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    Graphic Packaging: Project Cowboy

    In July 2019, Graphic Packaging CEO Michael Doss was proposing a $600 million investment in a new machine to produce coated recycled board (CRB), a type of paper packaging used for consumer products (cups, cereal boxes, beverage boxes, etc.) that utilized recycled... View Details
    • 2021
    • Chapter

    The Economic and Political Effects of Immigration: Evidence from the Age of Mass Migration

    By: Marco Tabellini
    Between 1850 and 1920, during the Age of Mass Migration, more than 30 million Europeans moved to the United States. European immigrants provided ample supply of cheap labor as well as specific skills and know-how, contributing to American economic growth. These... View Details
    Keywords: Age Of Mass Migration; Political Ideology; Political Economy; Assimilation; Immigration; Economics; History; United States
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    • Web

    1.10 Cross-Registration - MBA

    cross-registration at HBS. Students’ partners or other family members are not eligible for cross-registration at HBS Number of Credits Permitted Per Term Cross-registrants are limited to the equivalent of 6 HBS credits View Details
    • September 2009 (Revised December 2009)
    • Case

    The Future of Iraq Project (A)

    By: Noel Maurer and Sogomon Tarontsi
    In March 2009, the government of Iraq decided to hold its first oil field auctions. The auctions were for service contracts on the country's southern oil fields; the winner would obtain the right to produce oil above a certain target for a fixed fee. The bidders... View Details
    Keywords: Non-Renewable Energy; Foreign Direct Investment; Policy; Auctions; Production; Business and Government Relations; Energy Industry; Iraq
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    • October 2019
    • Case

    Agility Africa

    By: Juan Alcacer, Caroline M. Elkins and Esel Çekin
    This case illustrates the challenge and opportunities that firms face when developing and executing new business models in high-risk, low-infrastructure, low-trust countries. It features a global logistics group, Agility, that aimed to become the leader in supplying... View Details
    Keywords: Strategy; Business Model; Innovation and Invention; Expansion; Emerging Markets; Decision Choices and Conditions; Real Estate Industry; Distribution Industry; Africa
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    • 01 Feb 2019
    • HBS Seminar

    Xavier Jaravel, London School of Economics

    • 06 Jul 2023
    • News

    Lessons from Major League Baseball's Game-Changing Innovations

    Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Hi, this is Dan Morrell, host of Skydeck. Back in 2014, When Chris Marinak (MBA 2008) was in the process of rolling out the instant replay system as a Senior Vice President at Major League Baseball, he... View Details
    • Web

    1.9 Course Registration - MBA

    registration meets all requirements. 30 credits are required in the EC year 15 credits are required per term* *Exceptions to the 15 credits/term policy will be considered on a case-by-case basis in cases where there are extenuating... View Details
    • Profile

    Christina Byrd

    hundred students per class to its polar opposite: UC Berkeley. I was expected to go to a religiously affiliated school or to stay in the South – I left both.” Christina became a political economy major. “I thought I wanted to be in... View Details
    • 14 Aug 2012
    • First Look

    First Look: August 14

    Specifically, focusing attention on "interested" legislators' behavior captures important information seemingly ignored by the market. A long-short portfolio based on these legislators' views earns abnormal returns of over 90 basis points View Details
    Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
    • 15 Jul 2013
    • Research & Ideas

    Five Imperatives for Improving Health Care

    anything we do to improve quality becomes almost irrelevant if we can't finance the system to deliver it." Hence the imperative to focus on value, the quality of outcome achieved per unit of cost spent by the system. "There's a... View Details
    Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Health
    • Web

    Financial Accounting Online Course | HBS Online

    discover what's behind the numbers in financial statements, such as balance sheets and income statements. 8 weeks 6-8 hours per week 7 modules Self-Paced with regular deadlines This course earns you a Certificate of Completion from HBS... View Details
    • 28 Nov 2023
    • Book

    Economic Growth Draws Companies to Asia. Can They Handle Its Authoritarian Regimes?

    the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) declares transformational goals, such as “zero Covid,” “one child per family,” or even “made in China 2025.” Campaigns involve mobilization of resources and of the vast bureaucracy, but they are also... View Details
    Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
    • 25 Jul 2023
    • Research & Ideas

    Could a Business Model Help Big Pharma Save Lives and Profit?

    there is not more equity?” Voluntary licensing unlocks overlooked, less-understood markets Gilead’s tiered model combined branded product sales at prices based on disease burden and per capita income of 140 low- and middle-income... View Details
    Keywords: by Esther Schrader; Pharmaceutical; Health
    • Article

    The Relationship Between Workplace Stressors and Mortality and Health Costs in the United States

    By: Joel Goh, Jeffrey Pfeffer and Stefanos A. Zenios
    Even though epidemiological evidence links specific workplace stressors to health outcomes, the aggregate contribution of these factors to overall mortality and health spending in the United States is not known. In this paper, we build a model to estimate the excess... View Details
    Keywords: Occupational Health; Health Costs; Mortality; Applied Optimization; Health
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    Ignore June 30: Time is on the Side of a Better Iran Deal

    By: James K. Sebenius
    Prior to the "interim deal" reached in November 2013, Iranian nuclear negotiators could—and did—play for time while the regime rapidly added more centrifuges and increased production of enriched uranium. That is no longer the case. For the first time in years, the... View Details
    Keywords: International Relations; Negotiation Tactics; Negotiation Deal; Iran; United States; Iran; United States
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    • 26 Jan 2023
    • HBS Seminar

    Song-Hee Kim, Seoul National University

    • 16 Feb 2023
    • HBS Case

    ESG Activists Met the Moment at ExxonMobil, But Did They Succeed?

    The impact-investment hedge fund Engine No. 1 made a big splash in May 2021 when it managed to get three nominees elected to the ExxonMobil board of directors. It was an open effort to prod the oil giant toward renewable energy and test whether activist investing could... View Details
    Keywords: by Lane Lambert; Financial Services
    • 07 Mar 2023
    • Blog Post

    Deconstructing LEGO’s Decarbonization

    which the largest chunk stems from embodied carbon in materials and packaging. “Stuff accumulation:” There are over 400 billion LEGO pieces on Earth (60 bricks per person)! This fact alone highlights the challenges faced by a company that... View Details
    • 16 Jul 2020
    • Research & Ideas

    Restaurant Revolution: How the Industry Is Fighting to Stay Alive

    Thomas Keller, whose restaurant group includes the French Laundry in Napa Valley and Per Se in Manhattan, employed 1,200 staff in his 13 restaurants, but by mid-March staffing was reduced to 18 employees across all restaurants. Panelists... View Details
    Keywords: by Michael S. Kaufman, Lena G. Goldberg, and Jill Avery; Food & Beverage