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- 26 Aug 2009
- Op-Ed
Where Cash for Clunkers Ran Off the Road
(C4C) program. True, C4C greatly boosted the number of consumers visiting car dealers. Doubtless, some new cars were sold to consumers who thought they had a clunker to trade in but, on discovering it didn't... View Details
- 03 Mar 2003
- Research & Ideas
Top Ten Legal Mistakes Made by Entrepreneurs
of the new business. Even after leaving the current employer, one still cannot use or disclose the company's trade secrets. Under the so-called inevitable disclosure doctrine, if someone has been exposed to... View Details
Keywords: by Staff
- January 2011 (Revised July 2011)
- Case
Accounting for Catastrophes: BP PLC and Union Carbide Corporation (A)
By: David F. Hawkins
The IASB and FASB propose new contingency loss recognition, measurement, and disclosure rules (A case). The B and C cases apply these proposals to British Petroleum's Mexican Gulf oil spill and Union Carbide's Bhophal gas discharge. View Details
Keywords: Financial Reporting; International Accounting; Trade; International Finance; Standards; Strength and Weakness; Natural Disasters; Crisis Management; Governance Controls; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Energy Industry; India
Hawkins, David F. "Accounting for Catastrophes: BP PLC and Union Carbide Corporation (A)." Harvard Business School Case 111-062, January 2011. (Revised July 2011.)
- 16 Sep 2013
- Research & Ideas
Earnings Calls That Get Lost in Translation
executives who failed to speak plainly in a way investors could understand faced various market consequences, including lower trading volume, restricted price movement, and inconsistent analyst forecasts—all after controlling for the... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 26 Oct 2010
- First Look
First Look: October 26, 2010
with routine traders are essentially zero. Further, opportunistic trades predict future news and events at a firm level, while routine trades do not. Download the paper:... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 May 2006
- Research & Ideas
What Companies Lose from Forced Disclosure
sensitive and important issue in practice, as evidenced by corporate pushback to recent proposals for additional mandatory disclosures. For example, the SEC has proposed mandatory disclosure of certain compensation information; however, several media companies... View Details
- 27 Jun 2007
- Lessons from the Classroom
Learning to Make the Move to CEO
committed to helping others achieve shared goals?" In some situations—a Wall Street trading floor or a car dealership, for example—people are paid on commission, and it doesn't matter if they're committed to helping others. In other... View Details
- 08 Aug 2017
- First Look
First Look at Research and Ideas, August 8, 2017
trials at Boston Children’s Hospital. As the founders prepare to bring their new medical device to market, they struggle with two key decisions: Should Luminopia create its own salesforce to sell its product or should it outsource? And... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 28 Feb 2007
- Research & Ideas
Capital Rules: The Tensions of Global Finance
cross-border finance and in patterns we have seen before. In his new book Capital Rules: The Construction of Global Finance, Abdelal documents the waxing and waning of international capital controls in the twentieth and twenty-first... View Details
Keywords: by Rawi Abdelal
- 2021
- Working Paper
The Origins of CE Marking: Standards, Business, and the European Market in the 1980s–1990s
By: Grace Ballor
Many products—from consumer electronics to machinery to children’s toys—bear the CE Mark, the symbol of conformity to the ‘essential requirements’ of European standards governed by the process of CE Marking. This working paper traces the development of the system of... View Details
Keywords: Business And Government; Market Liberalization; Standards; Markets; Trade; Integration; Business History; Globalization; Business and Government Relations; Europe; European Union
Ballor, Grace. "The Origins of CE Marking: Standards, Business, and the European Market in the 1980s–1990s." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 21-142, June 2021.
- 20 Oct 2010
- Op-Ed
Export Competitiveness: Reversing the Logic
more practical examples and tools that can convince them to take the risk that is inherent in adopting any new policy paradigm. Literature Alcalá, Francisco, Antonio Ciccone (2004), Trade and Productivity,... View Details
Keywords: by Christian Ketels
- 16 Jul 2020
- Research & Ideas
Restaurant Revolution: How the Industry Is Fighting to Stay Alive
producers who supply the industry. Equally hit are supply chain partners who move goods across the country. "It’s going to take some time to retool operating models to be able to succeed in this new environment.” Coming into 2020,... View Details
- 08 Oct 2014
- Research & Ideas
Who Is the Chief Sustainability Officer?
companies had fulltime sustainability officers than in 1995, and between 2003 and 2008, the number doubled again, research shows. (The first CSO with that title in an American publicly traded company is believed to be DuPont's Linda... View Details
- November 1983 (Revised October 1989)
- Case
Procter & Gamble Europe: Vizir Launch
Describes P&G's expansion in Europe, including the development of a strong country subsidiary management, responsive to local market differences. The launch of a new product presents strategic and organizational challenges as P&G considers making this their first... View Details
Keywords: Business Subsidiaries; Trade; Business or Company Management; Growth and Development Strategy; Product Launch; Emerging Markets; Organizational Design; Problems and Challenges; Expansion; Europe
Bartlett, Christopher A. "Procter & Gamble Europe: Vizir Launch." Harvard Business School Case 384-139, November 1983. (Revised October 1989.)
- 19 Aug 2008
- First Look
First Look: August 19, 2008
large-store formats, multiple-store formats and extensive channel blurring in the U.S. retail industry. Our analysis is based on aggregate segment-level data from the Annual Retail Trade Survey (ARTS), the Monthly Retail View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 17 Jun 2002
- Research & Ideas
Entrepreneurship in Asia and Foreign Direct Investment
Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) is often lauded for bringing economic growth and know-how to developing countries. The conventional wisdom is not necessarily wrong, but the real story is much more nuanced than is commonly believed, says HBS professor Yasheng Huang. As... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 28 Jun 2021
- Research & Ideas
Keep or Cut Workers? How Companies Reacted to the COVID-19 Crisis
we were collecting data as events were happening." As it turns out, the actions companies took during those first 90 days of the pandemic depended not only on their cash on hand, but how committed they were to their workers, according to the View Details
Keywords: by Lane Lambert
- 04 Oct 2022
- What Do You Think?
Have Managers Underestimated the Need for Face-to-Face Contact?
remotely We can get the job done, but it’s tough to flourish.” Similarly, there is growing evidence that changes in some consumer behaviors occasioned by the pandemic are not all that permanent. While Amazon encouraged us to trade off... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 14 Aug 2007
- First Look
First Look: August 14, 2007
useful for assessing vulnerability, policy analysis, sovereign credit risk analysis, and design of sovereign risk mitigation and control strategies. Applications for investors in three areas are discussed. First, CCA provides a new... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 16 Jun 2021
- HBS Case
Cruising in Crisis: How Carnival Is Riding Out the COVID-19 Storm
of passengers transported every year,” says Stuart Gilson, the Steven R. Fenster Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School, who studied Carnival’s predicament. He points out that in March 2020, Carnival's bonds were View Details