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  • 23 Feb 2014
  • News

Partners’ deal stirs debate on controlling costs

  • October 1996 (Revised December 2022)
  • Case

Chiquita Brands International (A)

By: Debora L. Spar and Terence Mulligan
When a new banana import policy is implemented in 1993 by the European Union, Chiquita Brands International, the world's largest banana distributor, watches its sales and net income plummet. The policy, Council Regulation (EEC 404/93), uses a new tariff and quota... View Details
Keywords: Plant-Based Agribusiness; Trade; Government and Politics; Policy; Market Design; Fairness; Agriculture and Agribusiness Industry; Latin America; European Union
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  • 08 Jul 2019
  • News

What the U.S. can learn from Germany on drug prices

  • 21 Feb 2012
  • News

On Ethics, You Set the Tone

  • 08 May 2020
  • Working Paper Summaries

Corporate Environmental Impact: Measurement, Data and Information

Keywords: by George Serafeim, DG Park, David Freiberg, and T. Robert Zochowski
  • 08 Apr 2016
  • News

How to Spot a Monopolistic Search Engine

  • 17 Oct 2024
  • Video

Sarah Kaplan: Challenges can be turned into innovation

  • 08 Oct 2024
  • Video

The power of diversity

    Regulatory Uncertainty and Corporate Responses to Environmental Protection in China

    This article analyzes the closing gap between regulation and enforcement of environmental protection in China and explores its implications for doing business there. It identifies three major dimensions that characterize change in regulatory systems: priorities and... View Details
    • March 2014
    • Module Note

    Implementing Environmentally Sustainable Operations

    By: Michael W. Toffel
    Keywords: Sustainability; Sustainability Management; Sustainability Reporting; Sustainable Supply Chains; Sustainable Operations; Environment; Environmental And Social Sustainability; Environmental Management; Environmental Operations; Environmental Performance; Environmental Policy; Environmental Protection; Environmental Strategy; Environmental Regulation; Operations Management; Operations Strategy; Supply Chain Management; Operations; Supply Chain; Business Processes; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Performance Evaluation; Performance Improvement; Safety; Social Enterprise; Quality; Production; Working Conditions; Animal-Based Agribusiness; Buildings and Facilities; Agriculture and Agribusiness Industry; Apparel and Accessories Industry; Biotechnology Industry; Construction Industry; Manufacturing Industry
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    • Research Summary

    Overview

    Professor Sawyer’s research focuses on U.S. political economy in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, concentrating on the development of competition policy and the administrative state. While the conventional history of U.S. competition policy portrays the... View Details

    • 06 Nov 2008
    • Working Paper Summaries

    Extending Producer Responsibility: An Evaluation Framework for Product Take-Back Policies

    Keywords: by Michael W. Toffel, Antoinette Stein & Katharine L. Lee; Chemical
    • 2011
    • Book

    Capitalism: Its Origins and Evolution as a System of Governance

    By: Bruce R. Scott
    Capitalism, as defined in this book, is an indirect, three-level system of governance for economic relationships (i.e., economic, administrative, and political). Whereas economic markets can coordinate supply and demand within an existing system thanks to the invisible... View Details
    Keywords: Economic Systems; Price; Governance; Government and Politics; Books; Markets; Relationships; System
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    • 22 Jun 2009
    • Research & Ideas

    “Too Big To Fail”: Reining In Large Financial Firms

    system to an entirely new level," he warns. But Moss has a fix: The federal government should slap tough new regulations on all firms that pose "systemic risk" —the risk that a failure of one institution could wreak havoc across the... View Details
    Keywords: by Roger Thompson; Banking; Financial Services
    • March 2004 (Revised July 2005)
    • Case

    ACCION International: Maintaining High Performance Through Time

    By: Michael Chu
    ACCION International has been a major innovator in microfinance for 30 years. Reviews organizational context under which key industry-shaping concepts were developed (from peer group lending, guarantee funds, equity investment funds, and regulated commercial banking... View Details
    Keywords: Joint Ventures; Equity; Microfinance; Employee Relationship Management; Non-Governmental Organizations
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    • 22 Dec 2014
    • News

    Good Deeds Help Companies Evade Regulatory Scrutiny

    • 2022
    • Working Paper

    Capitalism and Global Governance in Business History: A Roundtable Discussion

    By: Sabine Pitteloud, Grace Ballor, Patricia Clavin, Nicolás M. Perrone, Neil Rollings and Quinn Slobodian
    This working paper brings together a diverse group of scholars to discuss the historiography of capitalism, business history and global governance and lay the foundations for further research in this area. Grace Ballor and Sabine Pitteloud open the discussion with a... View Details
    Keywords: Capitalism; Business History; Multinational Corporation; Business And Government Relations; Business And Society; Business And The Environment; International Relations; Regulation; Business Interest Association; Lobbying; Private Governance; State-business Relations; Political Risk; Neo-Liberalism; Governance; Globalized Firms and Management; Government and Politics
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    • 04 Feb 2020
    • Video

    Gülsüm Azeri

    Gülsüm Azeri, head of Şişecam, an industrial group in Turkey that produces glass and chemicals, describes how she chose to close down an outdated glassmaking factory because legal regulations prevented its modernization and her subsequent discussions with labor unions... View Details
    • August 2019
    • Case

    Huawei and the U.S.-China Trade War

    By: Elie Ofek and John Masko
    In 2019, Chinese smartphone maker and telecommunications empire Huawei was preparing to launch its new flagship smartphone series, the Mate 30. After years of explosive growth, the previous 18 months had been a challenge for the company. In early 2018, Huawei’s planned... View Details
    Keywords: Trade; Global Strategy; International Relations; National Security; Mobile and Wireless Technology; Information Infrastructure; Volatility; Adaptation; Telecommunications Industry; China; United States; European Union
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    • September 2020
    • Teaching Note

    TransDigm in 2017: The Beginning of the End or the End of the Beginning?

    By: Benjamin C. Esty and Daniel Fisher
    Teaching Note for HBS Case No. 720-422. TransDigm was a highly acquisitive company that manufactured a wide range of highly engineered aerospace parts for both military and commercial customers. Over the ten years ending in 2016, its stock price had increase ten times,... View Details
    Keywords: Value Capturing; Pricing Strategy; Supplier Power; Buyer Power; Porter's Five Forces; Bargaining Power; Monopoly; Aerospace; Acquisition Strategy; Value Drivers; Ethical Behavior; Regulation; Growth Strategy; Business Ethics; Defense; Procurement; Sustainability; Value-Based Business Strategy; Acquisition; Ethics; Private Equity; Financial Strategy; Growth Management; Performance Evaluation; Business Strategy; Competitive Strategy; Horizontal Integration; Value Creation; Competitive Advantage; Aerospace Industry; Air Transportation Industry; United States
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