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- March 2024
- Article
How Foes Become Allies: The Shifting Role of Business in Climate Politics
By: Irja Vormedal and Jonas Meckling
Firms often oppose costly public policy reforms—but under what conditions may they
come to support such reforms? Previous scholarship has taken a predominantly static
approach to the analysis of business positions. Here, we advance a dynamic theory of
change in... View Details
Vormedal, Irja, and Jonas Meckling. "How Foes Become Allies: The Shifting Role of Business in Climate Politics." Policy Sciences 57, no. 1 (March 2024): 101–124.
- 06 Jul 2023
- News
To Help Your Team Grow, Give Them Space to Struggle
- 20 Jul 2022
- News
3 Ways Companies Make Work Purposeful
- 27 Jun 2022
- News
Monitoring Employees Makes Them More Likely to Break Rules
- 01 Jun 2024
- News
Case Study: Ready for an Upgrade
Illustration by Alvaro Dominguez The Los Angeles–based startup Stell was borne of a pain point almost as old as recorded history itself: paperwork. One of Stell’s cofounders, Malory McLemore (MBA 2022), had landed a job as an engineer at Airbus after earning a... View Details
- 06 Nov 2017
- Research Event
Who is Responsible for the Future of Cities?
Worldwide Week global engagement initiative, the panel featured experts from the design, planning, technology, transportation, and business communities. "The question is not so much whether cities can survive, but whether their growth can be View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- January 2008 (Revised November 2009)
- Supplement
China's Evolving Labor Laws (B)
By: Lynn Sharp Paine and Aldo Sesia Jr.
The (B) case describes how the various business groups responded to the Chinese government's invitation to submit comments on its draft labor contract law and details the ensuing global controversy. The (B) case also describes changes made to the working draft and... View Details
Keywords: Government Legislation; Labor; Contracts; Laws and Statutes; Business and Government Relations; Labor and Management Relations; Conflict and Resolution; China
Paine, Lynn Sharp, and Aldo Sesia Jr. "China's Evolving Labor Laws (B)." Harvard Business School Supplement 308-093, January 2008. (Revised November 2009.)
- 12 Jan 2016
- First Look
January 12, 2016
Management Science The Relationship Between Workplace Stressors and Mortality and Health Costs in the United States By: Goh, Joel, Jeffrey Pfeffer, and Stefanos A. Zenios Abstract—Even though epidemiological... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 02 Oct 2013
- What Do You Think?
Is Leadership an Increasingly Difficult Balancing Act?
Summing Up What's the Future of the Authority Figure In Leadership? Leadership involves the effective management of tensions characteristic of all organizations. Are such tensions exacerbated by today's need for increasing speed and... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 16 Feb 2021
- Blog Post
The Rise of The Sixes: Interview with CEO and Founder Franci Girard
it Fashion Inspired to work with innovative fashion companies within the industry, Girard began making connections. Through her efforts she was introduced to a venture backed technology company that built sustainable fashion businesses. “I went into meetings with the... View Details
- January 2016 (Revised January 2019)
- Case
The Allergan Board Under Fire (A)
By: Lynn S. Paine, Suraj Srinivasan, John C. Coates and David Lane
In 2014, the Allergan Inc. board of directors received a surprise takeover offer from Valeant Pharmaceuticals in alliance with hedge fund activist Bill Ackman's Pershing Square Capital Management. In the unprecedented arrangement between an acquirer and a hedge fund... View Details
Keywords: Allergan, Inc.; Valeant; Ackman; Pershing Square; Tender Offer; Activist Investors; Business Models; R＆D; Board Of Directors; Securities Litigation; Acquisition Strategy; Takeover Defenses; Hedge Funds; Shareholder Rights; Proxy Contest; Shareholder Special Meetings; Legal Issues In Contested Takeovers; Governing and Advisory Boards; Mergers and Acquisitions; Corporate Governance; Management Teams; Business and Shareholder Relations; Pharmaceutical Industry
Paine, Lynn S., Suraj Srinivasan, John C. Coates, and David Lane. "The Allergan Board Under Fire (A)." Harvard Business School Case 316-010, January 2016. (Revised January 2019.)
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Digital Marketing & AI Workshop - Course Catalog
on AI-driven marketing efficiency, students will explore how emerging tools can accelerate customer acquisition and retention while optimizing costs. Ideal for students pursuing careers in consumer marketing, startups, or digital... View Details
- March 2006 (Revised November 2010)
- Background Note
Protecting Foreign Investors
Describes the emergence of several kinds of efforts to assure the safety of foreign investment in emerging markets: international arbitration, expanded official political risk insurance, credit from government agencies, and intervention by investors' home governments.... View Details
Keywords: Foreign Direct Investment; Risk Management; Emerging Markets; Agreements and Arrangements; Business and Government Relations; Safety
Wells, Louis T., Jr. "Protecting Foreign Investors." Harvard Business School Background Note 706-044, March 2006. (Revised November 2010.)
- 30 Dec 2020
- News
Race at Work: Recruit, Retain, Mentor
- March 2001 (Revised February 2005)
- Case
Venture Capital Vignettes
By: G. Felda Hardymon
Presents three fictionalized but realistic situations in which a venture capitalist may find himself. One situation requires crisis intervention to quell a dispute between a vice president of sales and a CEO; another poses the problem of working out the composition of... View Details
Keywords: Venture Capital; Crisis Management; Governing and Advisory Boards; Management Teams; Executive Compensation; Situation or Environment; Employee Relationship Management; Problems and Challenges; Financial Services Industry
Hardymon, G. Felda. "Venture Capital Vignettes." Harvard Business School Case 801-408, March 2001. (Revised February 2005.)
- December 2008
- Article
Behavioral Frontiers in Choice Modeling
We review the discussion at a workshop whose goal was to achieve a better integration among behavioral, economic, and statistical approaches to choice modeling. The workshop explored how current approaches to the specification, estimation, and application of choice... View Details
Keywords: Mathematical Methods; Integration; Goals and Objectives; Decision Choices and Conditions; Problems and Challenges; Business Processes; Customers; Behavior; Economics
Adamowicz, Wiktor, David Bunch, Trudy Ann Cameron, Benedict G.C. Dellaert, Michael Hanneman, Michael Keane, Jordan Louviere, Robert Meyer, Thomas J. Steenburgh, and Joffre Swait. "Behavioral Frontiers in Choice Modeling." Marketing Letters 19, nos. 3/4 (December 2008): 215–219.
- 7 PM – 9 PM EST, 24 Jan 2017
Alumnae Circles Open House: New York 2017
Women's groups are launching- are you interested?
Register for this upcoming open house to learn more. View Details
- 10 Aug 2017
- News
Skydeck Live: The Happiness Equation
been discussing has been very personal or individual, whether it be the people you work with, whether the people in your family, that you choose, you don't choose, how do you think about managing View Details
- 01 Jun 2000
- News
Books
strategy," notes Mills. To help managers fine-tune these techniques, the book offers guidance on developing global opportunities; changing the local corporate mindset to a global one (and filtering that way of thinking down to employees);... View Details