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Policy - Business & Environment

Confronting Climate Change Policy From obstruction to leadership For much of the last 50 years, powerful segments of the business community have opposed government action on climate change. The fossil fuel industry in particular, seeing... View Details
  • November 2019
  • Case

Apple, Einhorn, and iPrefs (Abridged)

By: Carliss Y. Baldwin and W. Carl Kester
In March 2013, Apple Computer has a very large cash balance, and is under pressure to return cash to shareholders. Hedge fund manager David Einhorn thinks Apple can "unlock value" by issuing perpetual preferred stock, dubbed iPrefs. Henry Blodget, CEO of Business... View Details
Keywords: Markets; Stock Shares; Value Creation; Business and Shareholder Relations
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  • 26 Mar 2024
  • HBS Seminar

Szu-Chi Huang, Stanford Graduate School of Business

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Online Business Strategy Course | HBS Online

This course is part of the CLIMB program and Strategy track. Introduction to Business Strategy ENROLL NOW No application needed for our certificate programs. Start your journey today! Business Strategy... View Details
  • November 2010
  • Supplement

Lessons Learned? Brooksley Born & the OTC Derivatives Market (B)

By: Clayton S. Rose and David Lane
This (B) case provides the 2009 reflections of former SEC Chairman Arthur Levitt on CFTC Chairman Brooksley Born's 1998 efforts to consider regulating the OTC derivative market. It also provides a summary of the aspects of the 2010 Dodd-Frank Act that regulate these... View Details
Keywords: Financial Crisis; Credit Derivatives and Swaps; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Policy; Government Legislation; Business and Government Relations; Financial Services Industry; Public Administration Industry; District of Columbia
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  • 24 Apr 2014
  • News

A business career comes full circle

including The Sopranos, Sex and the City, Band of Brothers, and Game of Thrones. In 2013, McGee returned to HBS to become a senior lecturer in business administration. “The opportunity to work with some of the leading scholars in the... View Details
  • 28 Jan 2015
  • Research & Ideas

Ground Game, Air Wars, and Other Marketing Lessons From Presidential Elections

utilization of ground forces—the personal selling and get-out-the-vote strategy.” "I think this research connects beautifully with a normal business operation within a corporation," says Doug J. Chung, an assistant professor in the View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
  • 22 Mar 2024
  • Blog Post

Driving Impact in Emerging Markets with HBS Alum Nneka Chime (MBA 2015)

intellectual challenge of chemical engineering and her work in the refinery was a match with only one part of her personality. Yet, she also needed an outlet for her creativity. Nneka knew her next professional stop would be combining her love for challenge and... View Details
  • January 2020
  • Background Note

Climate Change in 2020: Implications for Business

By: Rebecca M. Henderson, Sophus A. Reinert and Mariana Oseguera
This note provides general information about climate change and its implications for business. Included is an overview of climate change science and a number of its impacts, including rising sea levels, changing weather patterns and extreme weather, pressure on water... View Details
Keywords: Climate Change; Environmental Accounting; Agribusiness; Economic Growth; Energy Conservation; Energy Generation; Renewable Energy; Energy Sources; Non-Renewable Energy; Globalized Markets and Industries; National Security; Government Legislation; Operations; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Problems and Challenges; Risk and Uncertainty; Natural Disasters; Natural Environment; Environmental Sustainability; Pollutants; Science-Based Business; Weather; Society; Technology
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  • March 2024
  • Article

How Foes Become Allies: The Shifting Role of Business in Climate Politics

By: Irja Vormedal and Jonas Meckling
Firms often oppose costly public policy reforms—but under what conditions may they come to support such reforms? Previous scholarship has taken a predominantly static approach to the analysis of business positions. Here, we advance a dynamic theory of change in... View Details
Keywords: Policy; Environmental Regulation; Business and Government Relations
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Online Business Essential Courses | HBS Online

Managers Professor Bharat Anand Gain economic insights and learn how markets work and firms compete to craft successful business strategies. 8 weeks, 6-8 hrs/week Pay by September 25 $1,850 Certificate... View Details
  • September 2009 (Revised November 2010)
  • Case

Marquee: The Business of Nightlife

By: Anita Elberse, Ryan Barlow and Sheldon Wong
In December 2008, nightlife impresario Noah Tepperberg celebrated the fifth anniversary of his New York City nightclub Marquee. While most clubs are over within their first one-and-a-half years, Tepperberg has succeeded in keeping Marquee one of NYC's hottest clubs for... View Details
Keywords: Forecasting and Prediction; Cost Management; Marketing Strategy; Competitive Strategy
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  • 14 Jul 2009
  • Research & Ideas

Business Summit: China in the Global Economy

continue in China, driven by domestic consumption. To retain global leadership, foreign companies must win Chinese consumers. The experience of Esquel Group over the past 30 years reflects China's evolution from a planned to a market... View Details
Keywords: Re: William C. Kirby
  • 15 Nov 2010
  • News

Harvard Business School Faculty on General Motors IPO

  • June 2001 (Revised May 2002)
  • Case

Spir-It, Inc. (A): Building the Business

Early in February 1934, two and a half months after the end of prohibition, Jack Sindler sat with a friend in Boston's Ritz Hotel bar enjoying a drink. Sindler worked for the Converse Rubber Co., and he was always inventing something. He held several patents for rubber... View Details
Keywords: Business History; Production; Market Entry and Exit; Management Succession; Entrepreneurship; Product Launch; Acquisition; Growth and Development; Product Development; Manufacturing Industry; Boston
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Harvard Business School Online Courses & Learning Platforms

Choose a subject area: Digital Transformation Marketing Business Essentials Leadership & Management Entrepreneurship & Innovation Strategy Finance & Accounting Business in... View Details
  • 09 Jan 2020
  • Book

Rethinking Business Strategy in the Age of AI

2020 Harvard Business School Publishing. All rights reserved. Related Reading Don't Turn Your Marketing Function Over to AI Just Yet Will Machine Learning Make You a Better Manager? Why Artificial... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
  • 18 May 2018
  • News

Share buybacks are soaring - is this a sign of market turmoil ahead?

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Confronting Climate Change - Business & Environment

scientists over 50 years ago — business is vital. Managers have a key role to play in confronting climate change in the market sectors in which they operate and in the political and civic circles in which... View Details
  • 07 Nov 2016
  • News

The Business of Saving Old Buildings

movement in the state. “I graduated from business school in 1961 and the idea of reusing old buildings was pretty novel and unknown. I was interested in old architecture, and I think I became the first graduate of Harvard View Details