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  • August 2023 (Revised January 2024)
  • Supplement

Arla Foods: Data-Driven Decarbonization (A)

By: Michael Parzen, Michael W. Toffel, Amram Migdal and Susan Pinckney
Arla implemented a data-based price incentive system to measure, track, and influence climate friendly changes to reduce CO2 emissions across the world’s fourth largest dairy cooperative. View Details
Keywords: Dairy Industry; Business Earnings; Earnings Management; Environmental Accounting; 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
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  • 02 Aug 2011
  • First Look

First Look: August 2

maximize their people's performance. Publisher's Link: http://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cb/web/product_detail.seam?E=79788&R=10106-HBK-ENG&conversationId=323988 Surviving the Global Financial Crisis: Foreign Ownership and Establishment... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 21 Dec 2010
  • First Look

First Look: December 21

Changes in Ownership and Management of Large West German Family Firms (1960-2008)." Author:Christina Lubinski Publication:Zeitschrift für Unternehmensgeschichte 55, no. 2 (2010) Abstract Large family firms fall between two... View Details
  • 29 Apr 2008
  • First Look

First Look: April 29, 2008

shared, and where do the boundaries of cooperation end and competition begin. IBM and its partners have managed to stay competitive at, for example, the 45nm mode, at a far lower cost than firms that "go it alone," and there is... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • August 2023 (Revised January 2024)
  • Supplement

Arla Foods: Data-Driven Decarbonization (B)

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; Earnings Management; Environmental Accounting; Animal-Based Agribusiness; Mergers and Acquisitions; Decisions; Voting; Climate Change; Environmental Regulation; Environmental Sustainability; Green Technology; Pollution; Moral Sensibility; Values and Beliefs; Financial Strategy; Price; Profit; Revenue; Food; Geopolitical Units; Cross-Cultural and Cross-Border Issues; Global Strategy; Cooperative Ownership; Performance Efficiency; Performance Evaluation; Problems and Challenges; Natural Environment; Science-Based Business; Business Strategy; Commercial Banking; Cooperation; Corporate Strategy; Motivation and Incentives; Food and Beverage Industry; Agriculture and Agribusiness Industry; Europe; United Kingdom; European Union; Denmark; Sweden; Luxembourg; Belgium
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  • 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
  • 03 Sep 2018
  • News

Moving Pictures

produce—to tell a story while maintaining creative control over the project itself—is something Singer aspires to in the future. “You’re paid well as a screenwriter if you’re successful, but you don’t have equity in the company, so to speak,” he says. “I feel a ton of... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna; photographed by Christina Gandolfo; Arts, Entertainment
  • 22 Feb 2016
  • Research & Ideas

The ‘Mother of Fair Trade’ was an Unabashed Price Protectionist

of business. In 1927, R.L. McMaster opened Kut-Price drug outlets in Fresno and Modesto—as well as in Stockton. Gleason went on the offensive, coordinating Stockton’s Independent Merchants’ Association to open the town’s first View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Retail; Health; Legal Services
  • 01 Dec 1996
  • News

Starting Up and Starting Over

Dooley in the early 1970s to meet a need unfulfilled by other HBS executive education programs. As it became clear that ownership made a difference in the attitudes and goals of the participants, the View Details
  • 02 Jan 2001
  • Research & Ideas

Can Japan Compete? [Part One]

systems are almost the opposites. The keiretsu system essentially walls off companies from any shareholder pressures because the majority of their ownership is in the hands of friendly companies. Companies in the keiretsu are expected to... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace & Hilah Geer
  • 16 Dec 2011
  • Research & Ideas

Reintroducing Intellectual Ambition to the Study of Business History

Japan, and have gained the cooperation of their states when looking for large contracts abroad. Business historians need to add their voices to the debate that is on everyone's minds: is globalization a positive or a negative force?... View Details
Keywords: by Geoffrey Jones & Walter Friedman
  • January 2025
  • Case

Constitutional Fiction: John Miller & the Legitimacy of Family Constitutions

By: Lauren Cohen, Octavian Graf Pilati and Sophia Pan
John Miller sat reviewing his family’s Constitution, grappling with how best to implement and enforce its provisions. Designed to prevent ambiguity in governance, the Family Constitution set out core values and guidelines to promote harmony and cohesion among family... View Details
Keywords: Conflict Resolution; Perspective Taking; Liabilities; Family Business; Family Ownership; Business Growth and Maturation; Alignment; Cooperation; Attitudes; Behavior; Cognition and Thinking; Conflict Management; Conflict of Interests; Power and Influence; Perception; Trust; Perspective; Motivation and Incentives; Happiness; Identity; Goals and Objectives; Legal Liability; Contracts; Fairness; Values and Beliefs; Governance Controls; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Family and Family Relationships; Manufacturing Industry; Germany
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  • 11 Aug 2009
  • First Look

First Look: August 11, 2009

subsequently reduced their scrutiny over voluntary disclosers, which suggests that self-reporting can help regulators economize government enforcement resources and develop cooperative relationships with firms that are committed to... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 29 Jan 2008
  • First Look

First Look: January 29, 2008

likelihood of implementation, while traditional governance indicators do not seem to play a key role. In particular, the likelihood of implementation is increasing in the percentage of votes cast in favor of the proposal and in the View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 06 Nov 2012
  • First Look

First Look: November 6

entrepreneurs. The results are consistent with intra-section learning, where the close ties between section-mates lead to insights about the merits of business plans. Corporate Ownership Structure and the Choice Between Bank Debt and... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 20 Aug 2007
  • Research & Ideas

HBS Cases: Using Investor Relations Proactively

environmentalists, the government, and the general public in France. This made it interesting to investigate in a European context: European companies are traditionally more closely scrutinized by public opinion, and investors need more explanations and attention,... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Energy; Utilities
  • 01 Sep 2010
  • News

Fair Trade

to form the Cleanliness Institute, whose primary function was cooperative sales promotion to teach the American public the importance of keeping clean. The use of the term “institute” emphasized the seriousness, indeed national... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons; Chemical Manufacturing; Manufacturing; Health and Personal Care Stores; Retail Trade
  • 01 Jun 2010
  • News

$how Me the Money

mispricing in trade imports and exports; country-by-country accounting of sales, profits, and taxes paid by multinational corporations; confirmation of beneficial ownership (i.e., naming the real owners, not frontmen) in all banking and... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons; Administration of Economic Programs; Government; Executive, Legislative, and Other General Government Support; Government; Legal Services; Professional Services; Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services; Professional Services
  • 08 Nov 2016
  • First Look

November 8, 2016

and models, with a specific focus on developments in and cooperation with China. Focusing on why this model responds to the twenty-first century requirements for excellence and relevance in undergraduate education, contributors examine if... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 06 Mar 2012
  • First Look

First Look: March 6

faced a uniquely challenging combination of home and host country political risk. This article reviews the company's responses to these adverse circumstances, challenging the prevailing literature that interprets so-called "cloaking" activities as one element... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne