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- 24 Aug 2017
- News
Unlocking Potential
extend their education, and develop workplace skills. They also receive support in personal areas where they need it, such as mental health, addiction recovery, and parenting. A Partnership Is Born Anderson’s own path was shaped by her family environment. Growing up... View Details
- 02 Oct 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, October 2, 2018
innovation processes could be a major blind spot and a potential liability. Fewer than one-third (30%) of respondents see innovation as one of the top three challenges their company faces in achieving its strategic objectives, and just... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 01 Jun 2004
- News
Life Lessons
second of five children, growing up under apartheid in rural South Africa, she credits her parents with stressing the importance of education and for making her politically aware and proud of her Sotho heritage. With this strong... View Details
- 01 Sep 2018
- News
September 2018 Alumni and Faculty Books
hacking in India, the founders of Zomato, IndiaMart, ShopClues, Paisabazaar, and a lot more. Talent Wins: The New Playbook for Putting People First by Ram Charan (MBA 1965), Dominic Barton, and Dennis Carey HBR Press Typical talent-planning and HR View Details
- 22 Jan 2013
- First Look
First Look: Jan. 22
heavy backpack on these behaviors. Our studies also examined the mechanism behind these effects and demonstrated that participants processed guilty stimuli more fluently when experiencing physical weight. Imprinting: Toward A Multilevel... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 12 Mar 2006
- Research & Ideas
Global Poverty Needs a Global Answer
sector financial help a joint venture was set up with POEMA, a modern high-tech factory built, and coca plantations developed. Some 5,000 people were employed. Literacy levels soared. Political participation increased. Change had been... View Details
Keywords: by Cynthia Churchwell
- 11 Nov 2014
- First Look
First Look: November 11
transformation and connection are spreading across even the most traditional industrial segments and creating a staggering array of business opportunities and threats. The digitization of tasks and processes has become essential to... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 30 May 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, May 30
healthy? Would such a process disrupt Interline’s customers and employees? Purchase this case:https://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cbmp/product/217061-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 617-001 CEO Activism (A) This case introduces CEO activism,... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- September 1992 (Revised October 1992)
- Case
Acid Rain: The Southern Co. (B)
In addition to the issues of expected cost minimization elucidated in Acid Rain: The Southern Co. (A), problems involving regulatory uncertainty are critical to the firm's Clean Air Act compliance strategy. The regulatory uncertainty affects, and is affected by, the... View Details
Keywords: Energy Generation; Business Strategy; Environmental Sustainability; Cost vs Benefits; Risk and Uncertainty; Strategic Planning; Investment Return; Government Legislation; Wastes and Waste Processing; Business and Government Relations; Utilities Industry; Energy Industry; United States
Reinhardt, Forest L. "Acid Rain: The Southern Co. (B)." Harvard Business School Case 793-040, September 1992. (Revised October 1992.)
- Web
IFC: Cape Town; Africa Rising - Course Catalog
circumstances. The Add/Drop process at the start of the term is the mechanism for any IFC enrollment changes, and, after that point, the course fee is non-refundable. Refer to the GEO website for full details on IFCs and be sure you... View Details
- 23 Oct 2018
- News
Coming of Age as the World Comes Apart
speech, standing on the stage. So I've come a long way from that, obviously. But on the flip side, I think what the book and what this process of writing, it really helped me to work through, was that so many of the gifts that I had come... View Details
- 01 Sep 2004
- News
Promise & Perils
acknowledgment of the government’s intentions surprised Abrami. “Before China’s accession such a comment may very well have jettisoned domestic political support for the WTO,” she commented afterward. “Everyone knew that domestic View Details
- 09 Feb 2016
- First Look
February 9, 2016
the increase in the local unemployment rate, presumably reflecting the costs of losing a job. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=49805 Delay as Agenda Setting By: Anton, James J., and Dennis A. Yao Abstract—We examine a dynamic... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 07 Feb 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research: February 7
policy solutions, a challenging proposition in a politically polarized environment. This paper focuses on how CEOs engage in the political process to encourage government... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Mar 2017
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for March 2017
of the most powerful political and economic jobs in the world, this book charts Al-Naimi’s extraordinary rise to power. Dual Transformation: How to Reposition Today’s Business and Create the Future by Scott D. Anthony (MBA 2001), Clark... View Details
- 05 Nov 2013
- First Look
First Look: November 5
and political scientists have written extensively on the history of globalization and patterns of global wealth and poverty, but business enterprises have rarely been identified as significant independent actors. This book argues that... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 03 Jan 2018
- What Do You Think?
In the Wake of #MeToo, Should Corporate Boards Hire Compliance Officers?
harassment on the job. As Sabrina put it, "I think the time to revisit whether an independent, non-partisan agency or individual (is appropriate) is now. Even the process of having that discussion, even if the decision is made to not... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 29 Feb 2016
- HBS Case
Bigbelly's Big Bet on the Digital Trash Can
customers notorious for labyrinthine procurement processes and glacial sales cycles. At the same time, Weiss reasons, if approached in the right way, selling to the public sector can amount to a huge opportunity for the right business.... View Details
- 01 Oct 2013
- First Look
First Look: October 1
legislators in India influences development outcomes, both for citizens of their religious group and for the population as a whole. Using an instrumental variables approach derived from a regression discontinuity, we find that increasing the View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 26 Jul 2004
- Research & Ideas
A Better Way to Negotiate: Backward
built international political and military coalitions, and negotiated a U.N. Security Council Resolution authorizing "all necessary means" to eject Iraq from Kuwait. Only after these steps were taken did the Bush administration... View Details
Keywords: by James K. Sebenius