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  • December 2006 (Revised December 2007)
  • Case

The Convention on Biological Diversity: Engaging the Private Sector

By: David E. Bell and Mary L. Shelman
The Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) was a U.N. treaty that by 2006 had been signed by virtually every country in the world except for the United States. The treaty established three main goals: the conservation of biological diversity, the sustainable use of... View Details
Keywords: Agribusiness; Private Sector; Business and Community Relations; Business and Government Relations; Genetics; Environmental Sustainability
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  • 01 Mar 2016
  • News

Off Script

according to one study—and the limited lifespan of patent rights. What can the pharmaceutical industry and government regulators do to improve conditions? We put your queries to Fred Hassan (MBA 1972), a managing director at Warburg... View Details
Keywords: Insurance Carriers and Related Activities; Insurance Carriers and Related Activities
  • 2025
  • Working Paper

The Political Polarization of Corporate America

By: Vyacheslav Fos, Elisabeth Kempf and Margarita Tsoutsoura
U.S. executives are increasingly segregating by political party. We establish this new fact using political affiliations from voter registration records for top executives of S&P 1500 firms between 2008 and 2022. We identify key drivers of this trend, including... View Details
Keywords: Political Polarization; Partisanship; Executives; Government and Politics; Business and Shareholder Relations; United States
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  • August 1979 (Revised March 1984)
  • Case

Environmental Protection Agency: Emergency Pesticide Exemptions

By: David E. Bell
Keywords: Pollutants; Chemicals; United States
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  • 1981
  • Other Unpublished Work

Comet Energy (C) DoD Incentive Contracting - HBS Analysis and Decision Case

By: J. Ronald Fox and Louis B. Smith
Keywords: Contracts; Business and Government Relations; National Security; Decision Making
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  • August 2006 (Revised August 2012)
  • Background Note

Connectivity in Health Care

By: Regina E. Herzlinger and Alfred Martin
This note describes the current state of information technology connectivity in the health care sector. View Details
Keywords: Health Care and Treatment; Business and Government Relations; Health Industry; Information Industry
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  • June 1990 (Revised July 1990)
  • Case

Minneapolis Plastic Packaging Ban (B)

By: George C. Lodge and Jeffrey F. Rayport
Keywords: Business and Government Relations; Environmental Sustainability; Minneapolis
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  • March 2004 (Revised August 2004)
  • Case

Restricting Foods of Minimal Nutritional Value in Texas Public Schools

By: Ray A. Goldberg and Hal Hogan
The Commission of Agriculture in Texas wants to improve the nutritional quality of the school lunch program to help fight obesity in students. It needs the cooperation of the soft drink industry to change their products and the manner in which they provide financial... View Details
Keywords: Government and Politics; Business and Government Relations; Nutrition; Food; Quality; Education; Education Industry
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  • September 1988 (Revised January 1990)
  • Case

Federal Assistance to the Farm Credit System: The Road to Recovery?

By: Ray A. Goldberg
Keywords: Agribusiness; Welfare; Government and Politics; Credit; Business and Government Relations; Agriculture and Agribusiness Industry; United States
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  • 18 May 2015
  • News

Changing the conversation on US infrastructure challenges

Back in the Lead. “The good news is that government and business want the same outcome,” says Kanter, the School’s Ernest L. Arbuckle Professor of Business Administration. To... View Details
  • 01 Mar 2010
  • News

How to Spur Prosperity

policymakers who don’t understand the business arena, and funds that end up in the wrong pockets. In the book, I use examples from Australia to illustrate both problems. Earlier this decade, the Australian View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg; Government; Government; Government; Government
  • 2015
  • Working Paper

Staggered Boards and Shareholder Value: A Reply to Amihud and Stoyanov

By: Alma Cohen and Charles C.Y. Wang
In a paper published in the Journal of Financial Economics in 2013, we provided evidence that market participants perceive staggered boards to be on average value-reducing. In a recent response paper, Amihud and Stoyanov (2015) “contest” our results. They... View Details
Keywords: Staggered Boards; Takeover Defense; Antitakeover Provision; Firm Value; Agency Costs; Delaware; Chancery Court; Airgas; Governing and Advisory Boards; Acquisition; Corporate Governance; Business and Shareholder Relations; Delaware
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  • March 2018
  • Supplement

Amazon's HQ2 (B): Utah

By: Karen Mills, Manjari Raman and Jan W. Rivkin
This supplement describes how leaders in the Salt Lake City region of Utah organized themselves across sectors to prepare a proposal to host Amazon’s second headquarters. View Details
Keywords: Business Headquarters; Business and Government Relations; Development Economics; Utah
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  • 01 Dec 2001
  • News

Q&A: John Quelch

John A. Quelch, Lincoln Filene Professor of Business Administration and senior associate dean for International Development, became the leader of the School's Global Initiative last August. A veteran HBS faculty member who recently spent... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg
  • 16 Jan 2014
  • Research & Ideas

Resolving Patent Disputes that Impede Innovation

In the high-tech industry, it's common practice for a governing body to develop technical standards for any given technology. The goal is to promote widespread adoption and compatibility among various devices. The Bluetooth standard lets... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Technology; Legal Services
  • 01 Jun 2008
  • News

“Where can we find such a person?”

whole technology landscape is going, how related firms are progressing, and how its work fits into that context.” He also cites public policy issues and government involvement; intellectual property... View Details
Keywords: stem cell; Management
  • March 2007
  • Teaching Note

Lobbying for Love? Southwest Airlines and the Wright Amendment (TN)

By: Felix Oberholzer-Gee
Teaching note to 707470. View Details
Keywords: Business Headquarters; Competition; Opportunities; Law; Business and Government Relations; Air Transportation Industry; Texas
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  • March 2011
  • Supplement

International Lobbying and The Dow Chemical Company (PPT)

By: Arthur A. Daemmrich
To be used with cases 710027 and 710028. View Details
Keywords: Globalized Markets and Industries; Business Strategy; Business and Government Relations; Chemical Industry
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  • 19 Apr 2017
  • News

Chicago Becomes a Hub of Startup Action

noted that entrepreneurship has been happening in Chicago for a while, “but we were missing an opportunity where we could talk.” As chairman of ChicagoNEXT, a group of business leaders working with city View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna; Emmanuel
  • 01 Mar 2011
  • News

Letters to the Editor

Violence and Islam I am a 93-year-old HBS graduate who has read numerous articles about Muslim extremists who push hard for complete government by theocracy and want to reduce women (some 50 percent of the population) to inferior... View Details