Publications

Video

Family Businesses in MENA: Setting the Gold Standard

February 13, 2011
Article

Google's Search Gold Mine Could Tap Out

By: Jeffrey F. Rayport

Keywords: Technology; Digital; Services; Strategy; Internet and the Web; Marketing

Video

Dr. Gold Video Clip - Social Impact

June 2022
Case

Michelin’s Green Gold Bahia Program: Leaving With Grace

By: Sandra J. Sucher, Shalene Gupta and Susan J. Winterberg

In 2015, the top management of French tire-maker Michelin, was evaluating Michelin’s approach to divesting its rubber plantations ten years after incorporating a novel strategy.
In 2004, Michelin had a Brazilian rubber challenge. Its Bahía plantation had been hit... View Details

Keywords: Divestment; Supply Chain Management; Natural Resources; Corporate Accountability; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Rubber Industry; Auto Industry; Brazil; France

Educators

08 Dec 2023
Video

Family Businesses in MENA: Setting the Gold Standard

10 Apr 2019
HBS Case

How Entrepreneurs Can Turn Lead Into Gold

Entrepreneurs aren’t short on ideas for exciting new products or companies, but they are often short-sighted when it comes to finding ways to fund and build those projects. “There is a huge amount of discussion about how you come up with a new entrepreneurial... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Financial Services

01 May 2008
News

Biotech Focus: Chasing the Pot of Gold

30 Mar 2018
News

BlackRock Sticking With Proposed Alaska Copper, Gold Mine

Video

Dr. Gold Video Clip - Responding to Crises

March 2015 (Revised August 2020)
Case

Putting the Guiding Principles into Action: Human Rights at Barrick Gold (A)

By: Rebecca Henderson and Nien-he Hsieh

In 2010, Human Rights Watch, a well-regarded international NGO, approached Barrick Gold asserting that members of the company’s security force at the Porgera Gold Mine in Papua New Guinea had on multiple occasions raped women who were trespassing onto the mine’s waste... View Details

Keywords: Human Rights; Business And Society; Rights; Policy; Leading Change; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Business and Government Relations

Educators

02 Aug 2020
What Do You Think?

Is the 'Experimentation Organization' Becoming the Competitive Gold Standard?

experimentation organization become the competitive gold standard? What do you think? References: Michael Luca and Max H. Bazerman, The Power of Experiments: Decision Making In a Data-Driven World (Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press, 2020)... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett; Technology

2012
Article

Global Policy for Local Livelihoods: Phasing Out Mercury in Artisanal and Small-Scale Gold Mining

By: Kristin Sippl and Henrik Selin

This article uses a behavioral economics lens to identify the challenges the United Nation's Minamata Convention is likely to face in addressing the problem of mercury pollution from gold mining. View Details

Keywords: Mining; Pollutants; Problems and Challenges; Policy; Global Range

Find at Harvard

September 1984
Teaching Note

Great American Knitting Mills: Gold Toe Socks, Teaching Note

By: Robert J. Dolan

Teaching Note for (9-581-144). View Details

Article

From Blood Diamonds to Dirty Gold: How to Buy Gold Less Tainted by Mercury

By: Kristin Sippl

This is a quick and easy news article on the link between poverty, mercury pollution, and gold mining. It explains the problems in the jewelry industry as well as public and civil society attempts to address them. View Details

Keywords: Mining; Pollutants; Poverty; Social Issues

July 2009 (Revised January 2012)
Case

Risk Management at Wellfleet Bank: All That Glitters Is Not Gold

By: Anette Mikes

This case motivates a debate on the role of staff functions, such as risk management: what does it mean for them to be independent, and at the same time, to partner the business lines? The case describes the risk assessment process in the corporate banking arm of... View Details

Keywords: Decision Choices and Conditions; Judgments; Credit; Banks and Banking; Governance Controls; Risk Management; Mathematical Methods

Educators