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  • 25 Apr 2017
  • First Look

First Look at New Research, April 25

2017 CA: BVT Publishing Global Marketing Management: A Casebook By: Quelch, John A. Abstract—During the last quarter century, international business was shaken by a revolution in global competition unlike any previously experienced. As... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

    Robert S. Kaplan

    Robert S. Kaplan is Senior Fellow and Marvin Bower Professor of Leadership Development, Emeritus at the Harvard Business School. He joined the HBS faculty in 1984 after spending 16 years on the faculty of the business school at Carnegie-Mellon University, where he... View Details

    Keywords: health care; nonprofit industry
    • 26 Mar 2013
    • First Look

    First Look: March 26

    decision-maker, and they are not diminished by the physical separation of employees working in different business units. Download the paper: http://ssrn.com/abstract=2233467 Managers and Market Capitalism By: Henderson, Rebecca, and View Details
    Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
    • 22 Jan 2013
    • First Look

    First Look: Jan. 22

    rituals mediated the link between use of rituals and reduced grief after losses, and the benefits of rituals accrued not only to individuals who professed a belief in rituals' effectiveness but also those who did not. Although the specific rituals in which people... View Details
    Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
    • September 2013 (Revised January 2015)
    • Case

    Wal-Mart Lobbying in India?

    By: Karthik Ramanna and Vidhya Muthuram
    In 2012, as part of a routine disclosure under U.S. law, Wal-Mart revealed it had spent $25 million since 2008 on lobbying to "enhance market access for investment in India." This disclosure, which came weeks after the Indian government made a controversial decision to... View Details
    Keywords: Lobbying; India; Multinational Corporations; Business and Government Relations; Crime and Corruption; Retail Industry; India
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    • 2024
    • Working Paper

    Principles and Content for Downstream Emissions Disclosures

    By: Robert S. Kaplan and Karthik Ramanna
    In a previous paper, we proposed the E-liability carbon accounting algorithm for companies to measure and subsequently reduce their own and their suppliers’ emissions. Some investors and stakeholders, however, want companies to also be accountable for downstream... View Details
    Keywords: Carbon Emissions; Disclosure; Carbon Footprint; Climate Change; Measurement and Metrics; Corporate Disclosure; Environmental Sustainability; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact
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    • Article

    We Need Better Carbon Accounting. Here's How to Get There.

    By: Robert S. Kaplan and Karthik Ramanna
    Any effective system of greenhouse gas (GHG) accounting needs to measure each company’s supply-chain carbon impacts accurately. Such information would provide visibility and incentives for the company to make more climate-friendly product-specification and purchasing... View Details
    Keywords: Accounting; Greenhouse Gas Emissions; GHG; Carbon Accounting; Environmental Accounting; Environmental Management; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Supply Chain
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    • 07 Mar 2023
    • Blog Post

    Deconstructing LEGO’s Decarbonization

    essays posted on the HBS Business and Environment Initiative’s Blog that highlights their reflections. Learn more about this IFC course on Decarbonization and Sustainable Production by watching this five minute video summary. Visit Date:... View Details
    • 22 Nov 2015
    • News

    Ruling From the Shadows

    • 11 Mar 2013
    • News

    Bridging the gap, digitally

    • 2015
    • Working Paper

    Service Quality, Inventory and Competition: An Empirical Analysis of Mobile Money Agents in Africa

    By: Karthik Balasubramanian and David F. Drake
    The use of electronic money transfer through cellular networks ("mobile money") is rapidly increasing in the developing world. The resulting electronic currency ecosystem could improve the lives of the estimated 2 billion people who live on less than $2 a day by... View Details
    Keywords: Operations Strategy; Base Of The Pyramid; Mobile Money; Inventory Management; Competition; Currency; Service Operations; Mobile and Wireless Technology
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    • July 2014 (Revised November 2014)
    • Module Note

    Responsibilities to Society: The Capitalist's Contract

    By: Karthik Ramanna
    Societies face many pressing challenges with serious implications for business leaders. These include pollution and climate change, poverty and income inequality, obesity and public health, and corruption and regulatory capture. This note presents a way of analyzing... View Details
    Keywords: Responsibilities To Society; The Capitalist's Contract; Leadership
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    • July–August 2024
    • Article

    Disclosing Downstream Emissions

    By: Robert S. Kaplan and Karthik Ramanna
    An increasing number of companies are using the E-liability carbon-accounting method as an important tool for tracking progress toward reducing global emissions in their supply chains. The system does not require formal accounting for downstream emissions—those... View Details
    Keywords: Carbon Emissions; Environmental Accounting; Corporate Accountability; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Corporate Disclosure; Environmental Sustainability
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    • 19 Jun 2012
    • First Look

    First Look: June 19

    making complex decisions. Under some circumstances, unconscious thought improves decisions even more than conscious thought. Executive functioning depends on energy provided by glucose, and we know from previous research that the... View Details
    Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
    • 15 Jan 2015
    • News

    The insurance predicament

    • April 2013
    • Supplement

    AIG and the American Taxpayers (B)

    By: Karthik Ramanna and Matthew Shaffer
    Explores the decision faced by AIG's board on whether to join shareholder and ex-CEO Maurice Greenberg's lawsuit against the U.S. government. The suit, argued by super-lawyer David Boies (of Bush v. Gore and California Gay Marriage fame), claims that in September 2008... View Details
    Keywords: Financial Markets; Financial Policy; Property Rights; Financial Institutions; Financial Crisis; Financial Management; Insurance Industry; United States
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    • April 2013 (Revised June 2016)
    • Case

    AIG and the American Taxpayers (A)

    By: Karthik Ramanna and Matthew Shaffer
    Explores the decision faced by AIG's board on whether to join shareholder and ex-CEO Maurice Greenberg's lawsuit against the U.S. government. The suit, argued by super-lawyer David Boies (of Bush v. Gore and California Gay Marriage fame), claims that in September 2008... View Details
    Keywords: Property Rights; Financial Institutions; Financial Markets; Financial Crisis; Property; Insurance Industry; United States
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    • 01 Sep 2009
    • First Look

    First Look: September 1

      Working PapersWhat Should GAAP Look Like? A Survey and Economic Analysis Authors:S.P. Kothari, Karthik Ramanna, and Douglas J. Skinner Abstract Based on extant literature, we articulate a positive theory of GAAP under the assumption... View Details
    Keywords: Martha Lagace
    • 2017
    • Working Paper

    Inventory Management for Mobile Money Agents in the Developing World

    By: Karthik Balasubramanian, David F. Drake and Douglas Fearing
    Mobile money systems, platforms built and managed by mobile network operators to allow money to be stored as digital currency, have burgeoned in the developing world as a mechanism to transfer money electronically. Mobile money agents exchange cash for electronic value... View Details
    Keywords: Currency; Mobile Technology; Market Platforms; Developing Countries and Economies
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    • September 16, 2022
    • Article

    A Causal Test of the Strength of Weak Ties

    By: Karthik Rajkumar, Guillaume Saint-Jacques, Iavor I. Bojinov, Erik Brynjolfsson and Sinan Aral
    The authors analyzed data from multiple large-scale randomized experiments on LinkedIn’s People You May Know algorithm, which recommends new connections to LinkedIn members, to test the extent to which weak ties increased job mobility in the world’s largest... View Details
    Keywords: Job Mobility; Social Networks; Social Ties; Networks; Personal Development and Career
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