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  • March 2021 (Revised January 2023)
  • Case

The Trouble with TCE

By: Vincent Pons, Rafael Di Tella and Galit Goldstein
Trichloroethylene, or TCE, was a chemical used by tens of thousands of businesses in the United States. It was an affordable tool for many. Yet, TCE had been associated with important health risks, including cancer and autoimmune disease. TCE potentially posed other... View Details
Keywords: Trichloroethylene; Toxicity; Lobbying; Chemicals; Health Disorders; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Policy; Ethics; Business and Government Relations; Chemical Industry; United States
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  • 07 May 2019
  • News

10 faculty elected to National Academy of Sciences

  • 17 Sep 2014
  • News

Harvard Business School Professor Michael Porter to Launch New U.S. Cluster Mapping Tool

    Gunnar Trumbull

    Gunnar Trumbull is the Phillip Caldwell Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School.

    Professor Trumbull’s primary area of expertise in political economy, with a focus on consumer and regulatory politics. His book Strength in... View Details

    Keywords: agribusiness; consumer products; credit card; financial services; food; food processing; grocery; microfinance; retail financial services; retailing
    • 05 Oct 2010
    • Working Paper Summaries

    A Positive Approach to Studying Diversity in Organizations

    Keywords: by Lakshmi Ramarajan & David Thomas
    • May 2013
    • Case

    Education in Brazil: Waiting for a Revolution

    By: Aldo Musacchio and Alejandra Meraz Velasco
    This case describes the situation of the education system in Brazil circa 2012. The case discusses first some of the problems of the Brazilian education system. Then, the case summarizes the findings of a recent study of high performing schools in Brazil and outlines... View Details
    Keywords: Quality Of Education; Federalism; Elementary Education; Quality; Human Capital; Education; Education Industry; Brazil; Korean Peninsula
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    • 28 Jul 2021
    • News

    From Apple and Google to Indeed, COVID-19 Variants Delay the Return to Office

    • September 1992 (Revised August 2004)
    • Supplement

    Martin Marietta: Managing Corporate Ethics (C2)

    By: Lynn S. Paine
    A jury must decide whether an employee, discharged for misusing company time and filling out false time cards for work on U.S. government contracts, has been wrongfully terminated. Designed to show how the human resource manager's perspective on employee discipline... View Details
    Keywords: Ethics; Governance Compliance; Policy; Resignation and Termination; Perspective
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    • 15 Jan 2013
    • First Look

    First Look: January 15

    paper: http://ssrn.com/abstract=2190963 Which Does More to Determine the Quality of Corporate Governance in Emerging Economies, Firms or Countries? Authors:Hugill, Andrea, and Jordan Siegel Abstract Scholars of corporate View Details
    Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
    • February 2021
    • Case

    Apple: Privacy vs. Safety (A)

    By: Henry McGee, Nien-hê Hsieh, Sarah McAra and Christian Godwin
    In 2015, Apple CEO Tim Cook debuted the iPhone 6S with enhanced security measures that enflamed a debate on privacy and public safety around the world. The iPhone 6S, amid a heightened concern for privacy following the 2013 revelation of clandestine U.S. surveillance... View Details
    Keywords: Iphone; Encryption; Data Privacy; Customers; Customer Focus and Relationships; Decision Making; Ethics; Values and Beliefs; Globalized Firms and Management; Government and Politics; National Security; Law; Law Enforcement; Leadership; Markets; Safety; Social Issues; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Civil Society or Community; Mobile and Wireless Technology; Technology Industry; Consumer Products Industry; Telecommunications Industry; Electronics Industry; United States; China; Hong Kong
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    • 02 Mar 2021
    • Cold Call Podcast

    Can Historic Social Injustices be Addressed Through Reparations?

    Keywords: Re: Mihir A. Desai
    • 19 Feb 2019
    • News

    Global Migration and Offshore Outsourcing

    • 2023
    • Working Paper

    El Dorado Lost: Local Elites, Real Estate and the Education Business in China

    By: Geoffrey Jones and Yuhai Wu
    This working paper examines the evolving, complex and multifaceted relationship between the real estate industry and the education sector in China. The current crises in the private education and real estate sectors caused by policy shifts reflect the inter-meshing of... View Details
    Keywords: Business and Government Relations; Policy; Government and Politics; Economic Sectors; Education Industry; Real Estate Industry; China
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      Leemore S. Dafny

      Leemore Dafny is the Bruce V. Rauner Professor of Business Administration and the Howard Cox Health Care Initiative Faculty Co-Chair at the Harvard Business School. She also serves as Professor of Public Policy at the Harvard Kennedy School. Dafny is an... View Details

      Keywords: health care
      • 2008
      • Book

      Revisiting Rental Housing: Policies, Programs, and Priorities

      By: Nicolas P. Retsinas and Eric S. Belsky
      Rental housing is increasingly recognized as a vital housing option in the United States. Yet government policies and programs continue to grapple with widespread problems, including affordability, distressed urban neighborhoods, poor-quality housing stock,... View Details
      Keywords: Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Policy; Government and Politics; Housing; Renting or Rental; Problems and Challenges; United States
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      • 14 Oct 2014
      • First Look

      First Look: October 14

      Samuel G. Hanson, Joshua S. Rudolph, and Lawrence H. Summers Abstract—This paper re-examines government debt management policy in light of the U.S. experience with extraordinary fiscal and monetary View Details
      Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
      • 2005
      • Chapter

      Environmental Federalism in the European Union and the United States

      By: David Vogel, Michael W. Toffel and Diahanna Post
      The United States (US) and the European Union (EU) are federal systems in which the responsibility for environmental policy-making is divided or shared between the central government and the (member) states. The attribution of decision-making power has important policy... View Details
      Keywords: Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Policy; Government Legislation; Natural Environment; Pollutants; Climate Change; European Union; United States
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      • Winter 2001
      • Other Article

      Competition and Antitrust: A Productivity-Based Approach to Evaluating Mergers and Joint Ventures

      By: Michael E. Porter
      This article seeks to contribute thinking on how the intellectual foundations of antitrust might be updated, based on a large body of theoretical and empirical research on company strategy, competition, and economic development. The aim is to outline a new direction... View Details
      Keywords: Society; Strategy
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      • December 2008 (Revised April 2009)
      • Background Note

      China's Energy Industry

      By: F. Warren McFarlan, George Baroutas and Tracy Manty
      China is ranked the world's second largest consumer of energy. This note provides background on China's energy industry and provides details on China's leading state-owned energy companies, production and consumption statistics, and government policies in support of... View Details
      Keywords: Energy; Energy Industry; China
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      • 13 Nov 2017
      • HBS Seminar

      Joseph Lassiter, Harvard Business School