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Transportation - Business & Environment

Confronting Climate Change Transportation Transportation is the fastest-growing source of greenhouse gas emissions The transport sector accounts for about 14% of the world’s greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions and about half of global oil... View Details

11 Mar 2001
Research & Ideas

Group Therapy

undertake coordinated action despite the fact that they are often composed of very diverse units; and the role families play in these organizations. Court systems, contract law, stock markets, accounting standards, and other elements that... View Details

Keywords: by Peter Jacobs

01 Sep 2020
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Reinvigorating Democracy: A Vote for Change

drives accountability in any industry,” observes Gehl. “Final-Five Voting is less about changing who gets elected and far more about changing the incentives governing the behavior of those in office. It’s about the benefits of healthy... View Details

Keywords: Young, Susan

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Corporate Strategy Course - Project Resources

rgb(51, 122, 183); text-decoration-line: none;">Capital IQ Data on M&A transactions, public and private companies, investment firms, and people. Provides sophisticated retrieval and personalization tools to create numerous... View Details

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Buy Now, Pay Later: Credit, Information, and the Courts

publications could be prosecuted, and at least a dozen rival firms came and went by the end of the century. Merchants themselves were more apt to sue if the Agency gave them advice about prospective trading partners that turned out to be... View Details

01 Sep 2008
News

Totting Up the Bill for the Iraq War

trillion dollars in spending could have begun significant repair of the Social Security system, or hired 15 million public school teachers, or built 8 million housing units, or underwritten 120 million children in Head Start, or offered... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne; National Security and International Affairs; Government

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Zach Clayton

involved in politics. "By college, I was eager to work with candidates in a more structured way," he says. That desire led to two business enterprises: The Resources Group, a public affairs organization, and New Media Campaigns,... View Details

29 Jan 2015
Op-Ed

The Fall of Greece

tricks." Individuals raised in an environment of favoritism, nepotism, and cronyism are unlikely to let old habits go. I am afraid, though, that the new government will cause damage for one primary reason: it seeks to suppress any signs of competition,... View Details

Keywords: by George Serafeim

October 1999
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Royal Dutch/Shell in Transition (B)

By: Lynn S. Paine

This case describes the decisions made by Shell in response to the situation presented in the (A) case. View Details

Keywords: Governance; Corporate Accountability; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Social Issues; Public Opinion; Moral Sensibility; Values and Beliefs; Transformation; Energy Industry

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Nabihah Sachedina

and strategic consequences. On the practical side: "All those finance and accounting classes I dreaded? Without them, I could never have managed a budget of that [the Commission's] size. I can say without uncertainty that before HBS,... View Details

01 Jun 1998
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Mark Tatum

vice president of the university's Black Alumni Association. Working at Procter & Gamble after graduation, he was promoted four times in four years, eventually becoming an award-winning corporate account executive. As a regional sales... View Details

Keywords: Susan Young; photograph by Webb Chappell

04 Mar 2016
Research & Ideas

Is E-commerce at Risk in Apple's Security Dispute with the FBI?

The FBI has ordered Apple’s help unlocking an alleged terrorist’s iPhone. The company has opposed the request and turned to the court of public opinion for help with a verdict. As a House Judiciary Committee hearing gets underway this... View Details

Keywords: Re: Sunil Gupta; Technology

09 Jun 2023
Blog Post

Actions Organizations Can Take to Communicate Their Commitment to Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Belonging

important to share findings accurately and acknowledge past errors. “This is not a conversation around public relations; organizations should be transparent and authentic and not overemphasize the diversity and inclusion they have... View Details

Keywords: All Industries

11 Feb 2019
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The Business of Saving the Planet

employees are demanding businesses take action. Even business managers who retain doubts about climate change must nevertheless account for the possibility in their risk planning. At Harvard Business School, which studies these issues... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Energy; Green Technology

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Digital Archival Resources - Edwin H. Land & Polaroid | Harvard Business School

run of digitized reports, 1937 to 1952. Harvard Business School Publications A leading example of innovation and entrepreneurship, Polaroid was the subject of HBS publications and case studies. Professors J.... View Details

01 Jun 2022
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3-Minute Briefing: Earl “Butch” Graves Jr. (MBA 1988)

making public information more public. A big part of my job is to hold corporate America accountable to ensure DEI is more than a sideshow or a check-the-box commitment. Our goal is to help and assist, not... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna

01 Dec 2002
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Mary Callahan Erdoes

with almost every market — public and private equities, fixed income, real estate — going up everywhere in the world, investors became overly confident and not in tune with how much risk they were embedding into their portfolios. What... View Details

Keywords: Deborah Blagg

01 Jan 2006
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Ann S. Moore, MBA 1978

Illustrated to break even. The leading magazine publisher in the world, Time Inc. accounts for nearly a quarter of the total advertising revenues of U.S. consumer magazines. Two out of three adults in this country read one of its View Details

15 Oct 2019
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Examining Climate Change From a Business Perspective

received support from staff at the School’s Europe Research Center, who facilitated contacts with 13 top executives and policymakers at European businesses and institutions. When Pons teaches the case, students consider the history of climate science, how country-... View Details

30 Aug 2006
Op-Ed

The Compensation Game

rise of executive pay over time as a product of efficient markets and argued that the increase merely reflects the growing marginal productivity of chief executives. Unfortunately, this standard defense reflects a broad misconception of both the CEO market and the... View Details

Keywords: by Lucian Bebchuk & Rakesh Khurana

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