    • August 2018 (Revised July 2020)
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    Revenue Recognition at HBP

    By: Paul Healy and Siko Sikochi
    In early 2014, Paul Bills, CFO of Harvard Business Publishing (HBP), sat down with David Wan, the company’s CEO, to discuss budget preparations for the coming year. Bills noted that the performance of Corporate Learning, one of HBP’s three business units, would be... View Details
    Keywords: Accrual Accounting; Budgets and Budgeting; Revenue Recognition; Financial Reporting; Publishing Industry; Education Industry; United States
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    Healy, Paul, and Siko Sikochi. "Revenue Recognition at HBP." Harvard Business School Case 119-029, August 2018. (Revised July 2020.)
    • October 2014 (Revised March 2015)
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    Integrated Reporting at Aegon

    By: Robert G. Eccles, George Serafeim, Sydney Ribot and Michael Krzus
    In 2011, Aegon adopted integrated reporting—a corporate reporting approach that sought to present company performance in a holistic light by considering medium- to long-term issues, stakeholder opinions, and the relationship between material financial and nonfinancial... View Details
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    Eccles, Robert G., George Serafeim, Sydney Ribot, and Michael Krzus. "Integrated Reporting at Aegon." Harvard Business School Case 315-011, October 2014. (Revised March 2015.)
    • 2010
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    A 'Value-Free' Approach to Values (PDF File of PowerPoint Slides)

    By: Michael C. Jensen and Werner Erhard
    We argue here that the three factors we identify as constituting the foundation for being a leader and the effective exercise of leadership can also be seen as "A 'Value-Free' Approach to Values" that proves to be very effective in allowing students to acquire the... View Details
    Keywords: Leadership Development; Attitudes; Values and Beliefs
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    Jensen, Michael C., and Werner Erhard. "A 'Value-Free' Approach to Values (PDF File of PowerPoint Slides)." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 11-010, October 2010.
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