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- February 2010 (Revised June 2011)
- Case
SEWA Trade Facilitation Center: Changing the Spool
By: Mukti Khaire and Kathleen L. McGinn
The case is about the decision to convert a not-for-profit organization into a for-profit company. SEWA Trade Facilitation Center (STFC), which is part of a larger non-profit organization—the Self-Employed Women's Association (SEWA)—works to improve the livelihoods of... View Details
Keywords: Cooperative Ownership; For-Profit Firms; Gender; Business Model; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Nonprofit Organizations; Arts; Entrepreneurship; Economic Growth; Growth and Development Strategy; Consumer Products Industry; India
Khaire, Mukti, and Kathleen L. McGinn. "SEWA Trade Facilitation Center: Changing the Spool." Harvard Business School Case 810-044, February 2010. (Revised June 2011.)
- 21 Feb 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research: February 21
https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=52284 Cooperative Strategic Games By: Kohlberg, Elon, and Abraham Neyman Abstract—We examine a solution concept, called the “value," for n-person strategic games. In applications, the... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 11 May 2020
- Op-Ed
Immigration Policies Threaten American Competitiveness
and 2010, America’s share of college-educated migrants within the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development nations fell from about 50 percent to 40 percent. Our recent research captures business leaders’ rising anxiety about... View Details
Keywords: by William R. Kerr
- 02 Jan 2001
- Research & Ideas
Gurus in the Garage
the individual but eventually brought ruin to all. The culture of Silicon Valley turns that system on its head. The bank of expertise in Silicon Valley represents a triumph of the commons: resources are extracted and replenished in a self-regulating and efficient... View Details
Keywords: by Dorothy Leonard & Walter Swap
- 23 May 2000
- Research & Ideas
The Emerging Art of Negotiation
is looking into how the framing of a negotiation can change the game. In one experiment, for example, it was shown that the amount of cooperation among participants was affected far more by what the game was called—whether the... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 20 Feb 2008
- First Look
First Look: February 20, 2008
attention to the question of when to mix qualitative and quantitative data in a single research paper. We discuss implications of the framework for educating new field researchers. Cooperation and Equity in the River Sharing Problem... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 24 May 2004
- Research & Ideas
When Reputation Trumps Regulation
cooperation of foreign regulators to meet the evidentiary standards of U.S. federal courts. Oftentimes, relying on foreign regulators for evidence gathering means that enforcement is very difficult. Q: You report that 15 percent of all... View Details
Keywords: by Ann Cullen
- August 2023 (Revised March 2024)
- Case
Arla Foods: Data-Driven Decarbonization (A)
By: Michael Parzen, Michael W. Toffel, Susan Pinckney and Amram Migdal
The case describes Arla’s history, in particular its climate change mitigation efforts, and how it implemented a price incentive system to motivate individual farms to implement scope 1 greenhouse gas emissions mitigation measures and receive a higher milk price. The... View Details
Keywords: Dairy Industry; Business Earnings; Agribusiness; Animal-Based Agribusiness; Acquisition; Mergers and Acquisitions; Decision Making; Decisions; Voting; Environmental Management; Climate Change; Environmental Regulation; Environmental Sustainability; Green Technology; Pollution; Moral Sensibility; Values and Beliefs; Financial Strategy; Price; Profit; Revenue; Food; Geopolitical Units; Global Strategy; Ownership Type; Cooperative Ownership; Performance Efficiency; Performance Evaluation; Problems and Challenges; Natural Environment; Science-Based Business; Business Strategy; Commercialization; Cooperation; Corporate Strategy; Food and Beverage Industry; Agriculture and Agribusiness Industry; Europe; United Kingdom; European Union; Germany; Denmark; Sweden; Luxembourg; Belgium
Parzen, Michael, Michael W. Toffel, Susan Pinckney, and Amram Migdal. "Arla Foods: Data-Driven Decarbonization (A)." Harvard Business School Case 624-003, August 2023. (Revised March 2024.)
- 30 May 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, May 30
team wondered whether the capital markets would cooperate and how effectively the management and sponsor teams would execute. Moreover, the company had only been private for two years, and the value creation plan was only halfway through... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 29 May 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, May 29, 2018
anxiety within the populations of some major advanced economies about what these changes meant for them. The concerns manifested themselves in an inward focus, rumblings of protectionism, and questions about the worth of international View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 10 Feb 2009
- First Look
First Look: February 10, 2009
approaches. Finally, the paper reviews the potential role of regional cooperation in mitigating conflict. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/09-086.pdf An Ounce of Prevention: The Power of Public Risk Management in... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 08 Apr 2008
- First Look
First Look: April 8, 2008
508-065 Supplements the (A) case. Purchase this supplement: http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=508065 Mid-Missouri Energy Harvard Business School Case 708-021 Mid-Missouri Energy (MME) is a farmer-owned View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 03 Jul 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, July 3, 2018
domestic civil society and when their buyers are more sensitive to such exposure. At the program design level, we find that suppliers improve more when the monitoring regime signals a cooperative approach and when auditors are highly... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 04 Mar 2013
- Lessons from the Classroom
Lessons from Running GM’s OnStar
problems of a company. Naturally, the student wrote about OnStar. Captivated by the paper, Christensen decided that OnStar's growing pains would be a great HBS teaching case for the BSSE course, so he called his former classmate, who talked to his boss, who agreed to... View Details
- 12 Dec 2019
- Research & Ideas
How to Turn Down the Boil on Group Conflict
reach cooperation The news from their experiments wasn’t all bad. When the researchers flipped the script to create scenarios that were cooperative, study participants were much more accurate in their predictions. For example, in the... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 03 Apr 2017
- What Do You Think?
How About Investing in Human Infrastructure?
could play a key role in the effort. With cooperation and some oversight by private industry, it might have a decent chance of success. So how about investing in human infrastructure? What do you think? References Brad Reed, A giant... View Details
- 06 Aug 2014
- Research & Ideas
Climbing Down from the Ivory Tower
could have been prevented if parents and local health care workers had been involved in designing a solution. Indeed, oral rehydration therapy was successful in countries like Bangladesh, where cooperation among field workers, scientists,... View Details
- 30 Apr 2013
- First Look
First Look: April 30
Purchase this case: http://hbr.org/search/113027-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 313-107 Monique Leroux: Leading Change at Desjardins Monique Leroux led a major transformation, overcoming resistance, at a large Canadian financial View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 03 Dec 2012
- HBS Case
HBS Cases: Against the Grain
the website, spouses Ramesh and Swati Ramanathan, use another tactic: a poster campaign in which private citizens are encouraged to report whether a bribe was demanded by an official in cooperating governments, in some South India... View Details
- 30 Mar 2009
- Research & Ideas
Professional Networks in China and America
competent. This form of trust is especially important because it facilitates cooperation and enhances efficiency during business transactions. Thus, when cultivating business relationships in China, a manager may want to know as many... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne