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  • 30 Apr 2013
  • First Look

First Look: April 30

http://hbr.org/search/613083-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 113-027 Société Internationale de Plantations et de Finance (SIPEF) Management of a company with extensive palm oil tree plantations questions the usefulness to management and investors of IAS41's... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 19 Sep 2011
  • Research & Ideas

Doomsday Coming for Catastrophic Risk Insurers?

And if you know what it costs to produce something, you know what constitutes a fair price. "If the annual chance of loss is 1 in 100 for a potential $100,000 insurance claim, then the expected loss is about $1,000 a year." But... View Details
Keywords: by Maggie Starvish; Financial Services
  • 31 Aug 2009
  • Research & Ideas

Why Competition May Not Improve Credit Rating Agencies

rater without debilitating the financial markets. This type of regulatory discipline might be valuable going forward, and may require having a fair number of ratings firms. Q: What's next for you? A: There are many fascinating questions... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Financial Services
  • 20 Feb 2007
  • First Look

First Look: February 20, 2007

after 1989. Also describes the various options open to coffee producers, including recartelization, diversification, fair trade, and selling to boutique markets, the strategy of the Thousand Hills Coffee Co. Purchase this case:... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 23 Aug 2010
  • Research & Ideas

The Drive to Acquire’s Impact on Globalization

as when a U.S. auto company builds a parts plant in Mexico, has come into prominence only in the past few decades. Cutting costs is fair enough, unless it is done by paying less-than-living wages, creating unsafe working conditions, or... View Details
Keywords: by Paul R. Lawrence
  • 17 Apr 2012
  • First Look

First Look: April 17

materials, fair partnership, and health, the plan sought to transform the company's practices. By 2012, the program's aim was to ensure that M&S was carbon neutral and sent no waste to landfill. It also aimed to help customers and... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 31 Jan 2017
  • Research & Ideas

The Dow at 20,000: What's That All About?

infrastructure. That has a positive impact on the price of stock of companies that will benefit from this spending, such as those that specialize in materials, for example. That said, there are some opposite forces at work, too. I think it is View Details
Keywords: by Jim Aisner
  • 07 Apr 2009
  • First Look

First Look: April 7, 2009

and weigh the consequences of each approach. Purchase this case: http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=309056 Sub-Prime Crisis and Fair Value Accounting Harvard Business School Case 109-031 This case examines the... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • June 2017 (Revised August 2018)
  • Supplement

Making Target the Target: Boycotts and Corporate Political Activity (B)

By: Nien-hê Hsieh and Victor Wu
Supplements the (A) Case. View Details
Keywords: Campaign Finance Reform; Corporate Political Activity; Lobbying; LGBTQ; Campaign Contributions; Campaign Finance; Retail; Shareholder Activism; Public Opinion; Social Issues; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Mission and Purpose; Problems and Challenges; Laws and Statutes; Rights; Crisis Management; Risk Management; Media; Political Elections; Taxation; Corporate Accountability; Values and Beliefs; Fairness; Diversity; Customers; Communication; Business and Government Relations; Retail Industry; United States
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  • 02 Jan 2019
  • What Do You Think?

SUMMING UP: Do We Need an Artificial Intelligence Czar?

incompetent entrepreneur that wants to steal from the better firm and distort the market is accountable only to his bank account and ethics. So we need someone capable enough to make sure markets remain free and fair an AI czar would work... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett; Technology
  • 28 Mar 2018
  • Research & Ideas

Sophisticated Investors May Be Harming Fintech Lending Platforms

School Assistant Professor Boris Vallée. “Platforms need to be attentive about this potential problem when thinking about their design. They want as many investors as possible, both sophisticated and less so, [and] they want to make sure it’s a sufficiently View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Banking; Financial Services
  • 12 Dec 2012
  • Research & Ideas

Power to the People: The Unexpected Influence of Small Coalitions

widespread skepticism for the possibility of fair regulation. The power of big business is limited by the need to work with a range of powerful but diffuse societal groups. In his new book, Strength in Numbers: The Political Power of Weak... View Details
Keywords: by Kim Girard
  • 11 Feb 2008
  • Research & Ideas

Does Democracy Need a Marketing Manager?

you note in the book, only 10 percent of the world's population live in countries considered totally democratic. Does democracy need a marketing campaign? If so, who should run it? A: No one is marketing democracy. The Carter Center deserves credit for monitoring the... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
  • March 2022 (Revised March 2024)
  • Case

DaVita Responds to COVID

By: Susanna Gallani and David Lane
Early in August 2021, DaVita CEO Javier Rodriguez was assessing the ongoing impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on his firm, which provided life-sustaining kidney dialysis to roughly 240,000 people. Effective infection control practices and information sharing had ensured... View Details
Keywords: COVID-19 Pandemic; Change Management; Communication; Talent and Talent Management; Fairness; Values and Beliefs; Corporate Accountability; Health Care and Treatment; Health Pandemics; Human Resources; Employee Relationship Management; Retention; Wages; Working Conditions; Leadership Style; Crisis Management; Organizational Culture; Health Industry; United States
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  • 15 May 2012
  • First Look

First Look: May 15

taxes. I generalize the conventional model to incorporate multiple normative frameworks. I then show that if the principle of equal sacrifice-a classic, comprehensive criterion of fair taxation proposed by John Stuart Mill and associated... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 14 Aug 2007
  • First Look

First Look: August 14, 2007

to accept Kinder's offer and assess the fairness of the proposal, given the conflicts of interest in this management buyout. Purchase this case: http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=207123 Nordic Telephone... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 11 Jan 2016
  • Research & Ideas

Is Group Loyalty a Force for Good or Evil?

unethical actions through inaction—by allowing others to cheat without blowing the whistle. “If you are promoting the value of loyalty, it may be that you need to promote other values at the same time, like fairness and integrity,” he... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
  • 18 Sep 2018
  • First Look

New Research and Ideas, September 18, 2018

Attractive to Fair Trade and Eco-labeling Organizations By: Sippl, Kristin Abstract—This paper probes extant theory on product diversification in the empirical realm of fair trade and eco-labeling... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 14 Mar 2016
  • Research & Ideas

The Surprising Connection between 1930s Weather and Today's Labor Unions

we needed them, but we’ve outgrown that time. I think both sides have to confront the fact that a fair amount of unionization that exists today was set in place in a random way. So if you want to say unions are great, or if you want to... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
  • 04 Mar 2015
  • What Do You Think?

Can a Laissez-Faire Approach Fix Labor Market Inequality?

regarding wages ." Gerald Nanninga concluded that, "The problem with universally mandated rules of business (be it wages, hours, or whatever) is that it limits strategic options At least with the laissez faire approach, there is... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett; Retail

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